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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Henry George

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​HAMILTON. (Commander, 1834. f-p., 10; h-p., 15.)
Henry George Hamilton is second son of W. K. Hamilton, Esq.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Oct. 1822; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his first commission 26 Aug. 1829; joined, 30 Jan. 1832, the Childers 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, employed on particular service; became Flag-Lieutenant, 7 Dec. 1832, to Sir Geo. Cockburn, in the Vernon 50, on the North America and West India station; and was promoted, in consequence of a death vacancy, to the command, 12 Aug. 1834, of the Tweed 20. He was paid off 22 Nov. following, and has not since been employed.
Commander Hamilton married, 7 June, 1845, Fanny Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Chas. Tower, of Shengfield Place, Essex.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Alexander

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​HAMILTON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Alexander Hamilton entered the Navy 14 Aug. 1830; passed his examination 19 Feb. 1836; and, after serving for some time in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Powerful 84, Capts. Gep. Mansel and Michael Seymour, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Jan. 1842. His appointments have since been – 15 July 1842, as Additional, to the Queen 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – 4 April, 1843, as First, to the Geyser steam-sloop, Capt. Edw. John Carpenter, on the same station, whence he returned towards the close of 1845 – and, 14 Feb. 1846, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, with whom he is now serving. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Arthur Philip

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​HAMILTON. (Captain, 1816. f-p., 13; h-p., 34.)
Arthur Philip Hamilton entered the Navy, in Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Topaze 36, Capts. Stephen G. Church and Robt. Honyman, .stationed in the West Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1801. Returning home at the peace on board the Raven brig, Capt. Edm. Saunders, he joined for a short period the Endymion 40, Capts. Henry Garrett and John Larmour, lying at Portsmouth. He then served for two years on the Newfoundland and Channel stations in the Isis 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier; and, while next attached, from June, 1804, to Oct. 1806, to the Athenienne 64, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and John Giffard, visited China, and also the Mediterranean, where he assisted, as Master’s Mate, at the defence of Gaeta. On 26 Dec. 1806, after an intermediate servitude with Capt. Giffard in the Zealous 74, off Cadiz, Mr. Hamilton became Acting-Lieutenant of the Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, in which ship he continued, until she was burnt, off the Dardanells, 14 Feb. 1807. Being officially promoted on 28 of the following April, he was next appointed, on 18 July in the same year, and 16 Aug. 1809, to La Sybille 38, Capt. Clotworthy Upton (under whom he contributed to the capture, 16 Aug. 1808, of the French 18-gun sloop Espiègle), and Caledonia 120, bearing the flag, on the Cork, Channel, Cadiz, and Basque Roads stations, of Admirals Lord Gambier, Fras. Pickmore, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale. While First of the latter ship, he took command of her boats, and of those of the Valiant 74, and Armide 38, .and, on 28 Sept. 1810, had the good fortune, by dint of a well-conducted, gallant, and successful attack, to capture two brigs, and destroy a third, lying under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché, near Rochelle. He was advanced to the rank of Commander on 21 of the following month, and, from 6 Nov. 1813, until posted 31 May, 1816, was employed in the Ceylon troop-ship on the North American and St. Helena stations. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Hamilton married, 26 Feb. 1828, Caroline, only child of the late Lieut.-Colonel Cook, of Chingford, co. Essex. Agents – Messrs. Oramanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Orlebar, John

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​ORLEBAR. (Commander, 1845.)
John Orlebar, born in 1810, is third son of the late Rich. Orlebar, Esq., of Hinwick House, co. Bedford, who served as High Sheriff of that co. in 1808, by Maria, fourth daughter of Benj. Longuet, Esq., of Bath. He is brother of the late Alex. Orlebar, Esq., an officer in the Royal Engineers; and nephew of the present Lieut. Orlando Orlebar, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 16 March, 1824; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 10 Sept. 1832; and from May, 1833, until the close of 1835, was employed in North America and the West Indies on board the Larne 18, Capt. Wm. Sidney Smith, and Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell. For his services as a Surveyor he was advanced to his present rank 6 Feb. 1845. His name, since 28 April in the latter year, has been borne on the books of the Vindictive 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen on the North America and West India station, where he is still surveying.
He married, at Quebec, 5 Feb. 1838, Harriet, youngest daughter of John Hale, Esq., Receiver-General of Lower Canada, by Elizabeth, sister of the present Earl Amherst, and daughter of the late Lieut.-General Wm. Amherst, Aide-de-Camp to the King, Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth, Governor of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Adjutant-General of H.M. Forces. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ommanney, John Colpoys

