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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rich, George Frederick

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​RICH. (Captain, 1823. f-p., 24; h-p., 28.)
George Frederick Rich is son of Admiral Sir Thos. Rich, who died 6 April, 1804, at Sonning, near Reading; and brother of Capt. Chas. Rich, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 March, 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Atlas 98, Capt. Dodd, with whom, until 18 Dec. following, and again from 16 Jan. to 3 May, 1796, he served at Plymouth in the same ship and in the Fame 74. In June and July, 1798, his name was borne on the books of the Northumberland 74, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and he was next, between March, 1800, and June, 1805, employed on the Irish, Channel, Baltic, West India, and Downs stations, chiefly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Glenmore and Vengeance, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Duff, and Immortalité 36, Capt. E. W. C. R. Owen. In the latter ship, as may be seen by a reference to our Memoir of her Captain, he assisted at the bombardment of Dieppe and St. Valery-en-Caux, and came into frequent contact with the enemy’s flotilla in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. On 30 Dec. 1805, after having acted as Lieutenant in the Valorous, Capts. Harding and Tarker, and performed the duties of Sub-Lieutenant in the Earnest gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders St. Clair and Templar, he was made full Lieutenant into the Rosario sloop, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, whom he accompanied to the West Indies. His next appointments were – 12 April, 1807, to the Venus 32, Capt. Henry Mateon, also in the West Indies – 18 Dec. 1807 and 14 Dec. 1810, to the Clyde 38 and Inconstant 36, both commanded on the Home station by his friend and patron Capt. Owen, who intrusted him with the charge of a division of gun-boats at the evacuation of the Walcheren in Dec. 1809 – 16 March, 1812, to the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel – and, 30 Nov. 1812 (after six months of half-pay), to the acting-command of the Racehorse 18 at the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained until the ensuing June. His appointments as Commander, a rank to which he was officially advanced 26 Oct. 1813, were – 19 Dec. 1814, 4 June, 1816, and 27 Jan. 1817, to the Zephyr 12, Racoon 16, and Falmouth 20, in which vessels he was employed in the Channel and again at the Cape until paid off in March, 1819 – and, 30 Nov. 1822, to the Ringdove 18, fitting for the West Indies. He was posted, 1 July, 1823, into the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant of his old Commander, then Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, on the station last named; and was afterwards nominated Captain – 24 Oct. 1823, for a short time, of the Hyperion 42, at Jamaica – 30 Sept. 1841 and 21 April, 1844, of the Queen 110 and Formidable 84, each bearing the flag of Sir E. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean, where he continued until the end of 1845 and, 6 Nov. 1847, of the Vanguard 80, now on the same station.
Capt. Rich married, 24 July, 1828, Agnes, second daughter of the late C. H. Fraser, Esq., by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 2007.
* ↑ In the Racoon Capt. Rich established a settlement on the Island of Ascension.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richards, George Henry

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​RICHARDS. (Commander, 1845.)
George Henry Richards entered the Navy 3 Nov. 1832; passed his examination 12 March, 1840; was promoted (while Mate of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir David Milne) to the rank of Lieutenant 12 July, 1842; and, from that period until advanced for his services in the Parana to the rank he now holds, 18 Nov. 1845, was stationed in South America in the Philomel surveying-brig, Capt. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan. He has been employed, since 14 Oct. 1847, as Second-Captain of the Acheron steam surveying-vessel, of 160-horse power, Capt. John Lort Stokes, on the East India station. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rich, Henry

