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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pridham, William Downman

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​PRIDHAM. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
William Downman Pridham entered the Navy, 21 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diomede 50, Capt. Hugh Downman, with whom, after having served as Midshipman off Boulogne and at the blockade of the Texel, he removed to the Diadem 64, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Home Popham, and sailed with the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. In Jan. 1806 he was transferred to the Espoir sloop, Capt. Henry Hope, and sent home with the despatches announcing the reduction of that colony. He was subsequently employed in her with great activity in the Adriatic, where he saw much boat service and assisted at the capture of many of the enemy’s vessels. In 1807 he was made prisoner, marched across Italy, and lodged in a fortress. Being exchanged, however, in the course of the same year, he was received on board the Aurora 28, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and John Duer; in which vessel, on her arrival in the West Indies, we find him present, as Master’s Mate, at the capture of the town of Samana, in the island of Hayti, also of the city of San Domingo, and of the islands of Guadeloupe, St. Martin’s, and St. Eustatius. On his return to England he joined, in Oct. 1810, the Puissant 74, guardship at Spithead; and he was next, in the early part of 1811, again placed under the orders of Capt. Downman on board the Princess Caroline 74. Continuing in that ship until Feb. 1814, he escorted several convoys through the Great Belt, and often came into contact with the enemy. On one occasion, when in command of a boat with 10 men, he succeeded in cutting out a Danish galliot with a body of troops on board, moored close under the batteries at Hoornbeck, in Zealand. On leaving the Princess Caroline he was sent on promotion to the Lakes of Canada in the Dover troop-ship, Capt. Davies. After there serving for nine months as Master’s Mate in the Prince Regent 56, Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, and for three as Acting-Lieutenant in the St. Lawrence 98, Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, he returned in the summer of 1815 to England in the Sovereign transport, and, on his arrival in Sept. of that year, found that he had been awarded a commission dated 1 of the preceding July. His last appointment was, 29 May, 1816, to the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, under whom he fought at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. following. In the course of the next month he invalided.
Including the services above recorded, we find that Lieut. Pridham during the war was two-and-twenty times actually engaged with the enemy; that he assisted at the reduction of six colonies, the capture and destruction of one line-of-battle ship, eight frigates, five corvettes, five privateers, and 40 sail of gun-boats, galleys, and other armed vessels; and that he was twice comprised in the thanks of Parliament. He is the author of ‘Scenes in the Adriatic in 1806-7,’ and of ‘The Journal of a Visit to Algiers under Lord Exmouth in 1816.’ He married, in 1825, the only daughter of John Meadway, Esq., of Grove House, Dorset, and has issue one son and two daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pridham, William White

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​PRIDHAM. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
William White Pridham is nephew of Capt. Rich. Pridham, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 17 Nov. 1825; passed his examination in 1832; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, Robert (b)

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​MORGAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 35.)
Robert Morgan (b) is third son of the late Thos. Morgan, Esq., Recorder of Clonekilty, co. Cork.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Feb. 1800, as Ordinary (after seven years’ employment in the merchant-service, latterly in the capacity of Mate), on board the Inflexible 64, armée en flûte, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, under whom he took part in the operations in Egypt in 1801. Returning to England in the early part of 1802, he next, in May, 1804, joined the Loire 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; on leaving which ship in the following July he was received on board the Triton frigate, Capt. Wm. Cashman, off Waterford. In Aug. 1806 he became Master’s Mate of the Active 38, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and Jas. Alex. Gordon; under the former of whom, in Feb. 1807, he accompanied Sir John Duckworth past the Dardanells, and on that occasion was so stunned by the explosion of a gun that the blood gushed out of both ears, and he ultimately lost all sense of hearing, although, from the accident not being properly reported, he was never able to procure compensation. While attached, from May, 1809, to April, 1811, to the Alfred 74, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, he witnessed the capture of Flushing and Guadeloupe, and was also present at the defence of Cadiz, where he commanded a gun-boat, and had every oar shot away while retreating from under a battery, without, fortunately, any of his crew being touched. After further serving with Capt. Watson in the Implacable 74, with Admirals Sir Robt. Calder and Lord Keith in the Salvador del Mundo and Queen Charlotte (of which latter ship he officiated as Second-Master from 26 March, 1813, to 30 Aug. 1814), with Capts. J. Richards and Geo. McKinley in the Namur 74, and with Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane in the Orontes 36 on the Mediterranean and Home stations, he took up, in Nov. 1815, a commission bearing date 15 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Morgan married, first, in 1804 or 1805; and, again, in 1830. By his first wife he has living two sons (both of whom, educated at the Naval School at Greenwich, are now in the merchant-service) and one daughter.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moriarty, William

