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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Doyle, Charles Francis

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​DOYLE. (Commander, 1845.)
Charles Francis Doyle died in 1846, from the effects of injuries received in battle. This officer entered the Navy 29 Aug. 1823; passed his examination 14 Feb. 1831 : and obtained his first commission 23 Nov. 1841. He was afterwards appointed on the South American station – 2 Dec. 1841, to the Ardent steamer, Capt. John Russell – and, 23 July, 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the Philomel steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan. On 20 Nov. 1845, he lost an arm, and was especially mentioned for his exemplary gallantry during the battle of the Parana; on which occasion the combined squadrons of England and France effected the destruction, after a hard day’s fighting, of four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also of a schooner of war mounting 6 guns, and of 24 vessels chained across the river. Mr. Doyle’s conduct and suffering were rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated back to the 18th of the same month. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Draffen, Frederick

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​DRAFFEN. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 31.)
Frederick Draffen entered the’ Navy, 6 Jan. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Excellent 74, Capts. Hon. Robt. Stopford, Robt. Tucker, and John Nash, of which vessel, when in the West Indies, he became Midshipman, 30 March, 1801. In May, 1803, he rejoined Capt. Stopford on board the Spencer 74, employed off Ferrol and Corunna; and on being next transferred to the Santa Margaritta 36, Capts. Wilson Rathbone and John Johnstone, he took a warm part, as Master’s Mate, in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action with the four line-of-battle ships escaped from the battle of Trafalgar, 4 Nov. 1805. After serving for some time as Acting-Lieutenant of the same frigate, of the Brisk 18, Capt. John Coode, and of the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, on the Irish station, Mr. Draffen was at length confirmed by commission dated 7 March, 1809, and appointed to the Quebec 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett, whom he accompanied on a voyage to Greenland. Leaving that ship, however, on 27 of the following Nov., he next, after an interval of 12 months, joined the Blossom 18, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, commanded subsequently by Capt. Stewart, in which sloop, after cruizing in the Bay of Biscay where he assisted at the capture, 15 Jan. 1811, of the Caesar French privateer of 4 guns and 59 men, ​he proceeded to the Mediterranean. On 17 Aug. in the latter year Lieut. Draffen became attached to the Minorca 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, with whom he served until removed, 24 Dec. 1812, to the Trident 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, flag-ship in succession, at Malta, of Rear-Admirals John Laugharne and Chas. Vinicombe Penrose. He was eventually placed on half-pay in May, 1816; and has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Draffen is married, and has a son, Wm. Pitt Draffen, Second-Lieutenant R.M. (1845), who was lately serving on board the Excellent.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dowden, William Gibbs

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​DOWDEN. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
William Gibbs Dowden entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, with whom he successively served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until Feb. 1811. The Repulse, during that period, bore a part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805 – was with Sir John Duckworth at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807 – accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, in Aug. 1803 – and, on 30 Aug. 1810, most gallantly 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. After a further attachment to the Montagu 74, Capt. John Halliday, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, Mr. Dowden was promoted, 16 June, 1812, to a Lieutenancy in the Cephalus 18. Being next appointed, 27 Nov. 1813, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, he witnessed the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, in Dec. of the same year, and was present, in March and April, 1814, at the surrender of the fortress of Santa Maria, with the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and also of the town of Genoa. On 17 June, 1815, Mr. Dowden, who had been appointed, 24 Dec. 1814, to the Pilot 18, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, contributed to the defeat, near Cape Corse, of the French corvette Légère of 28 guns, who made off at the close of a valiant conflict of two hours, in which the British vessel sustained a loss, besides being otherwise disabled, of 1 man killed and 15 wounded, and the Frenchman of 22 killed and 79 wounded. He has been on half-pay since 12 July, 1816. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Down, Edward Augustus

