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DERKIMAN—DERRY—DE SAUSMAREZ—DESPOURRINS—DE STARCK.
DERRIMAN. (Lieutenant,. 1842)
Samuel Hosk Derriman entered the Navy 14 Feb. 1829; passed his examination 1 Sept. 1835; and was, promoted, from a Mateship in the Dublin 60; flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, to the rank he now holds 18 Nov. 1842. He continued to serve in the latter ship, as Additional-Lieutenant, until 28 Dec. 1844; and since that period .has been employed, as First, in the Salamander steam-sloop, Capt. And. Snape Hammond, on the same and Home stations.
DERRY. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 13; h-p. 57.)
John Derry entered the.Navy, 18 Nov 1777, as A.B., on board the Hector 74, Capt. Sir John Hamilton, on the Channel station; became Midshipman, in 1782, of the Repulse 74, Capt. Philip Dumaresq, in the West Indies; served, in 1785-6, off Milford, on board the Viper, Lieut.-Commander John Crymes; was employed, from June, 1789, to Nov. 1790, in the Impregnable 98, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton, and Latona frigate, Capt. Albermarle Bertie, both attached to the fleet in the Channel; and, with the latter officer, successively Joiped, in May, 1792, and Feb. 1794, the Edgar and Thunderer 74’s. For his conduct, as Master’s Mate of the Thunderer, in Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, he was promoted, 22 Aug. following, to a Lieutenancy in the same ship, in which he continued until 19 March, 1795. Between 4 May, 1796, and 17 Oct. 1798, Mr. Derry next served, on the West India and Home stations, in the Adventure, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, Hector 74, Capt. Peter Aplin, Duke 98, Capt. John Holloway, and Expedition armée en flûte, Capts. John Stile’s, Home Riggs Popham, and Sir Thos. Livingstone. His last employment was, as Lieutenant, from 16 June, 1805, to 13 March, 1806, of the Volcano bomb, Capt. Edw. Killwick, stationed in the Downs. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 23 Sept. 1831.
DE SAUSMAREZ. (Commander, 1830)
Durell De Sausmarez entered the Navy 6 April, 1812; and obtained his first commission 10 May, 1824. He was afterwards appointed – 13 Aug. following, to the Britannia 120, as. Flag-Lieutenant to Jas. Sausmarez, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth and, 1 Feb. 1828, and 25 Jan. 1830, to the Alligator and Ariadne frigates, Capts. Chas. Philip Yorke and Geo. Bennie, both employed on Particular Service. He assumed his present rank on 23 July in the latter year; and, from 23 Nov. following until Feb. 1832, when he invalided home from New South Wales, commanded the Zebra sloop. He has since then been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
DE SAUSMAREZ. (Commander, 1845. f-p. 14; h-p., 10.)
Philip De Sausmarez entered the Navy, 18 June, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 78, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, flag-ship of Sir Harry Neale, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, where he continued until May, 1827 – serving intermediately, as Midshipman, in the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Robt. Stuart, and Algerine 10, Capt. Wemyss. In March, 1828, after an interim attachment, at Portsmouth and Plymouth, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, and Britannia 120, flag-ship of the Earl of Northesk, he returned to the former station, on board the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons; and in the following Oct., by the erection of batteries and otherwise, he co-operated with the French in the reduction of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus.[1] Having passed his examination 11 Aug. 1829, Mr. De Sausmarez, who left the Blonde in Sept. 1830, was promoted, 3 Oct, 1831, to a Lieutenancy in the Pelorus 18, Capt. Rich. Meredith, stationed off the coast of Africa. We subsequently find him appointed – 18 June and 13 Sept. 1834, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, and Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, respectively employed on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations – and, 16 Nov. 1841, after an interval of exactly five years’ half-pay, to the Belleisle troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome. Previously to the latter vessel being put out of commission in Sept. 1843, he appears to have been present during the operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1842, and at the pacification of Nanking. Commander De Sausmarez assumed his present rank 25 July, 1845. He has not since been employed.
He married, 30 April, 1840, Jane Maria, only child of the late Lieut.-Colonel F. Barlow, of H.M. 61st, who fell at Salamanca at the head of his regiment. By that lady he has issue.
DESPOURRINS. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 42.)
Peter Despourrins entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1787, as a Servant, on board the Hyaena 20, Capts. Hon, Mich. De Courcy. and John, Aylmer; under the former of whom, we believe, he soon afterwards, as Midshipman, escorted clear of the Channel the first party of convicts ever sent to New South Wales. In July, 1793, he rejoined Capt. De Courcy, as Master’s Mate, in the Pearl 32; on removing from. which ship to the Alfred 74, Capt. Thos. Drury, he assisted at the capture, in the course of 1796, of the island of Ste. Lucie, and of the French frigates La Favorite of 22, and La Renommée of 44 guns. After a continued servitude of 14 months in the West Indies on board the Dictator 64, Capts. Wm. Geo. Rutherford and Thos. Western, and Prince of Wales 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey, he was promoted, 27 Dec. 1797, to a Lieutenancy in the Madras 54. In that ship (with the exception of a few months. In 1801, when he was lent to the Kent 74, Capt. Lord Edw. O’Bryen, off Alexandria) he continued to serve, under Capts. John Dilkes, Chas. Hare, Thos. Briggs, and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, on the Home, East India, and Mediterranean stations, until July, 1807. We subsequently find him employed, from 14 Dec. 1807 to 15 June, 1808, and from 16 April, 1810, to 26 Jan. 1812 as First-Lieutenant of the Bellerophon 74, and of the Amsterdam – the former ship commanded by Capt. Edw. Rotheram in the Channel fleet. Coimnander Despourrins, who has not since been afloat, was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 1 Dec. 1830, and was promoted to the Senior List 1 June, 1841.
DE STARCK. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 49.)
Mauritius Adolphus Newton De Starck is son of the late Chas. Sigismond, Baron De Starck (an officer in the Imperial Austrian army, previous to his settling in England in 1753), by Martha, sister of Admiral the late Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart., and great-aunt of the late Earl Grey.
This officer entered the Navy in June, 1780, as part of the Admiral’s retinue, on board the Barfleur 98, Capt. Benj. Hill, bearing the flag in the Channel of the Hon. Sam. Barrington. In Sept. following he removed, as Midshipman, to the Ambuscade 32, commanded by the late Lord Hugh Seymour, then the Hon. Capt. Conway; with whom, on being transferred to the Latona 38, he served at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782. Between April, 1783, and the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 20 Nov. 1790, we next find Mr. De Starck employed, on the Home, African, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Ganges 74, Capt. Hon. Jas. Luttrell, Grampus and Irresistible, bearing the broad pendants respectively of Commodores Edw. Thompson and Sir Andw. Snape Hamond, Pearl 32, Capt. Hon. Seymour Finch, and Canada 74, Hon. Capt. Conway.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1828, p. 2201.
