himself as an officer of the Royal Navy from 1791 to 1800; at the latter date he obtained his commission as Captain. His debut as an Author was a beautifully illustrated volume, entided, “Karamania, or a brief description of the South Coast of Asia Minor, and of the Remains of Antiquity, with plans, views, &c., collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the years 1811 and 1812 — by Francis Beaufort, F.R.S., Captain of His Majesty’s Ship Frederiksteen. London, 1817.” His success as a surveyor and draftsman procured him the appointment of Hydrographer to the Admiralty — an office which he held from 1829 to 1855. Sir Francis Beaufort died on the 17th December 1857, aged 83. Harriet Martineau in her “Biographical Sketches” says of him, “He was short in stature; but his countenance could nowhere pass without notice,” being characterised by “astute intelligence, shining honesty and genial kindliness.” He married, first, in 1812, Alicia Magdalene Wilson[1] (born 1782, died 1834), daughter of Lestock Wilson, by Bonne Boileau (born 1740, died 1818), and granddaughter of Simeon Boileau and Magdalene Desbrisay, and by her he had two sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest is Emily Anne, Viscountess Strangford. He married, secondly, Miss Edgeworth, a sister of Maria Edgeworth, and a connection of his first wife.
(12). Page 318. The following additional names are in the Appendix to my vol. ii.
- (1). Lieutenant Nathan Garrick (died 1788); his wife was a daughter of Sir Egerton Leigh, Bart.
- (2). Captain Alexander Desclouseaux and Captain Charles Desclouseaux.
- (3). Admiral Sir John Laforey, Bart., claimed descent from a common ancestor with the Marquis de La Foret. The Laforey family intermarried with the families of Clayton and Farley.
The following names occur in this chapter:—
Page 280. Beauvoir, De Dangers.
Page 281. Vignoles, Brushell, Earl of Galway.
Page 282. Anna Seward.
Page 283. Crommelin, Longley, Smart, Clough, Carrington, Hart, Schaw, Protheroe.
Page 284. Cock, La Conde, Sarazin, Pigou, Marchand, Perin, Soulhard, Mougnier, Noual, Fermignac, Sablannan, Le Goye, Brithand, Bernard.
Page 285. Soullard, Colineau, Basset, Fermignac.
Page 286. Bandoin, Middleton.
Page 289. De Hauteville, M‘Leod, Lines, Beaufort, Bosanquet, Graham.
Chapter XXVII. (pp. 289-304).
Offspring of the Refugees connected with Science, Law, the Legislature and Literature.
(1). Page 289. John Dollond (born 1706, died 1761), “the discoverer of the laws of the dispersion of light, and the inventor of the achromatic telescope,” was originally a weaver, son of a Huguenot refugee.
(2.) Page 290. Isaac Gosset, Esq. (died 1799), and Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S., his son (died 1812.)
(3.) Page 290. Gabriel Beranger, an artist, famous for landscape drawings, paintings of flowers and birds, and antiquarian sketches, flourished in Ireland between 1750 and 1780.
(4.) Page 291. Medical Men. Benjamin Bosanquet, M.D., F.R.S., Philip Du Val, M.D., father of Rev. Philip Du Val, D.D. John Justamon, F.R.S., surgeon. Charles Edward Bernard, M.D. Charles Nicholas De la Cherois Pardon, M.D.
Note.
Burn (p. 79) gives the following, from a tombstone in the French Church, Norwich:—
- ↑ The first Lady Boileau’s youngest sister, Henrietta Francis Wilson (born 1789, died 1855), was married to her kinsman, John Theophilus Desbrisay, and had two sons, George (died 1840), and Henry De la Cour Desbrisay, married in 1854 to Jane Amelia Marett.
