frigate Amphitrite, employed on shore at the storming of Fort Edward, Martinique, and affording his aid to the capture of the Saintes and the French 74-gun ship L’Haupoult. In June, 1809, he joined the Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Jas. Malony, under whom be took part, in the following year, in the defence of Cadiz. Returning to the West Indies in the Dragon 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was promoted on that station to a Lieutenancy, 6 Feb. 1811, in the Frolic 18, Capt. Thos. Whinyates; in command of the boats of which sloop he succeeded, in the course of the same year, in bringing out a French schooner from off the shoals of Cuba. Lieut. Kirby, who left the Frolic in March, 1812, was subsequently appointed – 2 Nov. in that year, to the Satellite 18, Capt. John Porteous, in South America – 9 Feb. 1814, after nine months of half-pay, to the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, attached to the force in the West Indies, whence he returned in the ensuing Nov. – 28 July, 1815, for a few weeks, to the Rota 38, Capt. John Pasco, on the Home station – 10 June and 12 Aug. 1825, to the Gloucester and Windsor Castle 74’s, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Edw. Durnford King, employed at Sheerness, at Plymouth, and off Lisbon – and (the latter ship having been paid off in May, 1828), 22 Jan. 1829, as First, to the Warspite 76, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Baker in South America, He attained his present rank 22 July, 1830; and has since been on half-pay. In Jan. 1828, being at the time in the Windsor Castle, Commander Kirby elicited the approbation of the Lord High Admiral for the manner in which, on 12 of that month, he effected the preservation of the Union 104, when adrift and on shore during a violent storm. On 13 Jan. 1835 he was nominated a K.H. He married, 24 Dec. 1814, Hannah, daughter of Jas. Smith, Esq., of Langford, co. Essex, by whom he has had issue two sons and two daughters. His second son, Sidney, died, while a Gentleman Cadet, at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
KIRKES. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Martin Stockdale Kirkes died 9 Feb. 1845, at Glasgow, aged 31.
This officer entered the Navy 17 April, 1829; passed his examination in 1835; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, as a reward for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, 4 Nov. 1840. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
KIRKWOOD. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
Charles Kirkwood entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capts. Geo. Henry Towry and Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett; in which ship, and in the Fame 74, commanded at first by Capt. Bennett, and afterwards by Capts. Hornby and Ferris, he continued to serve, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Aug. 1810. He was then employed for several months in the gun-boat service at the defence of Cadiz and Tarifa; and, on 8 Sept. 1811, having joined the Hotspur 36, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, he was present in an attack made by that officer on seven of the enemy’s gun-brigs off Calvados, on which occasion the Hotspur took the ground, lay exposed for four hours to a heavy fire from the vessels, a battery, and some field-pieces, and sustained a loss of 5 men killed and 22 wounded. He has been on half-pay since Nov. 1815, when the Hotspur was put out of commission. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
KISBEE. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Thomas Kisbee entered the Navy 22 June, 1808; passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 27 March, 1826; and on 7 of the following July was appointed to the Coast Guard, in which service he was employed for a period of 15 years. Being nominated, 7 Sept. 1841, First-Lieutenant of the Driver steam-sloop, of 280 horse-power, Capts. Sam. Fielding Harmer and Courtenay Osborn Hayes, he continued so to officiate on the East India station until the early part of 1847, when he returned home and was paid off. He is now unemployed.
KITCHEN. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Henry Kitchen entered the Navy 17 Sept. 1807; passed his examination in 1814; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825; and was for some time employed in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. Since he left that service he has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
KITCHEN. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 31; h-p., 17.)
William Hewgill Kitchen was born in June, 1787.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monarch 74, Capt. Jas. Robt. Mosse, and, on 2 April, 1801, after having served for some time in the North Sea, under the flag of Sir Arch. Dickson, was present in the action off Copenhagen. During the remainder of the war we find him employed with Sir Hyde Parker, as Midshipman, in the London 98. Joining next, in Sept. 1802, the Argo 44, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, he commanded a tender belonging to that ship at the reduction of Ste. Lucie and Tobago in 1803. On becoming Master’s Mate of the Speedy sloop, Capt. Jas. Gifford, he received, in 1804, a contusion of the right knee while firing at the enemy’s flotilla off Ostend; and in 1805, being at the time in command of a rocket-boat under Sir Sidney Smith off Boulogne, he was severely burnt in both hands. Prior to the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 12 May, 1808, he was for nearly two years employed, chiefly as Sub and Acting Lieutenant, in the Dauntless 20, Capts. Hugh Pigot and Chas. Jones, Sparkler 12, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Sam. Akid Dennis, Alligator, Capt. Hugh Pigot, Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, Dominica 16 (commanded at first by Lieut. Wm. Dean, and then by himself), and Melville 18, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King. While Sub-Lieutenant of the Dominica, Mr. Kitchen, with her gig and cutter under his orders, captured, on 4 Oct. 1806, the French national schooner La Chiffonne, carrying 17 men, and having on board a French General and his suite on their passage from Guadeloupe to Martinique. On another occasion, during his attachment to the same vessel, he was shghtly wounded in the leg at the cutting-out of four of the enemy’s vessels from under a battery on the former island. When in the Melville, Mr. Kitchen assisted at the reduction of the Danish West India islands in Dec. 1807. Between the date of his promotion, as above, and Jan. 1813, we find him serving, on the West India, Home, and Lisbon stations, in the Wolverene, Asp, and Beagle sloops, Capts. Fras. Augustus Collier, Robt. Preston, Wm. M‘Culloch, and Wm. Brooking Dolling, Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, and Zenobia 16, Capt. R. Mackenzie. As Senior of the Asp, he served, in 1809-10, at the taking of Martinique, the capture of the French frigate La Junon, and in the boats at the destruction of the forts and magazines of Port St. Louis, Guadeloupe. Under Capt. Dolling of the Beagle he was employed in the dangerous service of landing papers on the French coast. His appointments, after leaving the Zenobia, were, in the capacity of First-Lieutenant – 8 Oct. 1813, to the Tyrian 10, Capts. Augustus Baldwin and Wm. Popham, with whom he was for five years employed in the Channel and West Indies – 16 Jan. 1819, to the Wye 26, Capts. Geo. Wickens Willes and Peter Fisher, on the Home station – 11 Nov. 1820, to the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, fitting for the West Indies, whence he invalided in 1822 – and, 13 April, 1824, to the Terror bomb, Capt. Alex. Dundas Young Arbuthnott, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition against Algiers. On 13 April, 1825, he assumed command of the
