This officer married, Aug. 11th, 1814, Miss Agnes Cosser, of Millbank Street, Westminster, and has several sons and daughters. The present amount of his pension, for wounds, is 400l. per annum.
ALEXANDER DUNDAS YOUNG ARBUTHNOT, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1824.]
Was made a lieutenant, Oct. 26th, 1809; and commander, while serving in the Impregnable 98, Captain Charles Adam, June 27th, 1814; appointed to the Jasper sloop, April 24th, 1823, advanced to the rank of captain, Oct. 14th, 1824; and appointed a Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to His late Majesty George IV. Nov. 2d. in the same year.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
ADOLPHUS FITZ-CLARENCE, Esq.
Groom of the Robes to His Majesty the King.
[Post-Captain of 1824.]
We first find this officer joining the Spartan 46, Captain William Furlong Wise, C.B. in Mar. 1818. He was made a lieutenant, April 23d, 1821; appointed to the Euryalus 42, Captain (now Sir Augustus J. W.) Clifford, C.B., Oct. 22d following ; promoted to the rank of commander, May 17th, 1823; appointed to the Brisk sloop, Dec. 26th in the same year; removed to the Redwing 18, on the 28th Feb. 1824; advanced to the rank of captain, Dec. 24th, 1824 ; appointed to the Ariadne 26, on the 9th Feb. 1826; to the Challenger 28, on the 2d July, 1827; to the Pallas 42, on the 28th Aug. 1828; to the Royal George yacht, July 22d, 1830; and to be Groom of the Robes to King William IV. with rank as Groom of the Bedchamber, on the 24th of the same month.
The Brisk and Redwing were both employed on the North Sea station; the Ariadne in the Mediterranean; and the Challenger in conveying the Earl of Dalhousie, late Governor-General of Canada, from Quebec to England; she also visited Lisbon while under the command of Captain Fitz-Clarence. The Pallas conveyed the above nobleman (now
