WILLIAM DEVEREUX EVANCE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Is a son of Mr. Evance, of the firm of Suttaby, Evance, and Co., booksellers, Stationers’ Court, Fleet Street, London. He passed his examination in Dec. 1812; obtained a commission, appointing him lieutenant of the Heron sloop, Captain Francis Charles Annesley, Sept. 3d, 1814; and afterwards served in the Tigris frigate. Captain Robert Henderson. On the 7th Nov. 1816, he was appointed flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Plampin, then preparing to assume the naval guardianship of Napoleon Buonaparte: – on the 15th Aug. 1818, he was promoted to the rank of commander: – and in Oct. following we find him in the Redpole sloop, on the St. Helena station. He married, April 19th, 1825, Harriet, youngest daughter of Job Dyer, Esq. of Chigwell, co. Essex.
ROBERT DEANS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Second son of the late Admiral Deans, of Huntington, North Britain, who died in 1815. This officer entered into the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Woodlark sloop, on the North Sea station, in 1804; and afterwards served under the flag of Vice-Admiral (afterwards Sir Edward) Thornbrough, Lord Collingwood, and Sir Charles Cotton, in the Mediterranean. His first commission bears date June 15th, 1811; and was presented to him by the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, as a reward for his gallant conduct in an unsuccessful attack, by the boats of the Cherokee, Clio, and Bellette sloops (of which former vessel he was then acting lieutenant) upon some galliots lying at Egersund, in Norway; on which occasion he had two fingers shot off, and was otherwise severely wounded.
After remaining a few months at sick-quarters. Lieutenant Deans was appointed to the Venerable 74, Captain Sir Home Popham, employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain; where he occasionally landed in command of a division of small-arm men. During the pursuit of the enemy from St. Ano Castle to the town of Santander,
