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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Starmer, Charles

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​STARMER. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles Starmer entered the Navy, 19 Sept. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Northumberland 78, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, lying at Sheerness; and was afterwards employed as Midshipman on the Newfoundland, African, and Home stations, in the Grasshopper 18, Capt. David Buchan, Esk 20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, and Melville 74, Capt. Henry Hill. In 1829, in the course of which year he passed his examination, he joined the Atholl 28, Capts. Alex. Gordon and Wm. Webb, with whom he again, until Feb. 1832, served on the coast of Africa. He next, in Jan. 1833, joined the Spartiate 76, fitting for the flag of Sir M. Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in South America, whence he returned in Sept. 1835; and on 2 May, 1837, at which period he had been for upwards of 12 months employed in the Lightning steam-vessel on the north coast of Spain, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 13 July, 1837, to the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Arthur Wakefleld, in the Mediterranean – 15 May, 1841, as Senior, after seven months of half-pay, to the Pelican 16, Capt. Chas. Geo. Elers Napier, on the East India station – and 20 Jan. 1842, to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. Uniting in the latter ship in the operations on the coast of China, ​he landed, 15 March, 1842, in command of the small-arm men, and assisted with the troops and the rest of the naval brigade in escalading the walls of Tse-kee, and in subsequently driving the enemy from their entrenched position on the heights at the back of the town. On 18 May following he contributed in a similar manner to the capture of Chapoo; on 16 June and 21 July he was present at the attack upon the Woosung batteries and at the storming of Chin-Kiang-Foo; and in the month of Aug. he was off Nanking when the treaty of peace was concluded. He attained his present rank 23 Dec. 1842, but remained in the Blonde until paid off in March, 1843. From 3 July, 1846, until put out of commission in 1848, he commanded the Hecla steam-sloop of 240 horse power in the Mediterranean.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 2391.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3694.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3821.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Steele, Henry Perin

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​STEELE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 31.)
Henry Perin Steele entered the Navy, 25 June, 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Christian VII. 80, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke, flag-ship afterwards of the late Lord Exmouth, with whom (deducting one interval passed, between Feb. 1812 and Dec. 1813, in the Alcmène frigate and Pylades sloop, Capts. Edwards Lloyd Graham and Jas. Wemyss, and another, from Sept. 1814 until April, 1815, spent on board the Prince Frederick 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Byam Martin at Plymouth, and Malta 84, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie) he continued employed in the North Sea, Channel, and Mediterranean, as Midshipman and Mate of the Signals, in the same ship and in the Caledonia 120 and Boyne 98, until made Lieutenant, 22 Nov. 1815, into the Partridge sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye. He was present in the Caledonia in a partial action with the Toulon fleet 13 Nov. 1814, and at the surrender of Genoa. He left the Partridge 12 March, 1816, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Steele married, 30 April, 1839, Anne, relict of H. Elkins Way, Esq., and second daughter of the late John Ranger Russell, Esq., of Beaminster, co. Dorset.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Steele, Elmes

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​STEELE. (Retired Commander, 1838. f-p., 13; h-p., 36.)
Elmes Steele entered the Navy, in March, 1798, as A.B., on board the Triton 32, Capt. John Gore, under whom, after visiting the Mediterranean, he assisted, 18 Oct. 1799, at the capture, off Cape Finisterre, of the Santa Brigida Spanish frigate of 36 guns and 300 men, laden with treasure to an enormous amount. In the course of 180O he became Midshipman of the Cambridge 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Pasley at Plymouth, and Atlas 98, Capt. Theophilus Jones, attached to the Channel fleet; and in Hov. 1802, having left the Atlas in the preceding May, he was nominated Master’s Mate of the Caroline 36, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page. During the passage of that ship to the East Indies he was placed on board a prize and sent home. On his arrival he joined the Castor 32, Capt. Edw. Brace, stationed in the Downs. He was nominated, early in 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the Aimable 32, Capt. Wm. Bolton; was officially promoted 26 March in that year; and between Aug. following and Dec. 1812 was employed on the coast of North America, off Boulogne and the north coast of Spain, and in the North Sea and Mediterranean, in the Mercury 28, Capt. Chas. Pelly, Leopard 50, Capt. Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, Glommen sloop, Capt. Chas. Pickford, Arethusa 38, Capt. Robt. Mends, Horatio 38, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, Menelaus 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, and Barfleur 98, Capt. Sir Edw. Berry. He was on board the Leopard, we believe, when she compelled, 22 June, 1807, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake to surrender, after an engagement occasioned by a refusal on the part of the latter to permit the British to search her for deserters. On 20 March, 1809, a party of seamen under the orders of Lieut. Steele, who was then serving in the Arethusa, destroyed the guns at Baignio, a place on the coast of France, and captured a vessel there laden with Merino wool; while Lieut. Fennel, of the Royal Marines, accompanied by Mr. Elliott, the Purser, and a boat’s crew, ascended a mountain and destroyed the signal-posts. He accepted his present rank 25 April, 1838. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stark, Peter

