CONSTANTINE RICHARD MOORSOM, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
Son of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, K.C.B.
This officer was made lieutenant, June 6, 1812; commander, July 19, 1814; and post-captain, Dec. 7, 1818. He commanded the Fury bomb, at the battle of Algiers.
Agent.– W. M‘Inerheney, Esq.
HON. GEORGE JAMES PERCEVAL.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
Third, and eldest surviving son of Lord Arden, by Margaretta Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart.
This officer was born on the 15th March, 1794; made lieutenant, June 7, 1814; advanced to the rank of commander, June 13, 1815; and posted, Dec. 7. 1818. He served in one of the boats of the Tigre 80, Captain Benjamin Hallowell, at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the Bay of Rosas, Nov. 1, 1809[1]; and commanded those of the Tenedos frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, in a successful expedition up the Penobscot river. North America, in Sept. 1814[2]. We lastly find him commanding the Infernal bomb, at the battle of Algiers.
Captain Perceval married, July 24, 1819, Eliza, eldest daughter of John Hornby, of Hook House, near Titchfield, Esq.
HON. JOHN GORDON.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
A grandson of the late Earl of Aberdeen, and brother to the present peer. He was made lieutenant. Mar 21, 1812; advanced to the rank of commander, June 15, 1814; and posted, from the Carnation of 18 guns, into the Tamar 26, at Newfoundland, Dec. 31, 1818.
