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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turner, William Thackery

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​TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
William Thackery Turner died about the commencement of 1847, while serving on board the Eurydice.
This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 5 Nov. 1832; passed his examination 8 Dec. 1836; served on the North America and West India, Home, and East India stations, as Mate, in the Griffon brigantine, Lieut.-Commander John Gooch D’Urban, Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Henry Digby, and Serpent 16, Capt. Wm. Nevill; obtained his commission 26 Jan. 1843; and was subsequently appointed – 3 May in the latter year, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, in the Pacific – 22 Nov. 1845, to the Crocodile 26, bearing the flag of Sir Hugh Pigot at Cork – and 30 May, 1846, to the Eurydice 22, Capts. Geo. Elliot and Talavera Vernon Anson, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, where he died.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turnour, Edward Winterton

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​TURNOUR. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Edward Winterton Turnour, born in 1821, is third son of the Hon. and Rev. Adolphus Augustus Tumour (brother of Edward, third Earl of Winterton), by Jessie, daughter of John Dewar, Esq.; and nephew of Commander Hon. Arthur Rich. Turnour, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 1 March, 1834; passed his examination 20 Oct. 1840; served as Mate in the Conway 26, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, and in her boats, during the operations on the coast of China, including the capture of Canton; and after having been for some time employed in a similar capacity on board the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane on the East India station, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Sept. 1843. He has been serving, since 3 Sept. 1845, in the Juno 26, Capt. Patrick John Blake, of which ship, stationed in the Pacific, he is now First-Lieutenant.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turner, James Howard

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​TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
James Howard Turner entered the Navy 10 Aug. 1807; passed his examination in 1814; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825. He was afterwards employed – for some time in 1827 in the Romney troop-ship, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer – from 28 May, 1830, until paid off in the early part of 1832, in the Ganges 84, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, in the Mediterranean – and from 24 Oct. 1835 until 1843 in command of the Ranger Falmouth packet.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turrell, Charles

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​TURRELL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
Charles Turrell died 13 Jan. 1846, at Peckham, aged 60.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Jas. Oughton, bearing the flag in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland of Vice-Admiral Sir Andw. Mitchell; under whom he served, from May, 1802, until March, 1805, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Sept. 1801), in the Leander 50. In that ship, while cruizing under the command of Capt. John Talbot, he assisted, we believe, at the capture, 23 Feb. 1805, of La Ville de Milan, French frigate, of 46 guns, and her prize the Cleopatra 32. In July, 1806 (he had joined, in Nov. 1805, the Minerve frigate, Capt. Geo. Ralph Collier) he served in a boat, under Lieut. Mulcaster, at the capture of a privateer. He was afterwards taken prisoner, and detained until the end of the war. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 Feb. 1815, and was not afterwards, that we are aware, employed. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turnour, Edmund Edward

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​TURNOUR. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Edmund Edward Turnour, born 3 Feb. 1813, is fourth and youngest surviving son of the late Hon. and Rev. Edw. John Tumour, M.A., by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Richardson, Esq., Accountant-General of the Hon.E.I.Company; and grandson of the first Earl of Winterton. He is cousin of Commander Hon. Arthur Rich. Turnour, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 July, 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Melville 74, Capt. Henry Hill, stationed off Lisbon. From 1829 until 1834 he served as Midshipman (a rating he had already attained) in the Britannia 120 and Asia 84, Capts, Edw. Hawker and Geo. Burdett, and Rainbow 28, Capt. Sir John Franklin, at Plymouth and in the Mediterranean; he joined next the Dublin 50 and Barham 50, Capts. Chas. Hope and Armar Lowry Corry, fitting at Plymouth and Sheerness; he passed his examination 5 June, 1835; and he was afterwards employed for three years on the South American station as Mate in the Imogene 26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, and from 1840 until 1845 off Guernsey with his name as Mate and Lieutenant (commission dated 29 Aug. 1842) on the books of the Seaflower cutter, Capt. Nicholas Robilliard. During the latter period he commanded the Cracker and Sylvia tenders, for the protection of the oyster fisheries. He was appointed, 13 Oct. 1846, First, for about 12 months, of the Porcupine steam surveying-vessel, of 140 horse-power, Capt. Fred. Bullock; and has been in command, since 2 March, 1848, of the Shearwater steamer, of 160-horse power, on particular service.
Lieut. Tumour married, 18 June, 1845, Helen, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Davies, Esq., of Little Strawberry Hill, co. Middlesex.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turner, John (b)

