GEORGE ROBERT LAMBERT, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Completed his time as midshipman on board the Glasgow 50, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan; and obtained the rank of lieutenant, May 5th, 1815. His subsequent appointments were, Aug. 12th, 1815, to the Ister frigate, Captain Thomas Forrest; and, Jan. 1st, 1820, to be flag-lieutenant to his eldest brother, the present Vice-Admiral Lambert, in the Vigo, 74, stationed at St. Helena. He was made a commander, Jan. 19th, 1822; appointed to the Cameleon sloop, Feb. 23d, 1824; and advanced to the rank of captain, Aug. 8th, 1825.
Agents.– Messrs. Chard.
THOMAS SMITH, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Commenced his naval career towards the close of the French revolutionary war, as midshipman on board the Nemesis 28, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Thomas Baker; and subsequently served under the same officer in the Phoebe and Phoenix frigates. On the 10th of Aug. 1805, he assisted in capturing la Didon, of 44 guns; and on the 4th of Nov. following, we find him bearing a part in the action between Sir Richard J. Strachan and Mons. Dumanoir le Pelley, the result of which was the surrender of the whole French squadron, consisting of one 80-gun ship and three 74’s[1].
Mr. Smith next joined the Ajax 80, Captain the Hon. Henry Blackwood, and continued in that ship until she was destroyed by fire, near the island of Tenedos, Feb. 14th, 1807[2]. He was then received on board the Pompée 74, bearing the flag of Sir W. Sidney Smith; and he appears to have been one of the petty officers employed in completing the destruction of the Turkish squadron, and a formidable
