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CHEGWYN—CHESNAYE—CHESSHYRE—CHEYNE—CHICHESTER.
Spithead. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CHEGWYN. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Joseph Chegwyn entered the Navy, 22 July, 1803, as A.B., on board the Egyptienne frigate, Capts. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Hon. Chas. Paget, under the former of whom he assisted at the capture of three privateers, carrying together 46 guns and 296 men, and was present, as coxwain, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805. He joined, as Master’s Mate, in Feb. 1807, the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Miller, in the Channel; proceeded soon afterwards to Copenhagen in the Cambrian 40, Capt. Hon. C. Paget; removed, in March, 1808, to the Leviathan 74, Capt. John Harvey, at Plymouth; and, on next joining Capt. Paget in the Revenge 74, was promoted, after the bombardment of Flushing, to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 Oct. 1809. He continued to serve in the Revenge, latterly at the defence of Cadiz, under Rear-Admiral Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, until transferred, 12 Dec. 1812, to the Mars 74, Capt. Henry Raper, at Portsmouth. His next appointment was, 2 Feb. 1813, to the Warrior 74, Capt. Lord Viscount Torrington, in which ship he escorted the Prince of Orange to Holland in the following Nov. Since 1814 Lieut. Chegwyn has been unemployed.
CHESNAYE. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
John Christian Chesnaye, born 29 April, 1791, is nephew of Admiral John Cochet.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. John Giffard, on the Irish station; became Midshipman, 29 July, 1805, of the Orion 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, one of Nelson’s Victorious fleet in the ensuing battle of Trafalgar; and, after an additional servitude in the Madras 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, joined the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, by whom, subsequently to the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807, he was detached for the purpose of co-operating with the British forces in Egypt, where we find him present at the investment of Rosetta. On next removing to the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, he witnessed, 1 Aug. 1808, the gallant capture of the 10 coasting-vessels at Noli more particularly alluded to in our memoir of Commander Wm. Chasman; after which he joined in succession the St. Alban’s 64, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, Procris 18, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and, as Sub-Lieutenant, 14 Feb. 1810, the Sylvia cutter, of 10 18-pounder carronades and 50 men, Lieut. -Commander Augustus Vere Drury, all in the East Indies. On 7 April following, in charge of a single boat belonging to the latter vessel, Mr. Chesnaye handsomely boarded and took, in the Straits of Sunda, a piratical proa, armed with 2 6-pounders and 30 men. On being appointed four days afterwards to the command of his prize, he similarly sustained, near the island of Cracatoa, a desperate hand-to-hand conflict of four hours with a large lugger-proa of 3 18-pounders and 72 men, which, on the junction of the Sylvia, he ultimately succeeded in sinking, after being himself wounded, with 8 of his volunteer crew; and, on 26 of the same month, at the close of a sharp contest of 20 minutes, during which the enemy had 3 men killed and 7 wounded, and the British 4 killed and 3 wounded, he headed the Sylvia’s boarders at the capture of the Dutch national brig Echo, of 8 6-pounders and 46 men, in Batavia Roads. Although Lieut. Drury was immediately afterwards promoted to the rank of Commander, we regret to observe that Mr. Chesnaye, whose share in the exploits we have narrated was at least equally conspicuous, did not attain the rank of Lieutenant until 17 March, 1813, previously to which period he had further served, in the West Indies and at Portsmouth, on board the Jason 32, and Shark 16, Capts. King and Gore, and Royal William, Capt. Geo. Fowke. He was subsequently appointed, 12 June, 25 July, and 20 Nov. 1813, to the Ardent 64, Capt. John Cochet, St. Domingo 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, and Anaconda 18, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, on the North America and West India stations. He invalided home 8 Oct. 1814, and afterwards held a command in the Coast Guard, from 28 Nov. 1828, until 1832. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Chesnaye married, 10 April, 1836, and has issue four sons and one daughter.
CHESSHYRE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Henry Thomas Newton Chesshyre passed his examination 14 April, 1840; served, until paid off at the close of 1841, in the Tyne 26, Capt. John Townshend, on the Mediterranean station; was next employed, for a few months in 1842-3, on board the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Montagu Stopford, and Avon steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander David Robt. Bunbury Mapleton, in North America and the West Indies; rejoined the last-mentioned officer, 3 May, 1844, in the Sydenham steamer, on the Mediterranean station; and obtained his commission 6 April, 1846. He has been since serving as Additional Lieutenant of the Hibernia 104, flagship in the Mediterranean of Sir Wm. Parker, and as Commander of the Ceylon receiving-ship at Malta.
CHEYNE. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
George Cheyne entered the Navy, 12 Oct. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Texel, Capt. Donald Campbell, flag-ship on the Leith station of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon, from which he removed, as Master’s Mate, 30 Sept. 1805, to the Seagull, of 16 guns and 94 men, Capt. Robt. Cathcart. The latter vessel being captured off the coast of Norway, 19 June, 1808, by a powerful Danish force, consisting of the Lougen, of 20 guns and 160 men, and of 6 gun-boats, all heavily gunned and manned, after a glorious resistance of 2 hours and 30 minutes, in which she lost 8 men killed and 20 wounded, and was reduced to a sinking state, Mr. Cheyne was, with the rest of his shipmates, taken prisoner and confined until the following October. From that date until April, 1813, he appears to have served, on the Home and Baltic stations, in the Nightingale, Capt. Wm. Wilkinson, Ganymede 26, and Alexandria 38, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Cathcart, Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and Alexandria again, Capt. R. Cathcart. He was promoted, 21 Dec. 1813, to a Lieutenancy in the Defiance 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Hope in the Baltic; and, on 21 Dec. 1813, joined the Porcupine 24, Capt. John Coode. From 24 Feb. 1814 (on which date he won the admiration of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, by the dashing intrepidity of his conduct in passing the fearful bar of the Adour in an open boat with 5 men), until Aug. following, Mr. Cheyne was employed with the army under the Duke of Wellington near Bayonne.[1] On 20 Sept. in the same year he joined the Queen 74, bearing the flag of the last-named officer in the Mediterranean; and, on 31 Dec. 1815, he removed to the Albion 74, Capt. John Coode, with whom he shared in the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. The latter ship being paid off in May, 1819, Mr. Cheyne, who had been for a long time her First Lieutenant, was promoted, 12 Aug. following, to the rank of Commander. He has not since been afloat.
He married, 25 April, 1843, Maria, third daughter of the late Tobias John Young, Esq., of Southampton.
CHICHESTER, Bart. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 10; h-p., 27.)
Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester is eldest son of the late John Palmer Chichester, Esq., Col. of the Royal Cardigan Rifle Corps, by his second wife, Agnes, eldest daughter of Jas. Hamilton, Esq., of Bangour, N.B. (by Margaret Bruce, sister of the celebrated traveller, Jas. Bruce, Esq., of Kinnaird); and first cousin of Sir Clifford Constable, Bart., as likewise of Sir Chas. Chichester, Col. of the 81st
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 566.
