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BORLASE—BOROUGH—BORROWMAN—BORTHWICK—BOSANQUET.
Mate, on board the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam on the North America and West India station – and Queen 110, commanded at Devonport by Sir Baldwin Wake Walker. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 1 Dec. 1845, in the Nimrod 20, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, fitting for the African station, but was superseded in Jan. 1846, and is at present on half-pay.
BORLASE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Borlase entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1826; passed his examination 26 Nov. 1832; served for some time in South America as Mate of the Imogene 26, Capt. Hen. Wm. Bruce; and was promoted from the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, 11 June, 1841. His appointments have since been – 8 Dec. following, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Cornwallis 72, flagship in the East Indies of Sir Wm. Parker – 25 Aug. 1842, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the same station – 17 March, 1843, again to the Cornwallis – and, 1 March, 1845, to the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean, where he now serves.
BOROUGH. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p. 39.)
William Borough was born in 1781.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 July, 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Invincible 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham. He accompanied the same officer shortly afterwards into the Juste 84, attached to the fleet in the Channel; served, from July, 1797, to Aug. 1799, in the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flags in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admirals Sir John Orde and Thos. Lennox Frederick; and, on joining the Penelope 36, Capt. Hon. Hen. Blackwood, took part in the blockade of Malta, and was present, 31 March, 1800, at the capture, after a furious action, of the French 80-gun ship Guillaume Tell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès. Mr. Borough, who passed his examination in the following Sept., subsequently removed for a brief period to the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Lord Keith, by whom he was promoted, 10 Feb. 1801, to a Lieutenancy in the Modeste, armée en flûte, Capt. Hinton. For his services during the ensuing campaign in Egypt, where he landed part of the 42nd Highlanders, and was actively employed until the close of the hostilities, Mr. Borough received, in common with other officers, a gold medal from the Grand Seignor. The Modeste, to which he had been confirmed on 30 July in the same year, being paid off at the peace, he next joined, 27 Aug. 1803, the Curlew 16, Capt. Jas. Murray Northey – 12 Nov. 1804, L’Espiégle 16, Capt. Morris – and, 7 Dec. 1805, the Princess Royal 98, Capt. Reynolds – severally employed on the North Sea, Cork, and Channel stations. He left the last-named ship in Feb. 1807; and afterwards commanded the Nepean cutter, of 8 guns, on the coast of Ireland. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List, 12 June, 1843; and on the Senior, 21 Aug. 1846.
Commander Borough married a first cousin of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, by whom he has had issue. One of his sons, Richard, Fst.-cl. Vol. of the Redwing, Capt. Clavering, was blown up in that vessel on the coast of Africa, at the age of 14; another, Thomas, died in the Upper School at Greenwich.
BORROWMAN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
William Borrowman entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1805, as A.B. on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell; attained the rating of Midshipman 2 March, 1806; and was employed in blockading the Texel until 1807, when he attended the expedition to Copenhagen. We subsequently (on the Nassau’s hard-wrought extrication from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) find him present, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, 22 March, 1808, off the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. From Nov. 1809, until April, 1814, Mr. Borrowman served, as Master’s Mate, on board the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley, and during that period, in the participation of much active service on the Mediterranean station, assisted in taking, 27 Nov. 1811, the French frigate La Corceyre, mounting 28 guns; and witnessed the reduction, in July and Oct. 1813, of Fiumé and Trieste. He afterwards accompanied Capt. Rowley, on his advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and nomination to the Chief Command at the Nore, into the Namur 74; while serving in which ship he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 Feb. 1815.. Being next appointed, on 3 April following, to the Daphne 22, Capt. Jas. Green, he cruized on the Leith station and in the Bay of Biscay until Sept. in the same year, when he returned to port, and was paid off; He has not since been afloat.
BORTHWICK. (Commander, 1818. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Alexander Borthwick entered the Navy, 13 Feb. 1795, as Midshipman, on board La Seine frigate, Capt. Robt. M‘Douall, and, from April, 1796, to Nov. 1799, served with the same officer in the Ganges 74, in which ship he was present at the reduction of Ste. Lucie, in May, 1796. He next joined the Triton 32, Capts. John Gore and Robt. Lewis Fitzgerald, employed in the Channel and off the coast of Spain, and was made Lieutenant, 12 Feb. 1802, into the Cambridge 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Pasley at Plymouth. He left that ship in May following; and was subsequently appointed, 24 Aug. 1803, to the Zealand, bearing the flag, at the Nore, of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley – 3 July, 1805, to the Zealous 74, Capts. John Okes Hardy, John Giffard, Wm. Pierrepont, and Thos. Boys, to which ship he continued attached, in the Baltic and Mediterranean, off the coasts of France, Portugal, and Spain, and at the defence of Cadiz, until he invalided in Aug. 1814 – and, 20 Nov. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the Ramillies 74, flag-ship, on the Leith station, of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope. He was paid off in Sept. 1818, and advanced to his present rank 7 Dec. following. Since that period he has been unemployed.
BOSANQUET. (Captain, 1846.)
Charles John Bosanquet, born 5 May, 1807, is fifth son of the late Sam. Bosanquet, Esq., F.R.S., of Forest House, co. Essex, and Dingestow Court, co. Monmouth, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for those shires, by Laetitia Philippa, youngest daughter of Jas. Whatman, Esq., of Vinters, co. Kent; brother of Mr. Bosanquet, the banker of Lombard-street; and nephew of the late Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, P.C., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
This officer, who entered the Navy 5 May, 1821, we first find serving on the coast of Africa, as Senior Mate of the Black Joke tender, of 2 guns, 18-pounders, and 48 men, in which he particularly signalised himself, 25 April, 1831, at the capture, after an action of about four hours and a half, of the slave-brig Marinereto, mounting five 24-pounders, with a crew of 75 men, of whom 13 were killed and 15 wounded. The Black Joke had only 1 killed and 5 wounded, including, however, Mr. Bosanquet, who received a cutlass-wound in the neck while in the act of boarding, and was for his conduct made Lieutenant, 15 Aug. following, into the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes. His next appointments were, 19 July, 1833 Pallas 42, Capt. Wm. Walpole – 16 July, 1834, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the President 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn on the North America and West India station -and, 11 Sept. 1835, to the command of the Leveret brig,