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​TURNER. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p., 19; h-p., 37.)
John Turner (b) entered the Navy, in April, 1791, as Ordinary, on board the Hector 74, Capt. Geo. Montagu, lying at Spithead. In the following Aug. he was discharged. He was next, from Aug. 1795 until wrecked near Belleisle 4 Nov. 1800, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the Marlborough 74, Capts. Henry NiohoUs, Joseph Ellison, and Thos. Sotheby; and after having further served, chiefly on the Home station, in the Royal William, Capt. Thos. Pakenham, and Cambrian 40, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and Geo. Henry Towry, he was promoted, 13 Feb. 1802, to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 30 May, 1803, to the command of a hired armed brig, employed in the Bristol Channel and in conveying impressed men to Plymouth – 21 and 29 Aug. 1805, to the London and Barfleur 98’s, Capts. Sir Robt. Barlow and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, the latter stationed in the Channel – 25 April, 1807 (ill health had caused him to leave the Barfleur in the preceding Nov.), to the command, which he retained until Dec. 1813, of the Ann armed tender, engaged as had been the vessel he before commanded – 12 April, 1815, for nearly four months, to the Impress Service at Swansea – and 21 March, 1816, to the Topaze frigate, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, lying at Plymouth, where he remained until July, 1817. He was placed on the Junior list of Retired Commanders 23 March, 1833; and on the Senior 8 Jan. 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Turnour, Arthur Richard

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​TURNOUR. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 31.)
The Honourable Arthur Richard Turnour, born 14 Jan. 1787, is second son of Edward Garth, second Earl of Winterton, by his first wife, Jane, daughter of Rich. Chapman, Esq., of London; uncle of the present Earl of Winterton and of Lieut. E. W. Turnour, R.N.; and cousin of Lieut. E. E. Turnour, R.N. One of his nieces is married to Lieut. Wm. Geo. Rabett, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1799, as Midshipman, on board the Caesar 80, Capt., afterwards Rear-Admiral, Sir Jas. Saumarez, under whom he assisted at the blockade of Brest and was present in July, 1801, in the actions off Algeciras and in the Gut of Gibraltar. In July, 1802, about three months after the Caesar had been paid off, he joined the Argo 44, Capt. Benj. Hallowell. In her he made a voyage to the coast of Africa. In Sept. 1803 and Dec. 1806 he was received in succession on board the Mermaid 32, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, and Leopard 50, Capt. Salusbury Price Humphreys, both on the Halifax station; and on 11 Feb. 1807, he was there nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas. He was officially promoted 28 Aug. following; and was subsequently appointed – 20 Jan. and 17 Feb. 1808, to the Northumberland 74 and Victory 100, Capts. Wm. Hargood and John Serrell, lying at Spithead and Chatham – 2 April in the same year and 11 May, 1809, to the Diomede 60 and Adamant 50, flag-ships of Sir Edm. Nagle at Guernsey and at Leith – 22 Sept. 1810, to the Rover brig, Capt. Fras. John Nott, in the Channel – in Oct. 1810 and Feb. and Nov. 1811, to the Malacca 36, Minden 74, and Theban 36, Capts. Wm. ​Butterfield, Edw. Wallis Hoare, and Stephen Thos. Digby, all in the East Indies – and 12 Feb. 1815, to the acting-command, on that station, of the Sphynx sloop. In the latter vessel, to which he was confirmed 20 Sept. 1815, he remained, we believe, until Nov. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Tumour married, 1 Sept. 1829, Charlotte Fitzherbert, eldest daughter of the late Geo. Daysh, Esq., of New Grove, Petworth, co. Sussex, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, Richard (2)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, Richard, s. Nic., of Blakney, co. Gloucester, cler. St. Mary Hall, matric. 4 March, 1674-5, aged 14.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, Nicholas (2)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, Nicholas, 'cler. fil.' Merton Coll., matric. 10 March, 1656-7; B.A. 25 March, 1658, poet and divine, vicar of Weobley, co. Hereford, until deprived in 1662 by act of uniformity, kept school at Abergavenny, incumbent of Aure, co. Gloucester, died at Bristol in Dec., 1709. See Fasti, ii. 213; Calamy, ii. 297-8; & D.N.B.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, Samuel

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, Samuel, s. S. of London, Middlesex, pleb. Trinity Coll., matric. 16 July, 1692, aged 16; B.A. 1696, M.A. 1700, vicar of Horley, Surrey, 1701, rector of Newdigate, Surrey, 1708, canon of Chichester 1716, and archdeacon of Surrey 1719, buried at Horley 6 June, 1725. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & Rawlinson, vi. 39.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bilson, Harman

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bilson, Harman, 2s. Thomas, of Maple Durham, Hants, militis. University Coll., matric. 27 April, 1632, aged 17; brother of Thomas 1627, and Leonard 1632.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Barnarde, Humphrey