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​STARK. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
Peter Stark is nephew of Capt. John Aitkin Blow, R.N. His father was a Captain in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and, on the destruction of that ship by fire off the island of Tenedos 14 Feb. 1807, was received on board the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, with whom he was in consequence present at the passage of the Dardanells. He had the misfortune, 27 Sept. 1807, to be taken prisoner – but, escaping in Dec. 1810, he was again, in the ensuing April, placed under the orders of Capt. Blackwood in the Warspite 74, on the Mediterranean station. He next, in Sept. 1813, joined, as a Supernumerary, the Medway 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Portsmouth; from the following Nov. until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 July, 1814, he served in the same capacity at the Cape of Good Hope in the Laurel 38 and Semiramis 36, Capts. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby and Chas. Richardson; and between Aug. in the latter year and May, 1816, he was employed, on the Home station, in the Spitfire sloop, Capt. Jas. Robt. Dalton, Grampus 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, and Glasgow 60, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland. From 19 Jan. 1827 until the close of 1838 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard.
He is now Emigration Agent at Belfast.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Steddy, John

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​STEDDY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 19; h-p., 20.)
John Steddy is a native of Ashford, co. Kent. This officer entered the Navy, 11 Jan. 1808, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Leonidas 38, Capt. Jas. Donbar, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, in the following Dec, he became Midshipman of the Tuscan 16, Capts. John Wilson, Chas. Phillips, and Geo. Matthew Jones. On the night of 31 Oct. 1809 he served with the boats of a squadron under the orders of Lieut. John Tailour at the capture and destruction, after a fearful struggle, and a loss to the British of 15 killed and 55 wounded, of the French store-ship Lamproie of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, and armed xebec Normande, with a convoy of seven merchant-vessels, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas. In the autumn of 1811 he was again employed in one of the Tuscan’s boats at the destruction, under circumstances of the greatest danger, of two vessels laden with coffee and sugar, which had been run on shore near the river Guadalquivir; in the winter of 1811 he was for six days and nights engaged in an open boat in landing troops at Algeciras and Tarifa; and in July, 1812, he was wounded in an attack made by the boats of the Tuscan, in company with the Encounter gun-brig, upon three privateers, lying under the protection of a battery and of troops posted in the houses at St. Lucar. On the latter occasion, although one of the vessels was brought out, the Encounter, having grounded, fell into the hands of the enemy, and the boats, one of which was destroyed, sustained a loss of 28, out of 43, killed and wounded. In all the above affairs Mr. Steddy was under the immediate orders of Lieut. Pascoe Dunn. He continued to serve in the Tuscan, as Master’s Mate, until Oct. 1813; and between that period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 Oct. 1815, was employed on the West India, Cork, and North Sea stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Barham 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, Tanais 38, Capt. Joseph James, Buffalo store-ship, Master-Commander Rich. Anderson, and Snake sloop, Capt. Joseph Gape. He has had charge, since 18 Nov. 1835, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Steddy has on all occasions had the good fortune to obtain the approval of his superiors. He is married and has one son, Mr. E. Steddy, now in practice as a surgeon at Chatham.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Steane, John