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​MORIARTY. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 16; h-p., 28.)
William Moriarty is son of the late Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty, Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thos. Graves in the Ramillies 74, prior to the commencement of the French revolutionary war; and brother-in-law of Capt. Peter John Douglas, R.N. He is brother of Lieuts. Redmond and Merion Marshall Moriarty, R.N.; and also of the late Messrs. Peter, Sylverius, and Martin Moriarty, all in the R.N. – the first of whom died a Lieutenant of fever in the West Indies, the second was lost with the Queen Charlotte in 1800, and the third died of cold caught while extinguishing a fire on board the Captain 74, at Plymouth.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 26 Sept. 1803; and embarked, 17 Aug. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Nymphe 36, Capts. Conway Shipley, Geo. Pigot, Hon. Josceline Percy, and Edw. Sneyd Clay; under the first of whom, who was killed, he was wounded in the boats in a desperate but unsuccessful attack made on the night of 23 April, 1808, on a French corvette, La Gavotte, of 22 guns and 150 men, lying at anchor in a bight above Belem Castle, in the river Tagus. He had previously enacted a part at the siege of Copenhagen; and he subsequently, when under Capt. Percy, escorted General Junot to Rochelle after the convention of Cintra. Quitting the Nymphe in Dec. 1810, he next, for about three years, served, on the Home, North American, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Seine frigate, Capt. John Hatley, Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Thos. Burton, Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Partridge 16, Capt. John Miller Adye. Having passed his examination in the summer of 1811 he was confirmed a Lieutenant 13 Oct. 1813. His succeeding appointments were – 29 March, 1814, to the Cerberos 32, Capt. Thos. Garth, also in the Mediterranean – 19 Sept. following, to the Tyrian sloop, Capt. Augustus Baldwin, in which vessel, stationed in the Channel, he served until Oct. 1815 – and, 15 April, 1818, to the Topaze frigate, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, fitting for the East Indies. In 1820 he accompanied an expedition sent to the Persian Gulf for the purpose of obtaining redress for injuries which the British interests had suffered from the officers of the Imaum of Senna; and in Dec. of that year he was wounded at the head of a party of seamen while storming a fort during a series of operations against the city of Mokha. Although the attack was not crowned with the success it deserved, yet the daring intrepidity displayed by Lieut. Moriarty, exposed as he was to a heavy and galling fire of musketry, met its due reward in his being advanced, 1 Nov. 1822, to the rank he now holds.
Commander Moriarty has been for many years Port Officer at Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. He married Aphra, daughter of the late and sister of the present Dr. Cramp, of Tralee, co. Kerry. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moriarty, Merion Marshall