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​RICH. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Henry Rich, born in March, 1787, is second son of Robt. Rich, Esq., of Orchardley Park, co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 March, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diligence sloop, Capts. Rich. Jones and Alex. Robt. Kerr; and in Aug. of the same year was present as Midshipman in Lord Nelson’s attack upon the Boulogne flotilla. He continued in the Diligence, on the Home station, until transferred, in Nov. 1804, to the Defiance 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham. In that ship, in the course of 1805, he fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, assisted under Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis in driving the French fleet into Brest, and partook of the glories of Trafalgar. After serving for two years and a half with Capts. Durham and Thos. Alexander in the Renown 74, off Rochefort, L’Orient, and Toulon, he was nominated, 13 July, 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Atlas 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Child Purvis at Gibraltar. On 26 Nov. following he was confirmed into the Grasshopper 18, Capt. Henry Fanshawe, on the Mediterranean station, where he remained until April, 1810. In the ensuing Sept. he joined the St. Albans 64, Capt. Edw. Brace, and, in Feb. 1811, the Druid 32, Capts. Sir Thos. Louis, John Williams, Thos. Searle, and Fras. Stanfell. In both ships he was employed at the defence of Cadiz; and in the Druid, in which he continued until Oct. 1812, he aided also at the defence of Tarifa. His last appointments were – in June, 1814, to the Madagascar 38, Capts. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle and Fras. Stanfell, on the North American station – and, in Oct. 1815, to the Phaeton 38, Capt. F. Stanfell, lying at Sheerness. He was placed on half-pay in Dec. 1815; and invested with his present rank 3 Nov. 1846. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richards, Harry Lord

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​RICHARDS. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 20; h-p., 29.)
Harry Lord Richards is brother of John Richards, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1800), who died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 June, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prudent prison-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Chas. Henry Lane; and from the following Oct. until his return to England in 1802 was employed in the Channel and West Indies as A.B., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the Druid 32, Capt. Chas. Apthorp, Volage 22, Capts. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Wm. Parker, and Fras. Vesey (in which ship he assisted at the capture of the Santa Dorval Spanish packet), and Dédaigneuse frigate, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland. He then sailed in the ship last mentioned under Capt. Peter Heywood for the East Indies; where, from Feb. 1804 until Jan. 1805, he acted as Lieutenant in the Caroline 36 and Grampus 50, Capts. Benj. Wm. Page and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. After again serving as Midshipman in the Dédaigneuse and Cornwallis 50, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Jas. Johnston, and as a Supernumerary on promotion in the Culloden 74, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, he was afresh ordered to act as Lieutenant, in Jan. and July, 1808, in the Caroline, commanded at the time by Capt. Henry Hart, and Fox 32, Capts. Hon. Arch. Cochrane and H. Hart. While attached to the Culloden he contributed, 11 Dec. 1807, to the destruction of the dockyard and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India; during his servitude in the Caroline he was frequently intrusted with the command of the boats of that ship, and on one occasion succeeded in taking a flotilla of gun-vessels; and while officiating as First of the Fox (from which frigate he invalided in June, 1809) he was in charge of her boats at the capture of a French ship of 10 guns and 100 men under the batteries of Sapara. On 12 Nov. 1809 he was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant. He next, between Jan. 1811 and June, 1812, served off Madeira and in the Bay of Cadiz in the Merope 10, Capt. Edw. Flin, and, as Senior, in the Alfred 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton. During the six following months he commanded the Fearless gun-vessel off Cadiz and Tangier and in various parts of the Mediterranean; and from the close of 1813 until June, 1815, he was actively employed on the lakes of Canada, where a severe injury occasioned him the loss of sight in one eye. On his return to England in the autumn of 1815 he was for three months employed at Plymouth as First-Lieutenant in the Conway 24, Capt. John Tancock. His succeeding appointments were – 31 Jan. 1822, to the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, which ship was paid off in the following Sept. – 7 May, 1824, to the Aetna bomb, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the Mediterranean station – and 19 Aug. 1825, as Senior, to the Galatea 42, Capt. Chas. Sullivan, employed on particular service. He attained his present rank 20 Aug. 1828, and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Richards married Miss E. Worth, of Plymouth.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richards, John