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​DOWN. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 36.)
Edward Augustus Down, born 16 Feb. 1777, is son of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who was Midshipman of the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Sir Peter Dennis, when that vessel brought the late Queen Charlotte to England in 1760.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 April, 1793, as Ordinary, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Cuthbert Collingwood, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Bowyer; on accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the Barfleur 98, he served in Lord Howe’s actions of 29 May and 1 June, 1794. He afterwards successively followed Capt. Collingwood into the Hector and Excellent 74’s; and in the latter ship was wounded while participating, as Master’s Mate, in the victory gained by Sir John Jervis over the Spanish fleet, 14 Feb. 1797. After serving for a short time with Lord St. Vincent, in the Ville de Paris 110, Mr. Down was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 26 Dec. 1798, in the Santa Dorothea 36, Capt. Hugh Downman; from which ship we find him transferred, in April, 1799, to the Vincejo 18, Capts. Geo. Long, Robt. Yarker, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, and Jas. Prevost; under the first of whom, while at the blockade of Malta, he witnessed, among other captures, that of Le Guillaume Tell of 84 guns, 31 March, 1800. From 6 Dec. 1803, to May, 1804, he next, in the Utrecht 64, officiated ​as Flag-Lieutenant, on the Downs station, to Vice-Admiral Philip Patton; after which, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 12 Jan. 1805, he served in La Virginie 38, Capt. John Poo Beresford, and in the Princess Augusta yacht, Capt. Edw. Jas. Foote, employed in attendance on the King off Weymouth. His subsequent appointments were, to the command – 26 March and 18 April, 1805, of the Wellington and Adelphi armed ships – 7 Feb. 1806, of the Bittern 18 – and, 23 Aug. 1808, of the Redwing 18. When in the Adelphi, Capt. Down appears to have been engaged in escorting convoys to the Baltic, Eyder, and Elbe : during his command of the Bittern and Redwing, he captured, on the Mediterranean station, 2 Aug. 1807, El Verga del Rosario, Spanish privateer of 2 guns and 20 mien – 16 Sept. 1811, La Victorieuse French privateer of 4 guns and 40 men – and, 8 May, 1812, a small Neapolitan vessel. He was posted on 12 Aug. in the latter year; and advanced to the rank he now holds 1 Oct. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Down, who has been for many years afflicted with blindness, was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 5 Jan. 1828. He married, 6 Dec. 1815, Elizabeth, third daughter of Philip Patton, Esq., Admiral of the Red (formerly Commander-in-Chief in the Downs, and afterwards a Lord of the Admiralty), who died 31 Dec. 1815, aged 76 years. He has issue six children. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Downes, Henry

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​DOWNES. (Commander, 1829. f-p., 14; h-p., 28.)
Henry Downes entered the Navy, 6 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board L’Aimable 32, Capt. Wm. Bolton. In Oct. following he accompanied the same officer, as Midshipman, into the Fisgard 38, commanded afterwards by Capt. Fras. Mason; during the six years of his attachment to which frigate, he served at the reduction of Curaçoa, in Jan. 1807, attended, as Master’s Mate, the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809, commanded a boat at the destruction of a privateer in the Baltic in 1810, and assisted at the cutting out of a ship from Rostock in 1811. From Nov. in the latter year, until Dec. 1813, Mr. Downes was next successively employed on board the Thisbe 28, flag-ship off Deptford of Sir Chas. Hamilton – the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling – the Daedalus 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, under whom he was wrecked, near Ceylon, 2 July, 1813 – and the Minden 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood. He was then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Africaine 38, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, in which ship, after visiting the Persian Gulf and the China Sea, he returned to England in Feb. 1816. Having attained the rank of Lieutenant 1 June, 1814, he next, on 5 Dec. 1826, joined, in that capacity, the Sybille 48, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Commodore Fras. Aug. Collier. For his conduct when afterwards in command of the Black Joke tender – an account of whose dashing achievements will be found under the head of Capt. Edw. Harris Butterfield – he was ultimately advanced to his present rank, 2 May, 1829. He has not, however, been since employed.
A splendid vase of polished “Heart of Oak,” with appropriate ornaments in silver gilt, we understand, was presented to this officer as “a tribute of admiration and respect from Commodore Collier for his gallant conduct when in command of H.M. tender Black Joke.” Commander Downes is an Hon. Director of the United Service Institution.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dow, William