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​MORIARTY. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Merion Marshall Moriarty is brother of Commander Wm. Moriarty, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, successive flag-ship of Admirals Wm. Essington and Sir Chas. Cotton, with the latter of whom, after assisting at the reduction of Copenhagen, he removed, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1808, to the Hibernia 110, and proceeded off Lisbon. In Nov. 1812, up to which period he had been further employed under the orders of Sir C. Cotton, and also of Lord Keith, in the San Josef 110, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, he joined the Révolutionnaire 38, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, cruizing among the Western Islands. He removed, in Aug. 1814, to the Cydnus 38, Capt. Fred. Langford, attached to the Channel fleet, where he served until Feb. 1814. In the following summer he proceeded to the West Indies as Acting-Lieutenant of the Hazard sloop, Capt. John Cookesley, in which vessel, being confirmed to her 26 Sept. following, he afterwards visited Newfoundland. He invalided home in Sept. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Moriarty, who had previously had command for several years of the Bristol Company’s steam-ship Queen, has filled the appointment, since ​1842, of Port Officer at Sydney, New South Wales. He married Anne, daughter of the late Major Edw. Orpen, of Killowen, co. Kerry, by whom he has issue four sons (the eldest a Barrister-at-law) and seven daughters. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morier, William

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​MORIER. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 1.5; h-p., 29.)
William Morier entered the Navy, in Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Illustrious 74 ​Capt. John Giffard, lying at Woolwich, and after cruizing for nine months on the Irish station in the Dryad 36, Capt. J. Giffard, was constituted Midshipman, in Jan. 1805, of the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where it was his fortune to participate in much boat service. Quitting the last-mentioned ship in March, 1807, he was next, until April, 1810, employed on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations in the Minorca sloop, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, Intrepid 64, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Alfred 74, Capt. John Bligh, and Thames 32, Capt. Hon. G. G. Waldegrave. He was then nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Zealous 74, Capt. Thos. Boys; and on 4 of the following month (having intermediately taken part in the defence of Cadiz, and assisted in setting fire to a prison-ship driven on shore by the French prisoners) he was confirmed into the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander. In Nov. of the same year he returned to the Thames, still commanded by Capt. Waldegrave, although afterwards by Capts. Chas. Napier and John Strutt Peyton. In that ship he contributed to the reduction of the island of Ponza in Feb. 1811, and, among other boat affairs performed on the coast of Calabria, displayed characteristic zeal at the destruction, 16 June following, of 10 large armed feluccas, on the beach, near Cetraro, in the gulf of Policastro. After a servitude of 20 months in the Pactolus 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, during which period he had escorted, we believe, the Duke of Cambridge to Cuxhaven and his late Majesty to the Scheldt, and had witnessed the bombardment of Stonington in America, he was presented with a Second promotal commission dated 13 June, 1815. His last appointments were – 12 Oct. 1826 and 17 Sept. 1828, to the Harrier and Childers sloops, of 18 guns each; which vessels he successively commanded on the North Sea station until the close of 1829. He attained his present rank 18 Jan. 1830.
Capt. Morier married, in 1841, Fanny, daughter of D. Bevan, Esq., of Belmont, Herts. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morres, Elliot

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​MORRES. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 8; h-p., 30.)
Elliot Morres entered the Navy, 26 May, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Medusa 32, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie; In which ship, during a servitude of four years on the Home station, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 6 and 14 Jan. 1810, of the privateers L’Aventure, of 14 guns and 82 men, and L’Hirondelle, of 14 guns and 72 men, and co-operated much with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. In June, 1813, and Sept. 1815, he successively joined the Rivoli 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Edw. Stirling Dickson, both attached to the force In the Mediterranean; where, on being appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Glasgow 40, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, he took part In the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He was promoted in consequence to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. following. He left the Glasgow 31 Oct. in the same year; and has since been on half-pay.
He is married and has Issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moriencourt, Joseph Salvador

