board the Pembroke 74, Captain (afterwards Sir James) Brisbane; and was promoted to bis present rank, from the Prince Regent yacht, Sept 6th, 1823.
ROBERT FAIR, Esq.
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.
[Commander.]
This officer is a native of county Cork. We first find him serving as master of the Amethyst frigate. Captain (afterwards Sir Michael) Seymour, by whom he was most highly spoken of for his conduct at the capture of the French 44-gun frigates Thetis and Niemen, Nov. 10th, 1808, and April 6th, 1809[1]. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 1st July in the latter year; and was appointed to the command of the Locust gun-brig, Nov. 23d, 1811. In the following month, he drove on shore, near Calais, a French national brig, which, from the violence of the surf, was beaten to pieces.
The Locust was paid off in July 1814, and Lieutenant Fair appointed to the Tay 21, Captain William Robilliard, on the 5th Sept following. He subsequently commanded the Griper revenue cruiser; received a handsome sword from Lloyd’s for his humane and meritorious conduct on some particular occasion; and was promoted to his present rank from the Royal Sovereign yacht, Sept. 6th, 1823. The Guelphic order was conferred upon him in 1834.
CHARLES FRASER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in July 1804; served as such under Captains Phipps Hornby and Samuel Warren, in the Stag frigate and Bulwark 76; subsequently commanded the Mermaid revenue cruiser; and was promoted to his present rank Sept. 29th, 1823. He married, in July 1832, Miss Mary Elizabeth Fraser, of Chichester.
