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# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section IV

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IV. Galdy.
The Scots Magazine, vol. lxxi. p. 367, states that the following epitaph is on a tombstone at Green Bay, adjoining the Apostles’ Battery, Port Royal, Jamaica:—
“dieu sur tout.
Here lies the body of Lewis Galdy, Esq., who departed this life at Port Royal, the 22d December 1736, aged eighty. He was born at Montpellier in France, but left that country for his religion, and came to settle in this island, where he was swallowed up in the great earthquake in the year 1692, and by the providence of God was by another shock thrown into the sea, and miraculously saved by swimming until a boat took him up. He lived many years after, in great reputation, beloved by all who knew him, and much lamented at his death.”
A midshipman, in 1816, wrote the following notice of the monument in his private journal, from which I extract it:—
“We first touched at Jamaica, where we remained some little time — long enough to look about us, and to go over to Port-Royal and hear all about the earthquake. I remember landing at a place called the Twelve Apostles, to look at a tombstone there, erected to the memory of a man who had been swallowed up by the earthquake at Port-Royal, and thrown up from the sea half-way betwixt that and Kingston; it mentioned (I forget the man’s name) that he married after this, and had a family, and lived to the age of eighty; it did not mention whether he could tell anything about his submarine journey or not.” [Perhaps a wife and family are named in further inscriptions on the stone.]
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section VI

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VI. Salmond.
The family of Salmond of Waterfoot, on the shores of Ullswater, have a tradition that their ancestors were French Protestant Refugees who, at the Revocation era, emigrated to the island of Antigua. An abiding tradition like this is more convincing than many elaborate pedigrees. The surname was known among refugees in England at an earlier date than 1685. There was a baptism in Canterbury on 4th August 1672 of Isaac, son of Anthoine Saumon — this, probably, was the original spelling of the family name. John Samon was naturalized at Westminster, 3d July 1701 (see List xxv.). William Salmond, Esq., removed from Antigua to England in the end of last century. He was the father of Major-General James Salmond of Waterfoot, whose son, James (born 15th June 1805, died 24th November 1880), was successively Captain of the 2d Dragoon Guards and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry. This family is best known by its connection with the above-named counties, although by residence it is more rooted in Nottinghamshire.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 7 - Section II

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II. The Baroness Eland.
Esther Hervart, sister of the Baron d’Hervart, was the wife of Charles de la Tour Marquis de Gouvernet, who was the son of the former Marquis by Madelaine de Vignolles. He is described as “a gentleman of a very ancient family and a most plentiful fortune in Dauphine.” Himself and Esther his wife, and Esther their daughter, first come to our view as residents in Paris and worshippers in the Huguenot temple at Charenton. It is of the daughter that I am now to speak. She was born in 1666, and, being rich and beautiful, she was regarded with interest at a very early age. She was introduced to the notice of the famous Earl of Halifax, by his brother, Henry Savile, then the British Ambassador at Paris, in a letter dated Paris, 25th February 1680: — “My great assiduity at Charenton has gained me a general acquaintance and kindness amongst the Huguenots; and as generally the women are most pleased with such a proceeding, I have got into the friendship of the gravest. They all think themselves unhappy by being of a persuasion different from the Government, apprehending daily greater calamities than they yet lie under, that most of them are disposed to marry their children rather into England and Holland than in France. Amongst this number there is one who will give 200,000 crowns down, paid in London and in English crowns, viz., £25,000, with a very pretty daughter as modestly bred as I have ever seen.”
Negotiations for a marriage with the Earl’s son were commenced in due time. In 1682 the ambassador was annoyed that his brother on being created Marquis of Halifax did not ask for an additional earldom, and that thus he had no second title for his son except Lord Savile of Eland. As a diplomatist he was nervous lest the young and important lady should think the title of Lady Savile beneath her acceptance. This led to the decision that the young lord should adopt the courtesy title of Baron Eland. The marriage of Henry Lord Eland and Demoiselle Esther de la Tour took place in April 1684; but he died in 1688 without issue. His will was altogether in favour of the Huguenot widow, who proved it on 8th June, not without opposition. The will was disputed unsuccessfully, probably by the Marquis, her father-in-law, who was likely to make a struggle to retain the Savile heir-looms and portraits. She herself survived till 1694, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on May 26 of that year. Soon after her husband’s death she had made a will in her mother’s favour, the date being 5th January 1689 (n.s.). It was proved by the Dowager Marquise de Gouvernet, but not till 13th December 1709.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 7 - Section III