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​STEANE. (Commander, 1841.)
John Steane entered the Navy, in April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nemesis 28, Capt. Philip Somerville, with whom, after serving on the coast of North America, he removed, in March, 1809, to the Rota 38. In that frigate he was present as Midshipman in the attack upon Flushing and at the defence of Cadiz. In March, 1814, at which time he was serving as Master’s Mate in the West Indies, he removed to the Venerable 74, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham; he joined next, in the course of the ensuing month, the Palma frigate, Capt. Jas. Andw. Worth; and from 1 Oct. in the same year until 26 July, 1815, when he took up a commission dated 18 Feb. preceding, he acted as Lieutenant, also in the West Indies, in the Spider sloop, Capts. Fras. Chas. Annesley and Robt. Caulfeild. His subsequent appointments were – 26 July, 1824, and 30 July, 1825, to the Valorous 26 and Beaver sloop, Capts. the Earl of Huntingdon and Chas. Croker, both in the West Indies – 7 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 11 June, 1833, to the command, which he retained until Aug. 1834, of the Sprightly Revenue cruizer – 27 June, 1836, again to the Coast Guard – 19 April, 1839, as Senior, far about two months, to the Hydra steam-vessel, Capt. Anthony Wm. Miilward, fitting for the Mediterranean – and 14 Aug. and 6 Oct. 1840, to the command of the Shearwater and Blazer steamers, the latter on the North America and West India station. He attained his present rank 22 Nov. 1841; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Steel, David

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​STEEL. (Lieut., 1825. f-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
David Steel entered the Navy, 31 March, 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Pompée 74, Capts. Geo. Cockburn and Wm. Chas. Fahie; in which ship he served at the reduction of Martinique, and assisted, 17 April, 1809, at the capture, after an arduous chase of two days and a close action of an hour and a quarter (wherein the Pompée, who was supported by the Castor 32, lost 9 killed and 30 wounded), of the D’Haupoult of 74 guns and 680 men, of whom between 80 and 90 were killed and wounded. In the following Aug. he removed as Master’s Mate to the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood; and with that officer he was again, from 1810 until Nov. 1815, employed in the Pompée in the Channel and Mediterranean; on which latter station (having passed his examination in June, 1814) he served as Admiralty-Mate, from Dec. 1815 until May, 1819, in the Euphrates 36 and Albion 74, Capts. Robt. Preston and John Coode. He then joined, in the same capacity, the Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Dover 28, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sam. Chambers, both on the Leith station; where he was nominated, 7 Aug. 1824, Acting-Lieutenant of the Clio 18, Capt. Chas. Strangways. He was confirmed to that vessel, 10 Jan. 1825, but left her 3 March, 1826, and has not been since afloat.
During the time he was in the Pompée he took part in a variety of cutting-out affairs, and was employed in landing troops in the unsuccessful attack upon Tarragona in 1813. A wound he received on that occasion procured him a small pension which ceased on his promotion. While serving in the Albion Mr. Steel fell overboard in Malta Harbour and had it not been for the intrepid exertions of the ​present Lieut. Henry Batt he would in all probability have perished.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stanton, James

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​STANTON. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
James Stanton died about the commencement of 1848, aged upwards of 80.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1793, as a Volunteer, on board the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Sir Andw. Snape Douglas, successive flag-ship of Admirals Lord Howe, Sir Roger Curtis, Lord Keith, Sir Chas. Thompson, and Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed; the last-mentioned of whom he followed as Master’s Mate, in June and Oct. 1799, into the Barfleur and Téméraire 98’s. During the six years he continued in the Queen Charlotte he was employed chiefly on the Home station, took part in the actions of 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794, and was present in 1797 at the mutiny at Spithead. His zealous exertions on the latter occasion were conspicuous in the extreme and nearly cost him his life. In the Barfleur he made a voyage to the Mediterranean; and in the Téméraire (attached to the Channel fleet) he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted in that capacity, 5 Oct. 1802. His last appointments were – 2 Nov. 1802, to the Lynx sloop, Capt. John Willoughby Marshall, employed in the North Sea and on the coast of France – 7 Feb. 1804, for rather more than a year, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capts. Robt. O’Brien and Jas. Lillicrap, also on the Home station – and, in Oct. 1805, to the Belliqueux 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, afterwards Viscount Torrington. While in the latter ship, of which he became Senior Lieutenant, he commanded a party of seamen on shore at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; he likewise contributed, 27 Nov. following, to the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads; and he was present at the occupation of the island of Rodriguez. He invalided home in Nov. 1809, and was placed on the list of Retired Commanders 18 April, 1835.
He married in early life, and has left an only daughter, Charlotte Howe Stanton, so named from the circumstance of her having been born on board the Queen Charlotte.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stead, Thomas Fisher

