98 – and for two years and a half with Earl St. Vincent in the Ville de Paris 110. In Jan. 1801 he was appointed by the latter nobleman Acting-Captain of the Princess Royal, and also of the Cumberland 74, from which ship, on his arrival in the following April at Jamaica, whither he had gone in quest of a French squadron under Admiral Ganteaume, he was removed by Lord Hugh Seymour to the command of the Lark sloop – an appointment which the Admiralty, we believe, ratified on 7 May. He was confirmed a Post-Captain, 23 Oct. 1801, in the Carnatic 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Montagu, with whom he soon removed to the Sans Pareil 80. In March, 1802, previously to the departure of the latter officer from Port Royal, he presented Capt. Katon with a sword, as a token of his regard and approbation. In the same spirit Lord St. Vincent, in the preceding year, had awarded him a medal. He returned to England in June, 1803, as Captain of the Trent frigate; and afterwards held the temporary command, from 13 Jan. 1809 to 4 May, 1810, of the Mars 74, and, from 16 April to 9 Sept. 1811, of the Niobe 40. While in the former ship he received the thanks of the Admiralty for his protection of the Baltic trade; and when in the Niobe he visited the coasts of Spitzbergen and Greenland, for the purpose of affording security to the British fisheries. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 22 July, 1830; was transferred to the Active List 17 Aug. 1840; and rose to the rank of Vice- Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.
He married, 28 Feb. 1804, Adeliza Arabella, second daughter of Geo. Moubray, Esq., of Cockairney, co. Fife, sister of Capt. Geo. Moubray, R.N., and cousin of the late Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Hussey, K.C.B., by whom he has left issue a son, the present Commander J. E. Katon, R.N., and five daughters.
KATON. (Commander, 1845. h-p., 21; h-p., 3.)
James Edward Katon, born 18 Nov. 1810, is only son of the late Vice-Admiral Jas. Katon.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Nov. 1823; and embarked, 25 Sept. 1825, as Midshipman, on board the Pyramus 42, Capts. Robt. Gambier and Geo. Rose Sartorius. In that ship, after accompanying Mr. Morier, the British Commissioner, to Mexico, and serving for some time under the flag of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy on the Home station, he was employed in conveying troops to Malta, Gibraltar, and also to Lisbon, where we find him present at the period of Don Miguel’s first occupation of the throne. Joining next, in 1828, the Pallas 42, Capts. Chas. Howe Fremantle, Adolphus FitzClarence, Manley Hall Dixon, and Wm. Walpole, he continued attached to her on various stations until June 1834 – the last four years in the capacity of Mate. He accordingly assisted, under Capt. FitzClarence, in escorting Lord Dalhousie and the Bishop of Calcutta from Portsmouth to Bengal, General Viscount Combermere from India home, and Colonel Fox from Halifax. After a further servitude of nearly two years and a half in the Ocean 80, and Howe 120, flag-ships of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming at Sheerness (where he had command for some time of a dockyard lighter), he was presented with a commission dated 15 Feb. 1837. His succeeding appointments were – 4 April, 1837, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, in the Mediterranean – 11 May, 1839, to the Britannia 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Hon. C. E. Fleeming at Portsmouth – 1 Feb. 1840, to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, under whom he participated in the operations on the coast of Syria, and was present at the blockade of Alexandria – and, 20 Aug. 1841, to the Illustrious 72, bearing the flag in North America and the West Indies of Sir Chas. Adam, to whom he became Signal-Lieutenant 17 June, 1842. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on being paid off, 31 May, 1845, and has not been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
KAY, F.R.S. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
Joseph Henry Kay entered the Navy 18 Dec. 1827; passed his examination in 1834; obtained his commission 6 Aprils 1839; and, from 15 of the following May until his return to England in 1843, was employed on an explorative mission to the Antarctic regions in the Terror, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, part of an expedition conducted under the orders of the present Sir Jas. Clark Ross.
Lieut. Kay, a Fellow of the Royal Society, is now Director of H.M. Magnetic Observatory at Hobart Town. He married, 6 Nov. 1845, Maria, daughter of Geo. Meredith, Esq., of Cambria, Great Swan Port.
KEANE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 19; h-p., 22.)
Edward Keane entered the Navy, 11 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds; and on removing, in 1807, to the Leyden 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen. While next attached, between Nov. in the latter year and Oct. 1810, to the Amelia 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Paul Irby, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and was much employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. In Nov. 1813, after he had served for three years, on the Lisbon, Home, and American stations, in the Poictiers 74, Capt. Sir John Poo Beresford, and had aided in the capture of several of the enemy’s vessels, among which were the Wasp, of 20 guns, and the late British brig-of-war Frolic, Mr. Keane became Acting-Lieutenant of the Diomede troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Montague Fabian, whom he followed, in a similar capacity, in Aug. 1814, into the Orpheus 36. He left the latter vessel in the ensuing Nov., and in May, 1815, joined, again as Midshipman, the Chatham 74, Capt. Edw. Lloyd, on the Channel station, where he cruized for a period of three months. He then took up a commission bearing date 7 March, 1815. His appointments have since been – 4 Jan. 1837, to the Coast Guard – 5 Dec. 1839, 30 March, 1840, and 5 Feb. 1842, to the command of the Diligence Revenue-vessel, and Prospero and Merlin steam-packets – and (on leaving the latter), 6 Feb. 1847, as Additional-Lieutenant; to the Redwing, another packet, in which he is now serving at Liverpool, under the orders of Capt. Thos. Bevis.
He married, in 1834, Sarah, eldest daughter of John Peake, Esq., then Master-Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, by whom he has issue.
KEANE. (Commander, 1846.)
The Honourable George Disney Keane, born 26 Sept. 1817, is third son of Lieut.-General Lord Keane, G.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel of the 43rd Regt., and late Commander-in-Chief in India (who was raised to the Peerage in 1839, as a reward for the brilliant expedition he had conducted against Affghanistan, and died in 1844), by his first wife, Grace, second daughter of Lieut.-General Sir John Smith, R.A. His eldest brother, the present Peer, is a Major in the Army, and Captain in the 37th Regt.; his second, also an officer in the Army; and his third, a Lieutenant R.E.
This officer entered the Navy 8 Oct. 1831; passed his examination in 1837; obtained his first commission 26 Dec. 1840; then joined the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings: was next, from 25 Aug. 1841 until the close of 1843, employed in the Mediterranean, on board the Formidable 84, Capts. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge and Sir Chas. Sullivan; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, after having served for exactly 11 months in the Channel, as First-Lieutenant of the Scourge steam-sloop, Capt. Jas. Crawford Caffin, was advanced to the rank of Commander. He is at present on half-pay.
