and, from 1811 until 1819 in the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, on the Mediterranean, North American, and East India stations. He has since been on half-pay.
TENNANT. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles Edmund Tennant entered the Navy 21 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 19 April, 1832. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Sept. 1833, to the Andromache 28, Capts. Bernard Yeoman and Henry Ducie Chads, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned in 1835 – 7 June, 1836, to the Imogene 26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, in which ship he served for upwards of three years in South America – and, 27 May, 1841, to the Cornwallis 72, as Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, whom he accompanied to the coast of China. While there he was in attendance upon his gallant chief on every occasion of service, and displayed the most praiseworthy zeal. He assisted at the capture of Amoy, gained the highest approbation for his conduct at the reduction of Chinghae, was mentioned in the despatches of Sir Hugh Gough for his spirited behaviour in the attack upon the enemy’s entrenched camp upon the heights of Segoan, landed at taking of Chapoo and Woosung, and took a prominent part in an attack made upon some Tartar troops who held out in the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo.[1] He was advanced in consequence to the rank of Commander 16 Sept. 1842, but has not been since employed.
THELWALL. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 12; h-p., 38.)
Bevis Thelwall is fourth and youngest son of the Rev. Edw. Thelwall, of Llanbedr, co. Denbigh, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Baldwyn, of Hoole, co. Chester, and of Harrock, co. Lancaster. His family is one of the oldest, of English extraction, in North Wales.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Racoon sloop, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, stationed in the Downs, where he assisted as Midshipman at the capture of several of the enemy’s privateers. After serving for a few months with Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget in the Penelope 36, in which frigate he escorted Lord and Lady Hugh Seymour to Madeira, he followed that officer, in the spring of 1799, into the Brilliant 28. During the nest two years he was employed, latterly under Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, in cruizing among the Western Isles, on the banks of Newfoundland, and off the coast of Portugal. In Aug. 1800 he was present at the cutting-out, from Vigo Bay, of La Guêpe French privateer of 18 guns and 161 men. He again, in April, 1801, joined Capt. Paget, as Master’s Mate, a rating he had already attained, on board the Hydra 38, and (with the exception of a few months during which the Hydra was commanded by Capt. Geo. Mundy) he continued to serve with him in the same ship and in the Endymion 40, on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, and Home stations until July, 1806. In the Hydra he was for some time in attendance upon Geo. III. off Weymouth; and in the Endymion he contributed to the capture of La Bacchante corvette of 18 guns (pierced for 22) and 200 men, L’Adour store-ship, pierced for 20 guns, Le Général Moreau privateer of 16 guns and 85 men, several richly-laden Spanish merchantmen, and La Colombe French corvette of 16 guns. In Oct. 1806 (he had been for some time Acting-Lieutenant of the Endymion) he obtained charge of a watch on board the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, on the Channel station; where he was made Lieutenant, 25_ Aug. 1807, into the Achille 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King. He left that ship in July, 1808; and was lastly, from May, 1809, until he invalided in Feb. 1810 from the effects of Walcheren fever, employed in the Venerable 74, Capt. Andrew King, under whom he took part in the various operations connected with the expedition to the Scheldt. He accepted the rank he now holds 11 Jan. 1844.
Commander Thelwall married Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of Lewis Buckle, Esq., of Rogate Lodge, co. Sussex, by whom he has issue four sons and one daughter. His youngest son, Enbull Daysh Thelwall, is a Second-Lieutenant R.M. (1848.)
THERRY. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Bryan Keating Therry entered the Navy 17 July, 1811; and was made Lieutenant, 26 June, 1826, into the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. John Leith, on the West India station, whence he returned to England with the Duke of Manchester, late Governor of Jamaica, and was paid off in Sept. 1827. He has not been since employed.
THICKNESSE. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 18; h-p., 48.)
John Thicknesse died 5 Aug. 1846. He was son (by his third wife, the ony child of Mr. Ford, Clerk of the Arraigns, and niece of Gilbert Ford, Esq., Attorney-General for the island of Jamaica) of Capt. Philip Thicknesse, Lieutenant-Governor of Languard Fort, author of several well-known literary productions, and father, by a former marriage, of George, 18th Lord Audley.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 Nov. 1781, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Flora frigate, Capt. Sam. Marshall, employed in the Channel and also in the West Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1783. He served next as Midshipman on the Home and West India stations, from July, 1790, until March, 1795, in the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, Hannibal 74, Capt. John Colpoys, Intrepid 64, Capt. Hon. Chas. Carpenter, and Europa 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Ford. On 18 of the month last mentioned he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Scorpion sloop, Capt. Thos. Western; he was confirmed to that vessel 26 May following; and he was next appointed, still in the West Indies – 27 Dec. 1795, to his former ship the Hannibal, Capts. Joseph Bingham, Louis, and Edw. Tyrrell Smith – 11 Aug. 1797 and 16 March, 1798, to the command of the Charlotte brig and Charlotte schooner – and 16 Nov. 1798, to the Queen 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker. From 11 Nov. 1799;until 16 July, 1801, he served as Acting-Commander and Commander (commission dated 29 Jan. 1800) in the Pelican sloop, in the West Indies and on the coast of France; he commanded for a short time in 1804 the Lady Melville armed ship, in the Channel; and on 5 March and 21 April, 1806, he was appointed to the Hecla bomb and Sheldrake 16. On 12 Oct. in the latter year he was present in an action of an hour and a quarter, fought in the Bay of Erqui, between a British squadron, consisting, with the Sheldrake, of the Constance 22, Strenuous gun-brig, and Britannia cutter, on the one side, and a French force, comprised, on the other, of the Salamandre of 26 guns and 80 men,[2] a 2-gun battery planted on a hill, and one or two field-pieces, together with a few troops on the beach; the result 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 prize went on shore almost immediately afterwards, and was set on fire and destroyed by her captors, 38 of whom, in vainly endeavouring to. get her off, were made prisoners. Capt. Alex. Saunderson Burrowes of the Constance[3] having been killed during the height of the conflict, the command of the squadron had devolved upon Capt. Thicknesse. He con-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 396, 2386, 2391, 3399, 3400, 3403, 3405, 3694.
- ↑ The official account says 150 men. – Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 1363.
- ↑ Two hours after the Salamandre had hauled down her colours a shot from the French batteries cut the cables of the Constance, who in consequence drifted on shore, and was subsequently taken by the French into St. Maloes and repaired for sea.
