Anne, eldest daughter of Thos. Boothby, first Lord Radcliffe. One of his brothers, Richard, the eldest, is a Captain in the Army; another, George, a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery; a third, Augustus, a Lieutenant in the 71st Infantry; a fifth, Charles, also in the Army; and, a sixth, Vere Henry, in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Jan. 1827; passed his examination in 1832; obtained his first commission 18 Oct. 1839; and was afterwards appointed – 24 Oct. 1839, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Melville 72, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Elliot in the East Indies – 12 Feb. 1840, to the Wolverene 16, Capt. Wm. Tucker, on the coast of Africa – 25 Aug. following, to the command of the Buzzard brigantine, on the same station, whence he returned in 1842 – 17 Jan. 1844, as Senior, to the Volage 26, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, employed on particular service – and 7 Feb. 1845, to the command of the Dolphin brigantine, of 3 guns, on the south-east coast of America. On 20 Nov. in the latter year we find him present in the battle of the Parana, where a hard day’s fighting terminated in the destruction, by the combined squadrons of England and France, of four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, as also of a schooner-of-war mounting 6 guns, and of 24 vessels chained across the river. The little Dolphin on that day occupied a berth better suited to a frigate, and was so much exposed that the Commodore, the present Sir Chas. Hotham, declared in his public despatch that he sometimes trembled when he beheld the shower of shot, shell, grape, and rockets flying over her. The gallantry of Mr. Levinge was in consequence rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 18 Nov. 1845.[1] He has since been on half-pay.
LEWIN. (Lieutenant, 1830.)
Elisha Lewin entered the Navy 19 April, 1807; passed his examination in 1815; and obtained his commission 22 July, 1830. He has since been on half-pay.
LEWIN, Kt. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 28.)
Sir Gregory Allnutt Lewin died 12 Oct. 1845, at Exeter, aged 51. He was son of Rich. Lewin, Esq., of Eltham, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 March, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, with whom, on the latter hoisting his flag, he removed, in Aug. 1811, to the Malta 80, and continued to serve, as Midshipman and as an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 7 Sept. and 23 Dec. 1814), until Feb. 1815. In the former of those ships, after having served in the North Sea, he united, in Oct. 1809, in the chase which preceded the self-destruction, near the mouth of the Rhone, of the French ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion; and on becoming attached to the Malta we find him co-operating with the patriots on the east coast of Spain, where he assisted at the siege of Tarragona, and at the capture of the fort of St. Philippe, in the Col de Balaguer. On his return to England in 1815, Mr. Lewin attended as a witness the court-martial assembled at Winchester to try Sir John Murray for the failure of the attack upon Tarragona. He was lastly, from April in the same year until paid off in March, 1818, employed in the Royal Sovereign 100, and Tonnant 80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Benj. Hallowell, during that period Commander-in-Chief at Cork.
Sir G. A. Lewin, who was knighted while in the Tonnant by the Viceroy of Ireland, Earl Talbot, on the occasion of that nobleman visiting the naval establishment at Cork, afterwards went to the bar, and became a Queen’s Counsel. He married, in 1824, Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of Wm. Buller, Esq., of Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, and has left issue two sons and three daughters. Agent – F. Dufaur.
LEWIS. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Benjamin Lewis entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1806, as A.B., on board the Meleager 36, Capts. John Broughton and Fred. Warren, employed at first in the North Sea and off Greenland, and then on the Jamaica station, where he was wrecked, while holding the rating of Master’s Mate, 30 July, 1808. After serving for nearly five years as Midshipman, in the West Indies and at Newfoundland, of the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, Hyperion 36, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, and Antelope 50, and Bellerophon 74, bearing the flags of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, he was nominated, 7 June, 1813, Acting-Lieutenant of the Muros 12, Capts. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, H. E. Gordon, Fras. Wemyss, and Geo. Gosling, to which vessel (being confirmed to her 19 July following) he continued attached on the South American and Leeward Island stations until Dec. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.
LEWIS. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 29; h-p., 29.)
Francis James Lewis is son of the late Lieut.-General Lewis.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1789, as Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the Andromeda frigate, Capt. Salusbury, on the books of which ship he was borne until 17B0. Becoming Midshipman, in 1793, of the Hector 74, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, Geo. Montagu, he took part in the unsuccessful attack made, in June of that year, on the island of Martinique. In July, 1794, we find him joining the London 98, bearing the flag of the late Sir John Colpoys, under whom he was still serving at the period of the Spithead mutiny. After an attachment to various other ships, he was nominated, in April, 1804, Acting-Lieutenant of the Wasp 18, Capts. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer and John Simpson; on board which vessel it was his fortune to be present in Aug. 1805, when she effected a most gallant escape from the celebrated Rochefort squadron, compelling, on the occasion, by the excellent fire of the only six guns her perilous position had not compelled her to throw overboard, a large frigate and brig, who for 40 minutes had been engaging her on each quarter, to give up the pursuit. He was confirmed a Lieutenant on 11 of the ensuing month; and between that period and May, 1814, he was in succession employed, on the Home, East India, and North American stations, in the Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Admiral Douglas, Mars 74, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Wm. Lukin, Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, Décade frigate, Capt. Stuart, Pallas 32, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and Hon. Geo. Cadogan, Argus sloop, Capts. Stuart and Bott, Malacca 36, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and Sam. Leslie, Modeste 36, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford, and Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash. While in the Mars, he contributed to the capture, 28 July, 1806, of Le Rhin, of 44 guns and 318 men, and was with Sir Sam. Hood’s squadron on 25 Sept. in the same year at the taking, off Rochefort, of four heavy French frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46, and Infatigable 44, struck to the Mars. During his servitude in the Pallas he witnessed Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and co-operated in the siege of Flushing. In Aug. 1814 he obtained an appointment to the Albion 74, flag-ship in the Chesapeake of the present Sir Geo. Cockburn; upon being appointed Signal-Lieutenant to whom in the Northumberland 74, we find him escorting Napoleon Buonaparte to St. Helena; where, from March to Aug. 1816, he held the acting-command of the Julia 14. He next, in Nov. 1819, joined the Vigo 74, flag-ship on the Leith and St. Helena stations of Rear-Admirals Robt. Waller Otway and Robt. Lambert, with whom he continued until advanced to the rank of Commander 29 Jan. 1821. His last appointment was, 12 May, 1827, to the Ocean 80, Capt. Patrick Campbell, then stationed as a guard-ship at Plymouth, but afterwards employed in withdrawing the
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 815, 817, 861.
