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at one time was in the Navy, and served with Sir Geo. Rodney in the action of 12 April, 1782. This officer entered the Navy, 18 Nov. 1830, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tyne 26, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the South American station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 26 Nov. 1833. From May, 1834, to Feb. 1838, he next served in the West Indies on board the Gannet 16, Capts. John Balfour Maxwell and Wm. Geo. Hyndham Whish. He soon afterwards (having passed his examination 17 Dec. 1837) became Mate of the Termagant 10, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. John Williams and Henry Frowd Seagram, off the coast of Africa, on which station, volunteering his services, he continued to be most actively employed – in the Wolverene 16, and Iris 26, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Tucker – in the Prompt schooner, as Mate in command – and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Persian 16, Capt. Peché Hart Dyke – until confirmed in his present rank, 21 June, 1842. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 29 April, 1843, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies – 19 Oct. 1843, to the Wasp 16, Capts. Henry Bagot and Sidney Henry Ussher, on the African station – and, 10 Sept. 1846, to the command of the Acheron steam-sloop, in which he is now employed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
DUNLOP. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 9; h-p., 17.)
Hugh Dunlop is second son of General Jas. Dunlop,[1] M.P. (who died in 1832), by Julia, daughter of Hugh Baillie, Esq., youngest son of Baillie of Monckton. He is brother of the late Sir John Dunlop, Bart., M.P., an officer in the Grenadier Guards; and uncle of the present Sir Jas. Dunlop, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy 5 April, 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his first commission 8 Feb. 1828. From 1 May to 23 Dec. in the latter year he served on the Jamaica station on board the Druid 46, Capt. Williams Sandom, and also in the Aurora 46. He was next appointed, 7 April, 1841, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Shearwater steam-vessel, Capt. John Washington, employed on the Home station. Since his last promotion, which took place 12 Aug. 1842, Commander Dunlop has been on shore.
He married, in 1831, Ellen Clementina, only daughter of Robt. Cockburn, Esq. Agent – J. Chippendale.
DUNLOP. (Commander, 1842.)
Robert John Wallace Dunlop died in 1846, on the coast of Africa. He was son of Retired Commander Robt. Wallace Dunlop, R.N. (1833), who obtained his Lieutenant’s commission 8 May, 1795, and died 18 July, 1843.
This officer entered the Navy 9 Oct. 1823; and passed his examination in 1830. Obtaining his first commission 6 July, 1836, he was afterwards appointed, on the East India station – 4 Oct. in the same year, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel – 25 Dec. 1837, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Edw. Stanley – and, 1 July, 1838, to the Favorite 18, Capt. Walter Croker. On 24 June, 1840, he landed with his Captain and a detachment of seamen and marines at Tongataboo, one of the Friendly Islands, for the purpose of assisting the native Christians in a war then raging between them and the heathen part of the population. At the onset, however, of an attack which the British presently made on a fortress situated five miles in shore, and of extraordinary strength, their allies deserted, in consequence of which circumstance, and of the death, with many others, of Capt. Croker, they were compelled to retreat. From that period Lieut. Dunlop – who himself had been desperately wounded, but had still continued to fire the guns – held the acting-command of the Favorite until 3 Sept. 1841. He was confirmed in the rank of Commander 21 Feb. 1842; and, from 15 Sept. 1843, until the period of his death as above, served in command of the Star sloop on the coast of Africa.
The Commander was awarded, 2 July, 1842, a pension for his wounds of 91l. 5s. He married, 6 July, 1841, Eulalia Hayes, second daughter of the late Jas. Ross, Esq., Light Infantry Depot. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
DUNN, Kt., K.C.H. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 26; h-p., 21.)
Sir David Dunn is brother of the late Robt. Dunn, Esq., Surgeon, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 April, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jason 36, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke and Hon. John Murray, with the latter of whom he was wrecked, as Midshipman, off the coast of France, and taken prisoner, 21 July, 1801. In Aug. of the same year, having been liberated, he rejoined Capt. Yorke on board the Canada 74, in which ship he continued until transferred, 11 May, 1802, to the Donegal 74, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Pulteney Malcolm. During the four following years we find Mr. Dunn assisting at the capture, in 1804, of the Spanish 44-gun frigate Amfitrite, and of a ship with a cargo on board worth 200,000l. – next accompanying Lord Nelson in pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies and back in 1805 – participating also in the capture of El Rayo of 100 guns, one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar – and finally contributing to the victory gained by Sir John Thos. Duckworth, off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. After a further servitude of 12 months in the Channel on board the Hibernia and Ville de Paris, flag-ships of Earl St. Vincent and Lord Gardner, he became Acting-Lieutenant, 1 Sept. 1807, of the Warrior 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, on the Mediterranean station, where he was ultimately confirmed by commission dated 12 July, 1808. Subsequently to the surrender of the islands of Ischia and Procida, Mr. Dunn (who, during his attachment to the Warrior, was also employed in command of a gun-boat at the defence of Sicily, and the reduction of Zante and Cephalonia) removed, as First-Lieutenant, in Oct. 1810, to the Amphion 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste. While in that frigate he was severely wounded in the memorable action off Lissa, 13 March, 1811, when a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, completely routed, after a battle of six hours, and a loss to the Amphion of 15 killed and 47 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament, whose force amounted to 284 guns and 2655 men. Being rewarded for his most “zealous, brave, and intelligent” conduct on the occasion[2] with a Commander’s commission, dated back to the day of the action, Capt. Dunn, on 24 Nov. in the same year, assumed the acting-captaincy of the Bacchante 38, which he retained until appointed, 21 March, 1812, to the Mermaid 32, armée en flûte. Continuing in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, he particularly distinguished himself, in Oct. and Dec. 1813, by his assiduity at the siege of Trieste, and his exertions in forwarding everything that was necessary to the landed party during the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn.[3] As a Post-Captain, to which rank he was elevated 7 June, 1814, Capt. Dunn’s appointments appear to have been – 6 Jan. and 28 Nov. 1824, to the Jupiter 60, and Samarang 28, employed on the Halifax and Cape of Good Hope stations – 2 April, 1831, to the Curaçoa 26, which he paid off, after intermediately serving in the East Indies, in the summer of 1835 – and, 2 April, 1840, to the Vanguard 80, successively stationed in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon. He has been on half-pay since 1843.
Sir David Dunn received the honour of knight-
- ↑ General Dunlop served thirteen years in India, where he was severely wounded in command of one of the assaulting columns at the storming of Seringapatam; as Major-General, he was afterwards, in 1810, appointed to the command of a brigade in the 5th division of Lord Wellington’s army, a post which he continued to fill throughout the campaign of 1811.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, p. 894.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813-14, pp. 2478, 179.