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​MORIENCOURT. (Retired Commander, 1827. f-p., 14; h-p., 46.)
Joseph Salvador Moriencourt entered the Navy, in Feb. 1787, as Midshipman, on board the Adventure 44, Capts. Fras. Parry and John Nicholson Inglefield, on the African station; and between July, 1790, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1793, was employed in the Channel, off the coast of Africa, at Portsmouth, and in the Mediterranean, in the Excellent 74, Capt. John Gell, Medusa frigate, Capt. J. N. Inglefield, Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Vice- Admiral Roddam, and Romney 50, and Princess Royal 98, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. He was then, being at the siege of Toulon, placed in command of a floating battery, which suffered much from the enemy’s batteries. He went on half-pay in Dec. 1793; but was afterwards, between July, 1794, and July, 1801, afforded an opportunity of serving on the Home station in the Seahorse frigate, Capt. John Peyton, Neptune 98, Capts. Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope and Sir Erasmus Gower, Arethusa 38, Capt. Thos. Wolley, Neptune again, Capts. Sir E. Gower and Jas.Vashon, and Triton 32, Capt. Fitzgerald. His last appointment, we believe, was, for a short time in the summer of 1803, to L’Argus, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney. He retired with the rank of Commander, on the Senior List, 1 Sept. 1827. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morley, Arthur Thomas

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​MORLEY. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 26; h-p., 13.)
Arthur Thomas Morley entered the Navy, in May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kangaroo 18, Capt. John Baker, under whom he assisted at the capture, 20 Nov. following, of L’Egayant privateer, of 14 guns and 31 men, and continued actively employed in the Channel and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal until Nov. 1810. During the next four years we find him serving as Midshipman, off Cadiz and in various parts of the Mediterranean, in the St. Alban’s 64, and Berwick 74, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace. In the former ship he appears to have been in co-operation with the British army at the battle of Barrosa; and, in the Berwick, to have witnessed the fall of Genoa. He then, in Dec. 1814, joined the St. Lawrence 98, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, on Lake Ontario, where, after an attachment of a few months to the Prince Regent 56, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, he acted, from March, 1816, until July, 1817, as Master of the Netley 10, Capt. Fras. Brace. In Dec. 1818 he became Master’s Mate of the Leven 24; and in that vessel, successively commanded by Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Robt. Baldey, he was for two years and a half employed in surveying the Azores, part of the African coast, and some of the Cape de Verde Islands. He was next, in Aug. 1821, appointed to the Coast Blockade as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; from which service, in Dec. 1822, he was removed, in a similar capacity, to the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He attained his present rank 21 Jan. 1824; and was afterwards employed, from 15 April in the same year until superseded at his own request 8 Nov. 1825, again in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and, from 20 March, 1835, until the close of 1844, in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morley, William

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​MORLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)
William Morley was born in Jan. 1791, at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rattler sloop, Capts. Fras. Mason and Jas. John Chas. Agassiz, on the Newfoundland station; where, from Dec. 1808 until July, 1811, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Adonis 10, Lieut.-Commander David Buchan. He then joined the Minerva 32, Capt. Rich. Hawkins, with whom, during a continuance of nearly three years, he saw service at Halifax and also in the West Indies. After he had been for four months borne, as a Supernumerary, on the books of the Namur 74, Capt. Chas. John Austen, he joined, about Oct. 1814, the Cyane, of 32 guns, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon; and, next, the Triton, prison-ship at Newfoundland, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Bishop. He took up, in June, 1815, a commission bearing date 6 Feb. in that year; and he was, lastly, from April, 1816, until paid Off in Nov. 1817, employed on the coast of North America and in the Leeward Islands in the Pike 12, and Hydra troop-ship, Capts. D. Buchan and Dan. Roberts.
He married, in 1829, Eleanor, daughter of Thos. Sutton, Esq., of Scarborough, co. York, and by that lady has issue 10 children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moriarty, Redmond

