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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Whitcombe, Samuel Richard

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​WHITCOMBE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 27.)
Samuel Richard Whitcombe entered the Navy, 16 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. Chas. Feilding, stationed in the Channel and off the coast of Portugal. In March, 1808, he joined the Matilda, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope in the river Thames; and in May, 1809, after having served for 11 months in the North Sea and Channel and off Cadiz in the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, he was received as Midshipman on board the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag off Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. While in the latter ship, in which he remained until Feb. 1812, he was employed in her boats in co-operation with the British army up the Tagus. On leaving her he joined the Naijaden frigate, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, at Plymouth; and from the following April until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 March, 1815, he served in the Pomone 40, Capts. Fras. Wm. Fane and Philip Carteret, and Narcissus 32, at Newfoundland, in the Downs, on the north coast of Spain, on the coast of Portugal, at Gibraltar, and on the coast of North America. His subsequent appointments were – 13 July, 1816, to the Jasper 10, Capt. Thos. Carew – 14 Dec. 1821, to the Dover 28, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford at Leith – and 26 April, 1824, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, on the Irish station. In the Jasper, after visiting Gibraltar and Newfoundland, he was wrecked on the point of Mount Batten, at the entrance of Catwater, 21 Jan. 1817; on which occasion ​he, the Captain, and two seamen were the only persons who escaped. Since he quitted the Harrier about 1825, he has been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, George

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​WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1849. f-p., 22; h-p., 27.)
George White, a native of Havant, co. Hants, is son of the late Geo. White, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1793), of Dunse, N.B.; and half-brother of the present Vice-Admiral Wight.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1798, as A.B., on board the Spiteful gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Wood, stationed off Jersey, where he continued employed as Midshipman until May, 1802. From July until Oct. of the latter year he served in the Liberty 14, Lieut.-Commander Hugh Cook, in the Mediterranean; and in March, 1803, he joined the Dreadnought 98, Capts. Wm. Domett, Edw. Brace, John Child Purvis, Robt. Carthew Reynolds, Geo. Reynolds, Edw. Rotheram, and John Conn. In that ship, which bore the flags at different periods of Admirals Cornwallis, Collingwood, and Lord Northesk, he was for a long time stationed in the Channel and off Cadiz, and was present as Master’s Mate at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. Removing, in May, 1806, to the Captain 74, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb, Geo. Cockburn, Isaac Wolley, and the late Sir Jas. Athol Wood, he was afforded an opportunity of assisting, 27 Sept. following, at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, of Le Président French frigate of 44 guns. He cooperated also in the reduction of Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807; and in Feb. and April, 1809, he served on shore at the taking of Martinique and the Saintes. In Aug. of the year last-mentioned he accompanied Sir J. A. Wood as Acting-Lieutenant (he had obtained that rank in the Captain 4 Dec. 1807) into the Neptune 98. To her he was confirmed 2 Nov. ensuing. His next appointment was, with Sir J. A. Wood, 18 March, 1810, to the Pompée 74; to which ship he continued attached in the West Indies, Channel, and Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. On 5 Nov. 1813 he was present in a partial action with the French Toulon fleet. He was afterwards, from 24 Nov. 1825 until 1831, employed in the Coast Blockade with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. During four years and six months of that period he was a Divisional- Lieutenant, and had the superintendence of the left division of the Kentish Coast Blockade. He accepted the rank he now holds 2 March, 1849. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, George Henry Parlby

