Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer from Oct. 1810 to June, 1816, in the Narcissus 32, Fortunée 36, Pactolus 38, and Severn 40. Participating, in the Pactolus, in the operations on the coast of America, he there commanded a boat at the capture and destruction of many vessels, and assisted at the bombardment of Stonington. In the summer of 1815, being still in the same ship, he accompanied a most successful expedition sent up the Gironde in support of the French king. In Nov. 1818 Mr. Lory, who had passed his examination in the summer of 1815, rejoined the Severn, then commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch as a Coast Blockade ship; on the books of which, it appears, his name was borne as Admiralty-Midshipman, Admiralty-Mate, and Lieutenant (commission dated 14 Nov. 1821), until Oct. 1822. His commission was given him as a reward for his conduct, on 10 Nov. 1821, in an affray on shore with a large body of armed smugglers, from whom he took a boat and part of her cargo, killing and wounding at the same time several of their number. On the occasion, however, it was his lot to be himself severely hurt by a ball through the right thigh, and a painful contusion in the left breast, the effects of which still continue. During a three-years’ command of the Stork Revenue-vessel, to which he was appointed 11 July, 1831, Lieut. Lory, at the time of the Dutch embargo, although he had only 2 guns and 25 men on board, detained on her passage from the East Indies the Dutch ship Prince of Orange of 1200 tons, armed with 12 guns and 48 men, which he conducted from off Beachy Head to Portsmouth. In Feb. 1833 he captured the Sarah of London, a smuggling smack that had been for years successfully engaged in bringing over contraband goods to the coasts of Kent and Sussex. The manner in which the latter exploit was achieved afforded the Inspecting-Commander of the district to which Lieut. Lory was attached an opportunity of reporting him to the Comptroller-General as “one of the most zealous and best officers in His Majesty’s service.” He subsequently, from 3 May, 1837, until Feb. 1842, had charge of the Delight Falmouth packet; as, since 9 Jan. 1847, he has had of the Swift, a similar description of vessel.
We understand that before he joined the Stork Lieut. Lory had for four years and a half been in command of a station in the Coast Guard. He married, 3 Sept. 1823, Miss Pearce, a lady belonging to the same place as himself, by whom he has had a family of 15 children, seven of whom are still living.
LOUDON. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 23.)
William Loudon entered the Navy, 25 June, 1804, as a Volunteer, on board the Adamant 50, Capt. Geo. Burlton, stationed off Boulogne; where, and in the Baltic, he served, from the following Sept. until July, 1809, chiefly as Second-Master, in the Wrangler, Lieut.-Commanders Chas. Burlton and John Bentinck Pettet. After discharging for twelve months the duties of Master’s Mate in the Téméraire 98, Capts. Clay and Chamberlayne, he was successively appointed Acting-Lieutenant, in July, 1810, and Feb. and April, 1811, of the Hound bomb, Capt. John Williams, and Bulwark 74, and Standard 64, each commanded by Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. During his attachment to those ships he co-operated in the defence of Cadiz and made a voyage to Lima. He was confirmed in his present rank 18 Aug. 1812; and was lastly, from July, 1813, to Oct. 1814, and from Jan. to July, 1815, employed in the Vengeur 74, commanded off Brest by Capts. Thos. Dundas and Tristram Robt. Ricketts, and Elizabeth 74, flag-ship at Gibraltar of Hon. C. E. Fleeming.
LOUIS, Bart. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1838. f-p., 30; h-p., 22.)
Sir John Louis is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. Louis, Bart., K.F.M.,[1] by Jacquetta, daughter of Sam. Belfield, Esq.; and brother of the present Lieut.-Colonel Matthew Louis, R.A., and the late Commander Chas. Belfield Louis, R.N. (1819), who died in Dec. 1834, at Chelston, near Torquay. His nephew, Belfield Woolcombe, is a Lieutenant in the R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, commanded by his father in the Channel; and, from Feb. 1797 until Aug. 1800, served as Midshipman in the Indefatigable 46 and Impétueux 74, each under the orders of Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, whom, in June of the latter year, he accompanied in an expedition to Quiberon. After an attachment of a few months to the Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane, and Cambrian 40, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, he again, in Feb. 1801, joined the Minotaur, of which ship, still commanded by his father, he was created a Lieutenant 21 April, 1801. While in her Mr. Louis was employed in the expedition to Egypt. Being next, in 1802, appointed to the Naiad 38, Capt. Jas. Wallis, he took command, jointly with Lieut. Wm. Dean, of the boats of that frigate, and on the evening of 4 July, 1803, assisted in cutting out the French national schooner La Providence, of 2 guns and 22 men, laden with timber and cannon, and lying near Brest – a service which was effected without casualty, notwithstanding a great rapidity of tide and the difficulties offered by a number of rocks and shoals with which the enemy’s vessel was surrounded. On 14 Dec. 1804, 12 months after he had joined the Royal George 100, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Rich. Bickerton, Mr. Louis was there promoted to the acting-command of the Childers sloop. He was confirmed a Commander 28 Feb. 1805; and on 22 Jan. 1806, several months subsequent to his removal to the Bittern, he was promoted to Post-rank. His succeeding appointments, it appears, were – 1 Aug. 1810, to the Druid frigate, employed off the coast of Ireland and the port of Cadiz – in April, 1811, to L’Aigle 36, stationed in the Mediterranean and West Indies – 26 Aug. 1815, to the Scamander 36, lying at Sheerness – 19 Feb. 1816, to the Forth 40, fitting for the North American station, whence he returned home and was paid off in July, 1819 – and, 30 Aug. 1826, to the Barham 50, in which ship (put out of commission 12 Aug. 1830) he served in the West Indies as Flag-Captain to Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. During his command of L’Aigle Sir John Louis earned a very high character, and was in particular mentioned for the manner in which he placed his ship, and the precision of her fire, on the occasion of the capture and destruction of a French convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, 11 April, 1814. On 6 Jan. 1838 he was appointed Superintendent, with the rank of Commodore, of Malta dockyard, where he continued during the usual period of five years. Since 16 Dec. 1846 (he had acquired Flag-rank 28 June, 1838) he has been in discharge of the duties of Admiral-Superintendent at Plymouth.
During the reign of William IV. Sir John Louis was one of His Majesty’s Naval Aides-de-Camp. He married, 15 Oct. 1807, the eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Kirkpatrick, 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry, by whom he has a son, William, a Captain in the R.N.; and a daughter, Clementina, married to Capt. Robt. Spencer Robinson, R.N. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
- ↑ Sir Thos. Louis entered the Navy in 1770; was Lieutenant of the Bienfaisant in Keppel’s action with the Comte d’Orvilliers In 1778; and in 1780 fought in the same ship in the action with Don Juan de Langara, of whose flag- ship he was constituted Prize-Master. Obtaining Post-rank in 1783, and the command, subsequently, of the Minotaur 74, it was his fortune to be present in that ship at the battle of the Nile 1 Aug. 1798. In 1804 he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral; and in April, 1806, as a reward for his conduct under Sir John Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo, he was raised to the dignity of a Baronet. In Feb. 1807 Sir Thomas Louis was the companion of the latter officer in the passage of the Dardanells. He died 17 May following on board the Canopus 80, while in command of the naval portion of the Egyptian expedition.
