JOHN BALFOUR MAXWELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1812; and served as midshipman on board the Alceste frigate, Captain (afterwards Sir Murray) Maxwell, during Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, in 1816–7[1]. He was made a lieutenant on the 6th April, 1820; appointed to the Briton frigate, commanded by Sir Murray Maxwell, Nov. 30th, 1822; and promoted to the command of the Chanticleer sloop, April 28th, 1827. His last appointment was, June 6th, 1833, to the Gannet sloop, on the Jamaica station, from whence he returned home in Feb. 1834.
HENRY ESCH ATKINSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
This officer passed his examination in July 1813, at which period he was a midshipman of the Vigo 74. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 16th Feb. 1815; and subsequently served in the Bacchus 16, Commander William Hill; Brazen 26, Captain William Shepheard, on the Cape of Good Hope station, from whence he returned home invalided in 1820; Queen Charlotte 108, flag-ship of Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, commander-in-chief at Portsmouth; and Britomart 10, Commander Octavius V. Vernon, on the Jamaica station. He was appointed a supernumerary lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, coast guard depot, at Newhaven, Aug. 23d, 1825; removed to the Weazle sloop. Commander John Dundas, fitting out at Portsmouth, Mar. 9th, 1827; and advanced to his present rank on the 30th of the following month.
