not find any other mention made of him. His elder brother, William, dying in the lifetime of his father, he fucceeded to the title on the decease of the latter. This happened on the 23d of April 1718; and it is moft probable that the retirement of fir Edward took place at that, if not at an earlier period. He married the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Jekyll, of Weftminster, D. D. This lady was the niece of the late fir Jofeph Jekyll, knight, mafter of the rolls, and relict of fir Nicholas Roberts, of London, merchant. Sir Edward died at Seaton Delaval, of a mortification in his leg, on March 1, 1756.

CAYLEY, or CALEY, Tyrwhit, was appointed captain of the Rofe frigate. So undistinguishable were the fervices and commands on which this gentleman was employed, that we find no mention made of him till the year 1741, when he commanded the Lancaster of eighty guns. We believe this to have been a guardship, as its name is not inferted in any of the lines of battle made out at that time. On the 7th of May 1745, he was appointed a commiffioner for fick and wounded feamen, and for exchanging prifoners of war. On the 9th of January* 1748, he was appointed one of the commiffioners of the victualling office, a ftation he held till the time of his death, which happened on the 6th of December 1751.

CAMPBELL, James, or Jofhua, - was appointed commander of the Squirrel; and, after a very unnoticed fervice of fix years, died on the 2d of November 1718, being at that time captain of the Winchester, or, as others fay, the Winchelsea.

CAMPBELL, Matthew, was appointed to a frigate called the Dunbar Caftle. No mention is made as to what fubfequent commiffions he held, or even whether he was afterwards employed. He died at Leith on the 27th of April 1723.

CODNER, John,-was appointed to the Deal Castle, and was foon afterwards ordered to the Weft Indies. He died there on the 23d of April 1714, ftill retaining the command of the Deal Caftle.

DAVERS, Thomas, was made captain of the Seaford; after which time his fervices are fo unnoticed that we hear nothing of him till the year 1734, when he was

* Some accounts fay on December 16, preceding the above date.

made captain of the Grafton, of feventy guns, one of the fleet collected at Spithead under the command of fir John Norris. After the commencement of the war with Spain, in 1739, he was appointed to the Suffolk, alfo a fhip of feventy guns, and fent with fir Chaloner Ogle to the West Indies, on the expedition against Carthagena. He was one of the commanders ordered to remain there under Mr. Vernon, after the unfortunate failure of the above enterprize; and was left commodore of the fhips at Jamaica when the vice-admiral failed on the expedition against Cuba. He does not, however, appear to have been concerned in any very material or confequential fervice. Returning to England about the year 1742, he was, on the 7th of December 1743, promoted to be rear'admiral of the red, which was the first rank he ever held as a flag officer. On the 23d of June 1744, he was advanced to be vice-admiral of the white, and was soon afterwards appointed commander-in-chief of a fquadron, confifting of four third rates, of feventy and eighty guns each; five fourth rates, of fixty and fifty; three fifth rates, of forty; befides two bomb-ketches and other fmall veffels, ordered out to Jamaica.

He failed from St. Helen's on the 18th of November; but having encountered dreadful weather on his paffage*, did not reach Jamaica till the 11th of March. On the 23d of April following he was farther promoted to be vice-admiral of the red, which was the highest rank he ever lived to attain to. Although no opportunity offered itfelf to the vice-admiral of ftriking a fignal blow, or atchieving any very memorable exploit, yet he highly contributed to diftrefs the enemy and protect the commerce of his own countrymen, by a very able difpofition of his cruifers, and the greatest perfonal activity in directing the operations of fuch fhips as he retained under his own more immediate command. He continued thus employed during the remainder of his life, dying commander-in-chief, at Jamaica, on the 16th of September 1747.

He arrived at Madeira on the 18th of December, almost in a fingle fhip, having loft company with the greateft part of his fleet and convoy, in a gale of wind, the night after he left St. Helen's. He was, in a few days indeed joined by a confiderable number of fragglers; and, on the whole, little injury was fuftained except that of delay.

DAVIS, Richard,-was appointed captain of the Maidftone. He did not live to attain to any command worth commemorating, dying in the Downs, on the 2d of August 1718, being at that time captain of the Solebay.

DENNIS, or DENNET, Thomas. - We have to take notice of this gentleman only as having been appointed captain of the Glafgow. All other particulars, even that of the time of his death, being unknown to us.

