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BARLOW—BARNARD.
of that vessel, and effecting the destruction of a native town in Cape Bay, Sierra Leone, where 1000 of the enemy were killed and 3000 wounded. Shortly after the latter event, which took place in Dec. 1801, he obtained an order to act as Lieutenant of the Wasp, and, on 25 March, 1802, he was confirmed in that rank by the Admiralty. The Wasp being paid off in the following August, Mr. Barker was next, from 25 May, 1803, to 16 April, 1806, employed on the river Thames, under the orders of Capt. Richbell, in raising seamen for the service. He then, for 10 years, commanded the Enterprize, receiving-ship off the Tower; and, on 12 Feb. 1814, when the late Custom-house was consumed by fire, he proved the great instrument, through his own exertions and those of his ship’s company (as appears by the ‘Times’ newspaper of 17 of that month, and the Wharfingers’ Memorial to the Admiralty of 12 April following), of saving from otherwise inevitable destruction the warehouses belonging to the Crown on Brewer and Galley Quays, &c., and the vast amount of property there deposited. For a few months in 1817, at the request of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, he afterwards held charge of the Batavier, lying at Blaockwall, for the superintendence of foreign seamen. He next, from 4 May, 1818, until 6 July, 1821, commanded the Perseus receiving-ship at Deptford; but was then superseded by Capt. Jas. Couch, with whom however he continued to serve until the following Sept. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Barker married in Nov. 1803, and has issue five children.
BARLOW, C.B., K.S.F. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 13.)
Charles Anstruther Barlow, born 5 Feb. 1800, is second surviving son of Sir Geo. Hilaro Barlow, Bart., G.C.B., Governor of Fort St. George, Madras, and late Governor-General of India, by Elizabeth, daughter of Burton Smith, Esq., of the co. Westmeath; nephew of Admiral Sir Robt. Barlow, G.C.B., the gallant captor of L’Africaine, who died 11 May, 1843; first cousin both of the Dowager Viscountess Torrington and of the Countess Nelson, widow of the first Earl; and a near relative of Rear-Admiral Sam. Butcher.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Nov. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victorious 74, Capt. John Talbot, on the North America station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 10 Dec. 1813. Between Sept. 1814, and March, 1822, he served in succession on the Home and Mediterranean stations, on board the Maeander 42, Capt. John Bastard, Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, under whom he took part in the battle of Algiers, Rochfort 74, Capt. Sir Archibald CoUingwood Dickson, and Revolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood B. R. Pellew, in the boats of which frigate he contributed, as Mate, to the capture of two piratical gun-vessels, off Zante, 18 May, 1821. He obtained a Lieutenancy, 1 July, 1822, in the Despatch 18, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, on the Mediterranean station; and was afterwards appointed – 6 Dec. 1822, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at Chatham of Sir Benj. Hallowell – 20 Feb. 1826, to the Forte 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, on the coast of South America – 25 Feb. 1831, to the St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham in the Mediterranean – 25 Jan. 1834, as Senior, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Henry Shovell Marsham, on the same station – and, 15 Dec. following, to the Royalist 10. The latter vessel he commanded off the north coast of Spain from the siege of Bilboa, in June, 1835, until shortly after the receipt of his second promotal commission, 10 Jan. 1837, and for his exertions during that period was presented, 23 Dec. 1839, with the Order of the First Class of San Fernando. Assuming command, 2 Dec. 1839, of the Nimrod 20, Capt. Barlow sailed for the East Indies, and ultimately enacted a very prominent part in the operations on the coast of China. On 13 March, 1841, we find him obtaining official mention for his voluntary and efficient support of Capt. Thos. Herbert at the capture of several rafts, and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton – next rendering himself conspicuous by his zeal in command of the first division of boats employed at the proximate capture of that city – and, during the hostilities of the ensuing May, heading the second naval battalion, and obtaining the official recommendation of Sir Hugh Gough for the able assistance afforded by him to Capt. Bourchier, who commanded the naval brigade.[1] On the occasion of the final conquest of Canton, Capt. Barlow, whose Post-commission bears date 8 June, 1841, was made the bearer, by Sir Le Fleming Senhouse, of the despatches announcing that event to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Gordon Bremer, also to the Governor-General of India at Calcutta,[2] and thence overland to England. He was made a C.B. on 14 Oct. in the same year, and has since been unemployed. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
BARNARD. (Captain, 1817. f-p., 24; h-p., 26.)
Edward Barnard entered the Navy, 12 May, 1797, as A.B., on board the Sirius 36, Capts. Rich. King and Wm. Prowse, and attained the rating of Midshipman in August following. On 24 Oct. 1798, when off the Texel, he aided in capturing the two Dutch frigates Waakzaamheid of 26, and Furie, of 36 guns, with French troops, arms, and ammunition on board, destined for the use of the disaffected in Ireland – the latter vessel after a running fight of half an hour. He further assisted, on 28 Jan. 1801, in taking the French 36-gun frigate Dédaigneuse off Cape Finisterre, after a chase of two days; and, on the return of hostilities, was very actively engaged on the coast of France. On 9 May, 1805, Mr. Barnard, who had passed his examination in Dec. 1803, rejoined Capt. King, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Achille 74, one of Lord Collingwood’s blockading squadron before Cadiz. At the close of the battle of Trafalgar, in which he had the fortune to participate, we find him taking possession of the French 74-gun ship Berwick, in which he remained until wrecked in the six days’ gale that ensued. His appointment to the Achille being confirmed 7 Jan. 1806, he continued to serve in that ship under Sir Rich. King for an additional period of five years, and was consequently present with Sir Sam. Hood’s squadron at the pursuit and capture, 25 Sept. 1806, of the four French frigates from Rocheforte, besides contributing to the bombardment of Flushing in Aug. 1809, and sharing for 10 months in the arduous boat-service at the defence of Cadiz in 1810. From Feb. 1811, until April, 1812, he was next, under the same Captain, attached to the San Josef 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean and Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton; and on the former assuming, as Rear-Admiral, a command off Toulon, with his flag in the San Josef, became, in April, 1818, his Signal-Lieutenant, in which capacity he bore a part in the attacks on the French fleet of 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814. On the death of Capt. Wm. Stewart, the Flag-Captain, during the San Josef’s passage home in July of the latter year, Lieut. Barnard was invested with the command in his stead, and on his arrival in England was officially promoted 10 Aug. following. His next appointment was, 17 Dec. 1816, to the Bacchus 18, on the East India station, where he was posted by the Commander-in-Chief, his friend Sir Rich. King, into the Conway, of 26 guns, 4 July, 1817. From that period until 20 Jan. 1820, we find him employed in protecting the trade in the Persian Gulf, and in suppressing the slave-traffic in the Isle of France. Capt. Barnard’s subsequent appointments appear to have been – 15 Aug. 1833, to the Ocean 80, flagship of his patron Sir R. King, at Sheerness, where he remained until the death of that gallant officer in Sept. 1834 – 25 Jan. 1839, to the Hercules 74, in
