Wasp 18, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, fitting for the West Indies, where he assisted at the capture of the Venezuelan sloop-of-war El Libertador, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chitty, and a Spanish brigantine, her prize – and, 2 July, 1821 (11 months after the Wasp had been paid off), to the Iphigenia 42, ecLuipping for the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends, Commodore of the African squadron. In command of the boats of that frigate, and of the Myrmidon 20, Mr. Mildmay won distinction by the gallant manner in which, overcoming a desperate resistance, he effected, off the river Bonny, the capture of five vessels having on board upwards of 1800 negroes. As a reward he was promoted to the rank of Commander 10 Aug. 1822. He obtained command of the Cordelia sloop, of 10 guns, 15 Nov. 1826; acquired Post-rank 16 Aug. 1828; and was lastly, from 14 April, 1835, until paid off at the close of 1838, employed on the Home station in the Magicienne 24.
Capt. Mildmay married, 28 April, 1832, Mary, widow of John Morritt, Esq., of Rokeby, co. York, by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MILDMAY. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Hervey George St. John Mildmay is second son of Paulet St. John Mildmay, Esq., by Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the Hon. Bartholomew Bouverie; and nephew of Capt. G. W. St. John Mildmay, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 6 Jan. 1832; passed his examination 15 March, 1838; served as Mate of the Talbot 26, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, 3 Nov. 1840; and, while on the North America and West India station, in the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Montagu Stopford, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 24 Feb. 1844. His appointments have since been – 1 March, 1844, as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies – 16 Oct. following, again to the Pique – and, 14 Oct. 1846 (soon after the latter ship had been paid off), to the Thetis 36, Capt. Henry John Codrington, now in the Mediterranean.
MILES. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 18.)
Alfred Miles was born 31 Dec. 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Sept. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Ulysses 44, Capts. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker and Wm. Fothergill, flag-ship of the Prince d’Auvergne, on the Jersey station. Rejoining Capt. Baker, as Midshipman, in Sept. 1812, on board the Dannemark 74, he served for a time with the fleet in the North Sea, and afterwards escorted convoy to and from the Cape of Good Hope; on his return whence he became attached, in April, 1815, to the Impregnable 98, bearing the flag of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean. After a servitude of three years at Plymouth, in the Spencer 74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, and again in the Impregnable, under the flag of Lord Exmouth, he successively joined, in the capacities of Admiralty Midshipman and Mate – 9 Nov. 1818, the Severn Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. McCulloch, by whom he was employed at Dungeness and in the neighbourhood of New Romney – 23 Feb. 1821 and 20 Dec. 1823, the Chanticleer 10, Capts. the Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Eden, and Burton Macnamara, and Adventure 6, Capt. Wm. Henry Smyth, both on the Mediterranean station, where, in the vessel last mentioned, he aided in surveying the coast of Sardinia – 17 Feb. 1825 (for a passage to the West Indies), the Ferret 10, Capt. Wm. Hobson – and 21 June, 1825, the Kangaroo, Master Commander Anthony De Mayne. Under the latter officer we find him for upwards of two years employed on Surveying service in the Crooked Passage, Bahamas, and on the coast of Cuba. In Sept. 1827, owing to his Commander having been accidentally left behind, Mr. Miles, who during the last three months had filled the post of Assistant-Surveyor, brought the Kangaroo home and paid her off. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Nov. following; and was afterwards appointed, in the capacity of Assistant-Surveyor – 27 May, 1830, to the Aetna 6, Capt. Edw. Belcher, stationed on the west coast of Africa, whence he returned in Oct. 1831 – and 9 Jan. 1842, and 1 Jan. 1843, to the Fearless 1, and Tartarus 2, both commanded by Capt. Fred. Bullock, with whom he served on the river Thames until 11 Feb. in the latter year. He attained his present rank 15 Jan. 1846.
From Feb. 1833 until June, 1842, Commander Miles was employed as an Assistant in the Hydrographic Office at the Admiralty, to which he was reappointed 12 Feb. 1843. He married, 13 Aug. 1833, Sibilla Elizabeth, daughter of John Westby Hatfield, Esq., of Penzance, co. Cornwall, authoress of ‘The Wanderer of Scandinavia,’ and other poems, by whom he has issue. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
MILES. (Lieut, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Edmund Miles was born 5 Aug. 1788, at Fellrigg, co. Norfolk.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Saturn 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, of which ship, on her arrival in the Mediterranean in the following Oct., he was constituted Midshipman. With the exception of three short intervals (from 10 Feb. to 5 March, 1812, from 8 Feb. to 2 May, 1814, and from 29 Sept. 1814 to 20 Jan. 1815), during which we find him serving in the Hannibal 74, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, and acting as Lieutenant of the Goldfinch 10 and Regulus 44, Capts. Edm. Waller and Robt. Ramsey, he continued employed, from April, 1809, until March, 1815, in the Royal Oak 74, under Lord A. Beauclerk and the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm, on the Home and North American stations, chiefly in the capacity of Master’s Mate. He landed, during that period, with the small-arm men in the attack upon Walcheren in 1809; and, besides participating in much boat-service in Basque Roads and on the coast of France, witnessed, in 1814, the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the river Patuxent, and joined in the expedition against Baltimore. While attached to the Regulus he commanded her boats at the capture of the town of St. Mary’s, on the coast of Georgia. In April, 1815, at which period he had been acting for upwards of five weeks as Lieutenant of the Thames 32, armée en flûte, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, he took up a commission bearing date 8 Feb. in that year. He has since been on half-pay.
MILES. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Lawford Miles entered the Navy 4 Aug. 1806; and while serving as Midshipman of the Amethyst, of 42 guns and 261 men, assisted at the capture, 11 Nov. 1808, off L’Orient, of the French frigate La Thétis, of 44 guns and 436 men, including troops, which was boarded and carried at the close of a furious conflict of more than three hours, in which the British had 19 men killed and 51 (including himself severely) wounded, and the enemy 135 killed and 102 wounded.[1] The injury he sustained on the occasion was at first rewarded by a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund, and subsequently by a pension of 6l. On 6 April, 1809, he was further present in a severe intermittent action of about four hours, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the Amethyst of 8 men killed and 37 wounded, of another of the enemy’s frigates, Le Niemen, of 46 guns and 339 men, of whom 47 were slain and 73 wounded. During his stay in the Amethyst Mr. Miles also served in the boats at the capture and destruction of a convoy off Chasseron Tower; and was a participator in the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren. In Aug. 1816 (he had passed his examination in the course of the preceding year) we find him on board the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, at the
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1808, p. 1555.