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​DOW. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 27.)
William Dow, born 23 May, 1794, in the island of Antigua, is fourth son of Archibald Dow, Esq. This officer entered the Navy, 28 July, 1806, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal William 100, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, bearing the flag at Spithead of Admiral Montagu. On 17 Dec. 1808, he became Midshipman of the Christian VII. 80, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Edw. Pellew, with whom he removed, in 1811, to the Caledonia 120. From Nov. 1812, to March, 1814, Mr. Dow was employed next in the Undaunted 38, Capts. Rich. Thomas and Thos. Ussher. He served, during that period, in the boats under Lieut. Aaron Tozer, at the storming and capture, 18 March, 1813, of a battery of 6 guns at Carri, near Marseilles – was at the taking, in open day, of two settees, within pistol-shot distance of a battery on Cape Croisette, on which occasion the boats sustained a severe loss – contributed, on 31 of the same month, to the gallant capture and destruction, by the boats of the Undaunted, Volontaire, and Redwing, of two strong batteries and 14 sail of vessels, at Morjean – was further present, 2 May following, with the boats of the Undaunted, Volontaire, and Repulse, at the cutting-out of a well-protected convoy in the same harbour – and, besides figuring in other dashing affairs, again served in the boats on 9 Nov. and assisted in escalading a vigorously defended tower at Fort Nouvelle, where seven French vessels, lying under the protection of several batteries, were destroyed. For these services, Mr. Dow was appointed, 26 May, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the Castor 32, Capt. Chas. Dilkes, to which frigate he was confirmed 17 June following. Being paid off in Sept. 1815, after having visited the West Indies, and been employed the last eight months as First-Lieutenant, he subsequently joined, 14 Feb. 1825, in the latter capacity, the Doris 42, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, with whom he served on the South American station until 1829. His next appointment was to the command, 11 March, 1836, of the Carbon steam-vessel; in which, after conveying a body of marine artillery to join the force under Lord John Hay on the coast of Spain, he proceeded to the West Indies; whence in consequence of two severe attacks of yellow fever, which deprived him of the use of his limbs, he invalided home, in Oct. of the same year. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Dow married, 18 Jan. 1830, Caroline, third daughter of Sam. Enderby, Esq. of Croom’s Hill, Blackheath, co. Kent, by whom he has issue four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Downes, Thomas Hardwicke

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​DOWNES. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Thomas Hardwicke Downeswas mentioned in terms of the highest praise by Capt. Fred. Marryat for his conduct as Midshipman of the Larne 20, during the Burmese war, in 1825. He passed his examination in 1827; obtained his commission 2 March, 1838; and has been since appointed – 6 June, 1838, and 22 May and 5 Oct. 1839, to the Jaseur 16, Capt. Fred. Moore Boultbee, Bellerophon 78, Capt. Chas. John Austen, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Zebra 16, Capts. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford and Jas. John Stopford all on the Mediterranean station – 31 Aug 1841, to the Driver steamer, Capt. Sam Fielding Harmer, whom he accompanied to the East Indie – s – 1 April, 1844, as Senior, to the Firefly steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey, on the Home station – 22 Nov. 1844 in a similar capacity to the Amazon 19, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Jas. John Stopford – and, 17 Sept. 1846, to the Coast Guard, in which service he is now employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Doyle, Arthur

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​DOYLE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Arthur Doyle passed his examination 9 Jan. 1835; became Mate, towards the close of 1841, of the Hazard 18, Capt. Chas. Bell, on the East India station; and from 22 Sept. 1843, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 July, 1846, served on the coast of Africa in the Star 6, Capt. Robt. John Wallace Dunlop. He has been since employed as Additional of the Action 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, on the station last mentioned.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dowse, Richard