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III. Madame Hervart.
Madame Hervart (née Esther Vimart), the mother of Baron d’Hervart and of Esther Marquise de Gouvernet, and the grandmother of Esther, Lady Eland, was a refugee along with her noble relatives. The date of her arrival in England is not known, and no fact is on record concerning her, except her burial in Westminster Abbey on 7th December 1697. Her daughter the Dowager Marquise administered to her estate on 23d September 1698.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section V

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V. Porcher.
There was a refugee, André Porcher, in London at the Revocation era, and a relative (probably a brother), Jaques Porcher who, on 23d February 1690, was a witness in the City of London French Church, Threadneedle Street, to the baptism of Anne, daughter of André Porcher and Sara. A mother of a refugee is mentioned in the French Church Register of Thorp in Essex in 1689 named Marie Porcher, wife of Jean Rougereau of Marchenoir, near Blois. The only family whose pedigree I have seen claims descent (according to Burke’s Landed Gentry) from the old noblesse; their ancestors are said to have been Comtes de Richebourg and courtiers of high position in the olden time. Isaac Porcher de Richebourg, M.D. of the University of Paris, married Claude Cherigny, of the province of Touraine, and, after the Edict of Revocation, they fled to South Carolina under British rule. Their son was Joseph Porcher, father of Paul Porcher, who married Mary Du Pre; and his son, Josias Du Pre Porcher, removed from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1768, being brought to England by his uncle James Du Pre, who had been governor of Fort George, Madras. His son was Josias Du Pre Porcher, Esq., of Winslade House, Devonshire, M.P. for Old Sarum, who married Charlotte, daughter of Admiral Sir William Burnaby, Baronet, and sister of the wife of John Chamicr, Esq., and who died in 1820. His eldest surviving son, Rev. George Porcher, married, in 1818, Frances Amelia, daughter of John Chamier, Esq.; and his sons are George Du Pre Porcher, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Captain Edwin Augustus Porcher, R.N. The youngest son of Mr. Porcher, M.P., was Charles Porcher, Esq., of Clyffe (born 1800, died 1863), whose widow succeeded to his estate. A brother of Charles, namely Henry Porcher, Esq., was M.P. for Clitheroe.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 6 - Section VII

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VII. Sigournay.
The surname of Sigournay has received celebrity through the poetry and other writings of Mrs. Lydia Sigournay (née Huntly), an American lady, who was born 1st September 1791, and died 10th June 1865. She mentions in her “Scenes in my Native Land” a place named Huguenot Fort, in the United States, to which Andrew Sigournay, a Huguenot refugee in England, came in 1713. It is singular that in the Naturalizations (see List iv.) this surname is deliberately placed under the letter C, and spelt Cigournai, among other Christian names there being two Andrews (father and son). The initial letter S is always employed in the French Church registers.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lamoureux, Charles

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lancers' Quadrille, The

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lampe, John

From volume 2 of the work.
​LAMPE, John Frederick, a native of Saxony, born 1703, came to England about 1725, and was engaged as a bassoon-player at the Opera. In 1732 he composed the music for Carey's 'Amelia.' In 1737 he published 'A Plain and Compendious Method of teaching Thorough-Bass,' etc., and also furnished the music for Carey's burlesque opera 'The Dragon of Wantley,' which met with remarkable success. It is an admirable example of the true burlesque, and is said to have been an especial favourite of Handel's. In 1738 he composed music for the sequel, 'Margery; or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon.' In 1740 he published 'The Art of Musick,' and in 1741 composed music for the masque of 'The Sham Conjuror.' In 1745 he composed 'Pyramus and Thisbe, a mock opera, the words taken from Shakspeare.' Lampe was the composer of many single songs, several of which appeared in collections, as 'Wit musically embellish'd, a Collection of Forty-two new English Ballads'; 'The Ladies' Amusement' and 'Lyra Britannica.' Many songs by him were included in 'The Vocal Musical Mask,' 'The Musical Miscellany,' etc. Lampe married Isabella, daughter of Charles Young, and sister of Mrs. Arne; she was a favourite singer, both on the stage and in the concert-room. In 1748 he went to Dublin, and in 1750 to Edinburgh, where he died, July 25, 1751, leaving behind him the reputation of an accomplished musician and excellent man. Charles Wesley often mentions him with great affection, and wrote a hymn on his death—''Tis done! the Sovereign Will 's obeyed!'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Landsberg, Ludwig

