RIGHT HON. ALGERNON, LORD PRUDHOE,
State-Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
This officer is the Duke of Northumberland’s only brother. He was born Dec. 15, 1792; made lieutenant Dec. 16, 1811; promoted to the command of the Swallow brig, on the Mediterranean station. Mar. 8, 1814; appointed acting captain of the Cossack 22, in the summer of the same year; advanced to post rank Aug. 19, 1815; and created a peer of Great Britain, Aug. 14, 1816.
ROBERT ROWLEY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
Served as lieutenant under Sir Charles Cotton, Bart, in 1810 and 1811; obtained the rank of commander, Mar. 21, 1812; was appointed to the Melpomene troop-ship, Oct. 29, 1813; and advanced to post-rank Aug. 21, 1815. Since the peace he has commanded the Egeria 24, on the Newfoundland station; and Semiramis frigate, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Plampin, at Cork. He married, Sept. 30, 1822, Eliza, daughter of the late George Mackay Rose, of the island of Grenada, Esq.
WILLIAM STANHOPE BADCOCK, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
Youngest son of the late Thomas Stanhope Badcock, formerly of Little Missenden Abbey, co. Bucks, Esq. by Anne, daughter of the lute William Buckle, of Mythe House, near Tewkesbury, Esq. His father, and his late uncle, Lieutenant-Colonel Lovell Badcock, were both High Sheriffs of Buckinghamshire: the former served in the 6th regiment of foot, as lieutenant, in America and the West Indies, during the war between Great Britain and her colonies; after which he held a commission in the Royal Bucks militia, and was