From volume 1 of the work.
​Barnarde, Humphrey, of Salop, pleb. Jesus Coll., matric. 18 July, 1603, aged 26.>
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, Ralph

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, Ralph, s. Benj., of Hinchwick, co. Gloucester, gent. St. Mary Hall, matric. 3 June, 1679, aged 17.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, William

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, William (Byllingsley), of co. Warwick, pleb. Brasenose Coll., matric. 1 March, 1587-8, aged 27; B.A. 6 July, 1593, rector of Gayton-le-Marsh, co. Lincoln, 1599, and of Glaston, Rutland, 1605. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Barnard, John (2)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Barnard, John, of Dorset, 'cler. fil.' Hart Hall, matric. 27 April, 1604, aged 18; B.A. 12 Nov., 1607, M.A. 7 July, 1610, rector of Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, 1618. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Billingsley, Richard (1)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Billingsley, Richard, of co. Warwick, pleb. Brasenose Coll., matric.-entry under date 3 Nov., 1581, aged 18; B.A. (sup. 27 June) 1585, M.A. 5 July, 1592. See O.H.S., xii. 132.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Bilson, (Sir) Thomas

From volume 1 of the work.
​Bilson, (Sir) Thomas, s. (Thomas), bishop of Winchester. New Coll., matric. 28 Nov., 1606, aged 15; a student of Lincoln's Inn 1609, M.P. Winchester 1614, knighted 25 Oct., 1613, father of the next named. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brett, Henry

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Admitted 5 June, 1695.
Eldest son of Henry Brett, of Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire. He became a friend of Addison, and is supposed to be the "Colonel Rambler" of The Tatler. He married Ann, the divorced wife of the Earl of Macclesfield, And the mother of the poet Richard Savage. He died suddenly in 1724.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Broke, Sir Richard

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Fourth son of Thomas Broke, of Leighton, Cheshire. There is no record of his admission to the Inn, but he was Reader there in the autumn of 1510, being then a Serjeant-at-Law. He became a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1520, when also he was knighted. Six years later he was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer, both of which offices he held till his death in 1529. He was an ancestor of Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, the commander of the Shannon in the celebrated action with the Chesapeake in 1813.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brett, Thomas

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Admitted 23 May, 1866.
Second son of the Rev. Wills Hill Brett, of Kirkcubbin, co. Down. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1863. At the Middle Temple he obtained the first certificate of honour in 1869, and graduated LL.B. at London University the same year. He was called to the Bar 17 Nov. 1869.
He was joint author, with Mr. Clerke, of a treatise on The Conveyancing Acts, 1881 and 1882, and sole author of a work on the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, of Leading Cases in Equity (1887), and of Commentaries on the Present Laws of England (1890). He died 22 July, 1893, aged 53.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Broke, Sir Robert

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Son of Thomas Broke, of Claverley, Salop. There is no record of his admission to the Inn, but he was Autumn Reader, 1542; and Lent Reader in 1551. He became Recorder of London in 1545, and in the second Parliament of Queen Mary, living a zealous Roman Catholic, was made Speaker of the House of Commons. He was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1554. In ​this capacity he acquired a high reputation both for ability and impartiality, but it is as the author of the well known Abridgment, bearing his name, that he is best known to modern students. He died in 1558. His published works are: An Abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Books from 6 Hen. .8 to 4 Qu. Mary (1573); Certain Cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8, Edw. 6, and Qu. Mary, from 6 Hen. S to 4 of Qu. Mary [originally entitled in French Ascuns novels cases, etc.] (1578); Reading upon the Statute of Magna Charta, c. 16 (1641); Reading on the Statute of Limitations, 32 Hen. 8, c. 2 (1647).
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bright, Sir Charles Tilston

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Admitted 3 July, 1876.
Second son of Brailsford Bright, of Rhyl, Flint. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, whence he entered the service of the Electric Telegraph Company, and subsequently of the Magnetic Company. In this capacity he was responsible for the laying of many thousands of miles of wires over land, also for the wire from Portpatrick to Donaghadee, the first cable in comparatively deep water; but the great distinction due to him is the laying of the first Altantic cable, which, after two failures, he was chiefly instrumental in accomplishing in 1858, the first clear message being sent along it on 13 Aug. of that year. For this service he received the honour of knighthood. In 1865 he entered Parliament, and sat for Greenwich till 1868. He died 3 May, 1888.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brodrick, Alan

