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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamond, Graham Eden William

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​HAMOND. (Commander, 1843. f-p., 14; h-p., 5.)
Graham Eden William Hamond was born 3 March, 1814, at Fowey, co. Cornwall, and died 23 Jan. 1847, at Woolwich, while in command of the Medea steam-sloop. He was second and youngest son of the present Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hammond, Bart., K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Feb. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, to whom, in the following Oct., after having for some time blockaded the port of Navarin, he officiated as Aide-de-Camp at the bombardment and storming of the Morea Castle. In the summer of 1829 he accompanied Sir Robt. Gordon as British Ambassador to Constantinople, where, during an audience with the Sultan, he was presented with a cloak by that potentate. He next visited the Black Sea, and in the spring of 1830 was employed in partially surveying and wholly sounding of the Bosporus, the Golden Horn of Constantinople, and many places in the Sea of Marmara. In Feb. 1831, shortly after he had escorted Sir John Malcolm from Alexandria to Malta, Mr. Hamond became Midshipman of the Madagascar 46, also commanded by Capt. Lyons, in which ship he had an opportunity, in May, 1832, of witnessing Ibrahim Pacha’s bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. We subsequently find him, in the early part of 1833, attending King Otho and the Bavarian Regency from Trieste to Greece, and for several months in that year employed in the Madagascar’s barge as steersman to His Majesty. On the paying off of the latter frigate in Jan. 1835 Mr. Hamond (who, previously to passing his examination in Feb. 1834, had had charge of a watch for 12 months) sailed for South America in the Actaeon 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, for the purpose of joining the flag-ship of his father, by whom be was transferred to the Rapid 10, Lieut.-Commander Fred. Patten. Being awarded the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 1 Feb. 1835, he was afterwards appointed in that capacity – 29 June, 1835, to the North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt, under whom he surveyed in part several harbours on the N.W. coast of North America – 23 July, 1836, to the Blonde 46, bearing the broad pendant in the Pacific of Commodore Fras. Mason – 4 July, 1837, to the Imogene 26, Capt. Hen. Wm. Bruce, employed among the South Sea Islands – 17 Jan. 1838, to the Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Eden, in which sloop he returned to England in the following summer – 23 Feb. 1839, to the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in May, 1840 – and, 13 Jan. 1842, to the Howe 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Fras. Mason, on the same station. He attained the rank of Commander 5 June, 1843, and was lastly appointed, 5 Nov. 1846, to the Medea steam-sloop. He died as above.
Commander Hamond married, 7 Dec. 1843, Lucia, only daughter of Luke Dodds, Esq., of Hythe House, Hythe, near Southampton, co. Hants, by whom he has left issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hammet, Lacon Ussher

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​HAMMET. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Lacon Ussher Hammet passed his examination 28 Feb. 1840; served as Mate of the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen, at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre in Nov. 1840; and from the close of 1841 until the attainment of his present rank, 7 Feb. 1846, was employed on the North America and West India station in the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam, and Eurydice 26, Capt. Geo. Elliot. He has been attached, since 30 of the following March, to the Spartan 22, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamond, Andrew Snape

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​HAMOND. (Captain, 1846.)
Andrew Snape Hamond, born 3 Oct. 1811, is eldest son of Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1824; served as Midshipman of the Talbot 28, Capt. Hon. Fred. Spencer, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1830; and, obtaining his first commission 25 May, 1831, was successively appointed- 30 Sept. 1831, to the Melville 74, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir John Gore – and, 2 Oct. .1834, to the Dublin 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, on the South American station. He was presented with a second promotal commission 19 May, 1838, and, on 24 June, 1842, was invested with the command of the Salamander steam-sloop in the Pacific. He has been on half-pay since the attainment of his present rank, 8 June, 1846.
Capt. Hamond married Mary, second daughter of Edw. Miller, Esq., co. Cambridge, and niece of General Miller, Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General for the islands in the Pacific.
​HAMOND. (Captain, 1846.)
Andrew Snape Hamond was much employed in the Talbot in the suppression of piracy in the Archipelago, and was present at the capture of a piratical corvette of 18 guns from under the batteries at Hydra. He assisted also at the reduction, by the combined forces of Great Britain and France, of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. When a Lieutenant of the Melville he obtained the thanks of the Royal Humane Society on vellum “for his gallant attempt to save the life of Lieut. John Gore, on the occasion of his jumping overboard in a heavy gale of wind off the Cape of Good Hope to save the life of a seaman.” Lieut. Jas. Lewis Fitzgerald, and several others who united in the vain endeavour to rescue Mr. Gore, were drowned. In 1839, while on his passage home from the West Indies in the Pigeon packet, Capt. Hamond, at personal risk, and with injury indeed to himself, was the means of preserving that vessel from being burnt at sea, by extinguishing a fire which, through the carelessness of her crew, had broken out in the hold. The Salamander he commanded for nearly five years. During that period he proved instrumental, by the valuable assistance he afforded, to the suppression of an alarming conflagration which broke out, and lasted for two days, in the town of Valparaiso, For his conduct he received, as did his officers and ship’s company, many of whom were hurt, the special thanks of the President of Chili, the Governor of Valparaiso, and his own Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas. He was also for two years employed at Otaheite; and for several important services which he there performed he was promoted to the rank he now holds, at the particular recommendation of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour, who had succeeded Rear-Admiral Thomas. Capt. Hamond
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hancock, George

