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JAGO—JAMES.

nant, from June, 1828, to March, 1831, of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. His present rank was conferred on him 19 July, 1842.



JAGO. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 10; h-p., 30.)

John Sampson Jago entered the Navy, 20 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Indefatigable 44, Capts. John Tremayne Redd, Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, and John Broughton, in which ship, after witnessing Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the French shipping in the Basque Roads, he proceeded with convoy to China. In July, 1812, having returned home, he accompanied Capt. Broughton into the Cornwall 74, commanded subsequently by Sir Edw. Tucker; with whom, and with Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, he served, from March, 1813, until Oct. 1815, on board the Inconstant 36, on the Brazilian and Portsmouth stations. He shortly afterwards joined the Boyne 98, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth; and, on being transferred with that gallant Admiral to the Queen Charlotte 100, he shared as Acting-Lieutenant, and was slightly wounded, in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816.[1] He was in consequence confirmed in his present rank by commission dated on 5 of the ensuing Sept.; but he has not been since employed.



JAMES. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 20; h-p., 15.)

Henry James was born 1 Aug. 1799.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until 1815, latterly as Midshipman. He then successively joined the Berwick and Impregnable, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he was further employed under the orders of Lord Exmouth, inclusive of a short period passed in the Fox and Wolf cutters, until 1818. The next four years were spent by Mr. James again in the Mediterranean, on board the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. In 1822 he proceeded to the Brazils and Pacific in the Tartar 42, Capt. Thos. Brown; and on his return in that frigate to Rio de Janeiro he removed to the flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Geo. Eyre. On his arrival in England in 1826 Mr. James made a trip to Lisbon with Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. In July, 1827, he joined the Victory 104, lying at Portsmouth, whence he soon sailed, in the Fairy sloop, for the West Indies, and was there, it appears, transferred to the Skipjack schooner. On 3 July, 1829, being at the time in the Barham 50, the flag-ship on the latter station of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Harlequin 18. He came home in the course of the same year in the Druid 46; and he was lastly appointed, 7 Oct. 1834, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, and, 7 July, 1835, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Edw. Stanley, both on the East India station. He invalided home in 1838 on board the Zebra sloop. Lieut. James married, 27 Aug. 1833, Mary, daughter of the late Thos. Ridley, Esq., of Chester Square, London, by whom he has issue three children.



JAMES. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 19.)

Horatio James entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jason 32, Capts. Wm. Burgundy Champain and Thos. John Cochrane; under the former of whom he assisted at the capture, 13 Oct. 1805, near Tobago, of the Naïade corvette of 16 guns, 4 swivels, and 170 men. Under Capt. Cochrane he was present as Midshipman off the coast of Surinam at the capture, 27 Jan. 1807, of La Favorite French national ship of 29 guns and 150 men; and in the course of the next Dec. he witnessed the surrender of the Danish West India islands. In the autumn of 1808, shortly after his removal with the same Captain to the Ethalion 38, he further served in an action with the French 40-gun frigate Amphitrite, as he did, in 1809, at the reduction of Martinique and the Saintes. The 19 months which immediately preceded his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, were employed by Mr. James on the Home and Brazilian stations in the Donegal, Marlborough, and Poictiers 74’s, Capts. Pulteney Malcolm, Graham Moore, and John Poo Beresford, and Foudroyant 80, flagship of Hon. Michael De Courcy. His subsequent appointments were – 21 April, 1813, to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 29 March, 1814, as Senior, to the Saracen sloop, Capts. John Harper and Alex. Dixie, in which he proceeded from the Adriatic to the Chesapeake – 22 Aug. 1815, to the Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Harvey in the West Indies – 9 Sept. 1822, to the Eden, Capt. John Lawrence, on particular service – 12 Nov. 1823, to the Surinam 18, Capt. Chas. Crole, again on the West India station – 29 May, 1828, to the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and 22 July, 1830, 15 June, 1831, and 27 Aug. 1834, to the command of the Surly cutter. Viper schooner, and Tartarus steam-vessel. Commander James, who has not been afloat since he was paid off in the early part of 1837, assumed his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He is married and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.



JAMES. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 48; h-p., 19.)

James James was born, 9 Aug. 1760, at Liverpool, and died 13 Nov. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 April, 1779, as Midshipman, on board the Duke 90, Capts. Sir Chas. Douglas, Sir Walter Stirling, and Alan Gardner, in which ship he participated in Rodney’s actions of 9 and 12 April, 1782, and on one of those occasions was severely wounded in the left leg. Between June, 1783, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 16 Nov. 1790, he successively served on the Home station in the Scipio 64, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield, Irresistible, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, Scipio again, Director, Capt. Thos. West, and Courageux 74, Capt. Sir A. Gardner. After an employment of three years on the coast of Ireland in the Medusa, Capt. Jas. Newman Newman, he obtained an appointment, in July, 1794, in the Transport service, and was sent to the West Indies. On 24 May, 1797, as a reward for the conduct he had exhibited in the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis, during the never-to-be-forgotten mutiny, Mr. James was nominated to the command of the Hasty gun-brig. He afterwards, in Feb. 1798, and May, 1803, assumed charge of the Eagle and Matilda prison and hospital ships at Gillingham and Woolwich; and, from 1 Aug. 1804 until the receipt of his second promotal commission, bearing date 1 July, 1828, he commanded the Argonaut hospital-ship at Chatham. The remainder of his life was passed on half-pay.

Commander James married, first, in 1789, Miss Lucy Gifford and secondly, in 1800, Miss Margaret Copp. He has left two children by each marriage.



JAMES. (Lieutenant, 1821, f-p., 22; h-p., 13.)

Thomas James is son of the late John James, Esq., of Truro, Cornwall.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 May, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Barham 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, stationed in the North Sea; and from the following Nov. until the conclusion of the war was employed in the Channel and West Indies, the latter part of the time as Midshipman, in the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. He next served for six years on the African station in the Orontes 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, Podargus 14, Capts. Jas. Wallis, Henry John Rous, and Jas. Cairnes, Racoon 26, Capt. Jas. Wallis, Myrmidon 20, Capt. Henry J. Lake, Tartar 42, Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier and Pheasant 18, Capt. Benedictus Marwood Kelly. In Sept. 1821, after having acted

  1. Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1792.