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​STEAD. (Lieut., 181,5. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
Thomas Fisher Stead entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1805, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board La Virginie 38, Capt. Edw. Brace; in which ship he was for two years and a half employed, latterly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the North Sea and on the coast of Ireland. He then, in March 1808, joined the Revenge 74, Capts. Sir John Gore and Hon. Chas. Paget, off Cadiz; and from the following Aug. until Nov. 1814, he served (with the exception of a few months passed, between April and Nov. 1809, in the Circe 32, Capt. Edw. Woolcorabe) in the Pelorus 18, and Alcmène and Jason frigates, all commanded by Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King, on the West India, Newfoundland, and Home stations. In the Jason he escorted Louis XVIII. to the French shore in April, 1814; as he shortly afterwards did the Emperor Alexander, the King of Prussia, and the Duchess of Oldenburgh, on their return from England. In Nov. 1815, at which period he had been serving for 11 months on the Brazilian and Cape of Good Hope stations in the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, he was presented with a commission dated back to 27 Feb. preceding. Since 11 July, 1845, he has been employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kirby, Thomas

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​KIRBY. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Thomas Kirby, born 2 Nov. 1790, is third son of the Rev. John Kirby, Vicar of Mayfield, co. Sussex. His younger brother, William, was promoted for his services as Acting-Lieutenant of the Cherub at the capture of the American frigate Essex in 1814, and afterwards died from the effects of the fatigue he had undergone in bringing some prizes home from the South Sea.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, in which ship he was employed for upwards of seven years, chiefly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. He was, in consequence, present in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805; at the capture of the Marengo of 80 guns, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40gun frigate Belle Poule, 13 March, 1806; at the taking, 27 Sept. following, of Le Président French frigate; at the passage of the Dardanells, and destruction of the Turkish squadron at Point Pesquies, in Feb. 1807; at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809; and, on 30 Aug. 1810, when the Repulse, in gallant style, rescued the Philomel sloop from capture, by interposing herself between that vessel and an advanced division of the Toulon fleet, which she compelled to put back. In Aug. 1811 Mr. Kirby became Acting-Lieutenant of the Imogene 16, Capt. Wm. Stephens, with whom (the appointment being confirmed on 17 of the following Oct.) he continued to serve until 30 Nov. 1813 – witnessing in the interim the reduction of the islands of Augusta and Curzola. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, in Jan. 1831, Louisa, eldest daughter of Robt. Becher, Esq., of Tunbridge Wells, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kinsman, James Byrn

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​KINSMAN. (Lieutenaut, 1846.)
James Byrn Kinsman, whose commission bears date 21 Jan. 1846, was appointed, on 25 March in that year, to the Wanderer 12, Capt. Philip Hodge Somerville, on the African station. He has been attached, since 14 Feb. 1847, to the Tortoise store-ship at the Ascension, Capt. Fred. Hutton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kirkes, Martin Stockdale

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​KIRKES. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Martin Stockdale Kirkes died 9 Feb. 1845, at Glasgow, aged 31.
This officer entered the Navy 17 April, 1829; passed his examination in 1835; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, as a reward for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, 4 Nov. 1840. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kirby, Walter