FAIRLEY, George,—was appointed captain of the Hind. He was difmiffed from his command by the fen tence of a court-martial, held at Chatham on the 17th of December 1714, in confequence of his irregular conduct. He was afterwards reftored to his ftation in the fervice, and allowed to take rank, as a poft captain, from the 10th of March 1715. He was, a long time afterwards, madę captain of the Hawke, which, notwithstanding his having been regularly readmitted to his former rank, is faid to have been only a floop of war. He was difmiffed from this vellel alfo on the 30th of August 1724, probably on account of fome farther mifdemeanour. FALKINGHAM, Edward, was, on the 26th of February 1712-13, appointed captain of the Weymouth. The next station in which we have been able to find him is in the year 1717, at which time he commanded the Dartmouth, one of the Baltic fleet under fir George Byng. Immediately after his return from that expedition he was promoted to the Orford, of seventy guns, and fent to the Mediterranean, where he very much diftinguished himfelf under his former commander, Byng, in the memorable encounter with the Spanish fleet off Cape Paffaro. The Orford and the Grafton, being the two beft failing fhips in the English fleet, came up firft with the rear of the Spaniards; and, after having for fome time patiently endured the fire of their ftern-chace guns, began the action by attacking and closing with the Santa Rofa, of fixty-four guns, and the Prince of Afturias, of feventy guns. The former ftruck, after a very gallant refiftance, to the Orford. The naval operations of the above scene of warfare were confined to the cafual deftruction of fome of the few straggling fhips which escaped out of the action, and the blockade of others in the ports where they had taken refuge. No particular mention is

made

Dunkirk, a confufion arising, most probably from fome mistake in the manufcript lifts which have been preserved. His feveral appointments were for many years of fo undiftinguished a nature, that we find no mention whatever made of him till the beginning of the year 1728, when he was made captain of the Affiftance, a fourth rate of fifty guns. He continued in this fhip till the year 1732, but does not appear to have been engaged in any fervice of the fmalleft confequence. Lediard afferts the Affistance was one of the ships employed in the expedition to the Mediterranean under fir Charles Wager, in 1731, for the purpofe of putting the Infant Don Carlos in poffeffion of his Italian dominions, bequeathed him by the duke of Parma. In this inftance he is however mistaken, the Aflistance, as well as many other veffels, given as part of the armament in his account of the expedition alluded to, not having proceeded on it.

In 1734 he was promoted to the Swallow, of fixty guns, and ordered to join the fleet affembled, under fir John Norris, at Spithead. Soon after the actual commencement of the war with Spain, in 1739, he was appointed eaptain of the Norfolk, of eighty guns, that fhip being ordered to join the fleet fitting for the expedition against Carthagena. He diftinguished himself very much in the attack of the forts St. Jago and St. Philip: and on the failure of that expedition, returned to England with Mr, Leftock. After this time he appears to have retired from the fervice, no mention being made of his having been appointed to any other fhip. On the 15th of July 1747, he was promoted to the rank of a rear-admiral, and put on the fuperannuated lift; by which he became entitled to the half-pay of 17s. 6d. per day, during life. He died on the ift of December 1755.

GROME, or GRAHAM, William,-was appointed captain of the Surprize, a frigate taken from the enemy in the preceding war. This is the only reafon we have to make mention of here, for we do not find him holding any fubfequent command. He died in England on the 9th of January 1717.

HADDOCK, William,-was, at the fame time with the preceding gentleman, advanced to the rank of poft

captain, and appointed to the Port Mahon frigate. In 1718 we find him commander of the Dreadnought, of fixty guns, one of the fleet fent into the Mediterranean under fir George Byng. He acquitted himself with the greatest credit in the action with the Spanish fleet, but is not otherwise mentioned in the courfe of the expedition. In the year 1723 he was made captain of the Nottingham, of fixty guns, a fhip we believe to have been stationed as a guardship till the year 1726, when captain Haddock was ordered to the Weft Indies with vice-admiral Hofier. He there unhappily fell among the first victims to that inhospitable climate, which at that time proved so remarkably destructive to inactive bravery. He died at the Baftimento's off Porto Bello, on the 26th of October 1726.

HARWOOD, Robert, was made captain of the Biddeford. No other notice whatever is taken of him as a naval officer; nor have we been able to collect any particulars concerning him, except that he died in England on the 6th of January 1747.

HERDMAN, Mungo,-is nearly in the fame predicament; he was appointed captain of the Blandford: but we know nothing farther concerning him, except that he is faid to have been killed, on the 8th of March 1727, by a fall from his horfe, he being at that time captain of the Rofe. A private memorandum we have met with concerning this gentleman, informs us that he died in the month of March 1726, being then commander of the Hampshire. But this account we believe to be totally

erroneous.

HOWARD, Thomas, -is mentioned only as having been appointed captain of the Flamborough frigate. Even the time of his death is unknown.

*

HUGHES, Thomas, was made captain of the Medway's Prize, and is as much unnoticed as any of his cotemporaries, nothing being known concerning him except that he died in England on the 31ft of August

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* A captain Hughes commanded the Chefter, of eighty guns, in the year 1721; but we are unable pofitively to determine, whether it was this gentleman, or one of his predeceffors, of whom an account has been given. Vol. III. p. 165, and 232,

HUME,