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reduction of the Isles of France and Java. Having returned home on board the Doris 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, we find Mr. Colman joining, for a few months in 1813, the Ceres 32, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge; after which he served, on the coasts of Spain and America, in the Dictator troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, Severn 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse, Ruby 64, Commodore A. F. Evans, Morgiana sloop, Capt. David Scott, Dictator again, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. During his latter attachment to the Dictator , Mr. Colman, who had previously acted as Lieutenant of the Morgiana, took part in the land-hostilities against Washington and Baltimore, as well as in those against New Orleans, where he was wounded. Since the date of his official promotion, 21 Feb. 1815, the subject of this sketch has – with the exception of a brief period, in 1839-40, when he held an appointment in the Coast Guard – been unemployed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
COLQUHOUN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
Humphry Colquhoun was born in 1793.
This officer entered the NaVy, in Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Zealand 64, Capts. Alex. Ball and Robt. Devereux Fancourt, guard-ship at the Nore; and, joining next the Foxhound 18, Capts. Pitt Burnaby Greene and Jas. Mackenzie, continued to be employed in that vessel, on the Home station, until detached in command of a prize early in 1809. After an intermediate servitude, as Supernumerary-Midshipman, on board the Salvador del Mundo guard-ship at Plymouth, he became attached, in Sept. following, to the Désirée 36, Capt. Arth. Farquhar, stationed in the North Sea, where he appears to have taken part in much active boat-service, including numerous cutting-out affairs, and the capture of many of the enemy’s vessels. Having been again placed in charge of a prize, Mr. Colquhoun unfortunately, on 21 Dec. 1810, fell into the hands of the enemy, and, being shortly afterwards wrecked off an island on the coast of Holland, – where he was washed on shore, bruised, frost-bitten, and in a state of insensibility, – was sent to Valenciennes, and ultimately to Sedan. After several thwarted attempts, he at length, in Feb. 1813, contrived to effect his escape, and, arriving at Portsmouth, rejoined the Désirée, still commanded by Capt. Farquhar, with whom he subsequently sailed with convoy for Quebec in the Liverpool 40. He obtained his commission 20 March, 1815; and was afterwards employed on Lakes Ontario and Huron, under Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, until his return home towards the close of 1816. Since that period he has not been afloat.
Lieut. Colquhoun – who married, first, 20 Aug. 1834, and by that marriage has issue a son and daughter – espoused,secondly, in 1839, Ann, daughter of the late Rev. T. Brown, of Innerskip. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
COLQUITT. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 21; h-p., 43.)
Samuel Martin Colquitt entered the Navy, 10 Dec. 1783, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Queen 90, Capt. John Wainwright, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral Alex. Arthur Hood (afterwards Lord Bridport); subsequently to which he cruized, until Dec. 1789, latterly as Midshipman, in the Perseus 20, Capt. Geo. Palmer, and Thisbe frigate, Capt. Isaac Coffin, on the Irish, Channel, and Halifax stations. In Sept. 1793 he rejoined Capt. Coffin in the Melampus 36); and, serving next, from March, 1794, to Oct. 1795, in the Arethusa of 44, and InDErATiGABLE of 46 guuS, both commanded by Sir Edw. Pellew, shared, 23 April, 1794, in the capture, by the Arethusa and Flora 36, after a resolute battle of three hours, and a loss to the former ship of 3 men killed and 5 wounded, of the French vessels Le Babet of 22, and La Pomone of 44 guns. On 22 Feb. 1796, Mr. Colquitt, who had previously held for upwards of two months an acting order as Lieutenant on board the Revolutionnaire 44, Capt. Fras. Cole, was officially promoted into the Rattler 16, Capt. John Coohet. He was subsequently appointed, 18 March, 1796, to the London 98, flag-ship off Cadiz of Sir John Colpoys – and, 12 June, 1798, and 1 April, 1801, as First-Lieutenant, to the Thalia 36, Capts. Lord Henry Paulet and Josiah Nisbet, and Hydra 38, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, employed respectively in the Mediterranean and off the coast of Spain. Of the Thalia he appears to have been for some time Acting-Captain. Having obtained his second promotal commission 29 April, 1802, we next find Capt. Colquitt commanding the Princess floating battery, off Lymington and Liverpool, from 18 June, 1803, until 16 June, 1809; and then the Persian 18, on the West India and Mediterranean stations. He obtained his Post commission 21 Oct. 1810; and the rank he now holds 1 Oct. 1846.
The Rear-Admiral’s first wife having died 3 Nov. 1823, he married, secondly, 27 Dec. 1843, Frances Rachael, daughter of the late Rev. Jas. Wiggett, Rector of Crudwell, Wilts.
COLSTON. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Samuel Colston was born 21 Oct. 1795.
This officer entered the Navy 24 June, 1810; and, while attached, in 1811-12, as a Volunteer, to the Impérieuse 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, partook of a variety of active operations on the coast of Italy, including the capture and destruction of a battery and convoy at Pisciota, and (with a loss to the British of 5 men killed and 11 wounded) of a tower, two batteries, 10 gun-boats, and 22 richly-laden feluccas, defended, in the harbour of Palinuro, by a force of 700 troops and armed peasantry. During a subsequent servitude in the Caledonia 120, Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, all flagships of Lord Exmouth, he witnessed the partial skirmish with the French fleet off Toulon, 5 Nov. 1813 – officiated as Clerk to his Lordship’s Secretary during the negotiations with the Barbary Powers for the abolition of Christian slavery – and was present, 27 Aug. 1816, at the bombardment of Algiers, where he was wounded by a splinter in the face and ankle, and by a musket-ball in the thigh. Having been allowed by special order, when in the West Indies, in 1825, to pass his examination for Lieutenant, Mr. Colston was, on 3 Oct. in that year, advanced to the rank he now holds, and appointed, 31 Oct. 1828, to his present command in the Coast Gdard. Among various seizures since effected by Lieut. Colston, we may notice the capture, 21 Oct. 1832, of a noted French smuggler, a sloop of 35 tons, with a cargo of tobacco on board.
He married 1 Sept. 1825, and has issue seven children. Agent – J. Hinxman.
COLTHURST. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 23; h-p., 28.)
Nicholas Colthurst entered the Navy, in 1796, as L.M., on board the Diana 38, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, and until 1802 served, partly as Midshipman, in the same ship, the Mars 74, bearing the flag of Admiral Berkeley, and Formidable 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, on the Irish and Channel stations. He then accompanied the latter officer into the Prince 98; went, in 1804, to Barbadoes, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Renard sloop, Hon. Capt. Cathcart; took part, on rejoining the Prince, in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805; and, on 19 Sept. 1806, was promoted, from the Ocean 98, flagship of Lord Collingwood off Cadiz, to a Lieutenancy in the Diamond 38, Capt. Geo. Argles, employed, successively, off the coasts of France, Africa, and South America. Until the conclusion of the war in 1815, Mr. Colthurst’s next Appointments were – 6 Dec. 1809, to the Druid 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, cruizing first on the Irish coast, and then off Cadiz – 24 Jan. 1812, to the Sceptre 74, Capt. Thos. Harvey, on the Halifax station – and, soon afterwards, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the gun-boat