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lang

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lang, Benjamin

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Langdon, Richard

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lamperti, Francesco

From volume 2 of the work.
​LAMPERTI, Francesco, teacher of singing. Born at Savona 1813 [App. p.696 "March 11"]. His father was an advocate, and his mother a prima-donna of considerable repute. As a child he showed great talent for music, and was placed under Pietra Rizzi of Lodi. In 1820 he entered the Conservatorio at Milan, and there studied the pianoforte and harmony under Sommaruga d'Appiano and Pietro Ray. Devoting himself afterwards to the teaching of singing, he became associated with Masini in the direction of the Teatro Filodrammatico at Lodi. Selecting many of the ​members of his company from the natives of the surrounding country, he educated and brought out at his theatre many famous singers, such as La Tiberini, whose reputation otherwise would never have extended beyond their native village.
Attracted by their success pupils flocked to him from Bergamo, Milan, and other parts of Europe, and he there trained many of the most distinguished operatic vocalists; amongst whom may be named Jeanne-Sophie Löwe, Cruvelli, Grua, Brambilla, Hayes, Artôt, Tiberini, La Grange, and others equally distinguished. Appointed in 1850 by the Austrian government professor of singing to the Conservatorio at Milan, he brought out amongst others Angelica Moro, Paganini, Galli, Kisarelli, Angeleri, Peralta; and as private pupils, Albani, Stoltz, Waldmann, Aldighieri, Campanini, Vialletti, Derevis, Mariani, Palermi, Everardi, and Shakespeare. After twenty-five years service he retired from the Conservatorio upon a pension in 1875, and now devotes himself entirely to private pupils.
A friend of Rubini and Pasta, and associated with the great singers of the past, Lamperti follows the method of the old Italian school of singing, instituted by Farinelli and taught by Crescentini, Velluti, Marchesi, and Romani. Basing his teaching upon the study of respiration, the taking and retention of the breath by means of the abdominal muscles alone, and the just emission of the voice, he thoroughly grounds his pupils in the production of pure tone. His memory and his intuition are alike remarkable, and enable him to adapt to each of his pupils such readings of the music and cadenzas as are warranted by the traditions of the greatest singers and are best adapted to their powers. Mme. Albani, writing in 1875 of his published treatise on singing, says: 'To say that I appreciate the work, it is sufficient for me to state that I am a pupil of the Maestro Lamperti, and that I owe to him and to his method the true art of singing, so little known in these days.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Landolfi, Carlo

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parlby, James Edward

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​PARLBY. (Commander, 1836. f-p., 26; h-p., 11.)
James Edward Parlby entered the Navy, 27 Aug. 1810, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Armide 38, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, attached to the force on the Home station; where he continued employed as Midshipman, until Aug. 1815, in the Dublin 74, Capts. R. D. Dunn and Thos. Elphinstone, Centaur 74, Capts. John Chambers White and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. While on board the latter ship he witnessed the cutting out of several vessels from the harbour of Corrijou, near Abervrach, 18 July, 1815. On leaving her he joined the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins; under whom, in Aug. 1816, he accompanied the expedition against Algiers. He continued to serve in the Superb at Plymouth until Oct. 1818; and he was next, between that date and March, 1823, employed as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, Révolutionnaire again, Capt. Pellew, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Créole 42, Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, on the Mediterranean, Home, and South American stations. He was then nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Doris 42, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt); and on 7 June following he was confirmed into his former ship the Créole. His succeeding appointments were – in Feb. 1824, to the Albion 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Hoste and John Acworth Ommanney, in which ship he remained until Sept. 1825 – 25 May, 1830, to the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, fitting for the coast of Africa – and, 11 Oct. 1832, to the command (a short time after the Dryad had been paid off) of the Griffon ​brigantine, on the same station, where he remained nearly four years. He attained his present rank 28 Oct. 1836; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1843, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Parlby married, 14 Feb. 1825, Sophia Sylvester, daughter of the late Capt. Holland, 44th Regt. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parks, Abraham