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​OMMANNEY. (One of the Junior-Lieutenants. f-p., 8; h-p., 17.)
John Colpoys Ommanney was born 9 Aug. 1809.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in ​April, 1822; and, after having carried off the French and mathematical prizes, together with the second medal, embarked, in March, 1824, as a Volunteer, on board the Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned, as Midshipman, in Oct. 1827. In Jan. and Feb. 1828 he successively joined the Wasp 18, Capt. Dickenson, and Asia 84, Capt. Edw. Curzon – the latter stationed in the Mediterranean, where, in March, 1829, he was lent, as Mate (he had passed in the preceding April), to the Meteor bomb, Capt. David Hope. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 12 Aug. 1829; and was lastly, 18 Aug. 1836, appointed to the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Kenton Sharpe, on the Lisbon station. In April, 1837, he was dismissed by sentence of court-martial, and placed at the bottom of the list.
He married, 7 Sept. 1841, and has issue. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Onslow, John James

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​ONSLOW. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 19; h-p., 18.)
John James Onslowis second surviving son of the late Admiral Sir Rich. Onslow, Bart., G.C.B., by Anne, daughter of Commodore Matthew Mitchell, of Chiltern, co. Wilts. He is brother of the present Sir Henry Onslow, Bart., a Captain in the Royal Artillery; and brother-in-law of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who died 16 March, 1807.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 April, 1810, as Fst.-oL Vol., on board the Surveillante 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, under whom he was for some time actively employed on the north coast of Spain, particularly in the boats at the capture of Bermeo and Deba. He continued in the {sc|Surveillante}}, in the capacity of Midshipman, until April, 1812; and between that period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 5 Sept. 1816, was employed on the Brazilian, Jamaica, and Home stations in the Montagu 74, flag-ship of the late Sir Manley Dixon, Aquilon and Ceres frigates, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Bowles, Araxes 38, Capt. Geo. Miller Bligh, and Boyne 98, Capt. Edmund Boger. He joined soon afterwards the Conqueror 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin at St. Helena; whence, at the close of 1817, he returned to England in the Iphigenia 42. From Sept. 1818 until superseded at his own request in Sept. 1819, he served in the Downs on board the Alert sloop, Capts. Henry John Leeke and Chas. Farwell; and, on 23 April, 1822, he attained the rank of Commander. His next appointments were – 22 July, 1824, to the Beaver 8, on the Jamaica station, where he remained about two years – and, 30 April, 1830, to the Clio 18, fitting for South America. While on that station Capt. Onslow was sent by Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. Baker to reclaim possession of the Falkland Islands, which lapse of time had encouraged the Buenos Ayreans and other foreigners to consider as absolutely abandoned by the British. Arriving, in Dec. 1832, at Port Egmont (West Falkland), he exercised the rights of sovereignty, and employed his boats in examining Brett’s Harbour, Byron’s Sound, and other anchorages as far to the westward as Point Bay, a distance of 60 miles from the place at which the Clio lay. He then proceeded to Berkeley Sound (East Falkland), anchored at Port Louis, and ejected a Buenos Ayrean force stationed there under the protection of a schooner-of-war. He returned to Portsmouth from Rio de Janeiro with upwards of 880,000 dollars, 3 June, 1833; and on 17 of the same month was paid off. He was advanced to Post-rank 27 Aug. 1834; and was lastly, from 23 July, 1842, until put out of commission in the early part of 1847, employed in the Pacific on board the Daphne 18.
Capt. Onslow is married and has issue. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Orlebar, Orlando

