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DANIELL—D’ARANDA.
Guard. With an interval of two years (from March, 1841, to March, 1843), he continued in that service, until the period of his death.
DANIELL. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
George Daniell,, born 31 Aug. 1797, is second son of Henry Daniell, Esq., of Newforest, co. Westmeath; and a relative of the late Capt. Robt. Corbet, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Africaine, of 48 guns and 295 men, commanded by Capt. Corbet. On the morning of 13 Sept. following, the latter frigate came to close action, off the Isle of France, with the two French frigates Iphigehie and Astrée carrying between them 86 guns and 618 men; and, after a brave but unequal contest of two hours and a half, in which she sustained a loss herself of 49 men killed and 114 (including her Captain, mortally) wounded, and occasioned the enemy one of 10 killed and 35 wounded, was compelled to strike her colours. Towards the close of 1810, Mr. Daniell, on his release from French prison, returned to England with Commodore Josias Rowley, in the Menelaus 38, Capt. Peter Parker; after which he cruized for a short period on the Home station in the Aquilon 32, Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham; and then, in April, 1811, joined, as Midshipman, the America 74, bearing the flag of Sir J. Rowley, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean. In the course of the three following years, we find him taking part in many cutting-out affairs, but especially on 9 [errata 1] May, 1812, when, with the boats of the America, Leviathan, and Eclair, he assisted at the capture of 16, and destruction of 2 deeply-laden vessels, which had taken shelter under the town and batteries of Languelia, on the coast of Italy, and had been secured by various contrivances to the houses and beach – an exploit that cost the British a loss, in life, of 16 men, and, in wounded, of 20. The subject of this sketch also witnessed the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn in Dec. 1813; and, in March and April, 1814, was present at the surrender of the fortress of Santa Maria, with the enemy’s forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and also of the town of Genoa. Until the receipt of his first commission, 15 May, 1823, Mr. Daniell, who passed his examination in Sept. 1816, further served, on the Mediterranean, Irish, and African stations, as Master’s Mate, Admiralty Midshipman, and occasionally as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher, Duncan 74, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford, Albacore 18, Capt. Joseph Patey, Wasp 18, Capt. Wm. Wolrige, Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Spencer 74, bearing the flag of Sir J. Rowley, Doterel 18, Capt. John Gore, Spencer again, Leven surveying-vessel, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, Barracouta 10, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal, and Madagascar 38, Capt. Evan Nepean. He was next appointed, 7 May, 1827, First of the Mosquito 10, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin; and for his services in that vessel at the ensuing battle of Navarin, was promoted, on completing his servitude as Lieutenant, to the rank of Commander, 7 May, 1829. Capt. Daniell subsequently commanded the Dispatch 16, on the West India station, from 7 June, 1832, until paid off, 6 Oct. 1835. Since his attainment of Post-rank, 28 June, 1838, he has not been employed.
He married, 23 June, 1842, Alice Katherine, eldcat daughter of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and has issue a son. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
DANIELL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Richard Daniell entered the Navy, 3 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Achille 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King, under whom he served on the Home and Mediterranean stations, the last three years as Midshipman, until Feb. 1812. He then became attached for short periods to the Active 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, and Doterel 16, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniell; after which he again cruized with Capt. Gordon on the Seahorse 38; and, proceeding eventually to North America in the Severn 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse, took part, on removing to the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, in the expedition against New Orleans. He was promoted, 18 Feb. 1815, to a Lieutenancy in the Alceste troop-ship, Capt. Dan. Lawrence; and since 30 Aug. following has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Daniell is a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Uitenhage and Albany, Cape of Good Hope. He married, 16 May, 1839, Harriett Mary, second daughter of the late P. Dunsterville, Esq., of Plymouth. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
DANIELL, Kt. (Commander, 1826. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
Sir William Daniell died 15 Sept. 1845, at Sierra Leone. He was youngest son of the late Ralph Allen Daniell, Esq., of Trelissick, co. Cornwall, M.P. for West Looe, by Ehzabeth Mason, daughter of the Rev. W. Pooley, rector of Ladock; brother of John Daniell, Esq., an officer in the 7th Hussars; and brother-in-law of Lieut. Col. Gossett, R.E., C.B., K.S.F. He received the honour of Knighthood in 1836.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds, attached to the fleet in the Channel; served afterwards for seven years with Capt. John West, as Midshipman, in the Excellent and Sultan 74’s, on the Mediterranean station, where he co-operated for some time with the patriots of Catalonia; passed his examination in April, 1813; and on 16 Sept. following was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Crocus sloop, Capt. Arden Adderley. We subsequently find him appointed – 25 March, 1815, and 3 July, 1816, to the Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Lord Exmouth, in the latter of which he bore a part in the battle of Algiers – 17 Sept. 1817, to the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of the same officer at Plymouth – 3 June, 1818, to the Eden 26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Lock, on the East India station – and 17 Dec. 1825, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom. He obtained his second commission 22 Nov. 1826; officiated subsequently as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard, from 30 June, 1835, until the summer of 1838; and being appointed, 26 Jan. 1842, to the Ringdove 16, served in that vessel in North America and the West Indies, and on the Coast of Africa, until the period of his decease. Agents – Holmes and Folkhard.
D’ARANDA. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
William D’Aranda entered the Navy, 9 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Powerful 74, Capt. Sir Fras. Laforey, whom he eventually accompanied to the West Indies. In April, 1803, he joined the Diligence 20, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the home station; and from July, 1804, until Nov. 1808, he served, nearly the whole time as Master’s Mate, on board the Atlas 74, Capts. Sam. Pym and Jas. Sanders, in which he appears to have been present at the battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and subsequently at the blockade of Cadiz. He obtained his commission 16 Dec. 1808, and was afterwards appointed – 31 May, 1809, to the Woodlark 10, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, in the Baltic – 1 May, 1811, to the Laurestinus 24, Capts. John Clavell and Hon. Wm. Gordon, on the Channel station – 31 March, 1812, as First-Lieutenant, to the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in South America – 27 Aug. 1812, to the command, on the latter station, of the Nancy 12, which he retained until 14 March, 1814 – and, in the course of 1816, to the Pique, Junon, and Niger frigates, Capts. Arthur Fanshawe and Sam. Jackson, employed in the West Indies and North America, whence he returned home in Sept. 1817. Lieut. D’Aranda – who afterwards commanded the Pestonjee Bouranjee from 17 Aug. 1842 until 28 Jan. 1843, and during that period visited the river St. Lawrence – has
