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station, and on 27 Nov. in the latter year he was promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Commander, as a reward for an invention for propelling ships of war during a calm.[1] His last appointment was, 23 May, 1823, to the command of the Camelion brig, of 10 guns, in which, after an attendance of some time on George IV., he was despatched, early in 1824, to Algiers, in order to convey thence the British Consul, to whom the Dey had offered a serious indignity. On working out of the Bay, in company with the Naiad frigate, Capt. Burton fell in with an Algerine corvette, the Tripoli, of 18 guns and 100 men, and, after a close and most gallant action, under the very batteries of the place, boarded and carried her. His conspicuous conduct on the occasion was rewarded, immediately on his arrival in England, with a Post-commission, dated 23 Feb. 1824.
Capt. Burton was nominated a K.H. 1 Jan, 1837. A pension for his wound (from which the ball has never been extracted) of 91l. 5s., awarded him in 1818, has been of late increased to 150l. He married, 2 July, 1822, Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late Lord Dunsany, widow of Philip Roche, Esq., and mother-in-law of Lords Trimlestown and Louth, by whom he has an only son, Francis Adolphus Plunkett Burton, now at the University of Oxford. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
BURY. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 24.)
George Bury was born 17 Jan. 1790.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, under the auspices and command of the present Sir Geo. Martin, whom he afterwards joined in the Glory and Barfleur 98’s, on the Channel station. On 22 July, 1805, he fought as Midshipman in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, and he continued in the Barfleur, under Sir Robt. Barlow and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, until May, 1807. From that date until July, 1811, we next find him serving under the first-named officer in the Montagu 74, Queen 98, and Canopus 80, on the Mediterranean station, and, on 26 Oct. 1809, contributing to the destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion. He afterwards became attached in succession, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, to the San Josef and Caledonia, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton, Lord Keith, and Sir Edw. Pellew, Sabine 18, Capt. Westley, Impétueux 74, and Stately 64, bearing each the flag of Vice-Admiral Martin, and Severn 50, Capt. Joseph Nourse, on the Home, Mediterranean, Lisbon, and North American stations. He was promoted, 11 Jan. 1814, into the Jaseur 18, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, and after an intermediate and very active employment in the Chesapeake, returned home in the summer of 1814. Lieut. Bury’s next appointments were – 11 April, 1826, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained seven years – and, in 1840, as Admiralty Agent, to the Caledonia Halifax contract mail steam-vessel. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1841.
He married, 1 May, 1826, Eliza Anne Lydia, daughter of Thos. Charleton, Esq., late Lieut.Colonel, Royal Artillery.
BUSHBY. (Captain, 1840. f-p., 24; h-p., 19.)
Thomas Bushby is brother of the late Capt. John Bushby, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Spy 18, commanded by his brother, Capt. J. Bushby, under whom we find him for many months in continual collision with the Boulogne batteries and flotilla. From Oct. 1805, until Sept. 1808, he next served, on the Home and West and East India stations, in the Oberon 16, Capt. J. Bushby, Trusty 50, Capt. Brian Hodgson, Acasta 38, Capt. Philip Beaver, Wasp 18, Capt. John Haswell, and Monmouth 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, with the latter of whom he appears to have been present at the surrender of Tranquebar in 1808. After an attachment, as Master’s Mate, from Sept. in that year until 16 May, 1811, to the Princess Caroline and Cressy 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater on the North Sea and Baltic stations, Mr. Bushby, who passed his examination in Dec. 1810, became Acting-Lieutenant of the Belette 18, Capt. David Sloan, and, on 16 Aug. following, was confirmed into the Diligence 18, Capt. Abraham Lowe, also in the Baltic. On 28 March, 1812, he next joined the Herald 20, Capt. Geo. Jackson, in the West Indies, and on 27 Nov. 1812, he was appointed to the Junon 38, Capts. Jas. Sanders and Clotworthy Upton, on the North American station. In the course of 1813 he commanded the Junon’s boats on many gallant occasions; first, on 8 Feb., when, forming part of a squadron under Lieut. Kelly Nazer, they boarded, and in the most spirited style carried, the Lottery American letter-of-marque, of 6 12-pounder carronades and 28 men, a service for which the Commander-in-Chief returned his especial thanks; a few days afterwards, at the capture of the Cora, of 8 guns and 40 men; and again, under Lieut. Philip Westphal, at the rescue, 29 July, of the Martin 18, then aground in Delaware Bay, from a powerful flotilla, consisting of two block-vessels and eight gun-boats, one of which, after a brave defence, was taken with loss. Lieut. Bushby also co-operated in the attack upon Craney Island and the capture of Hampton. He subsequently served, between 1 Oct. 1814, and 30 June, 1815, with Capt. Henry Thos. Davies, Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, and Capt. Wm. Bourchier, in the Prince Regent 56, St. Lawrence 98, and Montreal 18, on Lake Ontario; and he was thenceforward employed, in command of the Newash 6, and Sank 4, and as Superintendent of the Naval Establishment, on Lake Erie, until his return home in July, 1822, towards the close of which year, 26 Dec, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. On 28 Sept. 1832, he obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard, at Kingstown, Dublin, where he continued until Oct. 1835; and he, lastly, commanded, from 25 Jan. 1837, until placed out of commission in Aug. 1839, the Wanderer 16, employed in the active suppression of slavery on the North America and West India station. Since his promotion to Post-rank, 3 July, 1840, Capt. Bushby has been on half-pay. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
BUTCHER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 39; h-p., 5.)
Jonathan Butcher, born 9 Oct. 1789, is brother of Lieut. Robt. Butcher, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1803, as a Boy, on board the Medina yacht, Capts. John Moore and Peter Baskerfield, lying off the Isle of Wight; joined the Glory 98, Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, as Midshipman, 21 June, 1805; and, on 22 July following, was present in Sir Robt. Calder’s action with the combined squadrons of France and Spain. Between Jan. and Nov. 1808, he next served, with Rear-Admirals Wm. Albany Otway and Chas. Tyler, in the Ganges 74, and Barfleur 98, and, while in the latter ship, was employed in embarking the French troops after the convention of Cintra, and in escorting from Lisbon to Spithead the first division of the Russian Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s fleet. He then joined the Africaine 38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, under whom he successively accompanied the present King of the French to Malta, and the late Lord Hill, with a convoy of transports, from Cork to Lisbon. In June, 1810, he followed Capt. Raggett into the Defiance 74, employed off Flushing, from which ship he was for some time detached on secret service, in the Alban cutter, and in the boats. He passed his examination 7 Aug. 1811; served, between Dec. 1812, and Feb. 1814, in the Argo 44, and Bedford 74, flag-ships in the West Indies of Vice-Admiral C. Stirling, and York 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, on the Home sta-
- ↑ The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., also voted Capt. Burton their smaller or Vulcan gold medal. He afterwards, in 1840, published a pamphlet ‘On the Concentration of the Forces of the British Navy, and Manning of H.M. Ships and Vessels of War.’