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​ORLEBAR. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 14; h-p., 33.)
Orlando Orlebar, born in 1786, is fourth son of the late Rich. Orlebar, Esq., of Hinwick House, co. Bedford, one of the clerks extraordinary of the Privy Council, by his second wife Charlotte, daughter of Robt. Willing, Esq., of London. He is brother of the late Henry Orlebar, Esq., R.N.; and uncle of Commander John Orlebar, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jamaica 26, commanded in the North Sea by Capt. John Mackellar; with whom, and with Capts. Walter Bathurst, Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Wm. Wells, Geo. Bell, Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Jas. Murray Gordon, we find him, from March, 1801, to Oct. 1808, serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Terpsichore 32, on the Cape of Good Hope and East India stations. In 1805 he was wounded while assisting in a boat which was sunk at the capture, after a desperate resistance, of the French corvette Tourterelle, under the batteries of St. Denis, Ile de Bourbon. He was present in the course of the same year in another boat which was sunk in effecting the destruction of a French brig off the Isle of France; and in Nov. 1806 he was engaged in the headmost boat at the annihilation, in Batavia Roads, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other vessels. On his arrival home in 1809 in the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, he rejoined Capt. Bathurst on board the Salsette 36, and, accompanying the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, was there intrusted with the command of a gun-boat. In Oct. 1809 he left the Salsette; and in Oct. 1810 he was received on board the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle in the Mediterranean; where he was nominated, 25 Jan. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington. His official promotion took place 14 March following. He invalided in Aug. of the same year, and was next, from Dec. 1811 until Aug. 1815, employed on the Channel, North American, and West India stations, in the Wolverene sloop, Capts. Chas. Kerr and Geo. Grey Burton. Since he left that vessel, in which it appears he was present in the attack upon Baltimore, he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Orlebar (who was left a widower 15 Nov. 1831) married, 24 April, 1824, Helen Maria, only daughter of the late Admiral Aplin, and sister of the present Capt. J. G. Aplin. His eldest daughter is the wife of Lieut. Augustus John Burton, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Osborn, Sherard

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​OSBORN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Sherard Osborn was Midshipman of the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Wm. Warren, at the reduction of Canton in 1841, and of the Clio 18, Capt. Edw. Norwich Troubridge (with whom he served on shore), at the capture of the batteries of Woosung, 16 June, 1842. He passed his examination 6 Dec. 1843; served as Mate on board the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Collingwood 80, bearing the flag in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour; and obtained his commission 4 May, 1846. He was then reappointed to the Collingwood, in which ship he is still employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ommanney, Henry Manaton

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​OMMANNEY. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 19; h-p., 41.)
Henry Manaton Ommanney is a younger brother of Vice-Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommanney, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1787, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, Capt. Hugh Cloberry Christian, lying off Woolwich. He removed, in June, 1788, to, the Arrogant 74, commanded in the river Medway by Capt. John Harvey; and after a servitude of four years and ten months on the Newfoundland and Channel stations as Midshipman in the Rose frigate and Childers sloop, Capts. Jacob Waller and Robt. Barlow, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Earl Howe, was made Lieutenant, 10 April, 1794, into the Hazard sloop, Capt. John Loring, at Sheerness. During the after part of the French revolutionary war he was employed in the Channel and West Indies, off Lisbon and Cadiz, and in the North Sea and Mediterranean, on board the Aquilon 32, Capt. Robt. Barlow, Raisonnable 64 and Swiftsure 74, flag-ships of the late Sir Wm. Parker, Ville de Paris 110, Commodore Robt. Calder, Blenheim 98, bearing the flag of Sir W. Parker, Alliance, Capt. Geo. Davies, Caesar 80, Capts. Roddam Home and Sir Jas. Saumarez, Waakzamkeidt, Capt. Robt. Hall, and Active frigate, Capt. Chas. Sydney Davers. For his services in the last-mentioned ship during the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, he obtained the Turkish gold medal. Being awarded the rank of Commander 29 April, 1802, he served in that capacity from the following May until March, 1804, in the Falcon sloop, on the Newfoundland station, and from Jan. to Dec. 1805 in the Thames, attached to the force in the North Sea. He acquired Post-rank 22 Jan. 1806; and afterwards, from 17 Sept. 1807, until 20 March, 1808, and from 29 Jan. 1812 until 12 Jan. 1813, commanded the Pallas frigate off L’Orient, and the Vigo 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Nicoll Morris, in the Baltic. He was placed on the Retired List of Rear-Admirals 28 June, 1838; and on the Active, 17 Aug. 1840.
Rear-Admiral Ommanney is a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Banff. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Osborn, John

