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ALLEN—ALLEYN—ALSTON—AMBROSE—AMHERST.
pedition to the Niger, whence he returned towards the close of 1842. He has since been on half-pay. His Post-commission bears date 31 Jan. 1842.
ALLEN. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 23; h-p., 24.)
William Edward Hughes Allen, born 6 Feb. 1787, is son of William Allen, Esq., Admiral of the Red, who died in Oct. 1804; and grand-nephew of Sir Thos. Allen, also an officer in the Navy. An account of these gentlemen’s services will be found in the 1st and 6th volumes of Charnock’s Biographia Navalis.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College about the year 1800; and embarked, in Oct. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. Robt. Williams, bearing the broad pendant afterwards of Commodore Wm. Domett, on the Irish station. In June, 1804, he became Midshipman of the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, from which ship, after bearing a warm part in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Dec. 1805, to the Audacious 74, Capt. John Larmour. Early in the following year he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Harvey, on board the Tonnant 80, off the coast of Spain, where, during a subsequent attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Confiance 18, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, he saw some good service. Being confirmed, 25 March, 1807, into the Hercule 74, Capt. Hon. John Colville, Lieut. Allen, in the course of the same and of the following years, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen (where he commanded an armed boat in several rencounters with the enemy’s flotilla) and escorted home from Lisbon the surrendered Russian fleet. Proceeding to the East Indies towards the close of 1808, as Lieutenant of the Clorinde 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, he there became Senior, 24 Aug. 1810, of the Cornwallis alias Akbar 44, Capts. Edw. Wallis Hoare, Thos. Gordon Caulfield, Wm. Fisher, and Henry Drury, and was present in that ship at the reduction both of the Mauritius and of the island of Java. He afterwards, when in command of the Akbar’s boats, captured a French schooner, carrying 12 brass six-pounders and 25 men, with two French Colonels on board, charged with despatches from Java. His next appointment, we find, was to the Cygnet 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, in which sloop he served, as First Lieutenant, from 13 Nov. 1812, until wrecked, off the mouth of the Courantine River, 8 March, 1815. He subsequently obtained command, in Oct. 1822, and Dec. 1824, of the Castle Coote and Badger, Revenue-vessels; and, acquiring his present rank 28 Aug. 1828, was employed from 31 March, 1831, until April, 1834, as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has not since held any official appointment.
Commander Allen married, 5 Nov. 1815, Miss Ellen Bernie Kirk, and has issue two sons and three daughters.
ALLEYN. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Richard Israel Alleyn entered the Navy, in Oct. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capts. Henry Nichols and Joseph Ellison, on the Channel station, where, and in the Mediterranean and West Indies, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the Boadicea 38, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Cormorant 24, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Haerlem and Africaine, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, Texel 64, Capt. Rich. Incledon, and Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell. While in the Cormorant, he was wrecked, we believe, off Damietta, on the Egyptian coast, 20 May, 1800. On 23 June, 1802, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Syren frigate, Capt. John Wentworth Loring; and, on the paying off of that vessel, was confirmed, by commission dated 13 Oct. in the same year. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and North America stations, to L’Egyptienne 44, Capts. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Hon. Chas. Paget, Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew, Endymion 40, Capts. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel and Sir Wm. Bolton, Abercromby 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie and Hotspur 36 Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy. In the Endymion and Hotspur Mr. Alleyn served for several years as First Lieutenant; previously to which, on the evening of 8 March, 1806, he had commanded the boats of L’Egyptienne in conjunction with Lieut. Philip Cosby Handfield, at the cutting out, under an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach in the harbour of Muros, in Spain. Having been unemployed since June, 1814, at which period he invalided from the Hotspur, Mr. Alleyn at length accepted the rank he now holds, 20 April, 1835. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
ALSTON. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edward Hughes Alston entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1826; passed his examination 15 Sept. 1835; obtained a commission 28 July, 1841; and from 6 Aug. following until the close of 1842, served in the Mediterranean on board the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard. He next joined, on 11 Dec. 1844, the Hydra steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, stationed off the coast of Africa, where he became First Lieutenant, 2 April, 1845, of the Banger 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson. Since 1846 he has been serving on the same station as Acting-Commander of the Pantaloon.
AMBROSE. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 30; h-p., 21.)
Prosper Ambrose entered the Navy, 15 June, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Meleager .32, Capts. Geo. Cockburn and Chas. Ogle, and after serving for some time in the Centurion 50, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Horatio Nelson, became Midshipman, in 1797, of the Hyæna 24, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle and David Lloyd. After attending (in the Sheerness 44, Capt. John Surman Carden) the expedition to Holland under Sir Andrew Mitchell, he next successively joined the Guillaume Tell 80, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Lords Nelson and St. Vincent, Phoebe and Endymion frigates, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, and Neptune 98, flag-ship in the West Indies of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. He fought, while in the Phoebe, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and was present, in the Endymion, at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807. Being appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1809, of the Port d’Espagne 18, Capts. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and Colin and Donald Campbell, he assisted in that sloop at the proximate reduction of Martinique. His appointment to the Port d’Espagne being confirmed by commission dated 10 Feb. 1810, Mr. Ambrose, who appears to have officiated for some time as her Acting-Captain, subsequently became Lieutenant, in Dec. 1810, Feb. 1812, and Aug. 1813, of the Tweed 18, Capt. Thos. Edw. Symonds, Egmont 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Hope, and Guildford prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Coett – all on the Home station. From 28 Feb. 1814, to 8 June, 1816, he was next employed as an Agent for Transports afloat; after which he served in the Coast Guard for a short time during the year 1822, and was in charge, from 14 May, 1831, to 1 July, 1834, of the Platform Semaphore at Portsmouth. He has been occupied, since 2 Nov. 1840, as Admiralty- Agent in a Contract Mail Steamvessel.
During the late war Lieut Ambrose was also employed in the gun-boat service at Gibraltar.
AMHERST. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 29.)
Jeffery Reid Amherst is son of the late Gen. Amherst.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. With that officer (if we except a brief attachment, towards the conclusion of the war, to the Nereus 32, Inconstant 36, and Albacore 18, Capts. Man-
