a lieutenant into the Sybille 44, flag-ship of Sir Charles Rowley, on the West India station, Oct 5th, 1822. He was promoted to the rank of commander on the 15th Jan. 1828; appointed to the Scout sloop, July 20th, 1832; removed to the Scylla sloop, on the Mediterranean station, Dec. 10th, 1833; paid off from that vessel Mar. 8th, 1834; and appointed secretary to his father, in the month of April following.
Commander Hargood married, in 1828, a Miss Catherine Harrison.
SIR THOMAS RAIKES TRIGGE THOMPSON, Bart.
[Commander.]
Eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Sir Thomas B. Thompson, Bart., G.C.B., by Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Raikes, Esq., of Gloucester.
This officer was born on the 1st April, 1804; entered the royal navy in Feb. 1818; obtained his first commission on the 8th April, 1825; and was promoted to the rank of commander Jan. 19th, 1828. His last appointment was to the Cadmus sloop, which vessel he paid off, on her return from South America, May 7th, 1830.
HON. JOHN FREDERICK FITZGERALD DE ROOS.
[Commander.]
Third son of Lord Henry Fitzgerald (fourth son of James first Duke of Leinster),by Charlotte, Baroness De Roos.
This officer is maternally descended from Robert De Ros, one of the twenty-five barons who extorted Magna Charta from King John; and his wife Isabelle, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland. His mother is the only daughter and heiress of the Hon. Robert Boyle Walshingham, youngest son of Henry, first Earl of Shannon, by Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Bart., the descendant of Frances, sister to the sixth Earl of Rutland and seventeenth Baron De Roos, on the demise of whose grand-