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​KIRBY, K.H. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 17; h-p., 7.)
Walter Kirby, born 14 Nov. 1791, is son of the late W. Kirby, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., and belongs to a respectable Norfolk family.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dart sloop, Capts. W. C. Brownrigg, Thos. Tudor Tucker, Mich. De Courcy, and Joseph Spear; and, until the early part of 1805, was constantly employed with the inshore into frequent collision with the enemy at Boulogne and Calais, and was engaged in the celebrated catamaran expedition of Oct. 1804. In March, 1807, the Dart being at the time in the West Indies, he there removed to the Venus 32, Capt. Henry Matson. On next joining the Astraea 32, Capt. Edm. Heywood, he had the misfortune to be wrecked, near the island of Anagada, 24 May, 1808. During the 12 ensuing months we find him serving with the present Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the Jason 32, and Ethalion 38; and, while in the latter of those ships, sharing in a skirmish with the French 40-gun ​frigate Amphitrite, employed on shore at the storming of Fort Edward, Martinique, and affording his aid to the capture of the Saintes and the French 74-gun ship L’Haupoult. In June, 1809, he joined the Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Jas. Malony, under whom be took part, in the following year, in the defence of Cadiz. Returning to the West Indies in the Dragon 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was promoted on that station to a Lieutenancy, 6 Feb. 1811, in the Frolic 18, Capt. Thos. Whinyates; in command of the boats of which sloop he succeeded, in the course of the same year, in bringing out a French schooner from off the shoals of Cuba. Lieut. Kirby, who left the Frolic in March, 1812, was subsequently appointed – 2 Nov. in that year, to the Satellite 18, Capt. John Porteous, in South America – 9 Feb. 1814, after nine months of half-pay, to the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, attached to the force in the West Indies, whence he returned in the ensuing Nov. – 28 July, 1815, for a few weeks, to the Rota 38, Capt. John Pasco, on the Home station – 10 June and 12 Aug. 1825, to the Gloucester and Windsor Castle 74’s, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Edw. Durnford King, employed at Sheerness, at Plymouth, and off Lisbon – and (the latter ship having been paid off in May, 1828), 22 Jan. 1829, as First, to the Warspite 76, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Baker in South America, He attained his present rank 22 July, 1830; and has since been on half-pay. In Jan. 1828, being at the time in the Windsor Castle, Commander Kirby elicited the approbation of the Lord High Admiral for the manner in which, on 12 of that month, he effected the preservation of the Union 104, when adrift and on shore during a violent storm. On 13 Jan. 1835 he was nominated a K.H. He married, 24 Dec. 1814, Hannah, daughter of Jas. Smith, Esq., of Langford, co. Essex, by whom he has had issue two sons and two daughters. His second son, Sidney, died, while a Gentleman Cadet, at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kinsman, Hugh Mallett

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​KINSMAN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Hugh Mallett Kinsman is son of the late Major Kinsman, R.M.
This officer passed his examination 10 Dec. 1833; served for some time, as Mate, in the Belleisle 72, Capt. John Toup Nicolas; obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841; and, from Dec. 1841 until paid off in 1846, was employed in the Mediterranean, on board the Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis. Since 30 April, 1847, he has been First-Lieutenant of the Avenger steam-frigate of 650 horse-power, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres.
He married Josephine, daughter of Capt. John Pasco, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kingston, James

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​KINGSTON. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 11; h-p.,27.)
James Kingston entered the Navy, 25 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Muros brig, Capt. Clement Sneyd, on the Guernsey station; removed, in Aug. 1810, to the Hibernia 110, Capt. John Nash, lying in Portsmouth Harbour; and from the close of the same year until April, 1812, was employed at the defence of Cadiz in the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. He then joined the Medina sloop, commanded at first by Capt. Sneyd, and afterwards by Capt. Henry Bourchier, off Lisbon, whence, on his removal with the latter officer, in 1813, to the Medina 20, he proceeded to Newfoundland. Returning home in Jan. 1816, he next, in April, 1817, joined the Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson. In Oct. 1818 he was placed on board the Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant 25 July, 1820. While in her he visited Jamaica, and was employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean. He was paid off 12 June, 1821 : and has not been since afloat.