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​HANCOCK. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
George Hancock entered the Navy 3 March, 1834; passed his examination 12 Dec. 1840; and after an intermediate servitude as Mate, in the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Vernon 50, and Excellent gunnery-ship, Capts. Wm. Walpole and Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 July, 1844. He has been employed, since 5 of the following Nov., in the Eagle 50, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin, bearing the flag at first of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the S.E. coast of America, and now stationed in North America and the West Indies.
This officer obtained his commission as a reward for having passed the best examination at the Royal Naval College.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamley, Wymond

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​HAMLEY. (Commander, 1846.)
Wymond Hamley is youngest brother of Capt. Wm. Hamley, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 1 April, 1811; passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his first commission 29 June, 1826. His subsequent appointments were, 30 Sept. 1837, and 20 Aug. 1841, as First Lieutenant, to the Edinburgh and Malabar, of 72 guns each, Capts. Wm. Wilmott Henderson and Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, in the former of which ships he participated in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He was paid off from the Malabar in the early part of 1844; and on 9 Nov. 1846 was advanced to the rank of Commander. He is now on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hancock, James Kinneer

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​HANCOCK. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
James Kinneer Hancock is son of the late Rear-Admiral Rich. Turner Hancock.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 June, 1832; and embarked, in 1834, as a Volunteer, on board the North Star 28, commanded in South America by Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt. Becoming Midshipman, in Nov. 1836, of the Samarang 26, Capts. Wm. Broughton and Jas. Scott, he eventually, after a continued servitude on the latter station, where he passed his examination in the summer of 1839, proceeded to China. He came home in Aug. 1841, but being again ordered to China towards the close of the same year in the Belleisle troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome, arrived there in time to witness the final operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang. For a short time previous to the receipt of his commission, which bears date 20 Sept. 1843, and which was given to him in consequence of the recommendation of Capt. Kingcome, we find Mr. Hancock successively employed in the Starling surveying-vessel, Capt. Hen. Kellett, and Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. He then Joined the Minden, Capt. Michael Quin, Hospital-ship at Hong Kong, whence he returned to England in Jan. 1845 on board the Pelican 16, Capt. Philip Justice. He has been serving on the coast of Africa since 26 May, 1845, as First of the Hecate steam-sloop, Capt. Joseph West.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hancock, John (a)

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​HANCOCK. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
John Hancock (a) entered the Navy, 8 April, 1795, as A.B., on board the Britannia 100, Capt. John Holloway, bearing the successive flags of Admirals Lord Hotham, Sir Hyde Parker, Chas. Thompson, and Sir Peter Parker; in which ship he participated in the actions of 13 July, 1795, and 14 Feb. 1797, off Capes Rioux and St. Vincent. In Feb. 1798 he removed to the Alarm 32, Capts. Edw. Fellowes and Robt. Rolles, on the West India station, where, during a continuance of three years, he appears to have been instrumental to the capture of a large number of the enemy’s vessels. He then became Master’s Mate of the Galgo 14, Capts. Rich. Hawkins and Michael Dodd, employed in the Channel and off Newfoundland, but, being discharged in Dec. 1802, he did not again go afloat until Jan. 1806, when he joined, in a similar capacity, the Lion 64, commanded at first by Capt. Rolles, and afterwards by Capt. Hen. Heathcote, with whom he served in the East Indies until the early part of 1808. In April, 1809, after an intermediate attachment to the Coquette, Capt. Robt. Forbes, and Royal William, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Mr. Hancock was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Rhodian 10, Capts. Geo. Moubray and John Geo. Boss. His appointment to that sloop being confirmed by commission dated 24 April, 1811, he continued to serve in her on the West India station – participating intermediately in the capture of two French privateers and of upwards of 20 American merchantmen – until wrecked, off Port Royal, Jamaica, in Feb. 1813. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Oct. 1813, to the Dasher sloop, Capt. Wm. Henderson, also in the West Indies, whence he invalided in March, 1815 – and, 24 Feb. 1829, to the Coast Blockade, in which service, with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, he remained until 1830. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blane, George

