In 1812, Captain Dashwood captured eight American vessels on the Baltic station; and at the latter end of that year, he was appointed to the Cressy of 74 guns. On his leaving the Pyramus, her officers presented him with a piece of plate, as a token of their regard. After serving for some time with the North Sea fleet under Admiral Young, he convoyed a valuable fleet to the Leeward Islands, from whence he returned with another of equal importance, the masters of which presented him with a chronometer, for the very great attention he had paid to them during the voyage.
Captain Dashwood had the distinguished honor of steering the royal barge, when his present Majesty reviewed the fleet at Spithead and St. Helen’s, in the summer of 1814; soon after which the Cressy was put out of commission. He subsequently commanded the Norge of similar force, and served with Sir Alexander Cochrane during the siege of New Orleans[1]. On his return from the coast of America in Aug. 1815, the Norge was ordered to be paid off and taken to pieces. He became Flag-Captain to Sir Alexander Cochrane at Plymouth, in Feb. 1821; removed from the Impregnable of 104 guns, to the Windsor Castle 74, about July of the same year; re-commissioned that ship Jan. 4, 1822, and still continues to command her.
Captain Dashwood married, Nov. 7, 1799, the Hon. Elizabeth De Courcy, second daughter of the late Lord Kinsale, and niece to his old friend and commander the late Admiral De Courcy, of whom a memoir is given in our first volume[2]. His two eldest sons are Lieutenants R.N., and his youngest is an officer in the Hon. East India Company’s artillery at Bengal.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
RICHARD CURRY, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is a son of the late Thomas Curry, Esq. of Gosport, in Hampshire, of which county he was one of the most active, attentive, and zealous magistrates for more than twenty
- ↑ See Vol. I. p. 637, et seq.
- ↑ The Hon. Admiral De Courcy died at his seat, Stoketon House, near Saltash, in Devonshire, Feb. 22, 1824.
