the latter period until presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission bearing date 10 of the preceding March, he was again employed in the Channel in the Goldfinch and Pheasant sloops, both commanded by Capt. Edm. Waller. Since 7 Sept. 1836, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard, he is married, and has issue.
SPURWAY. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
John Spurway was born 28 Feb. 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Davidge Gould and Chas. Boyles, stationed in the Channel; and from April, 1806, until Aug. 1812, was employed in the Belleisle and Northumberland 74’s, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Hon. Henry Hotham. In the Windsor Castle he assisted, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Brest; and in the Belleisle, after pursuing a French squadron to the West Indies, and encountering a violent hurricane, he contributed, 14 Sept. 1806, to the destruction, off Cape Henry, of the 74-gun ship Impétueux. In 1809, being at the time in the Northumberland, he aided, with a party of seamen, in refitting in Carthagena harbour, and in then conveying in safety to Gibraltar, the Ferdinand VII., a Spanish three-decker; and on 22 May, 1812, he was present, in company with the Growler gun-brig, at the destruction, at the entrance of L’Orient, of the French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck, whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. After he left the latter ship Mr. Spurway served – from Dec. 1812 until April, 1813, in the Surprise 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the West Indies – from Aug. 1813 until Jan. 1814, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the Devonshire 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly – from 8 April, 1814, until he invalided 4 Oct. following, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Emulous 14, Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, again in the West Indies – and from 22 Feb. until 1 June, 1815, as Lieutenant (he had taken up, on leaving the Emulous, a commission dated 8 July, 1814), in the Myrmidon 20, Capts. Wm. Paterson and Robt. Gambier, on the Channel station. He has since been on half-pay.
SQUIRE. (Retired Captain, 1843. f-p., 15; h-p., 37.)
Charles Frederick Squire entered the Navy, 26 July, 1795, as L.M., on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. Matthew Squire, stationed in the North Sea, where, in the following Sept., he attained the rating of Midshipman. After serving for 12 months at Plymouth in the Cambridge 74, Capt. Boger, he joined, in March, 1797, the Atlas 98, Capts. M. Squire, Shuldham Peard, and Theophilus Jones, attached to the Channel fleet. He served next on the Jamaica station, from July, 1799, until Oct. 1802, the last five months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Décade frigate, Capts. Wallace and Wm. Geo. Rutherford, Sans Pareil 80, flag-ship of Lord Hugh Seymour, and Décade again, Capt. W. G. Rutherford. On 26 Nov. in the latter year he was officially promoted. He obtained an appointment in the Sea Fencibles 26 March, 1804; was employed, from 22 May, 1805, until 6 Oct. 1810, in the Montagu 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and Rich. Hussey Moubray, in the Channel and Mediterranean; assumed acting-command, 3 Oct. 1811, of the Termagant sloop; was confirmed, 4 Dec. following, into the Onyx; and commanded for a short time, in 1812, the Hound bomb. While serving in the Montagu he assisted at the evacuation of Scylla, a fortified rock in the Faro of Messina, co-operated with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and aided at the reduction of Sta. Maura. In the Termagant, Onyx, and Hound he was stationed principally in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar and Cadiz. He accepted his present rank 9 Aug. 1843.
SQUIRE. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
William Squire entered the Navy 19 July, 1805; passed his examination in 1814; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825; was appointed, 16 Nov. following and 19 Feb. 1830, to the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Coast-Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot; and, from 15 April, 1831, until the early part of 1834, was employed in the Coast Guard. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
STACPOOLE. (Commander, 1818. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Michael Stacpoole died about the commencement of 1847. He was youngest son of Geo. Stacpoole, Esq., of Cragbrien, co. Clare, by Jane, daughter of Andrew Lysaght, Esq., of Kilcoman, co. Clare, who married Mary, sister of Hon. Matthias Finucane, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in Ireland. He was brother of the present Very Reverend Wm. Henry Stacpoole, D.D., of Cragbrien, Dean of Kilfenora; and of the late Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Stacpoole, of the 45th Regt.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Thos. Bertie. In that ship, of which he became Midshipman in Nov. 1805, he served for two years and eight months on the West India, Halifax, and Channel stations. He then joined the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of the Hon. M. De Courcy, with whom he sailed in the spring of 1809 for the Brazils in the Diana 38, and continued there employed, in the Foudroyant 80, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Jan. 1812. In the Tonnant he accompanied Sir John Duckworth in pursuit of a French squadron to the West Indies and coast of America, and assisted, in Jan. 1809, in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna. From 1813 until May, 1815, he served in the Centurion 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Tenedos 38, Capt. Hyde Parker, Chesapeake 38, Capts. Alex. Gordon and Geo. Burdett, and Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, all on the Halifax station, where he was further, from 9 Feb. 1818 until promoted to the rank of Commander 7 Dec. following, employed in the Grasshopper 18, Capt. Henry Forbes. He did not afterwards, we believe, go afloat.
Commander Stacpoole married, 29 Oct. 1829, Charlotte, daughter of Wm. Casaubon Purdon, Esq., of Tinerana, co. Clare, Major in the 7th Dragoon Guards, and grandniece of Henry Prettie, first Lord Dunalley. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
STANBURY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 27.)
William Stanbury entered the Navy, 4 July, 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick receiving-ship at Plymouth, Lieut.-Commanders Sam. Gordon and Jas. Leach; and from the following Dec. until Sept. 1808 was employed, the chief part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, in the Turbulent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer, and Solebay 32, Capt. Robt. Howe Bromley, on the Downs, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations. He then served for two years and five months in the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Lord Gambier in the Channel; and he next, in the course of 1811-12-13, joined, on the Home station, the Cyane 22, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, Orestes sloop, Capt. Wm. Smith, Boyne 98, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, Teazer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Julian, and Achates 16, Capts. Isaac Hawkins Morrison (whom see for capture of the French frigates La Trave and Clorinde) and Thos. Lamb Poulden Laugharne. He left the vessel last mentioned in Oct. 1814; was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815; and since 27 July, 1841, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
His eldest son, William Parrymore Stanbury, married, in 1842, Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Commander Joseph Priest, R.N.
