the Earl of Durham to Quebec and Her Majesty the Queen Dowager to and from the Mediterranean, besides assisting, in 1840, in the attack upon Beyrout. He subsequently joined the Dublin 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Keai-Admiral Rich. Thomas, and the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport; and on 16 Feb. 1843 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 9 Nov. 1843, to the Vestal 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, equipping at Sheerness – 13 Jan. 1844, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, employed as an experimental ship – and, 7 Nov. 1845, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle at Portsmouth, and of Sir Fras. Augustus Collier in the Channel. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1846.
Lieut. Moubray married, 16 Dec. 1846, Selina Mary Anna, daughter of J. B. Hooper, Esq., of Abbots Kipton Hall, Huntingdonshire, late M.P. and High-Sheriff for that co. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
MOULD. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Richard Cotton Mould is second-cousin of Lieut. Wm. Mould, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Dec. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capts. Thos. Twysden and Hon. John Murray, stationed off the coast of Ireland; and between July, 1800, and Jan. 1806, was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly in the Mediterranean and at Home, on board the Vigilant, Capt. Jas. Wood, Aurora, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Micajah Malbon, Falcon, Capt. Henry Manaton Ommanney, Windsor Castle, Capts. Albemarle Bertie, Thos. Wells, and Davidge Gould, and Ariadne, Capt. Hon. Edw. King. In the latter ship, in 1805, we find him once or twice warmly engaged with the invasion flotilla. On leaving her, as above, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Starling cutter, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Fred. Napier, in the North Sea. He was confirmed, 12 May, 1807, into the Recruit 18, Capt. Hon. Warwick Lake, whom he accompanied to the West Indies; and he was afterwards appointed – 21 June, 1808, to the Nimrod sloop, Capt. De Courcy, in which vessel he returned to England – 15 Dec. 1808, to the St. Alban’s 64, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen, Edw. Brace, Chas. Grant, and John Ferris Devonshire, employed at first in escorting convoy to the East Indies and China, and next, until Nov. 1812, at the defence of Cadiz – and, 10 July, 1813, and (after eight months of half-pay) 28 April, 1815, to the Clarence 74, Capts. Henry Vansittart and Fred. Warren, and Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, both attached to the force in the Channel. He was paid off from the Swiftsure in Aug. 1815; and awarded the rank of Commander on the Retired List 10 Feb. 1843.
Commander Mould was left a widower 26 Oct. 1845.
MOULD. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 19; h-p., 0.)
William Mould was born 6 April, 1814. He is second-cousin of Retired Commander R. C. Mould, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince Regent 120, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett, bearing the flag at Chatham of Sir Benj. Hallowell; and in Aug. 1829 joined the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, in the Mediterranean. In Aug. 1831 he became Midshipman of the Revenge 78, Capts. Jas. Hillyar, Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, and Wm. Elliott, with whom he continued employed off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean until Nov. 1836 – the last two years in the capacity of Mate. He then removed to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, on the station last named; and after further serving for four years and six months in North America and the West Indies on board the Ringdove 16, Capts. Horatio Stopford Nixon and Hon. Keith Stewart, and for five months in the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean, he was promoted, 7 March, 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant, and re-appointed to the latter ship. He has since become attached in succession – 19 April, 1842, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, also in the Mediterranean – 6 Oct. 1843, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 4 March, 1845, to the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, now employed on particular service.
MOURILYAN. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
Edward Mourilyan entered the Navy, 29 July, 1798, as L.M., on board the Tigre 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Wm. Mansell, Robt, Jackson, and Rich. Curry. In that ship, in which he continued until paid off in Sept. 1802, he assisted as Midshipman at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre in 1799, and took part, in 1801, in the operations in Egypt. In March, 1803, he rejoined Sir W. S. Smith, as Master’s Mate, in the Antelope 50, on the North Sea station, where, in 1804, he was severely wounded while in the act of boarding a Dutch gun-boat. For this he received a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Society. After serving as Acting-Lieutenant in the St. Alban’s 64, Capt. John Temple, and again with Sir W. S. Smith, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Antelope 50, and Pompée 74, he was confirmed a Lieutenant of the latter ship by commission dated 31 Jan. 1806. In the spring of the same year, besides witnessing the surrender of the island of Capri, he joined in an attack upon the town of Scalea, where, in command of the Pompée’s launch, he took possession of the castle, and drove the French from their guns, 2 36-pounders, which, together with 22 barrels of powder, he contrived, through great exertion, to bring off. During the remainder of the war we find him serving with his patron on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations in the Foudroyant 80, and Hibernia 120; and also commanding, from 29 Dec. 1809 until 25 April, 1811, and from 7 Oct. 1813 until 26 March, 1814, the Swan hired cutter, and Pompée armed transport. The Swan was sunk in the Baltic in a severe action with a flotilla of Danish gun-boats. On 6 April, 1839, Lieut. Mourilyan was invested with the rank of Commander on the Retired List. He had been admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 31 Aug. 1835.
MOWBRAY. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Mowbray entered the Royal Naval College 15 Nov. 1805; and embarked, 23 Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Boadicea 38, Capt. John Hatley; with whom, after serving for upwards of 12 months at the Cape of Good Hope, he returned to England, in July, 1810, in the Raisonnable 64. Between the latter period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 2 Feb. 1813, we find him employed on the Home station in the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir John Gore, Elizabeth 74, Capt. Edw. Leveson Gower, Royal William, flagship of Sir Roger Curtis, and Tyrian brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin. His last appointment was, 3 Nov. 1813, to the Surprise 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; in which ship he beheld the attacks upon Washington and Baltimore in 1814, and participated in the operations on the coast of Georgia.
He was placed on half-pay 1 Sept. 1815. Agent Fred. Dufaur.
MOXON. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
James Moxon entered the Navy, 23 Sept. 1803 as Ordinary, on board the Zealand 64, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley at the Nore; served as Midshipman, from March, 1804, to May, 1805, in the Veteran 64, Capts. Rich. King and Jas. Newman Newman, and Achille 74, Capt. R. King, on the