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​RICHARDS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 19.)
John Richards entered the Navy, 14 July, 1806, as L.M., on board the Wagtail, and was for some months employed in cruizing among the Western Islands. While serving next, between Feb. 1807 and Feb. 1813, in the Centaur 74, Commodore Sir Sam. Hood, he accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen – witnessed the surrender of Madeira – assisted, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious engagement, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded – and took part in the operations of 1809 in the Scheldt. From 1 March, 1813, until 1 Jan. 1816, he served in the Downs and North Sea and at Cork in the Monmouth 64 and Scarborough 74, flag-ships of Admirals Thos. Foley and John Ferrier, and Tigris 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson. He then took up a commission bearing date 3 Aug. 1815. Since 7 May, 1835, he has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richards, Edwin

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​RICHARDS. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
Edwin Richards entered the Navy, 28 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Phaeton 38, Capt. Geo. Cockburn. In that frigate, after serving off Havre-de-Grace, he accompanied Mr. Merry, the British Minister Plenipotentiary, to the United States, and was for some time employed in blockading the Isle of France, where he frequently came into collision with the enemy’s batteries. On his return to England with Capt. Cookburn in the ​Howe frigate in escort of the Marquis of Wellesley, late Governor-General of India, he was received as a Supernumerary, in Feb. 1806, on board El Corso, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Collins Barker, lying in the river Thames. Remaining in that vessel but a few days, he next, in Sept. of the same year, joined the Captain 74, commanded by Capt. Cockburn, with whom (deducting a few months passed in 1807-8 on board the Achille 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King) he continued to serve in the Pompée, Belleisle, and Implacable 74’s, until Sept. 1810. In the Pompée he co-operated as Master’s Mate in the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809; and in the Belleisle he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. In Sept. 1810 he became Acting-Lieutenant (a rank he had held for a short time on board the Implacable) of a vessel (the name of which we are not certain of) commanded on the Cadiz station by Capt. Geo. Matthew Jones. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 26 April, 1811; was next, from Aug. 1812 until May, 1813, employed in the Mediterranean in the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, and from Oct. 1815 until Aug. 1817 on the Channel and North American stations in the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie; attained his present rank 28 April, 1827; and officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard from 29 Dec. 1828 until the close of 1832, and again from 24 June, 1836, until the summer of 1839. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richards, William

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​RICHARDS. (Lieut., 1815. r-p. 10; h-p., 32.)
William Richards entered the Navy, 9 April, 1805, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Zealous 74, Capts. John Okes Hardy, John Giffard, Wm. Pierrepont, Thos. Boys, and Jas. Anderson. Continuing in that ship until 1814, he assisted, as Midshipman, in blockading the French and Spanish squadrons at Cadiz, was at Gibraltar when the fleet came in after the battle of Trafalgar, served in a gun-boat against the French on the coast of Spain, escorted the Russian fleet to England after the Convention of Cintra, aided in embarking the remains of General Moore’s army at Corunna, commanded a telegraph in a redoubt on the lines of Torres Vedras, and was engaged in affording protection to the trade in the Baltic. From Oct. 1814 until May, 1815, he served in the Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, and cruized during that period among the Western Islands in pursuit of three American frigates. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay. His commission bears date 7 Feb. 1815.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abatement

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Aba′tement. n. s. [abatement, Fr.]
Xenophon tells us, that the city contained about ten thousand houses, and allowing one man to every house, who could have any share in the government (the rest consisting of women, children, and servants), and making other obvious abatements, these tyrants, if they had been careful to adhere together, might have been a majority even of the people collective.Swift on the Contest of Athens and Rome.
Coffee has, in common with all nuts, an oil strongly combined and entangled with earthy particles. The most noxious part of oil exhales in roasting, to the abatement of near one quarter of its weight.Arbuthnot on Aliments.
The law of works is that law, which requires perfect obedience, without remission or abatement, so that, by that law, a man cannot be just, or justified, without an exact performance of every tittle.Locke.
As our advantages towards practicing and promoting piety and virtue were greater than those of other men; so will our excuse be less, if we neglect to make use of them. We cannnt plead in abatement of our guilt, that we were ignorant of our duty, under the prepossession of ill habits, and the bias of a wrong education.Atterbury's Sermons.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abatude