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Admitted 7 January, 1669-70.
Second son of Sir St. John Brodrick, of Ballyanan, co. Cork. He was admitted at the same time as his elder brother, Thomas, and was called to the Bar 10 May, 1678. He took an active part on behalf of the Prince of Orange. He was made King's Sergeant Feb. 1690, and in 1695 appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. He entered the Irish Parliament in 1692, and became Speaker in 1703. In 1707 he was made Attorney-General, and three years later called to the Upper House as Chief Justice of the King's Bench. On the accession of George I. he was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and raised to the peerage as Baron Brodrick of Midleton, 13 April, 1715. Two years later he was made Viscount. In 1717 he sat in the British Parliament as member for Midhurst, Sussex. He died in Ireland 1728.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brand, Thomas

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Admitted 15 May, 1656.
Son and heir of Rev. Thomas Brand, of Leaden Rooding (Roothing),Essex. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford. Becoming acquainted with Dr. Samuel Annesley, he abandoned the law and joined the Presbyterian ministry. He resided for some time at Staplehurst in Kent, but subsequently settled in London, where he devoted himself to preaching, the building of meetinghouses, and the distribution of religious literature, in which, and in works of charity, he expended all his income. He died 1 Dec 1691, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brerewood, Sir Robert

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Admitted 21 October, 1607.
Son and heir of John Brerewood, of Chester, where he was born. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1605. He was called to the Bar 13 Nov. 1615. In 1637 he became a Judge of North Wales, and was elected Reader at the Inn the following year. In 1640 he became Serjeant-at-Law, And in the next year King's Serjeant. In 1643 he was knighted, and raised to the Bench 31 Jan. 1644. He died 8 Sept. 1654.
Though not himself an author, Robert Brerewood published the works of his uncle Edward, the first Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, to one of which, A Treatise on the Diversity of Language and Religion through the chief parts of the World, he wrote a "large and learned preface."
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bray, Edward Atkins

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Admitted 21 January, 1801.
Only son of Edward Bray, of Tavistock, solicitor and manager of the Devonshire property of the Duke of Bedford. He was born at Tavistock 18 Dec, 1778. He was a person of retiring disposition, and after his call to the Bar, 7 Feb. 1806, soon abandoned the law for divinity. In 1811 he was ordained, and was presented to the living of Tavistock the following year, which he held till his death in 1857.
In his early years he was given to poetry, and his Poetical Remains were published by his widow in 1859. These and several selections of Sermons from English Divines form his contributions to English literature.
# A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bridges, John

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Admited 23 April, 1684.
Son and heir of John Bridges of Barton, co. Northampton. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 22 May, 1691, but subsequently passed to Lincoln's Inn, where he became a Master of the Bench. He was Solicitor to the Customs in 1695, a Commissioner 1711, and Cashier of Excise in 1715. ​In 1718 he was elected a Fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and from that time devoted himself chiefly to that collection of antiquarian matter connected with his native county, subsequently embodied in the well-known History of Northamptonshire, compiled by Peter Whalley and published in complete form at Oxford in 1791. His MSS. are preserved in the Bodleian Library.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Temple, Henry

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​TEMPLE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Temple is son of Jas. Temple, Esq., late proprietor and conductor of an eminent educational establishment at St. Margarets, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 Sept. 1828; passed his examination 18 Sept. 1834; served for some time as Mate in the Racer 16, Capt. Thos. Harvey, and Winchester 50, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, on the North America and West India station; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant , 23 Nov. 1841. His next appointments were – 10 March, 1842, and 23 April, 1844, to the Queen 110 and Formidable 84, flag-ships of Sir Edw. W. C. It. Oweu in the Mediterranean, whence he returned at the close of 1845 – 14 Feb. 1846, as Senior, to the Ferret 8, Capt. Geo. Sprigg, fitting for the coast of Africa – and 20 July following, to the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, with whom he served on the station last named as Second and First Lieutenant until paid off on his return to England in 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tennant, Charles Edmund

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​TENNANT. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles Edmund Tennant entered the Navy 21 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 19 April, 1832. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Sept. 1833, to the Andromache 28, Capts. Bernard Yeoman and Henry Ducie Chads, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned in 1835 – 7 June, 1836, to the Imogene 26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, in which ship he served for upwards of three years in South America – and, 27 May, 1841, to the Cornwallis 72, as Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, whom he accompanied to the coast of China. While there he was in attendance upon his gallant chief on every occasion of service, and displayed the most praiseworthy zeal. He assisted at the capture of Amoy, gained the highest approbation for his conduct at the reduction of Chinghae, was mentioned in the despatches of Sir Hugh Gough for his spirited behaviour in the attack upon the enemy’s entrenched camp upon the heights of Segoan, landed at taking of Chapoo and Woosung, and took a prominent part in an attack made upon some Tartar troops who held out in the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo. He was advanced in consequence to the rank of Commander 16 Sept. 1842, but has not been since employed.