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​WHITE. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 22; h-p., 9.)
George Henry Parlby White, born 11 Oct. 1802, at Droxford, co. Hants, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Thos. White.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1816; and embarked, in Dec. 1818, as Midshipman, on board the Erne 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, stationed on the coast of Ireland. After serving for some months in the Channel in the Heron 18, Capt. Job Hanmer, he joined, in Aug. 1819, the Superb 78, commanded by his father, and sailed for South America; where he continued employed in the Créole 42, commanded at first by Capt. White and next by Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Hon. Fred. Spencer, as Midshipman and Mate in the Spartiate 76, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon, and as Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 2 May, 1825) in the Fly 18, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, until officially promoted 24 July, 1825. His succeeding appointments were – 20 July, 1827, to the Primrose 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, fitting for the coast of Africa – 5 Nov. following, to the Melville 74, Capts. Henry Hill, Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, in which ship he was for three years and ten months stationed chiefly off the coast of Portugal and in the Mediterranean – 18 Nov. 1833, as Senior, to the Jaseur 16, Capt. John Hackett, on the south coast of Spain – and (after nearly eight months of half-pay) 19 Feb. 1838 and 1 Feb. 1839, in a similar capacity, to the Malabar and Implacable 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the North American and West India stations. In the Implacable he was present in 1840 in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the blockade of Alexandria. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and from 12 July, 1845, until Posted 9 Nov. 1846, was employed with the Channel squadron aa Second-Captain in the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby. He has not been since afloat. Agents Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, Frederick

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​WHITE. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Frederick White entered the Navy, 3 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africa 64, Capt. Henry Digby; and on 21 Oct. following was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar. The injury he sustained procured him a grant from the Patriotic Fund. In Dec. 1805 (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman) he removed, at Gibraltar, to the Beagle 18, Capt. Geo. Digby; with whom, in the early part of 1806, he returned to England, we believe, in the Swiftsure 74. In the course of the same year he joined the Zealand 64, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, at the Nore, the Majestic 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea, and the Orestes 16, Capt. John Richards Lapenotiere. After uniting in the latter vessel in Lord Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen he was again, in Jan. 1808, placed under the command of Capt. Geo. Digby in the Cossack 24; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel under Capt. Thos. Garth, until April, 1812; in the course of which month we find him rejoining Capt. Digby on board the Lavinia frigate in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1812; and was appointed subsequently – 2 Sept. 1812, to the Chanticleer sloop, Capts. Rich. Spear and Stewart Blacker, in the North Sea – 21 Oct. 1813, after three or four months of half-pay, occasioned by ill-health, to the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, stationed in the Roompot – 4 March, 1814, to the Rinaldo 10, Capts. Edm. Lyons and Archibald Tisdall, in which vessel he escorted the Allied Sovereigns to England, and then proceeded to the West Indies, whence he invalided in the ensuing Dec – 28 Feb. 1837, for upwards of three years, to the Coast Guard – 23 Dec. 1841, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and 24 Aug. 1843, to the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness, Capts. Peter Fisher and Rich. Arthur. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay. He obtained a pension of 6l. per annum for wounds 17 May, 1843. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, Henry Towry

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​WHITE. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Henry Towry White passed his examination in 1823; obtained his commission 4 Sept. 1827; and was appointed, five days afterwards, to the Valorous 26, Capt. the Earl of Huntingdon, on the Jamaica station. He has been on half-pay since 1828.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, John (a)

