8 of the previous March, we find him uninterruptedly employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Leonidas 38,[1] Capts. Anselm John Griffiths, Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Geo. Fras. Seymour, and Wm. King, on the Mediterranean, Irish, West India, and North American stations. His succeeding appointments were – 5 April, 1816, to the Rosario 10, Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake, with whom he served in the Channel until Dec. 1818 – 28 May and 25 June, 1822, to the Jupiter 60, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, and Pandora 18, Capts. Fred. Hunn and Wm. Gordon, in the latter of which vessels he proceeded to Newfoundland – 10 Dec. 1823, to the Tweed 28, Capt Hunn – next, to the Aurora 46, Capt. Henry Prescott – 23 Nov. 1826, after 21 months of half-pay, to the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton – 2 May, 1828, to the Prince Regent 120, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett – and, 11 Nov. following, to the Pallas 42, Capt. Adolphus FitzClarence. Under the latter officer Mr. Kelly was employed in conveying the Earl of Dalhousie and the Bishop of Calcutta from Portsmouth to Bengal, General Viscount Combermere from India home, and Colonel Fox from Halifax. He obtained a second promptal commission 85 April, 1831, and was next employed – from 23 Jan. 1835 until 1838, in the Coast Guard – and from 7 March, 1842, until advanced to his present rank 5 April, 1844, as Second-Captain of the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Hon. Josceline Percy at the Cape of Good Hope. He has since been in command of the Conway 26, on the last-named station. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
KELLY. (Commander, 1811. f-p., 17; h-p., 38.)
William Kelly, born 27 Feb. 1782, is elder brother of Capt. B. M. Kelly, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1792, as Captain’s Servant, on board the St. George 98, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Wm. Hancock Kelly, with whom he continued to serve in the Windsor Castle 98, Solebay 32, and Veteran 64, until Sept. 1706 – the first two years as Midshipman. While in the Solebay we find him assisting at the reduction of the French West India Islands in 1794, where he was employed in the batteries as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Garlies, and to his uncle Capt. Kelly, at the siege of Fort Bourbon, and again on shore, as Aide-de-Camp to Capt. Lewis Robertson, who was killed at the storming of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. In March, 1798, after he had further served in the Royal Sovereign 100, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships of Sir Alan Gardner and Lord St. Vincent, he was nominated, by the latter nobleman, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hector 74, Capt. Peter Aplin, as a reward for his previous conduct at the destruction of a convoy of market-boats, together with their protectors, three gun-vessels, at the entrance of Cadiz Harbour. He was confirmed, 4 July, 1798, into the Incendiary fire-ship, Capts. Geo. Barker and Rich. Dalling Dunn, on the Mediterranean sttition, and during the latter portion of the war was there employed on board La Minerve 42, commanded by the present Sir Geo. Cockburn, at whose express desire he bad been appointed. Besides numerous boat and other affairs he was in consequence present at the capture and destruction, 2 Sept. 1801, of Le Succès of 32, and Le Bravoure of 42 guns; on which occasion, being at the time First-Lieutenant, his Captain reported his conduct in the handsomest manner.[2] His subsequent appointments were – 16 Dec. 1803, to the Montagu 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, stationed in the Channel – 28 Oct. 1804, to the Prince 98, Capts, Rich. Grindll and Wm. Lechmere, of which ship, after participating in the battle of Trafalgar,[3] he became First-Lieutenant – 30 Dec. 1806, and 27 May, 1807, in the latter capacity, to the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Gardner – and, 8 Aug. 1808 and 14 May, 1811, to the Caledonia 120, and Royal George 100, bearing each the flag of Lord Gambier, to whom, subsequently to Lord Cochrane’s memorable achievement in Basque Roads, on which occasion he was intrusted with the command of the Caledonia’s boats, he became Signal-Lieutenant. He attained his present rank on Lord Gambier striking his flag, 23 Aug. 1811; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Kelly is the only officer of his rank on the List of 1811.
KELSALL. (Lieut., 1819. f-p., 10; h-p., 28.)
John Theophilus Kelsall entered the Navy 3 Oct. 1809, as Midshipman, on board the Valiant 74, Capt. John Bligh. Removing in the following May to the Menelaus 38, Capts. Sir Peter Parker and Edw. Dix, he assisted at the proximate reduction of the Isle of France, and afterwards visited the Mediterranean and Chesapeake. He was present on the former station when the Menelaus gallantly pursued the French 40-gun frigate ;; and 16-gun brig Ecureuil under the batteries in the neighbourhood of Toulon, and then affpcted a masterly retreat from the French fleet, which had come out to their protection, 28 May, 1812; and on proceeding to the Chesapeake he was on board when Sir Peter Parker was killed in a land operation at Bellair, near Baltimore, 30 Aug. 1814. Quitting the Menelaus in May, 1815, Mr. Kelsall was next (until promoted to the rank he now holds 2 April, 1819) employed on the East India station, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Cornwallis 74, Capt. Andrew King, and Challenger and Trincomalee, both commanded by Capt. Philip Bridges. He has since, we believe, been on half-pay.
He married, 3 March, 1827, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Stephens.
KEMBALL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
William Henry Kemball entered the Navy, 8 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Northumberland 74, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane on the West India station; where, from June, 1807, until the close of 1810, he served with Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Blonde and Statira frigates, and Neptune 98, assisting, during that period, at the capture of five privateers, carrying in the whole 58 guns and 515 men, as also at the destruction, previously to the fall of Guadeloupe, of the French 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine, together with a heavy battery by which they were defended, in Anse la Barque. He was next, between Dec. 1810 and Jan. 1814, employed in the Channel on board the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sam! Jas. Ballard, and Boyne 88, and Ville de Paris 110, both flag-ships of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He then rejoined Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Tonnant 80, and, continuing with him until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Feb. 1815, bore an active part in consequence in the hostilities with America, and was present in the operations against New Orleans. He has not been afloat since the general peace.
KEMBLE. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 16: h-p., 2.)
Frederick Kemble was born 17 Sept. 1815.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1829, as Midshipman, on board the Ganges 84, Capts. John Hayes, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Geo. Burdett on the Home station. From Feb. 1831 until Nov. 1836 he served in the Mediterranean, latterly as Mate, in the St. Vincent 120, and Caledonia 120 flag-ships of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham and Sir Josias Rowley; after which we find him, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 Nov. 1841, employed on the South American and North America and West India stations, in the Star 46, Commodore
- ↑ The Leonidas effected the capture, 23 May, 1813, of the Paul Jones American privateer, of 16 guns and 85 men.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 1855.
- ↑ At the close of the action Lieut. Kelly was placed in charge, as Prize-Master, of the Santissima Trinidad, of 130 guns, in which he remained two days and nights; when, by order of Lord Collingwood, he removed his men and sank her.
