of Sir Philip Chas. Durham, both ia the West Indies – and, 22 July in the same year, to the acting-command of the Chanticleer sloop. In the Meleager, Magicienne, Néréide, and La Hogue, Mr. Tupman was First-Lieutenant. In command of the barge, cutter, and jollyboat of the Meleager, containing 41 men, he attacked, 8 Feb. 1808, boarded in a very gallant manner, and carried (at anchor under the shore of St. Jago de Cuba, and perfectly prepared) the French felucca-rigged privateer Le Renard, mounting 1 long 6-pounder, with a large proportion of muskets, and 47 men, 18 of whom jumped overboard.[1] He was wrecked in the same frigate on the Barebush Key, near Port Royal, 30 July, 1808; and was present, we believe, in the Magicienne in the operations alluded to in our memoir of Sir L. Curtis, which terminated with the self-destruction of that ship at the entrance of Port Sud-Est, Isle of France. In the Chanticleer, in the command of which vessel he was confirmed 9 Oct. 1815, he was mentioned by Sir P. C. Durham for the admirable position he took up, and the manner in which he thereby facilitated the landing of the troops, at the reduction of Guadeloupe.[2] He left the Chanticleer in March, 1816; and did not afterwards go afloat.
Commander Tupman married, 31 Oct. 1837, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Alex. Lyon Emerson, Esq., M.D., of West Retford House, Notts, and Ulverscroft Abbey, co. Leicester, who entered the army in 1795, served as Physician to the Forces in Egypt, in Spain, at the Cape of Good Hope, &c., and became an Inspector of Hospitals. He has left issue three sons and one daughter.
TURBERVILLE. (Commander, 1814.)
Edmund Turberville is the son of a clergyman. This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in 1803; and embarked, in 1806, on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Thos. Browne, bearing the flag of Hon. Michael De Courcy; with whom, after serving off Cape Finisterre and in the Channel, and assisting in embarking the remains of General Moore’s army at Corunna, he removed as Midshipman, in March, 1809, to the Foudroyant 80, and sailed for the coast of Brazil, where he was nominated, 18 May, 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hyacinth 18, Capt. John Carter. In the following Dec, having made a voyage to Lisbon and returned to the Brazils, he went back (he had been confirmed a Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 15 Aug. 1810) to the Foudroyant. He invalided home in May, 1811; and was afterwards, from 28 Dec. in the same year until 7 July, 1812, and from 10 Sept. ensuing until 2 Aug. 1814, employed off Rochefort and Cherbourg, and in the Mediterranean, in his former ship the Tonnant, Capt. Sir John Gore, and in the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling. He was present in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813; and on one occasion, while the Mulgrave was working out of St. Helen’s, with a strong breeze from the southward, he jumped overboard and saved a man who had fallen from the forecastle. On leaving the Mulgrave he took up a Commander’s commission bearing date 15 June, 1814. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Turberville married, 3 June, 1819, Mary, only daughter of the late John Westcar, Esq., of Cuslow, Bucks. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
TURNBULL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 16; h-p., 25.)
Robert Turnbull entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1806, as A.B., on board the Plantagenet 74, in which ship, commanded by Capts. Wm. Bradley, Thos. Eyles, and Robt. Lloyd, he continued employed in the Channel, off the coast of Portugal (whence he witnessed the flight of the Royal House of Braganza), in the Baltic, and on the North American station, as Clerk, Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, until 1814, in May and June of which year he successively joined the Asia 74 and Tonnant 80, bearing each the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. In the ensuing Nov. he went back, in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, to the Plantagenet; and he was in consequence present at the attack upon New Orleans. On his return to England in April, 1815, he found that he had been officially promoted on 18 of the preceding Feb. His last appointments were, 10 Jan. 1824, to the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; and, 31 Oct. 1826, to the Perseus receiving-ship, off the Tower, Capt. Jas. Couch. He has been on half-pay since Jan. 1831.
TURNER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 26; h-p., 13.)
Charles Turner (c) was born 2 Aug. 1795, at Exmouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Aug. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diligent 14; in which vessel he was present, 25 Aug. following, in an action of 2 hours and 48 minutes fought off Scilly with a French brig of 20 guns, who then made off. The British vessel in this affair had her sails and rigging cut to pieces. Mr. Turner served next, for upwards of four years, as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the Woolwich 44. After he had been further employed in the Thisbe, Weymouth, and Snake he was promoted, in Dec. 1815, to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission dated 20 Sept. in that year. He served in the Ramillies 74, Coast Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, from 26 Nov. 1823 until 9 March, 1828; and has been in command, since 7 Feb. 1833, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Turner married, 21 Aug. 1821; Susannah, eldest daughter of the late Arthur Parker, Esq., of Exmouth, by whom he has issue seven children.
TURNER. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 12; h-p., 35.)
Francis John Turner entered the Navy, 12 July, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dorset yacht, Capt. Sir Alex. Schomberg, employed off Dublin in attendance upon the Lord-Lieutenant. He served next on the Home and Mediterranean stations from Feb. 1801 until 1 Feb. 1803, in the Glenmore 44, Capts. John Talbot and John Maitland, and from 23 Sept. in the latter year until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Dec. 1807, in the Melpomène 38, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Sir Peter Parker. In 1804 he assisted, as Midshipman, in twice bombarding the town of Havre-de-Grace. His last appointments afloat were – 30 Dec. 1807, to the Humber, Capt. John Hill, on the Falmouth station – 25 Aug. 1808, to the Comet 18, Capts. Cuthbert Featherstone Daly and Rich. Henry Muddle, employed in the Bay of Biscay, at Newfoundland, and among the Western Islands – 5 June, 1813, after two years of half-pay, to the Goliath 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, from which ship, stationed at first in the West Indies and next on the coast of North America, he was sent, in March, 1814, to the Hospital at Bermuda – and in Sept. of the latter year, for a few months, to the Akbar 50, Capt. Arch. Dickson, on the Halifax station.
TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
James Turner entered the Navy 21 Feb. 1811; passed his examination in 1821; and was made Lieutenant, 28 Aug. 1828, into the Druid 46, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England in the following year. He has since been on half-pay.
TURNER. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
James Howard Turner entered the Navy 10 Aug. 1807; passed his examination in 1814; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825. He was afterwards employed – for some time in 1827 in the Romney troop-ship, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer – from 28 May, 1830, until paid off in the early part of 1832, in the Ganges 84, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, in the Mediterranean – and from 24 Oct. 1835 until 1843 in command of the Ranger Falmouth packet.
