Tarragona in June, 1811, and the destruction, in April, 1814, of a 74-gun ship, three brigs-of-war, and several smaller vessels near Bordeaux), he joined the Queen 74, Capt. John Coode, again on the Mediterranean station, where he continued employed with the latter officer in the Albion 74, under the flag of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose until May, 1819. He was present in the ship just mentioned at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. In Sept. 1819 he was received on board the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, fitting for South America; on his return whence he was transferred, in Sept. 1822, to the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, and sailed for the West Indies; on which station he was made Lieutenant, 16 July, 1823, into the Scout 18, Capt. Jas. Wigston. He left the Scout in Feb. 1824; and was subsequently appointed – 10 Feb. 1827, for upwards of 12 months, to the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, lying at Sheerness – 19 Feb. 1830, to the Coast Blockade, in which he remained for a short period, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the Talavera 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 11 July, 1832, to the Castor 36, Capts. Sir Rich. Grant and Lord John Hay, under whom he was for a few months employed on particular service – 18 July, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 5 April, 1836, as Senior, to the Pembroke 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, on the Lisbon station, whence he returned in the summer of 1837 – 10 Dec. 1839 and 1 Oct. 1840, to the Howe 120, and, as First, to the Camperdown 104, flag-ships of Sir Henry Digby and Sir Edw. Brace at Sheerness – and 7 Jan. 1843, in the capacity last named (after about a year’s half-pay), to the Tartarus steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Fred. Bullock. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 25 Sept. in the latter year, he has not been afloat. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WELLESLEY. (Captain, 1844.)
George Greville Wellesley passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 22 April, 1838; and was appointed – 21 Jan. 1839, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 30 March following, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the same station – and 17 Nov. 1841, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, fitting for the East Indies. In the Castor, of which ship he became ultimately First-Lieutenant, he took part in 1840 in the operations on the coast of Syria, including the attacks upon Caiffa, Jaffa, Tsour, and St. Jean d’Acre. Previously to the bombardment of Caiffa he ably assisted in placing an Ottoman frigate in the position she was to occupy; he afterwards landed and aided, in full view of 500 of the Egyptian army, in throwing into the sea the 5 guns of a castle which commanded the town.[1] In command of the guard-boats stationed at the pass of Narcourra, halfway to Acre, for the purpose of distributing arms to the mountaineers, he captured 2 officers and 43 men.[2] While serving in the East Indies in the Thalia, Mr. Wellesley was made Commander, 16 April, 1842, into the Childers 16. Soon after the paying off of that vessel he was advanced, 2 Dec. 1844, to his present rank. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
WELLINGTON. (Commander, 1842.)
Henry James Wellington was born in July, 1813, at Hay Castle, Brecknockshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1825, on board the Warspite 76, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, whom he followed into the Boadicea 46 and Java 52, all flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, on the East India station, whence he returned to England in the Rainbow 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous. He served afterwards in the Mediterranean and West Indies, again in the Rainbow, under Sir John Franklin, and in the Belvidera 42, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, and Vernon 50 and President 52, flag-ships of Sir Geo. Cockburn. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 12 Aug. 1834; and was subsequently appointed – 4 Sept. 1834 and 12 Dec. 1835, to the Racer 16 and Thunder surveying-vessel, Capts. Jas. Hope and Rich Owen, both in the West Indies – in Dec. 1836, as First, to the Gannet 16, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, on the same station – in 1837, for a passage home, to the Belvidera 42, Capt. Chas. Burrough Strong – 2 March, 1833, again as Senior, to the Hazard 18, Capts. Jas. Wilkinson and Hon. Chas. Gilbert John Brydone Elliott, under the latter of whom he assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – and 20 Oct. 1841, to the Queen 110, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. In honour of Her Majesty’s visit to the latter ship when lying at Spithead, on the eve of her departure for the Mediterranean, he was advanced to the rank of Commander 7 March, 1842. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Wellington married 10 Oct. 1843. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
WELLS. (Retired Commander, 1834. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Andrew Wells was born 17 April, 1774, in Aberdeenshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Nov. 1795, as A.B., on board the Carnatic 74, Capt. Rich. Grindall, lying at Plymouth. Removing with Capt. Grindall, in Feb. 1796, to the Colossus 74, commanded next by Capt. Geo. Murray, he fought in that ship in the action off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797, and served in her boats, in the course of the same year, in several attacks upon the Cadiz flotilla. The Colossus being wrecked, 10 Dec. 1798, on a ledge of rocks in St. Mary’s Road, Scilly, Mr. Wells, who had already attained the rating of Midshipman, rejoined Capt. Murray shortly afterwards on board the Achille 74. In that ship, and in the Edgar 74 (part of the fleet engaged under Lord Nelson at the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801) and the London 98, he continued employed with the same Captain on the Channel and Baltic stations, latterly in the capacity of Master’s Mate, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. He was subsequently appointed, in succession – 11 May, 1802, to the Gannet 16, Capts. Burrowes, Bass, Stevenson, and Bateman, in which vessel he cruized in the Channel, united in Admiral Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen in 1807, and went with convoy to the Mediterranean – 30 May, 1808, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Cunningham, stationed in the Baltic – 8 Feb. 1809, to the Naijaden 36, Capt. Cottrell, employed in the North Sea and West Indies – and, 4 May, 1812, to the Nymphe 38, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, on the coast of North America, whence he invalided 19 Oct. 1813. In 1809 he commanded the boats of the Naijaden at the capture of a Russian fort on the coast of Lapland, and of several vessels reposing under its protection.[3] He accepted his present rank 25 March, 1834; and was admitted to the Out-Pension of Greenwich Hospital 26 Oct. 1848. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WELLS. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Edward Francis Wells entered the Navy 28 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1819; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 July, 1829. He served, from 4 of the latter month until the spring of 1831, in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; was employed next, from 13 May, 1833, until April, 1836, in the San Josef 110 and Royal Adelaide 104, flag-ships of Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth; and has been in charge, since 4 Oct. 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Wells is married, and has issue.
