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CAMPBELL—CANDLER—CANES—CANNON—CAPEL.
CAMPBELL. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Robert Campbell entered the Navy 1 Jan. 1810; was promoted, 19 June, 1824, into the Carnation 18, Capt. Thos. Stopford, on the Jamaica station; and was next appointed, 23 Nov. 1826, to the Satellite 18, Capt. John Milligan Laws, with whom he served for some time in the East Indies. He has not been afloat since 1831. Lieut. Campbell is at present H.M. Consul at Milan. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
CAMPBELL. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Robert Graham Campbell died in 1845. This officer entered the Navy 28 May, 1829; passed his examination 6 Sept. 1836; served for upwards of two years in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest; obtained his commission 22 April, 1843, and was afterwards employed, from 7 Nov. 1843, until superseded in Feb. 1845, in the Helena 16, Capt. Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, at the Cape of Good Hope.
He married, 6 Sept. 1843, Eliza, daughter of H. A. Mansel, Esq., of Guernsey.
CAMPBELL. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
William Campbell entered the Navy, 9 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Crescent 36, Capts. Lord Wm. Stuart and Jas. Carthew, on the Home station; attained the rating of Midshipman 22 Jan. 1805; and, on 1 April, 1808, removed with Capt. Carthew, as Master’s Mate, to the Gloire 38. He subsequently proceeded to the West Indies, where, after serving for some months as Acting-Lieutenant of the Rosamond 18, Capts. Benj. Walker, Edw. Flin, Sam. Geo. Pechell, and Don. Campbell, he was, 18 July, 1810, officially promoted into the Surinam 16, Capt. John Ellis Watt. He returned to England and was paid off 21 Oct. 1813, and from that period appears to have remained on half-pay until appointed, 22 May, 1840, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship at Plymouth of Rear-Admirals Fred. Warren and Sir Sam. Pym. Since the summer of 1843 he has again been unemployed.
CANDLER. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
William Candler, whose family is of considerable antiquity in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, is eldest surviving son of the late Henry Candler, Esq., by Mary, only child of Wm. Ascough, Esq., of Kirby Malzart, co. York; great-grandson of the Yen. Henry Candler, D.D., Archdeacon of Ossory; and nephew of Sir Thos. Candler, a Rear-Admiral in the service of the Emperor of Russia.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Sept. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 22 Nov. 1826; and has not since been afloat.
He married, 4 June, 1829, Louisa, daughter of John Evered, Esq., of Hill House, co. Somerset.
CANES. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Edward Canes entered the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth 21 May, 1805; and embarked, 22 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. Albans 64, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen, Edw. Brace, Chas. Grant, and John Ferris Devonshire, under whom he successively served, as Midshipman and Master’s-Mate, until July, 1812. During that period he escorted, under Capt. Austen, a convoy of Indiamen to China and back, in 1809-10; and, under Capt. Brace, was very actively employed at the time of the French operations against Tarifa, and of the battle of Barrosa. On his return home in the Alfred 74, Capt. Josh. Sydney Horton, Mr. Canes, in Aug. 1812, joined the Tremendous 74, fitting for the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, whom he subsequently accompanied into the Hibernia 110, on board which ship he was present at the dinner given by the Admiral to the King of Sardinia in 1813. On 28 April, 1814, he was promoted, from the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Coureur, captured sloop of war, Capt. Joseph Bazalgette. He was confirmed, on his return to England, by commission dated 6 July, 1814, but has not since been employed.
CANNON. (Capt., 1846. h-p., 21; h-p., lO.)
Edward St. Leger Cannon entered the Navy, 10 Nov. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Northumberland 78, Capt. Jas. Walker,_ and from Dec. 1817, until Jan. 1823, served, chiefly on the Home station, as Midshipman of the Falmouth 20, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, Leven 24, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Robt. Baldey, Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, Wye 26, Capt. Peter Fisher, Bulwark 74, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell, and Ranger sloop, Capt. P. Fisher. He then became Master’s-Mate of the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies, where he was promoted, 1 July, 1823, to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments in that capacity were (after a further servitude of 18 months in the Gloucester) – 28 Nov. 1826, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Geo. Hayes, in the Mediterranean – 8 Dec. 1828, to the Southampton 52, Capts. G. F. Rich and P. Fisher, flag-ship in the East Indies – and, 11 Sept. 1833, as First, to the Vestal 26, Capt. Wm. Jones, employed .on the North America and West India station, whence he returned home, and was paid off towards the close of 1837. He obtained his second promotal commission 28 June, 1838; and, from 22 Sept. 1843, until some time in 1846, had command of the Orestes 18, in the Mediterranean. He acquired his present rank on 9 Nov. in the latter year.
Capt. Cannon married, 30 Oct. 1839, Jane Frances, daughter of the late Dr. Boys, Physician, R.N. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CANNON. (Commander, 1842.)
Frederick Cannon entered the Navy 6 Dec. 1822; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 14 Oct. 1832; and, as Lieutenant, was afterwards appointed – 30 April, 1834, as a Supernumerary, to the President 52, Capts. John M‘Kerlie and Jas. Scott, in North America and the West Indies – 31 Dec. 1834, to the Rainbow 28, Capt. Thos. Bennett, similarly employed – 21 June, 1837, to the Donegal 78, flag-ship on the Lisbon station of Sir John Acworth Ommanney – 6 Nov. 1841, as Additional, to the Queen 110, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Sir Edw. Owen, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean – and, lastly, 8 March, 1842, as First, to the Camperdown 104, flag-ship at Sheerness of Sir Edw. Brace. Since his promotion to his present rank, 3 Nov. 1842, Commander Cannon has been unemployed.
He married, 26 April, 1843, Dorothy, youngest daughter of the late Geo. Lieth, Esq., of Walmer Court, co. Kent. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CANNON. (Commander, 1846.)
James Cannon entered the Navy 25 Oct. 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his commission 4 April, 1832. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were – 30 March, 1833, to the Thunder surveying-vessel, commanded in the West Indies by Capt. Rich. Owen – 9 Nov. 1836, to the Dido 18, Capt. Lewis Davies, on the Mediterranean station – 8 May, 1838, to the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, in which ship he returned to Sheerness – 2 April, 1840, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, employed on the coast of Syria – and 2 Oct. 1841, and 23 March, 1844, to the Queen (of which he was for a long time First-Lieutenant), and, as Acting-Commander, to the Formidable 84, both flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He was promoted to his present rank on the occasion of the latter officer hauling down his flag, 25 April, 1846; and is now on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CAPEL. (Commander, 1831.)
Algernon Henry Champagné Capel, born in 1807, is second son of the late John Thos. Capel,
