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CONNOLLY—CONNOR—CONSITT—COODE.
Agincourt 72, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane.
CONNOLLY. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Richard Lock Connolly, born 10 July, 1785, at Portsmouth, is a younger brother of Commander Mat. Connolly, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 Sept. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Theseus 74, Capt. Herbert Browell, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Horatio Nelson; in which we find him sharing, during the month of July, 1797, in the bombardment of Cadiz and the expedition to Teneriffe; as also in the battle of the Nile, 1 Aug. 1798. On next joining the Emerald 36, Capt. Thos. Moutray Waller, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Alexandria; after which he served, until Feb. 1805, in the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder, Hercule 74, Capt. Solomon Ferris, Driver, Leander, and Lapwing, all commanded by Capt. Fras. Wm. Fane, and Hibernia, flag-ship of Lord Gardner, on the West India, Halifax, and Home stations. Being then appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the Tigress gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Nathaniel Greensword, he came frequently into contact with the Boulogne flotilla; and on one occasion was so severely wounded as to elicit a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund. Having been created, 29 Jan. 1807, full Lieutenant of the Electra 18, Capt. Geo. Barne Trollope, on the Mediterranean station, Mr. Connolly next witnessed the evacuation, in Feb. 1808, of the small fortress of Scylla, in Lower Calabria; and, on 25 March following, was wrecked at the entrance of Port Augusta, between Syracuse and Messina. He appears to have been subsequently appointed – 18 Sept. 1811, to the Venerable 74, Capt. Sir Home Riggs Popham, off Cherbourg – 15 Feb. 1813, to the Royal William 84, flag-ship at Spithead of Sir Rich. Bickerton – 27 July, 1813, and 23 Nov. 1814, as First-Lieutenant, to the Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, and Akbar 50, flag-ship off Flushing and Halifax of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Byam Martin and Edw. Grifflth – and, 11 Sept. 1818, to the Ramillies 74, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Campbell. Commander Connolly, who has been on half-pay since 1821, assumed his present rank 21 Feb. 1845.
CONNOLLY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
William Hallett Connolly is brother of Lieut. Mat. Connolly, R.N.
This officer passed his examination 17 Dec. 1839; studied in 1841 at the Royal Naval College; then joined the Formidable 84, Capts. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge and Sir Chas. Sullivan, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, on the Mediterranean station; removed, in 1844, to the Comet steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Pretyman, employed on Home service; and was appointed, towards the close of 1845, to the President 50, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Richard Dacres, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. He was advanced to his present rank 15 Jan. 1846; and still serves at the Cape, on board the Brilliant 22, Capt. Rundle Purges Watson.
CONNOR. (Lieutenant, 1807.)
Ross Connor entered the Navy, about the commencement of the present century, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Arrow sloop, Capts. Wm. Bolton and Rich. Budd Vincent, on the Home station; where, on removing to the Immortality 36, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, he assisted at the bombardment, in 1803, of Dieppe and St. Valery-en-Caux. He then rejoined Capt. Bolton in the Aimable 32; and, while afterwards serving with that officer in the West Indies on board the Fisgard 38, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 23 Feb. 1807. Until placed on half-pay in Nov. 1815, Mr. Connor was next appointed – 19 April, 1808, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. D. Wynter May, 1809, to the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball and Robt. Plampin – 28 July, 1810, to the Foxhound brig, Capt. John Parish – and, 4 Feb. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the Pheasant 16, Capt. Edm. Waller, all employed on home service. He subsequently obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard, 30 June, 1826; was on half-pay from 1831 until 26 Aug. 1834; and then returned to the Coast Guard, in which he has ever since continued, with the exception of a few months in 1840-1, when he held command of the Skylark Revenue vessel.
Lieut. Connor, who is married, is father-in-law of Lieut. Chas. Bamber Warren, R.N., and of Lieut. Phineas Priest, R.M.
CONSITT. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
Thomas Consitt entered the Navy, in Aug. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Defence 74, Capts. Jas. Gambler, Thos. Wells, Wm. Brown, and John Peyton; in which ship we find him bearing a part in Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, 1794, and afterwards, as Master’s Mate, in the battle of the Nile, 1 Aug. 1798. On the latter occasion he was successively placed on board Le Conquérant and Le Franklin two of the captured 74’s; and, on the last-mentioned ship being added to the British Navy as the Canopus, and commissioned by Capt. Bartholomew James, was appointed, 22 Oct. following, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in her. Having been confirmed into the Bonetta 18, Capt. Henry Vansittart, 7 Sept. 1799, Mr. Consitt next joined, in Feb. and May, 1800, the Brilliant and Pomone frigates, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, on the Lisbon and Home stations. He invalided in Jan. 1801; subsequently held an appointment in the Impress service at Sunderland, from 28 April, 1803, until July, 1810; became a Retired Commander on the lower list, 4 Nov. 1830; and was promoted, 16 March, 1844, to the list of 1816.
He is married, and has issue.
COODE. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Henry Coode was born 2 May, 1798.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cornwall 74, Capt. John Broughton; and, until the conclusion of the war, was employed in that ship and, as Midshipman, in the Inconstant 36, Capt. Sir Edw. Tucker, blockading Flushing, the Texel, and Brest, and protecting the trade on the coast of Brazil. He afterwards served, latterly as Admiralty-Mate, on the West India, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the Antelope 50, Capt. Geo. Sayer, Brisk 10, Capt. John Wm. Montagu, Pyramus 42, Capts. Fras. Newcombe and Robt. Gambler, and Spartiate 76, Capt. Fred. Warren. Having passed his examination 2 June, 1819, he was promoted, 26 Aug. 1829, to a Lieutenancy in the Mosquito 10, Capt. Chas. Bentham; and, after a further servitude on board the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, and Nimrod 20, Capt. John Frazer, was placed on half-pay in 1836. Since that period Mr. Coode has been unemployed.
COODE, C.B., K.F.M., K.W.N. (Captain, 1810. f-p., 25; h-p., 29.)
John Coode was born, 11 Feb. 1779, at Penryn, in Cornwall.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 June, 1793, as A.B., on board the Perseus 20, Capt. Geo. Palmer; but, in the following month, became Midshipmap of the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Thos. Pasley; and continued, until Jan. 1795, to serve in that capacity, with Capt. Fras. Pender and the late Sir Geo. Murray, on board the Resource 20, Glory 98, and Resolution 74, on the Home and Halifax stations. For upwards of four years Mr. Coode was next employed, as Acting-Lieutenant, in L’Espérance 18, Capt. Jonas Rose, Rover 18, Capt. Geo. Irwin [errata 1], – under whom he was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Aug. 1798, – Dasher 18, Capt. Geo. Tobin, and St. Albans 64, Capts. Pender and John Okes Hardy. Having been confirmed in the latter