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​PARKS. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
Abraham Parks entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1806, as Clerk, on board the Sandwich, Lieut.-Commander Emanuel Hungerford, lying in the River Medway, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in April, 1808, and in the following Sept. removed to the Irresistible prison-ship, Lieut. -Commander Poynter Crane. Becoming attached, in Jan. 1809, to the Sirius 36, Capt. Sam. Pym, he assisted in that vessel at the reduction, in the ensuing Sept., of the town of St. Paul’s, in the Ile de Bourbon. On his return to England in July, 1810, in the Raisonnable 64, Capt. John Hatley, he joined the Melpomène troop-ship, Capts. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Gordon Thos. Falcon, and Robt. Rowley; under whom he continued employed until Feb. 1815 on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, and also in the Chesapeake, where he was severely burnt by an explosion of gunpowder. On 7 of the month last mentioned he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Portia 14, Capt. Henry Thomson; and in the following Nov., after having again served on board the Melpomène as Master’s Mate, and as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Julia 14, Capt. John Wyatt Watling, he took up a commission bearing date 15 March in the same year. His appointments have since been – 18 May, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 7 Feb. 1839, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth – and, 21 July, 1839, 3 Sept. 1841, and 20 Oct. 1847, to the successive command of the Pike, Cuckoo, and Dasher steam-packets. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parry, Howard Lewis

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​PARRY. (Commander, 1832. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Howard Lewis Parry entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1803, on board the Niobe 40, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott, stationed in the Channel. He removed, in Dec. 1804, to the Hibernia 110; and he next, from Feb. 1805 until March, 1806, served on the Home and Mediterranean stations in the Tonnant 80, Capt. Chas. Tyler. In Nov. 1809 he became Midshipman of the Dolphin 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Christopher Watson and Alex. Milner, with whom he served until transferred, in Feb. 1811, to the Grasshopper 18, Capt. Henry Fanshawe. In the following Dec. he was on board the latter vessel when, in order to avoid sharing the fate of the unfortunate Hero, she was under the necessity of surrendering to the Dutch fleet in the Texel. He was in consequence taken prisoner and detained in captivitjr until the peace of 1814. He then successively joined the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, and Pandora 16, Capts. Jas. Kearny White, Sam. Malbon, Wm. Popham, and Hon. Fred. Noel; and in those vessels we find him employed on the North American, West India, and Home stations, until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a ​mission bearing date 10 of the preceding March. His next appointments were – 10 Sept. 1825, to the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts, Wm. M‘Cullooh and Hugh Pigot – and, 22 July, 1831, to the Coast Guard. “For gallant conduct and severe wounds” received in the latter service he was advanced to his present rank 10 Feb. 1832. He has since been on half-pay.
In consideration of his wounds Commander Parry was awarded, 19 April, 1833, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum. He is the senior Commander on the list of 1832. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parson, John

