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BUCHANAN—BUCHANNAN—BUCKLE.
BUCHANAN. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
William George Buchanan died 2 March, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 6 Aug. 1813; passed his examination in 1820; was promoted into the Icarus 10, Capt. John Geo. Graham, on the Jamaica station, 12 Jan. 1825; subsequently joined, 21 Aug. 1828, the Semiramis 24, flag-ship at Cork of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget; obtained command of the Firebrand steam-yacht, 11 Nov. 1832; was superseded from that vessel in the early part of 1834; became First-Lieutenant of the St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington, 17 Oct. 1842; and in 1843 was again placed on half-pay. He was not afterwards employed.
BUCHANAN. (Retired Captain, 1846. f-p., 13; h-p., 39.)
William Buchanan was born 18 Nov. 1777.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1795, as A.B., on board the Narcissus 20, Capt. Percy Fraser, and, after an intermediate employment off the Bahama Islands, was discharged from the service, 19 Aug. 1796, in consequence of a severe wound, occasioned by the accidental explosion of a gun, which deprived him of his eye-sight for the space of a twelvemonth. On 24 Dec. 1799, however, he resumed his profession in the Alarm 32, Capt. Robt. Rolles, on the Jamaica station, where he assisted, as Master’s Mate, at the capture of several privateers and other armed vessels. He next served, from Feb. 1801, until the peace, in the Ruby 64, Capts. Solomon Ferris, Sir Edw. Berry, and Henry Hill, attached to the force in the North and Baltic Seas; and in June, 1803, he joined the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, under whom we find him present, 21 Oct. 1805, at the battle of Trafalgar, and, at the close of that glorious conflict, contributing to the safety of the San Ildefonso. On 24 of the same month (having but a few days previously passed his examination) he was promoted into the Tonnant 80, Capt. Chas. Tyler, refitting at Portsmouth. Lieut. Buchannan, who next served from 22 Jan. 1806, to 18 Dec. 1811, in the Audacious 74, Capts. John Seamouth, Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, and Donald Campbell, principally on the Home and West India stations, was, in 1808, employed in landing the army under Sir Harry Burrard and Sir John Moore on the coast of Portugal, and officiated for several days as Assistant Beach-Master at the embarkation of the troops after the battle of Corunna, in Jan. 1809. His last appointment was, 25 March, 1812, as First-Lieutenant, to the Dictator 64, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, in which ship, supported by the Calypso 18, he participated, 6 July following, in the capture and destruction, within the rocks of Mardoe, on the Norwegian coast, of a Danish squadron, consisting of the Nayaden of 48 guns, the Laland, Samsoe, and 'Kiel', sloops, and several gun-boats. For his share in that brilliant exploit, which occasioned the Dictator a loss of 5 men killed and 24 wounded, and the enemy of 300 killed and wounded, Lieut. Buchannan, who proved himself a most gallant and excellent officer, was advanced to the rank of Commander on 18 of the same month.[1] He assumed the rank of Captain on the retired list 12 Feb. 1846.
Commander Buchannan married, in 1797, Miss Ann Arthur, and has issue a son and three daughters. His grandson, Mr. Wm. Buchannan Alexander, was lately serving as a Naval Cadet on board the Vestal 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, in the East Indies.
BUCKLE. (Captain, 1845.)
Claude Henry Mason Buckle is second son of Vice-Admiral Matthew Buckle.
This officer passed his examination in 1823; was promoted into the Ganges 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, on the South American station, 17 April, 1827; joined, 8 Dec. 1829, the North Star 28, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, employed in the West Indies; was appointed, 2 Dec. 1833, to the San Josef 110, as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth; and attained the rank of Commander, at the expiration of the latter officer’s term of service, 4 May, 1836. He was invested with the command, 7 Dec. 1841, of the Growler steam-sloop, on the African station; and on paying that vessel off was presented with a Post-commission, dated 6 Nov. 1845. Capt. Buckle has since been unemployed. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
BUCKLE. (Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 24; h-p., 46.)
Matthew Buckle, born 3 May, 1770, at Nork House, Banstead, co. Surrey – a direct descendant of Sir Christ. Buckle, Lord Mayor of London in 1593 – is only son of the late Matthew Buckle, Esq. (who distinguished himself in the successive command of eight line-of-battle ships, and died an Admiral of the Blue, 7 July, 1784, at the age of sixty-eight), by Hannah, daughter of Isaac Hughes, Esq., of Garret’s House, Banstead.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1777, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Dispatch, Capt. Christ. Mason, in which vessel, and in the Delaware, commanded by the same Captain, he served, on the coast of North America, until Nov. 1779. He next, in April, 1786, joined, as A.B., the Salisbury 50, Commodore John Elliot, employed off Newfoundland; attained the rating of Midshipman in June, 1787; afterwards served for a few months, in 1788-9, in the Colossus 74, Capt. Hugh Cloberry Christian, guardship at Portsmouth, and Scout brig, Capt. Chas. Cobb, at Deal; passed his examination 10 Feb. in the latter year; and, on 21 Jan. 1791, was promoted, from the Centurion 50, flag-ship at Jamaica of Rear- Admiral Philip Affleck, into the Diana 28, Capt. Thos. Macnamara Russell, on the same station, where he removed, 13 March, 1792, to the Falcon 14, Capt. Jas. Bissett. His next appointment was, 27 Feb. 1793, to the Royal Sovereign 100, bearing the flags, successively, of Vice-Admiral Thos. Graves and Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, under the former of whom he was present, as fifth-Lieutenant, in Lord Howe’s actions of 29 May and 1 June, 1794, on which occasions, although deprived by rheumatism of the use of his limbs, he continued most efficiently to discharge his duty at his quarters, the after-half of the lowerdeck, by causing himself to be carried about in the arms of a seaman. On 10 March, 1795, Lieut. Buckle became First of the Marlborough 74, Capts. Henry Nichols and Sir Jas. Saumarez, attached to the fleet in the Channel, and, on 6 Dec. 1796, he received his second promotal commission. He subsequently commanded the Comet store-ship, on the Jamaica and Halifax stations, from 24 Nov. 1800, until Sept. 1802, during which period he was advanced, 29 April, 1802, to Post-rank. He was next appointed, 2 May, 1804, to the Portsmouth district of Sea Fencibles, the superintendence of which he retained (owing to his inability to procure a ship, in consequence of a mistaken idea which, it is believed, prevailed at the Admiralty in regard to the magnitude of his circumstances) until the discharge of the corps in Feb. 1810. On 16 Aug. in the latter year he was nominated, on the error being explained away by Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway, Flag-Captain to that officer in the Adamant 44, on the Leith station, where he removed with him, 14 Sept. 1813, to the Latona 38. In Nov. following, on Sir Wm. Hope’s succession to the chief command, Capt. Buckle was superseded. His sight from that period continued to decline until about 1833, since when he has been totally blind. He became a Rear-Admiral 17 Aug. 1840 and attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
The Vice-Admiral married, 2 Feb. 1799, Henrietta, second daughter of Henry Reveley, Esq., of Clifford-street, London, and Blackheath, co. Kent, a Commissioner of Excise, and by that lady has (with four daughters, of whom the third, Georgiana,
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 1362.