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​WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1645. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
John White (a) entered the Navy, 17 Jan. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Active frigate, commanded in the Channel by the late Sir Edm. Nagle. In the following Aug., having removed with that officer to the Artois of 44 guns and 281 men, he assisted at the destruction, off the Penmarcks, of a French frigate. La Volontaire, and two corvettes, L’Espion and L’Alert; and on 21 Oct. in the same year he took part in an action of 40 minutes which terminated in the surrender, with a loss to the Artois of 3 killed and 5 wounded, of La Révolutionnaire, of 44 guns and 351 men, 8 of whom were killed and 5 wounded. He accompanied the expedition sent in 1795 to Quiberon Bay in support of the French royalists; and he continued otherwise actively employed in the Artois until wrecked on a sand-bank off Rochelle 31 July, 1797. He served afterwards, on the Home station, in the Pallas 32, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon, Doris 36, Capt. Lord Viscount Ranelagh, Sylph 18, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, and Immortalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham; and on 26 April, 1800, he was made Lieutenant into the Wilhelmina troop-ship, Capt. Jas. Lind, whom we find him accompanying to the Red Sea on a mission hostile to the French. He returned home in 1802 in the Romney 50, Capt. Sir Home Popham; and was subsequently appointed – in 1803-4-6, to the Jalouse 18, Capt. Christopher Strachey, Madras 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and Lively 38, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, all in the Mediterranean – 30 May in the year last mentioned, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, in the Channel – 22 Sept. 1806, to the command of the Ignition, on the same station – in Jan. 1807, to the Diomede 50, as Flag-Lieutenant, off Guernsey, to his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Sir E. Nagle – in Oct. 1808, to the acting-command, which he retained until the ensuing Dec, of the Albacore sloop, in the Channel – 4 Feb. 1809, for a short time, to the Sea Fencible service at Deal – and 28 Jan. 1811 and 8 March, 1813, to the Boyne 98 and Ville de Paris 110, flagships of Sir E. Nagle in the Channel. In Feb. 1814 he left the Ville de Paris. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 23 Jan. 1832; and on the Senior 8 Jan. 1845.
Commander White is at present Vice-Consul at Chili. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/White, John (b)

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​WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 17; h-p., 30.)
John White (b) entered the Navy, in May, 1800, as A.B., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats. In that ship, of which he became Midshipman and Master’s Mate, he bore a warm part la Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action with the Franco-Spanish squadron in the Gut of Gibraltar 12 July, 1801; accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies, in 1805, in pursuit of the combined fleets; and fought under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. He continued to serve with the officer last mentioned in the Royal George 100, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, until Sept. 1806. He then joined the Hibernia 120 and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships of Lords St. Vincent and Gardner, again in the Channel; where he was nominated, 29 Aug. 1807, Acting-Lieutenant of the Dragon 74, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott. He was officially promoted 12 Sept. following; and was afterwards appointed – 18 Oct. 1807, to the Barracouta 18, Capts. Geo. Harris, Wm. Wells, Rich. Kenah, and Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, under the two latter of whom we find him, in 1810-11, assisting at the reduction of the Dutch Spice Islands and of the island of Java – 15 March, 1813, and 1 Sept. 1814 (he had invalided from the East Indies in Dec. 1811), to the Heron sloop and Barrosa 36, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and John Maxwell, employed on the West India, American, and Home stations – 16 Sept. 1815, for upwards of four months, to the Ganymede 20, Capt. W. M‘Culloch, in the ​Channel – in 1821, to the command of the Hind Revenue-cruizer – 22 Dec. 1825, to the Astrea 6, Capt. Wm. King, at Falmouth – and 20 July, 1826, to the command, which he retained until 1827, of the Cynthia packet, on the latter station. He accepted his present rank 15 April, 1844.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Darley, George

​Darley, George (1795-1846).—Poet, novelist, and critic, b. at Dublin, and ed. at Trinity Coll. there, he early decided to follow a literary career, and went to London, where he brought out his first poem, Errors of Ecstasie (1822). He also wrote for the London Magazine, under the pseudonym of John Lacy. In it ​appeared his best story, Lilian of the Vale. Various other books followed, including Sylvia, or The May Queen, a poem (1827). Thereafter he joined the Athenæum, in which he showed himself a severe critic. He was also a dramatist and a profound student of old English plays, editing those of Beaumont and Fletcher in 1840. So deeply was he imbued with the spirit of the 17th century that his poem, "It is not beauty I desire," was included by F. T. Palgrave in the first ed. of his Golden Treasury as an anonymous lyric of that age. He was also a mathematician of considerable talent, and pub. some treatises on the subject. D. fell into nervous depression and d. in 1846.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Darwin, Erasmus

​Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802).—Poet, physician, and scientist, was b. at Elston, Notts, and ed. at Camb. and at Edin., where he took his degree of M.D. He ultimately settled in Lichfield as a physician, and attained a high professional reputation, so much so that he was offered, but declined, the appointment of physician to George III. In 1778 he formed a botanical garden, and in 1789 pub. his first poem, The Loves of the Plants, followed in 1792 by The Economy of Vegetation, which combined form The Botanic Garden. Another poem, The Temple of Nature, was pub. posthumously. He also wrote various scientific works in prose. The poems of D., though popular in their day, are now little read. Written in polished and sonorous verse, they glitter with startling similes and ingenious, though often forced, analogies, but have little true poetry or human interest.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Davenant, or D'Avenant, Sir William

​Davenant, or D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668).—Poet and dramatist was b. at Oxf., where his f. kept an inn, which Shakespeare was in the habit of visiting. This had some influence on the future poet, who claimed to be Shakespeare's natural ​son. D., ed. at Lincoln Coll., was afterwards in the service of Lord Brooke, became involved in the troubles of the Civil War, in which he took the Royalist side, and was imprisoned in the Tower, escaped to France, and after returning was, in 1643, knighted. Later D. was employed on various missions by the King and Queen, was again in the Tower from 1650 to 1652, when he pub. his poem Gondibert. He is said to have owed his release to the interposition of Milton. In 1656 he practically founded the English Opera by his Siege of Rhodes (1656). In 1659 he was again imprisoned, but after the Restoration he seems to have enjoyed prosperity and Royal favour, and established a theatre, where he was the first habitually to introduce female players and movable scenery. D. wrote 25 dramatic pieces, among which are Albovine, King of the Lombards (1629), Platonick Lovers (1636), The Wits (1633), Unfortunate Lovers (1643), Love and Honour (1649). None of them are now read; and the same may be said of Gondibert, considered a masterpiece by contemporaries. D. succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate, and collaborated with Dryden in altering (and debasing) The Tempest. He coll. his miscellaneous verse under the title of Madagascar. He is said to have had the satisfaction of repaying in kind the good offices of Milton when the latter was in danger in 1660. He joined with Waller and others in founding the classical school of English poetry.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

​Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882).—Miscellaneous writer, s. of the above, ed. at Harvard, but on his eyesight giving way shipped as a common sailor, and gave his experiences in Two Years before the Mast (1840). Called to the Bar in 1840, he became an authority on maritime law. Other books by him are The Seaman's Friend (1841), and Vacation Voyage to Cuba (1859).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Daniel, Samuel

​Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619).—Poet, s. of a music master, was b. near Taunton, and ed. at Oxf., but did not graduate. He attached himself to the Court as a kind of voluntary laureate, and in the reign of James I. was appointed "Inspector of the children of the Queen's revels," and a groom of the Queen's chamber. He is said to have enjoyed the friendship of Shakespeare and Marlowe, but was "at jealousies" with Ben Jonson. In his later years he retired to a farm which he owned in Somerset, where he d. D. bears the title of the "well-languaged," his style is clear and flowing, with a remarkably modern note, but is lacking in energy and fire, and is thus apt to become tedious. His works include sonnets, epistles, masques, and dramas. The most important of them is The History of the Civil Wars between York and Lancaster in 8 books, pub. in 1604. His Epistles are generally considered his best work, and his sonnets have had some modern admirers. Among his poems may be mentioned the Complaynt of Rosamund, Tethys Festival (1610), and Hymen's Triumph (1615), a masque, and Musophilus, a defence of learning, Defence of Rhyme (1602).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Davies, John

​Davies, John (1565?-1618).—Called "the Welsh Poet," was a writing-master, wrote very copiously and rather tediously on theological and philosophical themes. His works include Mirum in Modum, Microcosmus (1602), and The Picture of a Happy Man (1612), Wit's Bedlam (1617), and many epigrams on his contemporaries which have some historical interest.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dana, Richard Henry

​Dana, Richard Henry (1787-1879).—Novelist and critic, b. at Camb., Mass., was called to the Bar in 1817. Among his novels are Tom Thornton and Paul Felton, both somewhat violent and improbable tales, and his poems, which are better, include The Buccaneer (1827), and The Dying Raven. He is, however, stronger as a critic than as a writer. He wrote largely in The North American Review, and for a time conducted a paper, The Idle Man, which contains some of his best work.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Davidson, John

