Bickerton, and Centaur 74, Capt. White, he joined the Bedford 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, whom he accompanied in the expedition against New Orleans. Ketuming to England in July, 1815, he served during the next five years, at Portsmouth and at Plymouth, in the Puissant 74, Nymphe 38, Capt. Hugh Pigot, Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Dwarf, Lieut.-Commander Gordon, Eridanus 42, Capt. Wm. King, Impregnable 104, flagship of Lord Exmouth, and Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. He then, in June and Oct. 1820, joined in succession the Raleigh sloop, Capt. Geo. Blackman, and Euryalus 42, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, both on the Jamaica station; where he was nominated, 5 Nov. following, Acting-Lieutenant of the Ontario 18, Capt. Joddrell Leigh. His official promotion took place 27 Dec. 1820, but he did not again go afloat until Feb. 1824. On 28 of that month he received an appointment to the Medina 20, Capts. Chas. Montagu Walker and Timothy Curtis, under whom he was for nearly two years employed in the Mediterranean. He has had command, since 20 Sept. 1837, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Pooley married, 7 Nov. 1837, Frances Anne, second daughter of John Vigars, Esq., Surgeon, of Falmouth.
POORE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 31.)
John Poore is brother of Retired Commander Wm. Poore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl Vol., on board the Fisgard 38, Capts. Wm. Bolton and Fras. Mason; under the latter of whom we find him performing the duties of Midshipman in the attack of 1809 upon Flushing, and otherwise actively employed until Aug. 1810. During the four following years he served uninterruptedly in the Ville de Paris 110, and Rodney and Milford 74’s, all flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle on the Mediterranean station; where, in the Adriatic portion of it, he co-operated in the reduction of Fiumé, witnessed the fall of Rovigno, Piran, and Capo d’Istria, and assisted at the capture of Trieste. From Sept. 1814 to Aug. 1815 Mr. Poore cruized off the coast of Ireland in the President 38, Capt. Norwich Duff. He then took up a commission dated 25 Feb. in the latter year; and has since been on half-pay.
He married Miss Martha Midlane.
POORE. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p.,21; h-p., 26.)
William Poore was born 21 Aug. 1789. He is brother of Lieut. John Poore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ganges 74, Capts. Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Joseph Baker, in which ship he was employed, until June, 1802, off Brest, in the Baltic (where he fought at the battle of Copenhagen), and in watching the French at St. Domingo. He then returned to England as a Midshipman in La Décade frigate, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford. During the first six years of the war we find him serving in succession on the Channel, Mediterranean, and Cork stations, in the Amphion 32 and Victory 100, both flag-ships of Lord Nelson, Camelion sloop, Capt. Thos. Staines, Victory again, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, and Eurydice and Druid frigates, both commanded by Sir Wm. Bolton. In the Amphion he was present at the capture of the Orion Dutch Indiaman, the first enemy’s vessel taken after the renewal of hostilities; in the Victory he assisted at the blockade of Toulon; and in the Eurydice he was often in action with gun-boats and batteries. In the Camelion’s boats he partook of much detached service on the coasts of Genoa and France; and on one occasion in particular, 11 Aug. 1805, brought off the ship’s cutter after an unsuccessful attack upon an armed convoy, consisting of seven sail of feluccas, in which the British had their commanding officer and 3 men killed, 1 man wounded, and another taken prisoner. On 2 March, 1809, he was made Lieutenant into the Hindostan 50, armée en flûte, Capt. John Pasco, fitting for a voyage to New South Wales, where he took charge of the Dromedary store-ship when on fire, and personally assisted in extinguishing the flames. His last appointments were – 28 Jan. 1811, as First, to the Rainbow 28, Capts. Jas. Wooldridge and Gardiner Henry Guion, employed in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia – 2 Dec. 1812, in a similar capacity (having invalided from the Rainbow in May, 1812), to the Chanticleer 10, Capts. Rich. Spear, Stewart Blacker, John Thomson, Geo. Tupman, and Wm. Henry Dickson, in which vessel he served at the capture of Guadeloupe in 1815, and continued employed until paid off in Aug. 1816 – 29 Oct. 1822, to the command of the Lion, a most active and successful Revenue cruizer – 31 May, 1825, to the Astrea packet, Capt. Wm. King, stationed at Falmouth – and 22 Dec. following, to the Kingfisher, another Falmouth packet, the command of which he was induced from ill health and impaired vision to resign in Dec. 1828. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 3 March, 1834; and invested with his present rank 9 April, 1847.
Commander Poore married, 10 Juue, 1817, Marianne, daughter of Rich. Jeffreys, Esq., of Basingstoke, co. Hants, by whom he has issue two sons and one daughter. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
POPE. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Edmund Pope entered the Navy 16 May, 1807; passed his examination in 1815; and obtained his commission 27 March, 1826. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Chads.
POPHAM. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 12.)
Brunswick Popham is brother of Capt. Wm. Popham, R.N.; and second son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Dec. 1817, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Andromache 44, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned to England in Aug. 1821. In Jan. 1822 he was received as Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) on board the Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Grant in the East Indies. He next, in July, 1825, joined the Ganges 84, Capt. Patrick Campbell, lying at Portsmouth; and, on 3 Jan. 1826, having passed his examination in April, 1824, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In the following Feb. he received an appointment to the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, employed at first off the coast of Portugal, and then in the Mediterranean; where, after acting a part in the battle of Navarin, he removed to the Pelorus 18, Capt. Peter Richards, and in Jan. 1828 became Flag-Lieutenant, in the Asia 84, to Sir Edw. Codrington. On 2 March in the latter year he was made Commander into the Zebra 18. His subsequent appointments in that capacity were – 30 Oct. 1828 and 20 April, 1830, to the Infernal bomb and Wasp 18, both stationed in the Mediterranean, whence he returned home and was paid off in June, 1831 – and, 3 Dec. 1834, to the Pelican 16, in which vessel he served at the Cape of Good Hope and on the east and west coasts of Africa until May, 1839. He has since been on half-pay. His Post-commission bears date 28 June, 1838.
Capt. Popham married, 26 Oct. 1841, Susan, eldest daughter of Patrick Murray, Esq., of Arthurstone, Perthshire, N.B. Agents – Collier and Snee.
POPHAM. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 14; h-p., 28.)
William Popham, born in April, 1791, is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham,[1] K.C.B.; brother of Capt. Brunswick Popham,
- ↑ Sir Home Riggs Popham was born at Gibraltar in 1762. For some years previous to the late war he was employed in surveys on the coast of Africa and in the East Indies, and rendered services for which he was thanked by the Government and the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
