ment to be Governor of Plymouth Hospital, July 15, 1795[1]. He has a son in holy orders, married to Sarah, daughter of the late Colonel Hotham, of York.
JOHN GIBSON, Esq
[Retired Captain.]
WasJOHN GIBSON, made a Lieutenant Dec. 10, 1760; posted Dec. 23, 1782; and commanded the Porcupine frigate, employed in the defence of Gibraltar, at the close of the American war.
Residence.– Dulverton, Devonshire.
WILLIAM FULKE GREVILLE, Esq
[Retired Captain.]
Post commission dated January 16, 1783.
Bankers.– Coutts and Co.
SAMUEL ARDEN, Esq
Senior Captain of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, and a Director of the Chest.
[Retired Captain.]
This officer lost his right arm when serving as a Lieutenant on board the Atalante sloop of war, in an action with a large American frigate on the banks of Newfoundland, May 28, 1781. His conduct on this occasion was of the most heroic description. The instant his mutilated limb was dressed, he resumed his station upon deck, where he continued animating the crew till the vessel struck[2]. He was made a Post-Captain Jan. 21, 1783; and appointed to Greenwich Hospital in 1796.
MATTHEW SMITH, Esq
Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Retired Captain.]
This officer is a son of the late Matthew Smith, Esq. Major of the Tower of London, Colonel of the 2d regiment of Tower
- ↑ For the better regulation of the Royal Naval Hospitals, in the year 1795, Governors were appointed to each. To those at Haslar and Plymouth, a Post-Captain, with a salary of 500l., and 75l. for house, coals, and candles; three Lieutenants under them, whose salaries were fixed at 130l. per annum. By a recent regulation, the office of Governor has merged in that of a Resident Commissioner of the Victualling, in whom are united the superintendance of the victualling department of the navy, and the control of the hospital.
- ↑ See Vol. I. p. 173.