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​OSBORN. (Retired Commander, 1838. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
John Osborn was born 17 Feb. 1775.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. John Henry; and in the early part of the following year was present at the reduction of the French islands in the West Indies, where, at Port-au-Prince, he was employed on shore with the army. Joining next the Bombay Castle 74, Capts. Chas. Chamberlayne, Jas. Macnamara, and Thos. Sotheby, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing, as Midshipman, in Hotham’s second partial action, 13 July, 1795. In Dec. 1796, when the latter ship was wrecked in the river Tagus, Mr. Osborn was struck by lightning while in the act of cutting away the masts, and greatly injured in the head. On his return to England in charge of a prize at the commencement of 1797, he was ordered to join the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the broad pendant at first of Sir Robt. Calder, and the flag, next, of Earl St. Vincent, off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean, where from June, 1799, until May, 1803, he served, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Master, in the Vincejo sloop, Capts. Geo. Long, Robt. Yarker, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, Jas. Murray Northey, and Jas. Prevost. While in that vessel, besides participating in a variety of cutting-out affairs, he was present at the blockade and surrender of Malta, at the capture of Le Guillaume Tell of 84 guns and 1000 men, and in the operations against the French in Egypt. He was also severely wounded by the passage of a ball through his right arm in an action fought between the Vincejo and two Greek vessels; and in Oct. 1801 he was again wounded while serving on shore in a partially successful attack on the enemy’s batteries at Porto Ferrajo, where the British sustained a loss of 15 (including Capt. Long) killed, 33 wounded, and 77 missing. In Oct. 1803 Mr. Osborn became Master’s Mate of the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, under whom he witnessed the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. His appointments as Lieutenant, a rank he had attained 22 Jan. preceding, were – 26 May, 1806, to the Lucifer bomb, Capt. Robt. Elliot, in the North Sea, where he was superseded from ill health in the ensuing Sept. – 30 Jan. 1807, to the Prince of Orange 74, flag-ship in the Downs of Vice- Admirals Bartholomew Sam. Rowley and Geo. Campbell – and, 18 March, 1808, to the command of the Quail 4. In the latter vessel, until he invalided in Feb. 1813, he was employed in escorting convoys to diflferent places, and in bearing despatches to Sir Edw. Pellew off Toulon. He accepted his present rank 13 Oct. 1838.
Commander Osborn married, 6 Nov. 1806, Miss Johannah Catmore, of Aldborough, by whom he has issue three children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, John James

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​KERR. (Lieutenant, 1830.)
John James Kerr entered the Navy 6 July, 1813; and was Midshipman of the Impregnable 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral David Milne, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816: He passed his examination in 1819; obtained his commission 13 Aug. 1830; and, with the exception of a period of rather more than three years (from 28 Jan. 1837 until the spring of 1840) employed in the Coast Guard, has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, Henry Ashburton

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​KERR. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Henry Ashburton Kerr, born in 1821, is third son of the late Lord Robt. Kerr, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, by Mary, daughter of the Rev. Edm. Gilbert, of Windsor House, Cornwall; and grandson of William John, fifth Marquess of Lothian, His eldest brother, Wm. Walter Raleigh, is Assistant Auditor-General at the Mauritius; and his youngest, Robt. Dundas, is an officer in the R.E. The Lieutenant (whose first-cousin, Lord Fred. Herbert Kerr, is a Commander in the Navy) is brother-in-law of Lieut-General Sir Wm. Maynard Gomm, K.C.B., and of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Henry Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards.
This officer passed his examination 26 May, 1841; and from the early part of 1842 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 19 Dec. 1844 was employed in the Pacific as Mate of the Carysfort 26, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet. He has been serving since 16 Aug. 1845 in the President 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, at the Cape of Good Hope.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, Robert

