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EDWARD FELLOWES, ESQ.
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and Denmark. Sir John Moore consequently returned with his troops to England, and thence proceeded to Corunna; but Captain Lukin appears to have continued on the Baltic station, commanding the Mars as a private ship, under the orders of Sir James Saumarez, for a period of three years, during which he was employed in a variety of arduous and important services. His last appointment was to the Chatham, of 74 guns. His promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place June 4, 1814; but he continued to serve as Captain, by an express order from the Admiralty, until after the grand naval review at Spithead, and in the interim was employed in conveying the Russian troops from Cherbourg.

Our officer married, in 1801, Anne, daughter of the late Peter Thellusson, of Brodsworth, in Yorkshire, and Plaistow, co. Kent, Esq., sister of the late, and aunt of the present Lord Rendlesham, of the kingdom of Ireland.

Residence.– Felbrigg Cottage, near Cromer, Norfolk.




EDWARD FELLOWES, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the White.


This officer, a son of the late William Fellowes, of Ramsey Abbey, Esq., M.P. for the town of Andover, and brother of William Henry Fellowes, Esq. the present representative of the county of Huntingdon, was a Lieutenant in 1793, commanded the Albicore sloop in 1795, and obtained post rank in the Tourterelle, of 26 guns, Dec. 7, in the same year. He was present at the reduction of St. Lucia, by Sir Hugh C. Christian and Sir Ralph Abercromby[1]; and soon after that event removed into the Alarm frigate. On the 23d Nov. 1796, he captured the Spanish corvette El Galgo, of 18 guns, off Grenada. This vessel had on board specie to the amount of 80,355 dollars.

In Feb. 1797, the Alarm formed part of the squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral Harvey, at the conquest of Trinidad[2]; she was subsequently employed on the Jamaica station, where Captain Fellowes cruized with very great acti-