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DUMARESQ—DUMBRECK—DUNBAR—DUNCAN.
employed. Commander Dufty accepted his present rank 19 Oct. 1843.
He married 6 Feb. 1816, and has issue three children.
DUINS. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
George Parley Duins died 26 Sept. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 4 March, 1808; passed his examination in 1821; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 19 Jan. 1828, in the Undaunted 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, employed on a particular service. His next appointments were – 3 April, 1829, to the Kent 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, on the Mediterranean station – 17 April, 1832, to the Coast Guard, in which he served for about two years – and subsequently, for a brief period, to the Britannia 120.
He married, in May, 1836, Anne Mortimer, eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. Amyatt Chaundy, of Charlinch, near Bridgewater. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
DUMARESQ. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 20; h-p., 6.)
Henry Dumaresq was born, 28 Sept. 1808, at Jersey, where his father was the late King’s Attorney-General. His brother, Lieut. Don Philip Dumaresq, R.N., died on board H.M.S. Bittern, of African fever, in 1844; and his cousin, Lieut. Philip Dumaresq, R.N., was killed in the Asia, at Navarin. He is a cousin of the present Capt. Rich. Saumarez, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1821; and embarked, 29 Aug. 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the Victor 18, Capt. Thos. Prickett; under whom he was actively employed on boat service against the Ashantees, in 1823-4. Until he passed his examination, 19 July, 1828, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, on the Cape and South American stations, in the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. T. Prickett, Jaseur 18, Capt. Thos. Martin, Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, and Maidstone 42, Commodore Wm. Skipsey. He then successively joined, as Mate, the Helicon 10, Capt. Stanhope, Isis 50, Commodore Sir Thos. Staines, Meteor surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, Dee steamer, Capt. Robt. Oliver, Caledonia and Britannia, flag-ships of Sir Josias Rowley and Sir Philip Chas. Durham, Salamander steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, and Britannia again, bearing the flag of Sir P. Durham. During his attachment to those ships, Mr. Dumaresq appears to have been much employed in the Mediterranean, and also off the north coast of Spain, where, in the Salamander, he was particularly active during the civil war in 1838. He was at length promoted, on 10 Oct. in the latter year, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, 8 Sept. 1839, to the Wolverene 16, Capt. Wm. Tucker. As First-Lieutenant of that vessel he distinguished himself by his conduct in capturing two Spanish slavers up the river Niger; and on a later date he took by assault the island of Corisco, in face of an overwhelming force, and destroyed all the slave-factories there established. On that occasion his party, originally 40 in number, sustained a loss of 10 men killed and wounded. For these services Mr. Dumaresq, who paid the Wolverene off as her Acting-Commander, was ultimately promoted, from the Caledonia 120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore, to his present rank 21 March, 1842. He has been in command, since 12 Nov. 1846, of the Seaflower cutter, at Portsmouth.
Commander Dumaresq married, 18 Jan. 1844, his cousin, Anna Susanna, second daughter of Philip Janvrin, Esq., of Jersey, and has issue one son. Agent – J. Hinxman.
DUMBRECK. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 12; h-p., 33.)
William Dumbreck was born in Nov. 1789, at Edinburgh.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1802, as Fst -cl. Vol., on board the Ruby 64, Capt. Chas. Rowley, bearing the flag off the Texel of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He removed, as Midshipman, in May, 1804, to the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope; and after participating in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, proceeded to the West Indies, in the Canada 74, Capt. John Harvey. On his return from that station, in Nov. 1807, he rejoined Capt. Hope in the Pompée 74. Sailing afterwards for the coast of Spain in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served in the boats at the embarkation of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna, in Jan. 1809. He was confirmed, 27 Sept. 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the Mars 74, Capts. John Surman Garden and Henry Raper, and while in that ship was much employed in command of her boats up the Tagus. Mr. Dumbreck, whose next appointment was, 6 Aug. 1811, to the Plover 26, Capt. Colin Campbell, invalided home from the coast of Africa in Aug. 1814. Since that period he has been on half-pay.
He married, first, 1 June, 1816, Miss Jane Inglis, of Lasswade, N.B., who was wrecked and drowned on her passage to Aberdeen, 21 Jan. 1819, leaving issue an only son; and, secondly, 15 May, 1820, Miss Margaret M‘Vicol, of Glenarchy, by whom, who died suddenly, 2 June, 1843, he had also issue a son. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
DUNBAR. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Sydney Dunbar entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Lizard steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and Fox 42, Capt. Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 3 July, 1844, and on the same day was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Mr. Dunbar, since 29 March, 1845, has been employed on the same station in the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy. During an expedition conducted, in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him commanding the pinnace belonging to the Iris, and assisting at the capture and destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of the latter stream by a force under Capt. Mundy, and its debarkation, after struggling for many hours against an almost impenetrable navigation, at the village of Mallout, Mr. Dunbar, while the main body marched on to Damuan, in the hope of there capturing the Sultan’s person, was left with a party of blue-jackets to garrison the former place. While the British were afloat he had partial command of a flotilla of seven gun-boats, and was mentioned for the cheerful assistance he afforded on the occasion.[1]
DUNBAR. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 13; h-p., 0.)
James Alexander Dunbar entered the Navy 6 June, 1834; passed his examination 7 June, 1841; and after officiating for a few months as Mate of the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, and Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the Mediterranean station, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 13 June, 1842. From 13 of the following July, until paid off in 1846, he was further employed in North America and the West Indies, and off the coast of Africa, on board the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke. He has been engaged on particular service, since 11 Dec. 1846, as First of the Geyser steam-sloop, Capt. Fras. Thos. Brown. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
DUNCAN. (Commander, 1837. f-p., 26; h-p., 6.)
Adam Camperdown Duncan died 19 July, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1813, as Midshipman, on board the Impérieuse 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan; and after assisting at the capture of Port d’Anzo, and in the operations
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3442, 3445, 3446.