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A′batude. n. s. [old records.] Anything diminished. Bailey.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abbacy

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A′bbacy. n. s. [Lat. abbatia.] The rights or privileges of an abbot. See Abbey.
According to Felinus, an abbacy is the dignity itself, since an abbot is a term or word of dignity, and not of office; and, therefore, even a secular person, who has the care of souls, is sometimes, in the canon law, also stiled an abbot.Ayliffe's Parergon Juris Canonici.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abba

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A′bba. n. s. [Heb. אב] A Syriac word, which signifies father.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abater

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Aba′ter. n. s. The agent or cause by which an abatement is procured; that by which any thing is lessened.
Abaters of acrimony or sharpness, are expressed oils of ripe vegetables, and all preparations of such; as of almonds, pistachoes, and other nuts.Arbuthnot on Diet.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abator

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Aba′tor. n. s. [a law term.] One who intrudes into houses or land, void by the death of the former possessor, and yet not entered upon or taken up by his heir. Dict.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abb

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Abb. n. s. The yarn on a weaver's warp; a term among clothiers. Chambers.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abature

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A′bature. n. s. [from abatre, French.] Those sprigs of grass which are thrown down by a stag in his passing by. Dict.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abbess

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A′bbess. n. s. [Lat. abbatissa, from whence the Saxon abudisse, then probably abbatess, and by contraction abbesse in Fr. and abbess, Eng.] The superiour or governesfs of a nunnery or monastery of women.
They fled Into this abbey, whither we pursued them; And here the abbess shuts the gate on us, And will not suffer us to fetch him out.Shakes. Com. of Errors.
I have a sister, abbess in Terceras, Who lost her lover on her bridal-day.Dryd. D. Sebast.
Constantia, as soon as the solemnities of her reception were over, retired with the abbess into her own apartment.Addison.
# A Dictionary of the English Language/abbey

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A′bbey, or Abby. n. s. [Lat. abbstia; from whence probably first Abbacy; which see.] A monastery of religious persons, whether men or women; distinguished from religious houses of other denominations by larger privileges. See Abbot.
With easy roads he came to Leicester; Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourabiy receiv'd him.Shakesp.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Conor, Richard

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​O’CONOR, K.C.H. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
Richard O’Conor is second son of the late Sir Pat. O’Conor, of Cork, by Miss Terry, of Castle Terry, in that co.
This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, employed on the Cork station, where, in 1799, he removed to the Doris 36, Capt. Lord Ranelagh. In 1801 he again joined Lord Amelius Beauclerk, as Midshipman, on board the Fortunée frigate, attached to the Channel fleet, with which he continued to serve, until Aug. 1805, in the Plantagenet and Majestic 74’s, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Lord A. Beauclerk, and Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Lord Gardner. He was then ​nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Attack gun-brig; and on 1 Feb. 1806 he was made full Lieutetenant into the Confiance sloop, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo. After further serving in the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, in the Thalia 36, commanded on the Guernsey station by Capt. Jas. Walker, and for two years as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edm. Nagle in the Ardent 64, at Leith, he was promoted, 17 Aug. 1810, to the rank of Commander. In 1813 we find him superintending the naval yards on the Canadian lakes; and on 6 May, 1814, performing, in the Prince Regent, the duties of Flag-Captain to Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo at the capture of Oswego, where he was intrusted with the direction of the boats and gun-vessels employed in landing the troops. In 1815, having been advanced to Post-rank 16 Aug. in the preceding year, he returned to England. He was nominated a K.C.H. 25 Jan. 1836; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. O’Conor married Miss Hannah Ross, daughter of an eminent merchant and East India Director, by whom he has issue a son (an officer in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) and three daughters, the eldest of whom is married to a Swiss nobleman. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Brien, Andrew

