val Hospital, and Superintendent of the Impress, at Bombay. He continued in discharge of the duties thus imposed upon him until Feb. 1815; and on 20 of the following Sept., after having acted in command of the Wellesley 74, he was confirmed in that of the Hesper sloop. He returned to England about Aug. 1816 in the Hecate 16; and has since been on half-pay.
He is married, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MAUDE. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 13; h-p., 23.)
The Honourable Francis Maude, born in 1798, is fifth and youngest son of the first Cornwallis Maude, by his third wife, Anne Isabella, daughter of Thos. Monck, Esq., barrister-at-law, and niece of Viscount Monck; and brother (with Capt. Hon. Sir Jas. Ashley Maude, R.N., C.B., K.C.H. (1814), who died 23 Oct. 1841) of the present Viscount. He is brother-in-law of Lord Wm. Stuart, Lord Robt. Ponsonby Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, Lord Lifford, and Lord Dunalley.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1811; and embarked, 24 April, 18J4, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Spithead. In the course of the same year he joined the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, and also the Favorite 20, commanded by his brother, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. In that vessel, after having brought home from America the ratification of the treaty of Ghent, he proceeded to the East Indies; where, in Dec. 1816, 20 months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Magicienne 36, Capt. John Brett Purvis. In Aug. 1819, he became Admiralty-Midshipman of the Superb 78, bearing the broad pendant in South America of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy; who, on 24 May, 1820, nominated him Lieutenant of that ship. He was confirmed, 7 Oct. following, in the Icarus 10, Capt. Henry Algernon Eliot; and returning home about June, 1821, was next, from 13 Dec. 1823, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 30 April, 1827, employed in the Grasshopper 18, Capts. John Geo. Aplin and another. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Maude married, 4 Sept. 1827, Frances, second daughter of Hon. A. H. Brooking, Collector of His Majesty’s Customs at St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Member of the Council for that island. By that lady, who died in 1832, he had issue a son and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MAUDE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 9; h-p., 45.)
William George Maude (a) was born at York.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Leopard 50, Capt. John Maude, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals John Macbride and John Peyton; and in the following Nov., on his return from a voyage to St. Helena, joined the Thetis frigate, Capt. Hon. Alex. Inglis Cochrane; with whom he continued employed as Midshipman, on the Home and North American stations, until transferred, in Jan. 1796, to the Esperance sloop, Capt. Jonas Rose. Towards the close of 1797 we find him sailing for the Cape of Good Hope in the Garland frigate, Capt. John Clarke Searle; and in May, 1798, following that officer into the Tremendous 74, bearing the flag of Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian. On 23 Feb. 1799, at which period he was serving, still on the Cape station, in the Raisonnable 64, Capt. Chas. Boyles, Mr. Maude was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Daedalus 32, Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball. Being confirmed to that ship 24 July, 1799, he continued in her on the East India station, in the capacity of First-Lieutenant, until 1801; in April of which year, owing to a liver complaint and an attack of yellow fever, he invalided. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 7 Nov. 1823; and invested with the rank of Commander on the Retired List 20 Oct. 1840.
He married Mary, daughter of the late Geo. Hebden, Esq., and sister of the present Jas. Hebden, Esq., of Appleton, co. York, as also of Henry Hebden, Esq., a Captain in the Army. His eldest son, William George, is a Commander R.N.; and his second, a Midshipman R.N., was drowned by the upsetting of a boat while belonging to the Salisbury, flag-ship at Bermuda of Rear-Admiral Wm. Chas. Fahie. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MAUDE. (Commander, 1846.)
William George Maude (b) is eldest son of Retired Commander Wm. Geo. Maude, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 2 June, 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his first commission 20 May, 1833. His succeeding appointments were – 26 March, 1834, to the North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt, fitting for South America, whence he returned at the close of 1836 – I June, 1837, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Wolverene 16, Capts. Hon. Edw. Howard and Wm. Tucker, under whom he was for about two years employed on the Mediterranean and Cape of Good Hope stations – 31 Oct. 1840, to the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting at Portsmouth – 6 Jan. 1841, as First, to the Phoenix steamer, Capt. John Richardson, in which vessel he served in the Mediterranean until ordered home for the purpose of being paid off at the end of 1842 – and, 23 May, 1845, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, stationed at Devonport. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and is now on half-pay.
Commander Maude married, 7 Aug. 1839, Fanny Anne, only daughter of Rear-Admiral Wm. Maude (1841), who assisted, when in command of the Jason, in capturing the French frigate Topaze, in 1809, and died in 1843. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MAUGER. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 15; h-p., 39.)
Nicholas Mauger was born 17 July, 1773. This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Magicienne frigate, Capt. Geo. Martin, employed at first in the North Sea and then in the West Indies, where he assisted at the capture of St. Marc’s, St. Domingo, and served in the boats, under Lieut. Thompson, at the boarding and capture of a French privateer of 12 guns and 40 men. Removing, in July, 1794, to the Sceptre 64, Capts. Jas. Rich. Dacres, Wm. Essington, and Thos. Alexander, he assisted in that ship at the capture of eight Dutch Indiamen off St. Helena (in one of which he was sent as Prize-Master to Ireland), and witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay, 17 Aug. 1796. In the course of the ensuing month he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Daphne and Sybille frigates, Capts. Jas. Brisbane and Edw. Cooke; under the latter of whom, in Jan. 1798, he entered, in company with the Fox 32, the Spanish harbour of Manilla (notwithstanding that there were lying there three ships-of-the-line and three frigates), and assisted in capturing seven boats, 200 men, and a large quantity of ammunition and implements of war. He was also, during the same month, present in an action with the enemy’s batteries at Samboangon, in the island of Magindanao, whose fire occasioned the two ships a collective loss of 6 men killed and 16 wounded; and on the night of 28 Feb. 1799, he contributed to the capture, at the mouth of the Bengal river, by the Sybille alone, whose force consisted of 48 guns, of the French frigate La Forte, of 52 guns and 370 men, after a dreadful action of two hours and a half in which the enemy had 65 of their number (including the Captain) killed and 80 wounded, and the British, out of 371 men, 5 killed and 17 (among whom was Captain Cooke mortally) wounded. On the surrender of the enemy’s ship, Mr. Mauger, who during the conflict had com-
