incapable of serving afloat. He applied in consequence for employment in the Coast Blockade; and on 8 Dec. 1830 he was accordingly appointed a Supernumerary of the Hyperion depot-ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. For his services during the next six months he was placed, on the abolition of the Coast Blockade, in command, 5 April, 1831, of a station in the Coast Guard at Hastings, where he remained until 19 March, 1839. His exertions during that period in the suppression of smuggling were so great that they not only elicited the acknowledgments of the Comptroller-General, but attracted the notice of Alderman Wilson, who occasionally made visits to the coast, and who, on being elected Lord Mayor, testified his admiration of them by presenting Mr. Stone with the appointment, which he still holds, of Harbour-Master of the Port of London.
The Lieutenant married, 27 July, 1831, Arabella, second daughter of Dr. Kent, Surgeon at one time of Greenwich Hospital, and afterwards of Deptford Dockyard.
STOPFORD. (Commander, 1841.)
Edward Stopford was born 20 Aug. 1809. He is a younger brother of Capt. Rich. Henry Stopford, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Feb. 1823; and embarked, in Feb.- 1825, as Midshipman, on board the Boadicea 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane in the East Indies, where he took part in the operations connected with the war in Ava. In Dec. 1826 he removed to the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and after circumnavigating the globe in that ship (the first of her class that ever did so), he was received, in Aug. 1827, on board the Isis 50, bearing the broad pendant in the Mediterranean of Commodore Sir Thos. Staines; under whom we find him, 31 Jan. 1828, contributing to the capture of the piratical island of Carabusa, and to the destruction there of a large number of brigs, schooners, and other craft. In 1829 he joined the Raleigh 18, Capt. Sir Wm. Dickson, also in the Mediterranean; and towards the close of the same year, having passed his examination in the preceding Feb., he was appointed Mate of the Winchester 52, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. He served next, until the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 12 Dec. 1831, as Acting-Lieutenant in the Mersey 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, Pickle schooner (commanded by himself and employed in the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade), and Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Metcalfe Currie (acting), all on the station last named; and he was afterwards appointed, in the Mediterranean – 30 Dec. 1833 and 17 March, 1837, to the Caledonia 120 and Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ships of Sir Josias Rowley and Sir Robt. Stopford – 20 Feb. 1838, to the command of the Confiance steamer, in which vessel he served on the coast of Syria – and 11 May, 1841, again to the Princess Charlotte, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir R. Stopford. On the paying off of the latter ship he was advanced, 20 July, 1841, to the rank of Commander. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Stopford married, at Malta, 6 Aug. 1840, Julia Maria, eldest daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Wilbraham, R.N. (1809), by whom he has issue.
STOPFORD. (Captain, 1841.)
James John Stopford was born 17 April, 1817. He is next brother of Capt. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Feb. 1829; obtained his first commission 5 Oct. 1837; and was appointed, 17 of the same month, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of his father. Sir Robt. Stopford, to whom he was nominated, 21 Feb. 1838, Flag-Lieutenant. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 18 Feb. 1840; appointed, five days afterwards, to the Zebra 16, also in the Mediterranean; and posted 14 May, 1841. In the Zebra he obtained the grateful thanks of Capt. Houston Stewart, the senior officer present, for the cordial support and assistance he afforded in the attack upon Tortosa 25 Sept. 1840; on which occasion, we learn, the precision of the Zebra’s fire was quite astonishing.[1] On 4 Dec. following Capt. Stopford was wrecked during a gale of wind off Caiffa; but he was honourably acquitted by court-martial of all blame on the occasion. From 13 Nov. 1844, until paid off in 1848, he commanded the Amazon 26, off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean. Agent – J. Chippendale.
STOPFORD. (Capt., 1825. f-p., 14; h-p., 23.)
The Honourable Montagu Stopford, born 11 Nov. 1798, is fourth son of John George, third Earl of Courtown, K.P., by Mary, eldest daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch; brother (with the present peer) of Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Edw. Stopford, who died 5 July, 1840; and nephew of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Oct. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Scipion 74, Capt. Jas. Johnson, bearing the flag at the Cape of Good Hope of his uncle Hon. Robt. Stopford, under whom, in the ensuing year, he assisted as Midshipman at the conquest of the island of Java. After serving for 12 months at the Cape with Capt. Henderson Bain in the Lion 64, he returned home in the early part of 1813 in the President 38, Capt. Sam. Warren. On his arrival he was placed as a Supernumerary in the Trent, Capt. Jones, lying at Cork; and in the course of the same year he was sent in the Leonidas 38, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour, to the West Indies, where he remained until Sept. 1814. He next, in June and Dec. 1815, joined the Tonnant 80, fitting at Plymouth for the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell, and Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell. In the latter ship he accompanied Lord Amherst in his embassy to China, and was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on his passage home, 18 Feb. 1817. In Oct. 1819, at which period he had been serving for six months on the Halifax station in the Newcastle 60, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, he was presented with a commission dated 17 July preceding. He was appointed, 24 Feb. 1820, to the William and Mary yacht, Capts. Andrew Sproule, John Phillimore, and Wm. Bowles, employed in attendance on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; was promoted, 29 Jan. 1822, to the rank of Commander; and on 8 April, 1825, after having served for about 14 months in that capacity in the Algerine 10, in the Mediterranean, was advanced to Post-rank. He subsequently, from 1 Aug. 1842 until paid off in 1846, commanded the Pique 36 on the North America and West India station.
Capt. Stopford married, 25 Aug. 1827, Cordelia Winifreda, second daughter of Major-General Sir Geo. Whitmore, Kt., K.C.H., then Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers in the island of Malta. By that lady he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
STOPFORD. (Captain, 1845.)
Richard Henry Stopford, born 22 Nov. 1803, is second son of the late Hon. and Rev. Rich. Bruce Stopford, Chaplain to the Queen, Canon of Windsor, Prebendary of Hereford, and Rector of Barton Segrave, co. Northampton, by Hon. Eleanor Powys, sister of Lord Lilford. He is brother of Commander Edw. Stopford, R.N.; nephew of the late Admiral Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; and grandson of James, second Earl of Courtown.
This officer passed his examination in 1824; obtained his first commission 31 Dec. 1826; served as Flag-Lieutenant to Hon. Sir R. Stopford in the Victory 104, at Portsmouth, from 30 April, 1827, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 26 Feb. 1830; and from 18 Dec. 1841, until paid off in 1844, was employed on the South American station in the
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2607.