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​KERR. (Commander, 1838.)
Robert Kerr entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1819; passed his examination in 1826; and on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Aug. 1828, was appointed to the Arachne 18, in which vessel he served with Capts. Nixon, Erskine, and Deare, on the West India station. Until the summer of 1830. His succeeding appointments were – 17 Feb. 1832, to the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, employed at first in the North Sea, and afterwards in the Tagus and South America – and 6 May, 1837, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the Mediterranean station. He attained his present rank 28 June, 1838; and since 11 Oct. 1842 has been employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kevern, Richard

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​KEVERN. (Retired Commander, 1827. f-p., 19; h-p., 43.)
Richard Kevern entered the Navy, in 1785, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, guard-ship at Chatham, where he served for a period of four years. He was next, until Nov. 1794, employed on the Newfoundland station, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Pegasus, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Wm. Domett, Assistance, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and Trepassey cutter, Lieut.-Commander Jahleel Brenton – of which latter vessel he was created a Lieutenant 24 Oct. 1793. His succeeding appointments .were, on the Home station – 7 Jan. 1795, to the Caesar 80, Capts. Chas. Edm. Nugent and Roddam Home – 2 June, 1798, to the Caesar 80, Capt. Collis – 5 April, 1799, to the St. George 98, Capt. Sampson Edwards – in 1801, to the San Josef 110, Capt. Wm. Wolseley, which ship was paid off in the following year – 6 March, 1804, to the Jamaica 24, Capt. Jonas Rose – 21 May, 1805, to the command of the Exertion gun-brig – 11 Jan. 1806, to the Sea Fencibles at Weymouth – and 26 April following, as Senior, to the Sheldrake 16, Capt. John Thicknesse. On 12 Oct. 1806 Lieut. Kevern took part in an action of an hour and a quarter, fought in the Bay of Erqui, between a British squadron, consisting of the Sheldrake, Constance 22, Strenuous gun-brig, and Britannia cutter, on the one hand, and, on the other, a French force, amounting to the Salamandre of 26 guns and 80 men, a 2-gun battery planted on a hill, and one or two field-pieces, together with a few troops, on the beach; the termination whereof was the surrender of the enemy’s ship, after a loss to herself of about 29 men killed, independently of several wounded, and to the British of 10 killed and 23 wounded. The assistance afforded by Lieut. Kevern on the occasion was particularly noticed by Capt. Thicknesse, who, in his letter to the Admiralty, described him as a most meritorious and able officer, and recommended him in consequence to their lordships’ favourable attention. He left the Sheldrake in a state of ill health in the following Nov., and accepted his present rank 3 Dec. 1827.
He is married, and has issue a son, the present Lieut. Rich. C. Kevern, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, George Collier

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​KERR. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
George Collier Kerr entered the Navy in 1831; passed his examination 15 Feb. 1839; and after serving for nearly three years as Mate of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was made Lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1845, into the Plover surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Collinson, with whom he returned home from the East Indies and was paid off at the close of 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, James

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​KERR. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
James Kerr was born 30 March, 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Theseus 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, employed at the Cape of Good Hope. In Nov. 1807, after he had been for a short time attached to the Ganges 74, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Peter Halkett, he rejoined Capt. Hope as Midshipman in the Pompée 74, then lying at Chatham. From March, 1808, until Oct. 1811, we again find him in the Baltic on board the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and Tartar frigate, Capt. Joseph Baker. He was then received into the Namur 74, bearing the flag at the Nore of Sir Thos. Williams; on leaving whom, in May, 1812, he went back to the Victory. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1812, in the Plover sloop, Capt. Colin Campbell; and was subsequently, on his return from a voyage to Quebec, appointed – 24 Dec. 1813, and 3 Hay, 1814, to the Scarborough and Achille 74’s, flag-ships in the North Sea and at the Brazils of Admirals John Ferrier and Manley Dixon – and, 28 Aug. 1815, to the Alert 18, Capt. John Smith, on the Home station. He has been. on half-pay since 1816.
Lieut. Kerr married, 1 Jan. 1833, Helen, eldest daughter of the late Adam Smith, Esq., of Stockbridge; and has issue one son.