​Davidson, John (1837-1909).—Poet and playwright, b. at Barrhead, Renfrewshire, s. of a Dissenting minister, entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his I3th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher. He was afterwards engaged in teaching at various places, and having taken to literature went in 1890 to London. He achieved a reputation as a writer of poems and plays of marked individuality and vivid realism. His poems include In a Music Hall (1891), Fleet Street Eclogues (1893), Baptist Lake (1894), New Ballads (1896), The Last Ballad (1898), The Triumph of Mammon (1907), and among his plays are Bruce (1886), Smith: a Tragic Farce (1888), Godfrida (1898). D. disappeared on March 27, 1909, under circumstances which left little doubt that under the influence of mental depression he had committed suicide. Among his papers was found the MS. of a new work, Fleet Street Poems, with a letter containing the words, "This will be my last book." His body was discovered a few months later.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dasent, Sir George Webbe

​Dasent, Sir George Webbe (1817-1896).—Scandinavian scholar, b. in the island of St. Vincent, of which his f. was Attorney-general, ed. at Westminster School, King's Coll., London, and Oxf., he entered the diplomatic service, and was for several years Sec. to the British Embassy at Stockholm, where he became interested in Scandinavian literature and mythology. Reurning to England he was appointed Assistant Ed. of The Times 1845-1870). In 1852 he was called to the Bar, and in the following year was appointed Prof. of English Literature and Modern History at King's Coll., London, an office which he held for 13 years. He was knighted in 1876. His principal writings have to do with Scandinavian language, mythology, and folk-lore, and include an Icelandic Grammar, The Prose or Younger Edda (1842), Popular Tales from the Norse (1859), The Saga of Burnt Njal (1861), and The Story of Gisli the Outlaw (1866), mostly translated from the Norwegian of Asbjörnsen. He also translated the Orkney and Hacon Sagas for the Rolls Series, and wrote four novels, Annals of an Eventful Life, Three to One, Half a Life, and The Vikings of the Baltic. His style's pointed and clear.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dwarris, William Henry

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​DWARRIS. (Lieut., 1817. f-p., 9; h-p., 30.)
William Henry Dwarris entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Loire 38, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Thos. Brown; under the former of whom he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 5 Jan. 1809, of the Hébé French corvette of 20 guns, and, afterwards, of the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. We are informed that he was also for some time very actively employed in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Galicia. In Nov. 1812 this officer joined the Salsette 36, Capts. Henry Hope and John Bowen. After an intermediate servitude in the East Indies he returned to England, in 1814, on board the Cornwallis 50, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby. Towards the close of 1815 he became Admiralty Midshipman of the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, in which frigate we soon afterwards find him accompanying Lord Amherst in his embassy to China. He there removed, in July, 1816, to the Lyra brig, Capt. Basil Hall. Since his official promotion, which took place 5 Nov. 1817, Lieut. Dwarris, we believe, has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duntze, John Alexander

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​DUNTZE. (Captain, 1829. f-p., 17; h-p., 12.)
John Alexander Duntze entered the Navy 6 Aug. 1818; and was promoted, 28 May, 1825, to a Lieutenancy in the Ocean 80, Capt. John Sykes, off Lisbon. His next appointments were – 30 March, 1826, and 31 May, 1827, to the Heron 18, Capts. Robt. Tait and Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, and Ganges 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, both on the South American station, where he was advanced to the command, 19 April, 1828, of the Heron, and posted, 24 Dec. 1829, into the Tribune 42. While in the latter ship, which he paid off towards the close of 1831, Capt. Duntze served at the blockade of Callao, and captured the Peruvian corvette Libertad, laden with dollars for the payment of the Columbians. He has been in command, since 13 May, 1843, of the Fisgard 42, in the Pacific.
He is married, and has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.