manded in succession, the Sea Fencibles at Liverpool, and the Royal Sovereign yacht[1]; the latter of which he retained until his advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; and became a Vice-Admiral, July 19, 1821.
Sir William Hotham married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Jeynes, Knight.
Residence.– Bath .
SIR PULTENEY MALCOLM,
Vice-Admiral of the Blue; and Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
Early in the last century, Mr. Robert Malcolm, a younger branch of the family of that name, came from Cupar in Fifeshire, where his ancestors had long resided, and settled on the borders of Scotland, as Minister of the parish of Ewes, near Langholm, in the county of Dumfries. His son George married Margaret, daughter of James Pasley, of Craig, Esq., and brought up seventeen children at his residence, Burnfoot, on the banks of the Esk, where part of his family now reside[2]. The officer whose services we are about to trace is the third son, and was born at Douglan, near Langholm, on the 20th Feb. 1768. He entered the naval service Oct. 20, 1778, as a Midshipman, on board the Sybil frigate, commanded by his
- ↑ Yachts first appear in a navy list of 1675. According to Mr. Pepys, the Dutch, in the year 1660, gave Charles II. a yacht called the Mary; “until which time,” he adds, “we had not heard of such a name in England.” See Derrick’s Memoirs of the Royal Navy, p. 89.
- ↑ Mr. Malcolm survived long enough to see his youngest child attain the rank of Post-Captain. Robert, the eldest, who died a few years ago, was high in the civil service of the Hon. East India Company. The three next in succession, James, Pulteney, and John, were honoured with the insignia of Knights Commanders of the Order of the Bath at the same time! the former for his distinguished services in Spain and North America, when commanding a battalion of Royal Marines; the latter has since been raised to the dignity of a Knight Grand Cross, for his services during the late war in India. The younger sons are Gilbert, Rector of Todenham, co. Gloucester; David, in a commercial house in India; and Charles, a Post-Captain, commands the Lord Lieutenant’s yacht at Dublin.
