the name of Tollemache in conformity to the will of his maternal uncle, the late Earl of Dysart, who died March 9, 1821.
The Rear-Admiral married, Feb. 28, 1797, Lady Elizabeth Stratford, daughter of John, third Earl of Aldborough, and has a numerous family.
Country seat.– Tilstone, Cheshire.
Town Residence.– 148, Piccadilly.
JOHN GIFFARD, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the White.
This officer entered the naval service in April, 1780, as a Midshipman, on board the Canada, of 74 guns, commanded by the late Sir George Collier, and forming part of the Channel fleet then under the orders of Sir Charles Hardy.
In March, 1781, the Canada sailed from Spithead in company with a formidable armament sent to relieve Gibraltar, and whilst on that service was one of the ships engaged with the enemy’s flotilla[1]. Returning from thence, and being ordered by Vice-Admiral Darby to look out a-head of the fleet, she discovered, and after an arduous chase and short action, captured the Leocadia, a Spanish frigate of 36 guns, commanded by Don Francisco De Wenthuisen, a brave and meritorious officer, who unfortunately lost his right arm on that occasion, and was afterwards killed on board the San Josef, in the memorable conflict off Cape St. Vincent.
We subsequently find the Canada, commanded by the Hon. William Cornwallis, proceeding with Rear-Admiral Digby to the American station, from whence she accompanied Sir Samuel Hood to the West Indies, and bore a very conspicuous share in his brilliant actions at St. Christopher’s[2] as well as in the battles fought between Rodney and de Grasse, on the 0th and 12th April, 1782, on which latter glorious occasion she sustained a loss of 12 men killed and 23 wounded.
Returning to England in the ensuing autumn, in company with the French prizes and a convoy under Rear-Admiral Graves, the Canada encountered that tremendous hurricane
- ↑ See p. 4, and note ‡, at p. 33.
- ↑ See Retired Captain J. N. Inglefield, in our next volume.
