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various operations of the Chinese campaign, including the capture of Chuenpee and Tycocktow, the first and second reduction of Canton, the taking of Amoy and Chinghae, and the re-occupation of Chusan.[1] Since the last-mentioned date – having been advanced to the rank he now holds on 8 of the previous June – he has been unemployed. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
CLARKE. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p. 15; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Pickering Clarke entered the Navy, 22 April, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board L’Immorlalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, in which frigate, while cruizing off Bordeaux, he witnessed the capture, 26 Oct. following, of Le Diable à Quatre privateer, of 16 guns and 150 men. From 16 Oct. 1801, until March, 1813, he next served, under Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Lieutenant (commission dated 28 April, 1807), in the Nemesis 28, Immortalité 36, Clyde 38, and Inconstant 36; and, during that period, shared in the bombardment of Dieppe, St. Valery en Caux, and Boulogne, was present in several smart skirmishes with the French flotilla, and attended, in the Clyde, the expedition to Flushing in Aug. 1809. On leaving the Inconstant, Mr. Clarke joined the Mariner armed ship, Capt. Robt. Russell, employed on rocket service in North America, whence he returned home in 1813 on board the Shannon 88, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke. After serving for a short time in the Monmouth 64, bearing the flag in the Downs of Vice- Admiral Thos. Foley, he became attached to the Superb 74, flag-ship on the coasts of America and France of the Hon. Sir Henry Hotham. Commander Clarke, who has been on half-pay since 7 Sept. 1815, assumed his present rank 17 Jan. 1843.
CLARKE. (Commander, 1826. f-p., 23; h-p., 28.)
William Nehemiah Clarke was born in July, 1783 or 4.
This officer entered the Navy, early in 1796, on board the Révolutionnaire 38, Capts. Fras. Cole and Thos. Twysden; and, among other captures, assisted in taking, on 13 April in that year, after a running fight, the French 36-gun frigate L’Unité. He afterwards, in the same ship, attacked a convoy protected by a strong line of batteries within the Penmacks, accompanied the expedition to Quiberon, and contributed to the capture of a national brig of 16 guns, and of 3 privateers, carrying, in the whole, 60 guns and 543 men. On subsequently proceeding to Sierra Leone, towards the close of 1801, in the Wasp 18, Capt. Chas. Bullen, he was for several weeks most arduously employed on shore in protecting the colony against a powerful combination of the native chiefs; after which he proceeded to the West Indies, and, on his return home, joined, in succession, the Expedition tender, Lieut.-Commander Felix Richardson, Dragon 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, part of Sir Robt. Calder’s fleet in his action of 22 July, 1805, and, as Sub-Lieutenant, the Turbulent gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Spearing Osmer. Being appointed, 19 Sept. 1806, full Lieutenant of the Sabrina 18, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, he commanded the boats of that vessel, with those of a squadron, in an attack on a Spanish flotilla; and, in conjunction with the boats of La Chiffonne, cut out, on a subsequent occasion, a brig and a schooner from under a battery of 4 guns on the south coast of Spain. While next serving, from May, 1809, to Aug. 1814, on board the Redwing 18, Capts. Edw. Augustus Down and Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Mr. Clarke was twice employed, on 30 March and 2 May, 1813, in demolishing the heavy batteries at Morjean, between Toulon and Marseilles; and, in Aug. following, he participated in a very gallant attack on the batteries of Cassis, and capture of a large convoy in the mole of that place. He was afterwards appointed, as First-Lieutenant – for a few months in 1815, to the Larne 20, Capts. Sir J. G. Sinclair and Abraham Lowe, on the Home station – 21 Feb. 1823, to the Egeria 24, Capt. Sam. Roberts, which vessel took out Commissioner Ward to Mexico, and thence brought home Commissioner Morier – and, in 1824, to the command of the Sir Francis Drake. He acquired his present rank 28 Dec. 1826, but has not since been afloat.
Commander Clarke married, 18 Aug. 1818, Lydia, eldest daughter of the late Thos. Delandre, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for co. Waterford. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
CLAVELL. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Charles Clavell died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 28 May, 1830; passed his examination 7 Sept. 1836; and, on 28 July, 1841, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, while serving in the Winchester 50, flag-ship in North America and the West Indies of Sir Thos. Harvey. His after-appointments were – 27 Aug. 1841, to the Racer 16, Capt. Thos. Harvey, on the latter station – and, 5 June, 1843, to the Modeste 18, Capt. Thos. Baillie, with whom he was employed in the Pacific until the close of 1845. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
CLAVELL. (Captain., 1808. f-p., 33; h-p., 32.)
John Clavell died 11 March, 1846, aged 70. This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1781, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Centurion 50, on the books of which ship, and of the Warwick, he was borne until Feb. 1783. He embarked, 11 Nov. 1792, as A.B., on board the Duke 90, Capt. John Knight; and while next employed, from Jan. 1793, to March, 1797, in the Victory 100, flag-ship, in succession, of Admirals Lord Hood, Robt. Mann, Robt. Linzee, and Sir John Jervis, served, as Midshipman, at the occupation of Toulon, on shore at the reduction of Bastia and Calvi, in Hotham’s action of 13 July, 1795, and in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. He also, on one occasion, when in the Vicrory’s jolly-boat, with only 6 men, effected the capture of two transports laden with powder. On 21 April, 1797, Mr. Clavell removed from the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord St. Vincent, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Excellent 74, Capt. Cuthbert Collingwood. Subsequently to his official promotion, which took place on 6 July in the same year, he joined, on the Home station, 27 Aug. 1798, and 8 Oct. 1800, the Marlborough 74, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, and Barfleur 98, Capts. Stevens and Irwin – and, between 31 May, 1803, and the autumn of 1805, as First-Lieutenant, the Venerable, Colossus, and Culloden 74’s, Prince 98, Venerable again, and Dreadnought 98, all flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Collingwood. Removing with the latter officer, on the date last mentioned, to the Royal Sovereign 100, he shared, and was wounded, in the battle of Trafalgar, and, for his conduct on that day, was promoted, by commission dated 22 Oct. 1805, to the command of the Weasel sloop of 18 guns.[2] We subsequently find him capturing and driving on shore six transport-vessels, intercepting a trabaccolo with despatches, and performing a variety of effective services in the Adriatic. The 4th of Feb. 1808, was marked by Capt. Clavell’s promotion to Post-rank in the Glatton 50, lying at Palermo; soon after which he invalided home. His next appointments were, in the course of 1811, to the Royal George 100, Laurestinus 24, and Orlando 36 – which latter vessel he appears (part of the time as Flag-Captain to Sir Rich. King) to have commanded, off the Western Islands, in the Mediterranean, America, and China, and in most parts of India, until Feb. 1819, when he returned to England in the Malabar 74. He was afterwards employed – from 1825 to 1827, as Captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth – from 4 July, 1835, until April, 1837, as Superintendent of the Packet Establishment at Falmouth, with his pendant on board the Astraea