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​O’BRIEN. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
Andrew O’Brien entered the Navy, 10 March, 1798, as a Boy, on board the Romney 50, Capt. John Lawford; and in the summer of the same year waa present at the detention of a large convoy laden with naval and military stores for France, and under the protection of a Swedish frigate. After accompanying the expedition against the Helder, and witnessing the surrender of Rear-Admiral Story’s squadron, he followed Capt. Lawford, as Midshipman, in Aug. 1800, into the Polyphemus 64, which ship formed part of Lord Nelson’s division in the attack upon the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. In the course of 1803 he became in succession attached to the Achille and Courageux 74’s, both commanded, the latter in the West Indies, by Capt. John Okes Hardy; and he next, between 1803 and the close of 1807, served, principally on the Home station, in the Britannia 100, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk, Avon sloop, Capt. Fras. Jackson Snell, and Audacious 74, Capts. John Lawford and Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin. Of the latter ship he was created a Lieutenant 25 April, 1807. His succeeding appointments were – 24 Dec. in that year, to the Racehorse 18, stationed at first off Guernsey, and then at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he invalided in July, 1810 – 6 March, 1811, for a few weeks, to the Recruit sloop, Capt. Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, at Newfoundland – 28 Sept. following, to the Brisk 16, Capt. Eyles Mounsher, on the Irish station – and, 28 June, 1813, to the Forth 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, employed in the North Sea and North America. He returned to England in May, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Brien, Charles Douglas

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​O’BRIEN. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Charles Douglas O’Brien died about the commencement of 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 29 March, 1823; passed his examination in 1830; and, as a reward for his services during the operations on the coast of Syria, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, 13 Sept. 1841, and 17 Oct. 1842, to the Benbow 72, Cambridge 78, and Rodney 92, Capts. Houston Stewart, Edw. Barnard, and Robt. Maunsell, all in the Mediterranean – 1 Feb. 1844, to the Coast Guard – 11 Dec. following, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport – and 11 Jan. and 6 May, 1845, to the Ranger 6, and Prometheus steam-sloop, Capts. Jas. Anderson and John Hay, both on the coast of Africa, where he continued employed as First-Lieutenant of the latter vessel until the period of his death.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Callaghan, George William Douglas

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​O’CALLAGHAN. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 6.)
George William Douglas O’Callaghan was born 15 Aug. 1811.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 May, 1825, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Camelion 10, Capts. Geo. Robt. Lambert and Mich. Seymour, stationed in the Channel. In July, 1826, he became Midshipman of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade; and he was next, from Feb. 1827 until July, 1831, employed in the West Indies in the Barham 50, flag-ship of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, Druid 46, Capt. Williams Sandom, Grasshopper 18, Capt. Chas. Deare, and Mersey 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay. Prior to his examination, which he passed 8 Sept. 1831, he served for a short period also in the Isis 50, Capt. Geo. Rennie. In the early part of 1831 he sailed for the East Indies as Mate of the Harrier 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall; in command of one of the boats belonging to which vessel we find him on two occasions engaged in attacks upon the Malay pirates. Being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 6 June, 1834, and appointed, a few months afterwards, to the Andromache 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, also on the East India station, he was slightly wounded, while in that frigate, in endeavouring to effect the suppression of piracy in the straits of Malacca, and for his services was presented, in common with the other officers employed, with a sword by the merchants, &c., of Bombay, besides receiving the thanks of the Admiralty and of the Chambers of Commerce at Calcutta and Madras. He returned to England in Sept. 1837; and was afterwards appointed, on the Mediterranean station – 24 April, 1838, to the Talbot 28, Capt. Henry John Codrington – 25 Oct. following, to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher – 29 Jan. 1839, as First, to the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Arth. Wakefield, which vessel he left in July, 1840 – and in June, 1841, in a similar capacity, to the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw, Harvey. He obtained a second promotal commission 11 Aug. 1841; and from 22 March, 1845, until advanced to his present rank, 30 Nov. 1846, had command of the Vesuvius steam-sloop of 280 horse power on the North America and West India station. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. O’Callaghan married, 25 Aug, 1840, Miss Harriet Graves Barton, and by that lady has issue. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.