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​BLANE. (Commander, 1846.)
George Blane was born, 7 Nov. 1813, at Winkfield Park, near Windsor.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 April, 1827, and embarked, in April, 1829, on board the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, fitting for the South American station. He passed his examination in May, 1833; was promoted (while serving off Lisbon in the Donegal 78, Capt. John Drake) to the rank of Lieutenant, 28 June, 1838; and afterwards joined – 9 April, 1839, the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, under whom he participated in all the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – 22 May, 1843, the Inconstant 36, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, employed on the North America and West India station – and, 20 July, 1846, as First, the Spartan 22, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds. He acquired his present rank on 27 Nov. in the latter year.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bland, Alleyne

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​BLAND. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Alleyne Bland entered the Navy in 1832, and passed his examination 3 July, 1839. After serving for a considerable time as Mate, on the East India and Home stations, of the Druid 44, Capt. Henry Smith, and Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 24 March, 1845, in the Racehorse 18, Capts. Geo. Jas. Hay and Edw. Southwell Sotheby, with the latter of whom he is again doing duty in the East Indies. He appears, on 10 and 11 Jan. 1846, to have been employed on shore in directing the fire of a breaching battery, in a successful attack made by the British on a stronghold belonging to a ​rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in New Zealand.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bland, George

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​BLAND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
George Bland entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1806, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Lion 64, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the East India station; became Midshipman, 3 March, 1808, of the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, with whom he served at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809, and at the reduction of Flushing; accompanied the same officer, in 1810, into the Manilla 36, in which frigate, under Capt. John Joyce, he was wrecked on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, 28 Jn. 1812; remained a prisoner in France from that period until 1814; then joined the Hasty brig, Capt. John Brenton, on the Cork station; and on 11 Feb. 1815, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Bland was appointed, in 1834, a Naval Knight of Windsor.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blandford, James

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​BLANDFORD. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
James Blandford (b) entered the Navy, 18 May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 74, in which ship he continued to serve until Nov. 1811, under Capts. Robt. Moorsom, Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, Sir John Gore, Hon. Chas. Paget, and the flag of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. During that period he took part, and officiated as aide-de-camp to Capt. Moorsom, in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805; witnessed, with Sir John Gore, the capture, by a squadron under Sir Samuel Hood, of four French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806; assisted, in the summer of 1809, in fitting out at Sheerness the gun-boats intended to accompany the expedition to the Scheldt, where he was throughout employed on detached service; and, in 1810-11, cooperated, under Rear-Admiral Legge, in the defence of Cadiz. Mr. Blandford, who attained the rank of Lieutenant on 16 Dec. in the latter year, was subsequently appointed – in Feb. 1812, to the Stately 64, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, also at Cadiz – 12 April, 1813, to the Impétueux 74, Capt. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, off Lisbon – and, 31 March, 1814, to the Archer 12, on the coast of France, whence he invalided in Aug. following. He has since been on half-pay.
He married 29 Aug. 1819, and has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blakiston, Thomas

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​BLAKISTON. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Thomas Blakiston, born in Dec. 1790, is fourth son of the late Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., by Ann, daughter of John Rochford, Esq., of Clogranne, co. Carlow; and brother both of the present Baronet, and of Capt. John Blakiston, of the 27th regiment. His paternal grandfather was Lord Mayor of London in 1760.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, in which ship he was wrecked on a sunken rock near Brest, 25 March, 1804. He then became Midshipman of the Tonnant 80, commanded by the same officer, and next served with Sir John Gore in the Medusa 32, and Revenge 74, on the East India and Home stations. Being unfortunately taken prisoner on the night of 15 July, 1806, while employed with the boats of a squadron in an attempt to bring out a convoy of 50 sail, lying under the protection of two brig-corvettes in the river Gironde, he remained in captivity until the close of 1809, when he contrived to escape from the prison of Givet, and reached Flushing, then in the possession of the British. He passed his examination early in Jan. 1810, and on 11 of the same month was made Lieutenant into the Harpy 18, Capt. Geo. Wm. Blamey. On 4 Sept. following he rejoined Sir John Gore in the Tonnant, stationed in the Channel, and, on again accompanying him into the Revenge, assisted in the boats of that ship at the cutting out of a French felucca privateer from the harbour of Falamos, on the coast of Spain, 8 Nov. 1813. The Revenge being paid off in Sept. 1814, Mr. Blakiston, from 25 March, 1818, until his advancement to his present rank, 2 July, 1821, was next employed in the Bulwark 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to his friend Sir J. Gore, who, during that period, was Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. He has not since been employed.
He married, 9 Aug. 1827, Harriet, fourth daughter of John Harvey, Esq., of Thorpe Lodge, co. Norfolk, and by that lady has issue three daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blenkarne, William