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​DOWSE. (Commander, 1846. f-p.,23; h-p., 14.)
Richard Dowse entered the Navy, 20 July, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Aigle 36, Capts. Geo. Wolfe and Sir John Louis, under the latter of whom, besides assisting in several boat affairs, he was present at the capture and destruction of a convoy of 20 sail, at Porto Maurizio, in the Mediterranean, 11 April, 1814. Between Sept. 1815, and Nov. 1818, we find him ofiiciating, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the North Sea and West India stations, of the Florida 20, and Scamander 36, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Elliott. Until Sept. 1825, he next served, on the East India, Home, and West India stations, in the Dauntless 26, Capts. Hon. Valentine Gardner and John Norman Campbell, Eden 26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, Ramillies and Ganges, ships of the line, commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, and Isis 50, bearing the flag of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted – by whom he appears to have been detached in command, from Nov. 1824, to May, 1825, of the Assiduous schooner, employed in the suppression of piracy. In Sept. 1825, Mr. Dowse rejoined Capt. Elliott, as Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Lively 46, to which frigate he was confirmed 16 Dec. following. He was placed on half-pay on his return from the coast of Africa, in Dec. 1826; and was afterwards appointed – in Nov. 1832, to the Comus 18, Capt. Wm. Price Hamilton, at Plymouth – in the course of 1834, to the Vernon and President, flagships in North America and the West Indies of Sir Geo. Cockburn, and again to the Comus – 5 Nov. 1835, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Snake 16, Capt. Rich. Laird Warren – 18 March, 1836, to the Coast Guard, in Suffolk – and, 1 Oct. 1840, to the Howe 120, Capts. Sir Watkin Owen Pell, Robt. Smart, and Thos. Forrest, flag-ship for some time of Sir Fras. Mason, which he paid off; as First-Lieutenant, in July, 1843. He has not since been afloat. He acquired his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
Commander Dowse is at present employed, we believe, as Stipendiary Magistrate at the Mauritius. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nicolson, Frederick William Erskine

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​NICOLSON, Bart. (Captain, 1846.)
Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, born 22 April, 1815, is son of the late Major-General Sir Wm. Nicolson, Bart., by Mary, daughter of John Russell, Esq., and grand-daughter of Dr. Robertson, the celebrated historian. He succeeded his father, as 10th Baronet, 5 Aug. 1820.
This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 24 Nov. 1829; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 2 Jan. 1837; served during the two following years on the Lisbon station in the Trinculo 16, Capt. Henry Edw. Coffin; and on 7 Nov. 1839 was appointed to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. For his services in the latter ship in the operations of May, 1841, against Canton (where he well played his part), and the meritorious and valuable assistance he afforded as her Senior Lieutenant in those of the ensuing Aug. and Oct. against Amoy and Chinghae, he was rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 26 Aug. in the same year. Obtaining command, 14 Dec. 1844, of the Fantome 16, he sailed, in the early part of the following year, for the Mediterranean, where, in personal command of the boats of that vessel, he was for many hours, 12 May, 1846, engaged in a desperate affray with a large force of Moorish pirates on the coast of Barbary in a successful attempt to recover the merchant-brig Ruth, of which they had obtained possession. The British on the ​occasion sustained a loss of a Midshipman (Mr. Rich. Boys) killed, and 8, including thie first-Lieutenant, John Sanderson, wounded. Sir Frederick himself suffered a narrow escape: while in the midst of the fire, encouraging and cheering his men, two bullets went through his hat; another caught the heel of his boot, and a stone grazed his lip. For his gallant conduct he was advanced to his present rank by a commission bearing date the day of the action. He returned in consequence to England, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, 26 May, 1847, Mary Clementina Marion, only daughter of Jas. Loch, Esq., M.P. for Wick, N.B., and niece of Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, R.N.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 2510.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 84, 396.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nightingale, David Thomas

