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CHIENE—CHINNERY—CHIVERS—CHRISTIAN.
Regiment, K.C.T., K.S.F., &c., a distinguished officer in the service of the Queen of Spain. He was created a Baronet in 1840.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Implacable 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and, attaining soon afterwards the rating of Midshipman, continued to serve, with the same officer, in the Alfred 74, Grampus 50, and Marlborough and Sceptre 74’s, at the defence of Cadiz and on the American station, until Aug. 1813. He then joined the Lacedemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and, until the conclusion of the war with the United States, was very arduously employed in blockading the enemy’s ports and rivers, and on one occasion, 5 Oct. 1814, served with the boats and was wounded at the capture of a gun-vessel and four merchantmen.[1] After an attachment of a few months to the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Geo. Scott, lying at Weymouth, and to the Iris 36, receiving-ship in the river Thames, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, Mr. Chichester was promoted, 11 March, 1816, to the rank of Lieutenant. He next, from 29 Oct. 1816, until June, 1820, served on board the Helicon 10, and Harlequin 18, Capts. Alex. Barclay Branch and Chas. Christ. Parker, on the Irish station; but since the latter date has been on half-pay.
Sir J. P. B. Chichester, who was lately M.P. for Barnstaple, married Caroline, daughter of Thos. Thistlethwaite, Esq., of Southwick Park, Hants, by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CHIENE. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 22; h-p., 39.)
John Chiene, born at Crail, co. Fife, is son of a shipmaster and owner, and nephew of Robt. Chiene, Esq., who died Master-Attendant of the Dockyard at Minorca, in 1802.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1786, as Master’s Servant, on board the Powerful 74, Capt. Andw. Sutherland, with whom he served, in the same ship and the Orion 74, on the Home station, until Oct. 1789. Re-embarking, 18 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Diadem 64, also commanded by Capt. Sutherland, he took part in the siege of Toulon, as likewise in the reduction of the towns of St. Fiorenza, Bastia, and Calvi; and on his subsequent transference, as Midshipman, to the Berwick 74, Capt. Adam Littlejohn, he was with that ship taken by the French Mediterranean fleet, after a long running fight, 7 March, 1795. On regaining his liberty Mr. Chiene joined, 9 Oct. 1795, the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robt. Linzee. He removed, next, to the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis; and, on 11 Jan. 1797, was promoted to a Lieutenancy in La Mahonesa 32, Capt. John Giffard. He continued to serve in the Mediterranean, on board the St. George 98, Capt. Holloway, and Santa Teresa 32, Capt. Robt. Campbell, until his return home at the peace; previously to which period he had, as First-Lieutenant of the latter ship, aided at the blockade of Malta, been present in the operations on the coast of Genoa, and obtained the Egyptian medal. From Feb. 1802, until March, 1807 – with the exception of a twelvemonth in 1803-4, when we find him on board the Britannia 100, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, on the Home station – Mr. Chiene appears to have been on half-pay. He was then, however, appointed First-Lieutenant of La Nymphe 38, which he fitted for sea without a Captain, and, subsequently, of the Muros 20, Capt. Arch. Duff, Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman (with whom he attended the expedition to Flushing in Aug. 1809), and Monmouth 64, commanded by the same officer. From April, 1811, until Feb. 1813, he further served, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, on board the Ardent 64, and Hannibal, Christian VII., Venerable, and Bulwark 74’s, chiefly on the Home station. He was promoted, from the First-Lieutenancy of the Princess Caroline 74, Capt. Hugh Downman, to the rank of Commander, 4 Dec. 1813; and has not since been able to procure employment.
CHINNERY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Charles Chinnery entered the Navy, 25 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Devastation, Capt. Alex. Milner, on the Home station, where he continued to serve with the same officer, the last three years as Midshipman of the Swallow 18, until Aug. 1809; previously to which period he assisted at the capture, 15 Nov. 1807, of the French privateer Friedland, of 2 guns and 41 men. He then removed to the Narcissus 32, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, under whom he took the privateer Duguay Trouin, of 14 guns and 75 men, and Aimable Josephine, of 14 guns and 105 men, and appears to have actively co-operated with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. We subsequently find him joining, in Feb. 1811, the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, in the Baltic, and, in Feb. 1813, the Majestic 74, Capt. John Hayes, on the North American station. Since June, 1815, some time antecedent to which date, 7 Feb. 1815, he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Mr. Chinnery has been on half-pay.
CHIVERS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
William Chivers (b) entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1807, as A.B., on board the Goliath 74, Capt. Peter Puget, and in Sept. following assisted, as Acting-Second-Master, at the bombardment of Copenhagen. In Dec. 1808 he joined the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, with whom he served at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809, and, in 1810, at the defence of Cadiz. From May, 1813, until Aug. 1815, we find him successively employed, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations, in the Rivoli 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Edw. Stirling Dickson, Hyacinth 24, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, and Havannah 36, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. He was then placed on half-pay, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 28 Feb. 1815; and has not since been afloat.
CHRISTIAN. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1838. f-p., 21; h-p., 34.)
Hood Hanway Christian, born 23 July, 1784, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, K.B.,[2] by Anne, only daughter of Barnabas Leigh, Esq., of Thorleigh, in the Isle of Wight, and niece of the late Lord Holmes.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1792, as a Volunteer, on board the Colossus 74, commanded by his father, with whom he removed to the Queen Charlotte 100, both on the Home station. After escorting H.R.H. the Princess of Wales to this country in the Princess Augusta royal yacht, Capt. Wm. Browell, he rejoined the former officer, then Rear-Admiral Christian, as Midshipman, on board the Prince George 98, in Oct. 1795; and continuing to serve with him, until Feb. 1797, in the Glory 98, Thunderer 74, and Beaulieu 44, was present, in the Thunderer, at the capture of Ste. Lucie, 25 May, 1796. On his return home he became attached for a few months to the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel; after which he served for some time at the Cape of Good Hope on board La Virginie 44, and Sceptre 74, both flag-ships of Sir H. C. Christian, and Tremendous 74, Capts. Sam. Osborne and Searle. He then joined the Garland 28, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood, and while in that frigate had the misfortune to be wrecked, in pursuit of an enemy’s vessel, off Madagascar, 26 July, 1798. We subse-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1815, p. 454.
- ↑ Sir H. C. Christian was born in 1747. He commanded the Suffolk 74, in Byron’s action with D’Estaing, 6 July 1779; was in the actions with De Guychen of 17 April and 15 and 19 May, 1780; and commanded the naval force employed in co-operation with the army under Sir Ralph Abercromby at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in May 1796. He died Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope in Nov 1798.