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​BLENKARNE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
William Blenkarne entered the Navy, in Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Harpy 18, Capt. Edmund Heywood, employed in watching the Boulogne flotilla; and after a short attachment, towards the close of 1805, to the Royal William, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Isaac Coffin, became Midshipman of the Audacious 74, in which ship he proceeded to the West Indies. He subsequently joined the Dictator 64, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, in the North Sea, and under the same officer, in the Edgar 74, witnessed the embarkation of the Marquis de la Romana’s army from Nyeborg, 11 Aug. 1808. In March, 1810, Mr. Blenkarne removed to the Berwick 74, also commanded by Capt. Macnamara, and in that ship, on 24 March, 1811, he assisted in chasing a large French frigate, L’Amazone, among the rocks near Barfleur, where she was in consequence burnt by her own crew. On Capt. Edw. Brace succeeding to the command of the Berwick, we find him participating, in April, 1814, in the operations which led to the reduction of Genoa, and further present at the surrender of Gaeta, 8 Aug, 1815. A few weeks after the battle of Algiers, on which occasion, 27 Aug. 1816, he fought as Master’s Mate of the Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral David Milne, Mr. Blenkarne was presented with a commission dated back to 20 March, 1815. He has not since been employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blatchley, Charles

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​BLATCHLEY. (Lieut., 1823. f-p.,21; h-p., 17.)
Charles Blatchley was born 3 Feb. 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal William, Capts. John Irwin and Robt. Hall, guard-ship at Spithead. From July, 1811, until Sept. 1818, we find him serving on the Mediterranean, Channel, and North American stations, in the Hyacinth 26, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Alex. Renton Sharpe; under the former of whom he assisted, on the night of 29 April, 1812, in a valiant boat attack upon the enemy’s privateers and batteries in the Mole of Malaga, an enterprise which, although partially successful, terminated in a loss to the British, out of 149 officers and men, of 15 killed and 53 wounded. Having passed his examination 2 Aug. 1810, Mr. Blatchley, after a further attachment, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, to the Hyperion and Doris frigates, Capts. Thos, Searle, Thos. Graham, Edw. Venables Vernon, and Thos. Bourchier, both on the South American station, was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 23 Oct. 1823, in the Briton 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell. He returned home from the Pacific in Sept. 1826; and was next, on 4 Dec. 1830, appointed First of the Actaeon 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, on the Mediterranean station. He has been on half-pay since 4 Sept. 1834.
He is married, and has issue three children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blanckley, Henry Duncan

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​BLANCKLEY. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Henry Duncan Blanckleyy is son of the late Capt. Edw. Blanckley, R.N., and grand-nephew of the first Lord Nelson.
This officer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; and served as Mate, on the Home, Cape of Good Hope, and Mediterranean stations, of the Salamander and Devastation steam-vessels, both commanded by Capt. Hastings Reginald Henry, Heroine brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Dilnot Stewart, Isis 44, Capt. Sir John Marshall, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, and Flamer steamer, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Jas. Postle. He was appointed soon after his promotion, which took place 2 Dec. 1844, to the Rattler steam-sloop, Capt. Henry Smith; and since 12 June, 1846, has been serving in the Inflexible, a similar vessel, Capt. John Cochrane Hoseason, on the East India station.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blake, Thomas

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​BLAKE. (Lieutenant, 1808. f-p., 11; h-p., 34.)
Thomas Blake entered the Navy, 27 Feb. 1802, as Midshipman, on board the Fox 32, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, on the East India station, where he removed, as Master’s Mate, in Jan. 1805, to the Pitt (afterwards Salsette) 36, Capt. Walter Bathurst The latter ship, while blockading Port Louis in Jan. 1806, took several prizes; and on 20 of that month was much injured by a fire from Fort Canonnier, to which she lay exposed for 20 minutes without being able to return a shot. Mr. Blake who subsequently proceeded to the Baltic, and was attached for a brief period to the Thisbe, bearing the flag in the Thames of Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope, obtained a Lieutenancy, 23 Sept. 1808, in the Calliope 20, Capt. John M‘Keslie, under whom he witnessed the reduction of Flushing in Aug. 1809, and the capture, besides numerous other vessels, of the Comtesse d’Hambourg, French privateer, ​of 14 guns and 51 men, after an obstinate conflict, 25 Oct. 1810. He invalided from the Calliope, 27 Feb. 1811, and was subsequently appointed – 25 June following, to the Pylades sloop, Capt. Geo. Ferguson, employed in the Baltic, and also in the North Sea, whence his health obliged him to return in Feb. 1812 – 14 Nov. in the same year, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. Thos. Fife, in the Channel – and 29 July, 1814, to the Portia 14, Capt. Thompson. The last was but a nominal appointment, as in a few days afterwards he again invalided. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Blake is married, and has issue.