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​NIGHTINGALE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
David Thomas Nightingale died 22 Dec. 1844.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Magnanime frigate, Capt. John Broughton; and in May, 1804, after having cruized in the Bristol Channel, removed as Midshipman to the Atlas 74, Capts. Wm. Johnstone Hope and Sam. Pym. In March, 1806, on his return from the West Indies, where he had been serving a short time in the Beaulieu 44, Capt. Chas. Ekins, he became attached to the Clyde 38, Capt. Edw. W. C. K. Owen, off Boulogne. Rejoining Capt. Ekins, in Feb. 1807, on board the Defence 74, he witnessed, during Admiral Gambier’s ensuing operations against Copenhagen, the surrender to the Comus 22, Capt. Edm. Heywood, of the Danish frigate Fredericscoarn. After this he visited Lisbon, and then, a second time, the West Indies; on which station he was successively received on board the Belleisle 74, Neptune 98, and Pompée 80, all flagships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane; by whom, subsequently to the reduction of Martinique, we find him nominated, 18 Dec. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the St. Christopher sloop, Capts. Michael Head, Henry Nathaniel Rowe, and Wm. M‘Culloch, part of the force employed at the taking of Guadeloupe in Feb. 1810. On 27 Jan. 1811, at which period he was serving as a Supernumerary in the Dragon 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Sub-Lieutenant, of the Orange schooner. He left that vessel in Jan. 1812; and was next, between the following Sept. (on 21 of which month he was officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant) and Nov. 1814, employed on the West India, North American, and Home stations, in the Narcissus 32, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, Statira 38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, Negro prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Isaac Strutt, and Favorite 22, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. His last appointment was, 26 Nov. 1823, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served some time as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nicholson, Frederick Falkiner

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​NICHOLSON. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Falkiner Nicholson passed his examination 29 March, 1843; served as Mate on board the Volage 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, and Dolphin brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Reginald Thos. John Levinge; and for his conduct in the action of the Parana, detailed in our memoir of the latter officer, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Nov. 1845. His appointments have since been – 26 June, 1846, to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the southeast coast of America – and, 4 Nov. 1846, to the Comus 18, Capt. Edwin Clayton Tennyson D’Eyncourt, on the same station, where he is still employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nicholson, Richard Adams

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​NICHOLSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 18; h-p., 24.)
Richard Adams Nicholson entered the Royal Naval College 14 May, 1805; and embarked, 23 Dec. 1808, on board the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, employed in the Baltic and North Sea. In Dec. 1813 he removed to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Chas. Thurlow Smith, on the Mediterranean station; and in May, 1815, after having there served for 12 months as Master’s Mate in the Alcmène 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, he took up a commission dated 18 of the preceding Feb. He has been in command, since 27 June, 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard.
He married, 9 April, 1839, Miss Catherine Strong, of Fratton, daughter of the late Mr. Rich. Strong, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nicolas, Nicholas Harris

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​NICOLAS, G.C.M.G., K.H. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, born 10 March, 1799, is brother of Capt. John Toup Nicolas, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Oct. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Salvador del Mundo 112, Capt. Thos. Wolley, bearing the flag of Admiral Wm. Young at Plymouth; where he continued employed in the Résolue and Prince Frederick 74’s, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Buller, until April, 1811; in the course of which month he sailed in the Cephalus 18, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford, for the Mediterranean, and there joined the Pilot 18, commanded by his brother, Capt. J. T. Nicolas. In that vessel (of which he was nominated Midshipman 31 March, 1812) he served for a period of four years and a half, and was frequently engaged in her boats at the capture and destruction of armed vessels and convoys on the Calabrian coast. After a servitude of six months at Plymouth and again in the Mediterranean (whither he proceeded in the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Fred. Wm. Burgoyne), in the Impregnable and Boyne 98’s, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Lord Exmouth, he was promoted, 20 Sept. 1815, to the rank of Lieutenant. He then went back to the Pilot, and served in her as an Extra-Lieutenant until the early part of 1816. Since that period he has been on half-pay.
Unsuccessful in his efforts to obtain employment, Lieut. Nicolas adopted the profession of the law, and in May, 1825, was called to the Bar by the Society of the Inner Temple. In Oct. 1831 he was nominated a K.H. and a K.C.M.G.; and in Oct. 1840 a G.C.M.G. He was appointed Secretary of the Knight Commanders and Companions of the Bath 10 April, 1832; and he was subsequently selected to fill the office (which he still holds) of Chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir N. H. Nicolas, whose prolific writings, too numerous to enumerate here, have rendered him eminent as a literary genius, has received the large Silver Medal of the ‘Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,’ for telegraphic improvements; among which are the numerical code of flags now used by the Royal Yacht Squadron, and submitted by him to the Admiralty in March, 1819. He married, 28 March, 1822, Sarah, youngest daughter of John Davison, Esq,, of Loughton, co. Essex, by whom he has issue four sons and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.