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64, Capt. Henry Hill, whom he accompanied to St. Helena; and, in April, 1808, became attached, as Midshipman, to the Tartar 32, Capts. Geo. Edm. Byron Bettesworth and Jos. Baker. On 15 May following he took part in a severe conflict of an hour and a half between the Tartar and a Danish flotilla, off Bergen, on the coast of Norway, in which Capt. Bettesworth was killed; and, under Capt. Baker, after capturing, with many other vessels, the Danish privateer Naargske Gutten of 7 guns and 36 men, and spending much time in protecting the trade through the Belt, he was wrecked on a sand in the Baltic, 18 Aug. 1811. In Sept. 1812, Mr. Carthew next joined the Nymphen 36, Capts. John Hancock and Matthew Smith, in which we find him conveying the Duke of Cumberland from Yarmouth to Gottenborg, in April, 1813 – employed, in November following, in laying down buoys for the safe passage of Admiral Young’s fleet into the Roompot – and contributing, in March, 1814, to the rescue of the Antelope 50, when that ship lay aground under a shower of shot and shells from the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. Early in 1815 he sailed for the East Indies, with the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, in the Cornwallis 74, and he was there confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Volage 22, Capts. Joseph Drury and John Reynolds, 24 Nov. 1815. He returned to England and was paid off in Aug. 1817, and has not since been employed.
CARTWRIGHT. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
John Cartwright passed his examination 25 Sept. 1840, and served, as Mate, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Pacific stations, in the Powerful 84, Capts. Geo. Mansel and Michael Seymour, Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, and Collingwood 80, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour. He obtained his commission 10 March, 1846, and still serves in the last-mentioned ship as Additional Lieutenant.
CARTWRIGHT. (Lieutenant, 1821. f-p.,23; h-p., 11.)
Thomas Cartwright was born 30 April, 1799.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Chatham 74, Capt. Graham Moore, in the North Sea, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 22 Oct. 1813, and continued, under Rear-Admiral Matthew Henry Scott, and Capts. Wm. Lukin and David Lloyd, until Aug. 1814. He then proceeded to North America in the Zealous 74, Capt. Jas. Anderson, and afterwards served with Lord Exmouth in the Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, from which latter ship, after receiving a slight splinter-wound in the head at the bombardment of Algiers, he was paid off in Oct. 1816. In Jan. 1818, Mr. Cartwright became attached to the Sybille 48, flag-ship at Jamaica of Sir Home Popham, in which he passed his examination, 8 Nov. 1819. He next served, as Master’s Mate, with Capt. Jodrell Leigh, in the Bann 20, on the same station; and, on 16 Feb. 1821, was there promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the Ontario 18, commanded, too, by Capt. Leigh. He came home and was paid off in Jan. 1822; and was subsequently employed in the Coast Guard from 31 Oct. 1828, until the close of 1842. He has since been unemployed.
Lieut. Cartwright married, 19 July, 1824, Miss Ann Bazley, and has issue two children.
CARY. (Commander, 1835.)
The Honourable Byron Charles Ferdinand Plantagenet Cary, born 5 Oct. 1808, is youngest son of the eighth Viscount Falkland, and brother of the Hon. P. P. Cary, Capt. R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 10 Aug. 1820; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 13 Dec. 1830; served in the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, on the South American station, from 4 April, 1831, until paid off in 1834; was next appointed, 15 April, 1835, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Geo. Wm. St. John Mildmay, off Lisbon; rose to his present rank 10 Dec. 1835; and afterwards commanded the Bittern 16, for the suppression of the slave-trafiic on the coast of Africa, from 5 May, 1841, until the spring of 1843. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Gary married, 19 Feb. 1844, Selina, daughter of the late Rev. F. Fox, of Foxhall, co. Longford, Ireland. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
CARY. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
Henry Cary died in the early part of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Sept. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Penguin 18, Capt. Bendall Robert Littlehales, on the Irish station; became Midshipman, in 1800, of the Sophie sloop, Capt. Geo. Burdett, whom he accompanied to Newfoundland; and, on removing to the Resistance 36, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, was wrecked, off Cape St. Vincent, 31 May, 1803. He then joined the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, and remained in that ship – participating intermediately in the pursuit of the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar – until Jan. 1806. After a further attachment to the Ocean 98, Capt. Thos. Bowen, and Egyptienne, Revolutionnaire, and Cambrian frigates, commanded, the first and last by the Hon. Chas. Paget, and the second by Capt. Chas. Feilding, on the Home station, Mr. Gary was promoted, 13 July, 1807, to a Lieutenancy in the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, one of the ships employed in the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen, where he served on shore as Major of Brigade, and acquired much credit. His next appointments were, on the West India and Mediterranean stations – 21 Dec. 1807, to the Cherub sloop, Capts. Geo. Ravenshaw, Alex. Nesbitt, and Thos. Tudor Tucker – 7 Feb. and 11 April, 1809, to the Ville de Paris 110, and Ocean 98, both commanded by Capt. John Surman Garden – 22 April, 1809, to the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers – and, 6 April, 1811, again to the Ville de Paris, Capt. Geo. Burlton. On 13 Dec. 1810, he served in the boats of the Kent, with those of a squadron under Capt. Fras. Wm. Fane, at the destruction of a large convoy, protected by two batteries, in the Mole of Falamos, where, out of a body of 600 British officers and men, upwards of 200 were killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Mr. Gary – who afterwards commanded the Kerryhead Signal station at the mouth of the Shannon, from Sept. 1813, to May, 1814 – was lastly appointed, 11 Jan. 1816, First of the Cyrus 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, with whom he served for some time, on the Irish station, as First Lieutenant. He attained the rank of Retired Commander 10 April, 1843.[1]
CARY. (Captain, 1839. f-p., 16; h-p., 11.)
The Honourable Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary , born 8 Sept. 1806, is second son of the eighth Viscount Falkland, Capt. R.N. (who died 2 March, 1809, from the effects of a wound received in a duel), by Miss Christiana Anson, his wife; and brother of the present Viscount Falkland, Lieut.-Gov. of Nova Scotia, as likewise of Commander the Hon. B. C. F. P. Cary, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 10 Aug. 1820; and embarked, in 1822, as Midshipman, on board the Phaeton 46,.Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, employed successively in the West Indies and Mediterranean. In 1824 he proceeded to the East Indies in the Boadicea 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Brisbane, in the boats of which frigate he served during the Burmese war. He afterwards joined, in the Mediterranean, the Warspite 76, Capts. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Wm. Parker, and Wellesley 74, Capt. Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland; and, having passed his examination in 1827, was there promoted,
- ↑ Although not employed by the Admiralty after he left the Cyrus, Commander Cary had charge, from 1820 until 1834, of a hired packet under the Post-Office. He has left a widow, a lunatic, and four daughters, one of them married, hut the others (the Commander having lost all his property in the service) totally unprovided for.
