sion, as Admiralty-Mate, on promotion, the Cyane, Shark, Brazen, and Thetis, all in the West Indies. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812; and was subsequently appointed – 3 Oct. 1812, to the Abercromby 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, attached to the Channel fleet – 4 March, 1814, to the Warspite 74, Capt. Lord Jas. O’Bryen, with whom he made a voyage to Quebec – 28 Oct. following, to the Leonidas 38, Capt. Wm. King, stationed off Bermuda and on the north coast of Brazil – 13 June, 1815, to the Iphigenia 36, Capt. Andrew King, in which ship he sailed for the East Indies, whence, in May, 1816, he invalided – 15 Sept. 1818, to the Phaeton 46, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, fitting for the station last named – 6 Jan. 1820, about three months after the Phaeton had been paid off, to the Egeria 28, Capt. John Toup Nicolas – 20 March, 1823, to the Revenge 76, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, equipping at Chatham – and, 25 June, 1823, to the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, employed on the coasts of North and South America and in the Channel. While serving in the Egeria, of which vessel he was First-Lieutenant, Mr. Stuart visited Newfoundland, escorted George IV. to Scotland, was active in the suppression of smuggling in the North Sea, and obtained the thanks of the Mayor and Magistrates of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for his zealous and Indefatigable exertions in subduing some alarming disturbances which had broken out among the keelmen at that place. He was promoted, 17 July, 1824, to the command of the Sparrowhawk, and in that sloop, stationed in the Mediterranean, he continued until some time in the following year. After officiating for a few months as Second-Captain of the Winchester 52, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys in the West Indies, he was there, 21 March, 1831, appointed to the Icarus 10. He returned home and was paid off towards the close of the same year; and was lastly, from 22 Sept. 1835 until the spring of 1837, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He acquired the rank he now holds 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Stuart was for some time a Justice of the Peace in the West Indies. He married in 1837.
STUART. (Commander, 1840.)
Thomas Stuart entered the Navy 5 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his first commission 5 Jan. 1829; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 1 Oct. 1833; was removed from that service to the Pembroke 72, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, on the Mediterranean station, 9 July, 1838; and from 8 Nov. 1839 until promoted, 4 Nov. 1840, to the rank of Commander as a reward for his conduct at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was employed as First-Lieutenant in the Hazard 18, Capts. Jas. Wilkinson and Hon. Chas. G. J. B. Elliot. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Stuart married Lucy, daughter of the late Francis Christopher Bland, Esq., of Derryquin Castle, co. Kerry, and grand-daughter, maternally, of Arthur Bastable Herbert, Esq., of Brewsterfield, near Killarney. By that lady he has issue.
STUBBIN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 25; h-p., 18.)
John Stubbin entered the Navy, 4 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Foudroyant 80, Capt. Peter Puget; in which ship he continued employed in the Channel, among the Western Islands, in the West Indies, and on the Lisbon and Brazilian stations, under the flags of Sir Thos. Graves, Sir John Borlase Warren, the late Sir Albemarle Bertie, and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, until July, 1808. Under Sir J. B. Warren he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. On leaving the Foudroyant he again joined Admiral Bertie in the Leopard 50 at the Cape of Good Hope; where he removed in succession to the Culloden 74, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson, Sapphire and Otter sloops, both commanded by Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, and Magicienne 36, Capt. Lucius Curtis. In the Otter he contributed, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, to the reduction of St. Rose; and in the Magicienne, after witnessing the capture of Ile de Bourbon, he took part in a variety of gallant but unfortunate operations, which, by 28 Aug. 1810, terminated in the unavoidable self-destruction of that ship (who had had 8 of her people killed and 20 wounded) and the Sirius, the capture of the Néréide, and the surrender to a powerful French force of the Iphigenia, the last of a squadron of frigates originally under the orders of Commodore Sam. Pym, at the entrance of Port Sud-Est, Isle of France. He remained a prisoner of war until the conquest of the Mauritius; and he was subsequently, until Sept. 1814, employed on the Baltic, North Sea, St. Helena, Channel, and American stations, in the Mars 74, Capt. Henry Raper, and Iphigenia 36 and Madagascar 38, Capts. L. Curtis and Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. He attained his present rank 23 Feb. 1815; served from 31 Aug. 1822 until 1624 in the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, on the West India station; and since 9 July, 1834, has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
STUDDERT. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 15; h-p. 29.)
John Fitzgerald Studdert, born 11 July, 1790, is fifth son of the late Thos. Studdert, Esq., of Bunratty Castle, co. Clare, by Anna, daughter of Jas. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Shepperton, cousin of Lieut.-General Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, Bart., of Caragoran, and a descendant of Thomas, fourth son of Maurice, fourth Earl of Kildare, who was Sheriff for co. Limerick in 1404. He is also connected, maternally, with the late Admiral Sir John Colpoys and the late Rear-Admiral Robt. O’Brien, brother of the late Sir Edw. O’Brien, Bart., M.P. for co. Clare, and uncle of the present Sir Lucius O’Brien, Bart. He is brother of the late Jas. Studdert, Esq., Lieutenant in the 16th Regiment; and uncle of the present Lieut. Rich. Studdert, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Niobe 40, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott, attached to the force in the Channel; where he saw much boat-service, and continued employed as Midshipman in the same frigate and in the Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford, and Dragon 74, Capt. M. H. Scott, until received, in Dec. 1808, on board the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bisset. In that ship he accompanied, in the following year, the expedition to - the Walcheren. He was nominated, in the course of 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Opossum 10, Capt. Wm. Henry Byam, Statira 38, Capt. Chas. Dilkes, and Ganymede 24, Capts. Edw. Crofton and Robt. Preston, all on the West India station; on 26 Jan. 1811 he was confirmed to the vessel last mentioned^; and in the ensuing Oct. he was appointed to the Marlborough 74, commanded on the Home station by his former Captain, Scott. On the promotion of the latter to Flag-rank, Mr. Studdert followed him in Aug. 1812, as Signal-Lieutenant, into the Chatham 74. In the spring of 1814 he was sent with a summons to the French Commandant at Flushing, from whom, as soon as the preliminaries had been settled, he received the surrender of that place. He left the Chatham 25 May, 1814; was advanced to the rank of Commander 12 Aug. following; and was next, 1 June, 1824, appointed to the Champion 18. In her he was at first engaged in a variety of experimental cruizes. On arriving afterwards in India he united, towards the close of 1825, in the operations then in progress in Ava, where he was immediately intrusted with the duty of keeping open the navigation between Rangoon and Prome. At the close of hostilities he superintended the final proceedings and arrangements of the naval armament; and on 1 April, 1826, he took formal possession, with three other Commissioners, of the provinces which had been ceded by the recent treaty of peace. On 21 Feb. 1828, Capt. Studdert, whose Post commission bears date 9 Jan. in that year, assumed command
