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ELLICOMBE—ELLICOTT—ELLIOT.
ELLICOMBE. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 8.)
Hugh Middelton Ellicombe was born 5 Oct. 1807.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Feb. 1821, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impregnable 104, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Alex. Cochrane. In the early part of 1823 he proceeded to the West Indies as Midshipman of the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; and, from Sept. in the following year, until 1827, when he passed his examination, he served, latterly at the Cape of Good Hope, on board the Dartmouth 46, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, Nightingale 8, Lieut.-Commander. Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, and Helicon 10. During the next seven years we find him successively joining, as Mate, on various stations, the Samarang 28, Capt. David Dunn, Cordelia 10, Capt. Courtenay Edm. Wm. Boyle, Curlew 10, Capts. Geo. Woolcombe and Henry Dundas Trotter, Maidstone 42, Commodore Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and Donegal 78, Britannia 120, and San Josef 110, flag-ships of Sir Pulteney Malcolm and Sir Wm. Hargood. Obtaining a commission 15 Nov. 1834, Mr. Ellicombe was next appointed, 22 May, 1835, to the Ringdove 16, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, under whom he appears to have been very actively employed on the north coast of Spain, particularly at the siege of Bilbao, in Nov. and Dec. 1836, and for his services on that occasion to have been presented by the Queen Regent, in common with the other officers engaged, with the “Cross of Bilbao” and the order of Isabella la Catolica. His subsequent appointments were – 26 Aug. 1837, to the Pique 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer, employed on Particular Service – 13 May, 1840, and 23 Jan. 1841, to the Rodney 92, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Gorgon steam-vessel, Capts. Robt. Maunsell and Wm. Honyman Henderson, both on the Mediterranean station, where, in the former ship, he served at the blockade of Alexandria – and, 10 Sept. 1841, to the Niagara 20, Capt. Williams Sandom, on the lakes of Canada. He left the latter vessel on his advancement to the rank of Commander, 23 Nov. 1841, and, since 17 Nov. 1846, has been in command of the Rolla 10, on the coast of Africa.
ELLICOTT. (Rear-admiral, 1846. f-p., 20; h-p., 46.)
Edward Ellicott was born 29 May, 1768, and died 24 Jan. 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1781, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mackworth 16, Capt. Thos. Louis, attached to the Channel fleet; and, in 1783, became Midshipman of the Perseus 20, Capt. Geo. Palmer, on the Irish station. He afterwards, from 1788 to 1791, served with Capt. John Macbride in the Cumberland 74, to which ship he was re-appointed, from the Boyne 98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway, as Acting-Lieutenant, 16 Sept. 1793. Having further, in the latter capacity, commanded the Penelope cutter, and been employed, under Rear-Admiral Macbride and Capt. Sir Rich. John Strachan, in the Minotaur 74, and Concorde 36, Mr. Ellicott was officially promoted, 22 June, 1794, to a Lieutenancy in the Eurydice 24, Capt. Fras. Cole. On subsequently accompanying that officer into the Révolutionnaire 38, he assisted, and was lauded in high terms for his conduct, at the capture, 13 April, 1796, of the French 36-gun frigate Unité.[1] Assuming the rank of Commander 12 June, 1797, he afterwards took charge, on the North Sea station – 16 Oct. 1804, of the Wellington defence-ship – 14 Dec. 1804, of the Explosion bomb, in which, through the ignorance of his pilot, he was wrecked, near Heligoland, 10 Sept. 1807 – and, 19 Oct. 1807, of the Hebe hired armed ship, employed in the protection of convoys between Orkney and Sweden. He obtained his Post-commission 12 Aug. 1812, and accepted Flag-rank 1 Oct. 1846. The Rear-Admiral married, 1 Aug. 1821, and has left issue an only daughter.
ELLIOT. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 14; h-p., 18.)
Charles Elliot entered the Navy, 26 March, 1815, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leviathan 74, Capt. Thos. Briggs, on the Mediterranean station; became Midshipman, in July, 1816, of the Minden 74, Capt. Wm, Paterson; and after participating, we believe, in the battle of Algiers, and serving for four years in the East Indies under the flag of Sir Rich. King, successively joined, in 1820-21, the Starling cutter, Lieut.-Commander John Reeve, Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and Iphigenia 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends on the coast of Africa. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant, 11 June, 1822, while in the Myrmidon 20, Capt. Henry John Leeke, he was afterwards appointed, in that capacity – on 19 of the same month, to the Iphigenia again – 22 March, 1823, to the Hussar 46, Capt. Geo. Harris, fitting for the Jamaica station – and, 19 June and 30 Aug. 1825, to the command there of the Union and Renegade schooners. On 1 Jan. 1826, we find him nominated Acting-Commander of the Serapis convalescent-ship, at Port Royal, where, on 14 April following, he was confirmed into the Magnificent hospital and store ship. After a further employment in the Bustard 10, and Harlequin 18, on the same station, Capt. Elliot, who has since been on half-pay, was promoted to his present rank by commission dated 28 Aug. 1828.
This officer was H.M.’s Plenipotentiary in China during the war, and was on board the Nemesis during most of the operations, which will be found detailed in our memoir of Capt. W. H. Hall, particularly in the passage from Macao to Whampoa, and in the attack on Canton. He is now Consul-General at Texas.
ELLIOT. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 1.)
The Honourable Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, born 12 Dec. 1818, is third son of the present Earl of Minto, G.C.B. (who, from 19 Sept. 1835, until 8 Sept. 1841, held the high office of First Lord of the Admiralty), by Mary, eldest daughter of Patrick Brydone, Esq.; brother of Viscount Melgund, M.P., and of the Hon. Gilbert Elliot, an officer in the Rifle brigade; nephew of Rear-Admiral Hon. Geo. Elliot, C.B.; and brother-in-law of Lord John Russell, M.P.
This officer entered the Navy 6 May, 1832; and obtained his first commission 27 June, 1838. He was appointed, on 28 Aug. and 25 Oct. in the latter year, to the Rodney 92, and Talbot 28, Capts. Hyde Parker and Henry John Codrington, on the Mediterranean station, where, having assumed command, 16 July, 1840, of the Hazard 18, he served at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. A few days after the attainment of his present rank, 16 Aug. 1841, Capt. Elliot joined the Spartan 26. He returned home from the North America and West India station in 1845, and has not since been afloat. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
ELLIOT. (Lieutenant, 1839.)
David Elliot entered the Navy 20 Jan. 1829; and passed his examination in 1835. When Mate of the Experiment steamer he was commended in high terms by Capt. Williams Sandom for his gallantry, zeal, and activity, and was slightly wounded, in repelling, conjointly with the troops, a rebellious attack made on the town of Prescott, in Canada, and on the British territory in its vicinity, 13 Nov. 1838.[2] As a reward for his conduct on that oooasion, Mr. Elliot was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 4 July 1839, in the Niagara 20, Capt. Williams Sandom. His succeeding appointments appear to have been – 28 Oct. 1841, to the Queen 110, fittmg for the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – 14 Feb. 1842,