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​PARSON. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 19; h-p., 28.)
John Parson died 29 Nov. 1847, at St. Helier’s, Jersey, aged 62.
This officer entered the Navy, in the spring of 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leviathan 74, Capt. Jas. Carpenter, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir John Thos. Duckworth; with whom he continued employed as Midshipman in the Hercule 74, until Feb. 1805. He was in consequence present in the latter ship at the unsuccessful attack upon Curaçoa in 1804, and in various other operations. After sharing, we believe, as Master’s Mate of the Acasta 40, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, in the battle fought off Cape St. Domingo, and serving for a short time as a Supernumerary on board the Dolphin, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, he was constituted, 6 May, 1806, Sub-Lieutenant of the Pert sloop, Capt. Jas. Pringle. He was nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1807, of the St. Christopher, Capts. Andrew Hodge and John Tancock; was confirmed, 1 Nov. following, into the Alexandria 32, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane; and was subsequently (after cruizing for two years in the North Sea) appointed – 29 Jan. and 4 May, 1810, to the San Josef and Hibernia, of 110 guns each, Capts. R. D. Dunn and John Nash, stationed off Gibraltar and Cadiz – 8 Nov. following, to the Armide 38, Capts. R. D. Dunn, Fras. Temple, and Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, employed, until May, 1815, in the Channel and off the coast of North America – and, in July, 1816, to the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, under whom he fought as First-Lieutenant at the battle of Algiers. For his conduct on that occasion he was advanced to the rank of Commander by commission bearing date 16 Sept. 1816. He subsequently, from 14 Oct. 1833 until advanced to Post-rank 10 Jan. 1837, officiated as Second-Captain of the Thunderer 84, Capt. W. F. Wise, on the Mediterranean station. He did not again go afloat. Capt. Parson was married and has left issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parrey, Edward Iggulden

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​PARREY. (Captain, 1843.)
Edward Iggulden Parrey is a relative of Lieut. Robt. Parrey, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 20 Feb. 1809; and in the following summer was present, in the Royal Oak 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, in the expedition to the Walcheren. He was subsequently employed in the same ship on the coast of North America; where, on becoming attached to the Shannon of 50 guns, throwing a broadside weight of 538 lbs., and 306 men, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, he assisted, 1 June, 1813, at the capture of the American ship Chesapeake, of 50 guns, yielding a broadside of 590 lbs., and 376 men – an exploit achieved after a close and desperate action of 15 minutes, a loss to the British of 24 killed and 59 wounded, and to the enemy of 47 killed and 115 wounded. At the close of 1819, while acting as Lieutenant of the Liverpool 50, Capt. Fras. Aug. Collier, he accompanied an expedition sent to the Persian Gulf for the purpose of crushing a race of notorious pirates whose head-quarters lay at Ras-al-Khyma, which place was in a short time destroyed, and all the vessels lying in its vicinity burnt or sunk. In an attack made on one of the latter in the Liverpool’s barge, Mr. Parrey was severely wounded. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in the same ship 28 Nov. 1820, and, returning home in 1822, was afterwards appointed, in the capacity of Senior Lieutenant – 20 Sept. 1824, to the Chanticleer 10, Capt. Chas. Jas. Hope Johnstone, fitting for the Mediterranean – and 9 Aug. 1827, to the Primrose 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, with whom he sailed for the coast of Africa. In the early part of 1829 Mr. Parrey, in command of a boat belonging to the latter vessel, boarded and took a Portuguese vessel (formerly the Saucy Jack American privateer) of 4 guns and 40 men, with 225 slaves. On proceeding up the river Noonaz he found two schooners, one French and one Spanish, quite ready for slaves; and he also discovered, in the same stream, an English brig, the Lochiel of Liverpool, without a living soul on board, the Captain, Mate, ​and all the crew being found dead below. With much praiseworthy exertion he brought the vessel down the river, a very dangerous one, to the Primrose, by whom she was carried to Sierra Leone, where her Agent allotted a salvage of 190l. Mr. Parrey subsequently made prize, in the pinnace, of a galliot (at one time a yacht belonging to Alderman Sir Wm. Curtis) with 38 slaves on board, lying in the river Cachao. On 10 Feb. 1830 he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He afterwards, from 26 June, 1835, until 1838, and from 4 July, 1839, until Dec. 1841, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. On 22 of the month last mentioned he obtained command of the Sappho on the North America and West India station, whence, in the summer of the following year, he returned to England and was paid off. He has since been on half-pay. His advancement to Post-rank took place 7 July, 1843.
Capt. Parrey married, 7 Dec. 1830, at Abbot’s Rippon, Huntingdonshire, Miss Burn.