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​MORIARTY. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
Redmond Moriarty is the eldest brother of Commander Wm. Moriarty, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 May, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Romulus 36, Capt. Thos. Burton, stationed in the North Sea. In Aug. 1806 he removed to the Ardent 64, Capt. Geo. Eyre, with whom, in the course of the same year, he proceeded, in the Magnificent 74, to the Mediterranean, where, besides serving at the blockade of Cadiz, Toulon, and Corfu, he assisted at the defence of Rosas in Nov. 1808, united in the reduction of Zante, Cephalonia, &c., in Oct. 1809, and was employed on shore in co-operation with the army at the taking of Sta. Maura in March, 1810. Removing in May, 1811, to the Active, of 46 guns, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he served in the boats of that ship, four in number, at the capture and destruction, 27 July following, of 28 sail of merchantmen, defended, in a creek of the island of Ragosniza, by three gun-vessels and a body of 300 troops; as a reward for his conduct on which occasion he was nominated, 1 Sept. in the same year, Acting-Lieutenant of the Active. On 29 of the ensuing Nov. we find him sharing in a hard-fought action of an hour and a half, which, in rendering the latter ship captor of the Pomone, of 44 guns and 332 men, 50 of whom were killed and wounded, produced a loss to her of 8 killed and 27 wounded, including Capt. Gordon (whose warmest praise he had the fortune to elicit), and the First and Second Lieutenants. After saving a boat’s crew from being drowned, Mr. Moriarty, officiating at the time as Third Lieutenant, was placed in charge of the prize, and, although she was in a nearly sinking state, he succeeded in carrying her safe into Lissa (where he received the thanks of Capt. Murray Maxwell, the Senior officer on the station), and thence to Malta. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 7 Jan. 1812; and was subsequently appointed – in the course of the same year, to the command of No. 5 gun-boat, in which he was for upwards of two years employed at the defence of Cadiz, and between that port and Gibraltar – 27 Sept. 1814, for passage home, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. John Lampen Manley – 6 Dec. following, to the Rover sloop, Capt. Wm. Henry Bruce, with whom he served on the Brazilian, West India, and Home stations until Sept. 1815 – and, 8 June, 1824, to the Coast Blockade, in which he remained as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, until compelled by illness to resign in 1828. He has not been since employed.
He married, first, Dorcas Helena, daughter of Major Edw. Orpen, of Killowen, co. Kerry; and, secondly, Rachael Ann, daughter of John Mayberry, Esq., of Green Lane, in the same co. By his first marriage he has issue a son and daughter; and, by his last, a daughter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, p. 2193.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 566.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Schomberg, Henry Charles

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​SCHOMBERG. (Lieutenant, 1827. f-p., 15; h-p., 14.)
Henry Charles Schomberg, born 1 Aug. 1804, is third son of the late Commissioner Isaac Schomberg, R.N., author of the ‘Naval Chronology,’ by Amelia, daughter of John Lawrance Brodrick, D.D., and grand-daughter of Viscount Middleton. He is cousin of Vice-Admiral A. W. Schomberg.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Feb. 1818; and embarked, in April, 1820, on board the Rochfort 80, commanded by his cousin, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, as flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean; where, after serving as Midshipman in the Larne 20, Capt. Robt. Tait, and again in the Rochfort, he became, early in 1824 and 1827, Mate of the Revenge 76, and Asia 84, bearing the flags of Sir Harry Burrard Neale and Sir Edw. Codrington. He was in the Rochfort when that ship afforded a passage to the present King of the Belgians; and he was in charge of the watch at the moment that the Marquess of Hastings, who died on board, breathed his last, in Baia Bay, Naples. He was frequently, while in her engaged in boat affairs with pirates. During the time he belonged to the Revenge he commanded the Racer and Express tenders, and assisted at the blockade of Algiers. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1827, he was in the course of that year so appointed to the Gannet 18, Capt. Francis Brace, and Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude; and next, 16 Oct. 1828, and 9 March, 1829, to the Jaseur 18, Capt. John Lyons, and Maidstone 42, Commodore C. M. Schomberg, both at the Cape of Good Hope. In the Glasgow he was employed in watching the movements of the Turco-Egyptian fleet prior to the battle of Navarin (at which he fought in the capacity of Second Lieutenant), and afterwards in suppressing piracy in the Archipelago. Since the paying-off of the Maidstone in Aug. 1832 he has not been afloat.
Lieut. Schomberg married, 6 Aug. 1833, Susan, relict of his cousin, Henry Brodrick, Esq., of co. Kilkenny.