Beauman, Agincourt 64, Capt. Wm. Keat, and Monmouth 64, Capts. Hyde Parker and Wm. Wilkinson. In the course of 1814 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Griffon brig, Capt. Geo. Barne Trollope, Midshipman of his former ship the Monmouth, Acting-Lieutenant and Commander of the Viper cutter, and Master’s Mate of the Impregnable 98, Capts. Chas. Adam and John Wentworth Loring. In the Viper he was sent by H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence to Calais with despatches, and was employed by Rear-Admiral Foley in escorting convoys from Deal to St. Helen’s. In the Impregnable, after conveying Marshal Blücher from Boulogne to England, and taking part in the grand naval review held at Spithead, he proceeded to Bordeaux for the purpose of bringing home the first and second battalions of the German Legion. While attached, in the early part of 1815, to the Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he cruized among the Western Islands, in company with the Chatham 74 and Larne 20, in quest of two American frigates. He took up in April of that year a commission bearing date 7 of the preceding Feb., and, since 12 May, 1837, has been employed in command of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Chippendale.
PAKENHAM. (Captain, 1826. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
John Pakenham, born 18 Oct. 1790, is fourth son of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Thos. Pakenham, G.C.B.[1] (second son of the first Lord Longford), by Louisa, daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples; and brother (with Lieut. Henry Pakenham, R.N. (1827), who died in April, 1839) of the present Edw. Michael Conolly, Esq., D.C.L., Captain R.A., and M.P. for Donegal. Capt. Pakenham is first-cousin of the gallant Major-General Hon. Sir Edw. Michael Pakenham, G.C.B., who fell at New Orleans 8 Jan. 1815; of Lieut.-General Hon. Sir Hercules Robt. Pakenham, K.C.B., a distinguished Peninsular officer; of Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham, R.N., who was lost in the Saldanha frigate in 1811; and of the late Duchess of Wellington.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, under the former of whom he took part, as Midshipman, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, and accompanied the expeditions of 1807 and 9 to the Dardanells and the Scheldt. In the course of 1810, after a short servitude in the Mediterranean on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, he was nominated, on that station, Acting-Lieutenant of the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle. In Oct. of the same year he went back, in a similar capacity, to the Warspite, still commanded by Capt. Blackwood, although subsequently by Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker. While in that ship, to which he was confirmed by commission bearing date 16 July, 1811, we find him participating in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British, with a slender force, beat back a powerful division of the French Toulon fleet. In Aug. 1812 Mr. Pakenham joined the Magicienne 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon; and on 15 June, 1814, after having witnessed the fall of St. Sebastian, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. His next appointment was, 21 June, 1815, to the Bermuda 10, which vessel, on her arrival in the West Indies, was unfortunately lost near Tampico Bar, 16 Nov. 1816. From the latter date Capt. Pakenham did not again go afloat until invested, 16 Aug. 1825, with the command of the Harrier 18, on the Cork station. He acquired his present rank 26 Aug. 1826; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he accepted the retirement.
He married, 3 Nov. 1817, Caroline Emily, third daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B., by whom (who died 2 Aug. 1844) he had issue a son and three daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
PAKENHAM. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
The Honourable Thomas Alexander Pakenham, born 3 March, 1820, is third son of the late Earl of Longford, by Georgiana Emma Charlotte, daughter of William, first Earl of Beauchamp. His eldest brother, the present Earl of Longford, is an officer in the Second Life Guards; and three other of his brothers are also in the army.
This officer entered the Navy, from the Royal Naval College, 14 April, 1835; passed his examination 2 May, 1840;. was for some time attached, as Mate, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and, after a servitude of nearly three years in that capacity on board the Warspite 50, Capts. Lord John Hay and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, on the North America and West India and Mediterranean stations, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 June, 1844. His appointments have since been – 9 Sept. 1844, to the Mutine 12, Capt. Rich. Borough Crawford, at the Cape of Good Hope – and, 2 Sept. 1845, to the President 50,. flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the same station, where he is now employed.
PALK. (Retired Commander, 1831. f-p., 19; h-p., 32.)
Robert Palk died 12 May, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dromedary store-ship, Capts. Rich. Hill and Jas. Harrison. On his arrival at Gibraltar, after having visited the West Indies, he removed, in May, 1795, to the Camel, another store-ship, commanded by Capt. Edw. Rotheram. Becoming Midshipman, in the following July, of the Ardent 64, Capts. Rich. Rundell Burgess and Thos. Bertie, he fought in that vessel in the action off Camperdown, 11 Oct. 1797, and, besides accompanying the expedition of 1799 to Holland, was present, 2 April, 1801, in the-attack made on the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, After a servitude of a few weeks on board the London and St. George 98’s, flag-ships of Sir Hyde Parker and Lord Nelson, he was made Lieutenant, 23 June, 1801, into the Bellona 74, Capt. Thos. Bertie. His succeeding appointments were – 16 Nov. 1802, to the Courageux 74, Capt. John Okes Hardy, part of the force employed at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in June, 1803 – 19 Dec. 1803, 24 Sept. 1804, and 12 May, 1806, as First, to the Dolphin and Trompeuse sloops, and Lively 38, Capts. John Shortland, Wm. Brooking Dolling, and Geo. McKinley, with whom he served until March, 1807, on the Home, African and Lisbon stations – and, 1 April, 1812, to the command of the Sylvia cutter, in which vessel he cruized in the Downs and Channel; and assisted at the siege of St. Sebastian. He went on half-pay 5 Sept. 1814; and accepted the rank of Retired Coulmander 22 April, 1831.
PALLISER. (Lieutenant, 1847.)
Wray Richard Gledstanes Palliser is son we believe, of Colonel Wray Palliser, of Derrylugkan, co. Tipperary.
This officer passed his examination 13 May 1845 and, after having served as Mate in the Excellent
- ↑ The Hon. Sir Thos. Pakenham was born in 1757, and first went to sea in 1770 on board the Southampton frigate, Captain M‘Bride. He attained the rank of Lieutenant in 1776; of Commander in 1779; and of Post-Captain (as a reward for his distinguishrd services as Acting-Captain of the Bristol, under Commodore Cornwallis) 2 March, 1780. When in command of the Crescent of 28 guns and 198 men, he accompanied Admiral Darby to the relief of Gibraltar in 1781; and on 29 May in that year maintained a brilliant action of two-hours and a half with the Dutch 36-gun frigate Brill, to whom he did not strike until he had had 103 of his people killed and wounded, and further opposition was impossible. He afterwards commanded the Minerva 38, Invincible 74, and Juste 84. In the Invincible he bore a conspicuous part in the battle of 1 June, 1794, and for his conduct on the occasion was presented with a gold medal. He was nominated a Colonel of Marines in 1790, a Rear-Admiral in Feb. 1799, a Vice-Admiral in April, 1804, a full Admiral in July, 1810, and in May, 1820, a G.C.B. He was for some time Master-General of the Ordnance in Ireland, and died Senior Admiral of the Red 2 Feb. 1836.
