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CARMICHAEL—CARNAC—CARNEGIE—CARPENTER.
Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, with whom, on removing to the Colossus 74, he was present, as Midshipman, at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. In Jan. 1806, he became Master’s-Mate of the Amazon 38, Capt. Wm. Parker, and, on 13 March following, assisted, in company with the London 98, at the capture, after a long running-fight and a loss to the Amazon of 3 men killed and 6 wounded, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. A few days after passing his examination, Mr. Carleton was promoted, 18 July, 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the Téméraire 98, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore; subsequently to which we find him joining, in the course of 1812 – the Union 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, at Plymouth – Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean – and Royal George, bearing the flag on that station of Vice-Admiral Pickmore. He came home and was paid off in July, 1814; was afterwards appointed, 6 Jan. 1824, First-Lieutenant of the Jupiter 60, flagship at Halifax of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake; and attained his present rank, on his arrival in England as Acting-Commander of the Rifleman of 18 guns, 2 Dec. 1826. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Carleton married, in 1832, Rosamond, daughter of the late General Leonard Shafto Orde, of Weetwood Hall, co. Northumberland.
CARMICHAEL. (Commander, 1846.)
Thomas Carmichael entered the Navy 22 June, 1832; passed his examination in 1836; and for his services in China, where he creditably commanded the Louisa tender, at the first and second capture of Canton, and landed at the taking of Amoy and Chinghae, was awarded a commission dated 8 June, 1841.[1] From 28 Feb. 1843, until promoted to his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, he appears to have been further employed in the Curaçoa 24, Capts. Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley and Wm. Broughton, on the South American station. He is now on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
CARNAC. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 19; h-p., 18.)
John Rivett-Carnac, born 28 June, 1796, is youngest son of the late Jas. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., Chief Member of Council, and subsequently Acting-Governor of Bombay (a descendant of the ancient family of the Rivetts of Suffolk, whose immediate ancestor settled at Derby in 1540), by Henrietta, daughter of Jas. Fisher, Esq., of Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, and great-grand-daughter of Bishop Butts; grandson of Thos. Rivett, Esq., M.P., of Mappleton Hall, High Sheriff for co. Derby in 1757; brother of the present Sir Jas. Rivett-Carnac, Bart., formerly M.P. for Sandwich, and late Governor of Bombay; and brother-in-law of Capt. Wm. Fisher, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth in Feb. 1810; and embarked, 29 April, 1312, as Midshipman, on board the Junon 38, Capt. Jas. Sanders; in the boats of which frigate we find him assisting at the capture of two American schooners of 6 and 8 guns, co-operating also in the various acts of hostility committed by Sir Geo. Cockburn in the Chesapeake, and contributing, under Lieut. Philip Westphal, to the defeat of 10 gun-boats which, in July, 1813, attacked the Martin 18, when aground in Delaware Bay. In June of the latter year Mr. Rivett-Carnac further participated in the attack on Craney Island and in the destruction of Hampton. In Oct. following he joined, with Capt. Sanders, the Sybille 38, commanded subsequently by Capt. Thos. Forrest, whom he accompanied to the latitude of Greenland in quest of Commodore Rodgers. He was next in succession transferred to the Berwick 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, on the Mediterranean station, and to the Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, both flag-ships of Lord Exmouth, under whom he passed his examination 13 May, 1816, and attended the ensuing expedition to Algiers. We afterwards find him serving as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Inconstant 36, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, on the coast of Africa, and in the Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, guardship at Portsmouth. He was promoted, 1 Oct. 1818, to a Lieutenancy in the Albion 74, bearing the flag, in the Mediterranean, of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and subsequently joined – 23 Jan. 1819, and 7 Nov. 1821, the Racehorse 18, Capts. Hon. Geo. Pryse Campbell and Chas. Abbot, and Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, on the same station – 22 Aug. 1825, the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, fitting at Deptford – and, 23 Jan. 1826, the Success 28, Capt. Jas. Stirling, with whom he appears to have been employed, early in 1827, in examining the western coast of Australia, previously to the establishment of the colony at Swan River. His advancement to the rank of Commander took place 30 April, 1827, and his appointment to the Wellesley 74, as Second-Captain to Sir Edw. Codrington, in his last evolutionary cruize, 21 Sept. 1830. He left that ship 21 Jan. 1832; attained his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and has not since been afloat.
Capt. Rivett-Carnac married, in March, 1826, Maria Jane, daughter of Sam. Davis, Esq., of Portland Place, and of Birdhurst Lodge, Surrey, by whom he has issue six children. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CARNEGIE, M.P., K.S.F. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 13; h-p., 8.)
The Honourable Swynfen Thomas Carnegie, born 8 March, 1813, is youngest son (by Mary, only daughter of the late Wm. Henry Ricketts, Esq., of Longwood, co. Hants, and niece of the first Earl St. Vincent) of William, seventh Earl of Northesk, Admiral of the Red, G.C.B., who had the honour of being third in command at the battle of Trafalgar, was afterwards Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and died Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, 28 May, 1831, in his 74th year. He is brother (with the present Earl of Northesk) of George, Lord Rosehill, who was lost, in his 16th year, on board the Blenheim 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Troubridge, in 1807; and nephew of Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, R.N., who was drowned by the upsetting of his barge while in command of the Magnificent, of 74 guns, 26 Jan. 1805. His grandfather, George, sixth Earl of Northesk, died Admiral of the White in 1792.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Aug. 1826; and, after serving, as Midshipman, on board the Undaunted 46, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford, St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, and Raleigh 18, Capt. Abraham Mills Hawkins, obtained a commission 21 April, 1832. From 9 Nov. following until promoted to the rank of Commander, 28 June, 1838, he was further employed under Commodore Lord John Hay, latterly as Senior-Lieutenant, in the Castor 36, and North Star 28. For his exertions during that period, as connected with the operations of the civil war in Spain, Mr. Carnegie was rewarded with the order of San Fernando. We subsequently find him in command, from 10 Aug. 1842 until Feb. 1844, of the Orestes 18, and Devastation steam-sloop, on the North American, West India, and Mediterranean stations. Since the date of his last promotion, 10 June, 1845, he has been on half-pay.
Capt. Carnegie, who has been in Parliament since 1841 as member for the borough of Stafford, was for some months in 1846 a Lord of the Treasury.
CARPENTER. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 11; h-p., 26.)
Charles Carpenter entered the Navy, 17 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Newfoundland, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 29 July, 1811, and continued to serve in the same ship, the Bellerophon 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, and Hyperion 36,
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1505, 2511, and Gaz. 1842, pp. 82, 396.
