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during the disastrous retreat of the British from that place – when the boat in which he was serving grounded under a murderous fire from the shore, sustained, without any means of resistance, a loss of 30 men killed and wounded, and was only eventually got under way by the three survivors swimming and towing her off – received a musket-ball in his thigh, which, we believe, has never been extracted. For his services on the coast of Catalonia, where he was further present at the defence of Tarrargona, Mr. Baynton again obtained the open thanks of General O’Donnell, also a gold medal, struck for the affairs at Bagur and Falamos, and a sword valued at 50l. Being next appointed, 23 Jan. 1812, to the North Star 20, Capt. Thos. Coe, he served in that vessel, on the Channel and West India stations, the last twelve months as Senior Lieutenant, until Nov. 1815; during the early part of which year he landed with a party of seamen and marines on the island of Cuba, in pursuit of the crew of an American letter-of-marque, three of whom were taken prisoners, and the vessel ultimately captured. He was afterwards employed, for two years and a half, part of the time as First Lieutenant, in the Shark, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, Sabine and Tay, Capts. Alex. Campbell and Sam. Roberts, and Salisbury 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Douglas, all on the Jamaica station, where he commanded for some time the Speedwell tender. From 1 May, 1818, until 3 Dec. 1839, with the exception of an interval in 1827, when, as Agent for Transports afloat, he attended the expedition to Portugal, he appears to have been on half-pay. He then, until promoted to his present rank, 23 Nov. 1841, commanded the Semaphore station at Cobham, co. Surrey. He has since been unemployed.
Commander Baynton, in 1844, was admitted a student at the Royal Naval College. He married, 18 Jan. 1821, Miss Ann Ogilvie, of London, and by that lady has issue six children. Agent – J. Hinxman.
BAZALGETTE. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 17; h-p., 34.)
Joseph William Bazalgette was born about the year 1783.
This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impétueux 74, Capts. John Willet Payne, Sampson Edwards, and Sir Edw. Pellew, attached to the fleet in the Channel. From 1799 until 1805 he served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly in the East Indies, in the Terpsichore 32, Capt. John Mackellar, Eurydice 28, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, Phaeton 38, Capt. Geo. Cockbum, and Trident 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier. On 15 Oct. 1805, Mr. Bazalgette became Sub-Lieutenant of the Aggressor 12, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Watson, employed in the Channel; and on 12 June, 1806, was promoted to be full Lieutenant of the Resistance 38, Capt. Chas. Adam, whom he accompanied to the West Indies. While subsequently cruizing off Bilbao, on the north coast of Spain, he was detached, 27 Feb. 1809, in command of a single boat, in pursuit of a French man-of-war schooner, La Mouche, which he gallantly boarded and captured, after an action in which her commander, a Lieutenant-de-Vaisseau, was killed. A night or two afterwards he was again successfully engaged in the boats in cutting out from under the batteries, in a neighbouring port three armed luggers, laden with stores and provisions for the French army in Spain; and while in the act of boarding one of the vessels, was severely wounded by a musket-ball in the left thigh, which placed him for some months under surgical treatment, and eventually rendered him lame for life. On being sufficiently recovered, Lieut. Bazalgette was appointed, 20 Feb. 1810, First of the Leonidas 38, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, and, until superseded, 21 Sept. following, saw much active service in the Adriatic, where, on different occasions, in command of the boats, he succeeded in capturing and destroying, together with the vessels anchored under their protection, the Towers of Badisco, Trecase, and Emiliano, on the coast of Italy, each mounted with cannon; and for his exertions received the thanks of the senior officer, Capt. Geo. Eyre. He next served for nearly two years on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, also on the Mediterranean station; and in 1813-14, having joined the America 74, Capt. Sir Josias Rowley, participated in the attacks on Leghorn and Spezia, as also on Genoa, where he commanded a division of boats belonging to the squadron, and where for his conduct, both at the capture, and in the after direction of the enemy’s batteries, the guns and mortars of which were effectively employed against the city, he obtained the high commendations of his Captain, and was rewarded, the day after the surrender, in being promoted by Sir Edw. Pellew to the command of the Coureur, a captured sloop-of-war.[1] He was confirmed on his return to England, by commission dated 17 May in the same year; and since the ensuing month of July, when he paid the Coureur off, he has been unemployed.
Commander Bazalgette, in consideration of the wound above alluded to, was presented by the Patriotic Fund with a gratuity of 50l., and awarded by Government a pension of 150l. He has, for upwards of twenty years, gratuitously devoted his time to the moral and spiritual advancement of his brother seamen, especially in the formation and direction of the “Naval and Military Bible Society,” the " Sailor’s Home and Asylum,” the “Seaman’s Floating Church,” and the “Royal Naval Female School.” Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
BEADON. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 12; h-p., 10.)
George Beadon, born 25 Feb. 1810, is the third son of Wm. Beadon, Esq.,[2] of Gotten House, co. Somerset, in the commission of the peace for that shire, by Martha Anna, only daughter and heir of the late John Hammett, Esq., Lieut. R.N., niece of the late Sir Benj. Hammett, Kt., (the great benefactor of Taunton, of whose interests he was for many years the constant advocate in Parliament, as was likewise his eldest son,) and representative, through her mother, of the Monkton branch of the ancient family of Musgrave, of Charlton Musgrave, in the same county.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Aug. 1825, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince Regent 120, Capts. Wm. Henry Webley Parry and Constantine Rich. Moorsom, bearing the flag at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom. He next joined the Victory 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Chas. Inglis; served, as Midshipman, from 20 Aug. 1826, until the date of his passing, 8 Sept. 1831, in the Heron 18, commanded by various Captains, and Curlew 10, Capts. Geo. Woollcombe and Henry Dundas Trotter, on the South American and Cape of Good Hope stations; and then joined the Jaseur 18, Capts. Fras. Harding and Archibald Sinclair, in which he returned home, and was paid off in Oct. 1832. On 23 Oct. 1833, Mr. Beadon was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; and, on 9 Sept. 1836, after an employment of two months in the Coast Guard, was appointed to the Conway 28, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, with whom he proceeded to New South Wales and thence to India and China. In the course of 1840-41, he took an active part in the various operations of the Chinese war, and in Sept. of the former year had the honour, while detached in command of the Conway’s cutter, of being the first to discover the entrance of the
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, pp. 980-83.
- ↑ The Beadons have been for generations interwoven with many of the first families of Somerset and the neighbouring counties, of whom it may be sufficient here to enumerate the Spurways, of Spurway; the Radfords, of Oakford; the Jolliffes, of Kelmersden, &c. Sir Robert de Beadin, from whom the present Beadons collaterally descend, was thrice high-sheriff of Devon, temp. Edw. II. Gotten House is an ancient seat of the Musgraves, and was acquired by Commander Beadon’s father on his marriage.
