Some time preceding this event, Captain O’Bryen captured l’Enfant Prodigue, a French schooner of 16 guns, the whole of which were thrown overboard during a chase of seventy-two hours.
On the 29th Nov. 1809, his late Majesty was pleased to grant Captain O’Bryen, his brothers and sisters, the same precedency as if their father, who died in 1801, had survived his brother, the late Marquis, who died without male issue Feb. 10, 1808.
Lord James O’Bryen married, first, a Miss Bridgeman; and secondly, Jane, relict of Horsford, of the island of Antigua, Esq. He is the heir presumptive to the Marquisate of Thomond, now enjoyed by his brother.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford and Son.
RICHARD MATSON, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
Post commission dated March 22, 1799.
Agent.– Messrs. Maude.
RICHARD RAGGETT, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant, Dec. 15, 1778; and obtained the rank of Commander about 1793. From this period he commanded the Pluto and Dart sloops of war, on the Newfoundland, and North Sea stations, until posted, April 21, 1799. The latter vessel formed part of Sir Home Popham’s squadron at Ostend, in May 1798[1]. At the close of the war in 1801, we find him serving as Flag-Captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, in the Royal Sovereign, a first rate.
Early in 1805, Captain Raggett was appointed to the Leopard 50, bearing the flag of the late Admiral Billy Douglas, on the Downs station. In 1807, he commanded the Africaine frigate, and conveyed Lieutenant-General Lord Cathcart from England to Swedish Pomerania, at that period invaded by a French army, and defended by the Swedish Monarch in person[2]. On the arrival of Admiral Gambier in the
- ↑ See Vol. I. note at p. 713, et seq.
- ↑ Gustavus, King of Sweden, after a most heroic defence, was obliged
