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FOORD —FOOTE—FORBES .
Midshipman of the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag at Cork of Sir Benj. Hallowell; and in Nov. 1818, he joined the Rochfort 74, successive flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Sir Graham Moore – under the latter of whom he was created a Lieutenant 5 Feb. 1833. His next appointments were, on the same and Home stations – 31 Jan. 1822, to the Martin 20, Capts. Christ. Crakenthorpe Askew and Henry Eden – and 18 June, 1825, to the Pyramus 42, Capts. Robt. Gambier and Geo. Rose Sartorius. Attaining the rank of Commander 28 April, 1827, he afterwards, as Second Captain, joined, 21 May, 1831, and 22 March, 1832, the Spartiate 76, and Asia 84 – the latter bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker off Lisbon. Since his last promotion, which was oonferred on him in compliment to the memory of his uncle, 16 Jan. 1833, Capt. Foley has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
FOORD. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 20; h-p., 20.)
James John Foord entered the Navy, 27 June, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Excellent 74, Capt. John West, and while in that ship, of which he became Midshipman in March, 1808, was employed at the blockade of Cadiz and Toulon, and saw much boat service in the Adriatic. Until the conclusion of the war he continued to serve with Capt. West, in the same ship and in the Sultan 74, on the Home and West India stations; after which he joined the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, then employed off the coast of France for the purpose of intercepting the flight of Napoleon Buonaparte. Having attained the rank of Lieutenant 25 Feb. 1815, Mr. Foord next, during the year 1816, served in the East Indies and China on board the Tyne 20, Capts. John Allen and John Bartholomew Hoar Curran. He has been in the Coast Guard since -2 May, 1836.
FOOTE. (Commander, 1845.)
Henry Richard Foote entered the Navy 6 May, 1830; passed his examination 23 June, 1836; and served as Mate, on the Mediterranean, North America and West India, and African stations, in the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam, Madagascar 44, Capt. John Foote, and Kite and Albert steamers, respectively commanded by Lieut. Wm. Montague Isaacson Geo. Pasco and Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter – the latter employed on an explorative mission up the river Niger. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 25 Oct. 1842, in his old ship the Madagascar, and, on 14 Feb. 1843, was invested with the command, also on the coast of Africa, of the Heroine 6. Since his assumption of the rank he now holds, 5 Aug. 1845, Commander Foote has been on half-pay. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
FOOTE. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 22; h-p., 28.)
John Foote entered the Navy, in Nov. 1797, Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Seahorse, of 46 guns and 292 men, Capt. Edw. Jas. Foote; under whom, off the island of Pantellaria, in the Mediterranean, he assisted at the capture, 27 June, 1798, after a close, action of eight minutes, a loss to the British of 2 men killed and 16 wounded, and to the enemy of 18 killed and 37 wounded, of the French frigate La Sensible, of 36 guns and 300 men. On his return from a voyage to the East Indies, in 1802, Mr. Foote successively joined the Juno 32, Capt. H. Richardson, Spartiate 74, Capts. Murray and Manley,and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. As a Lieutenant, which rank he attained 10 May, 1804, he was afterwards appointed, we find, to the Désirée and Resistance frigates, Capts. Whitby and Adam, and, latterly as Signal-Lieutenant, to the Royal George, Caledonia, Boyne, and Royal William, flag-ships, in the Mediterranean and Channel, of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, Lord Gambier, Sir Harry Burrard Neale, and Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton. During that period, while in command, on 25 Oct. 1806, of the Hannah gunboat, Mr. Foote, who had been detached from the Royal George for the purpose of affording protection to a convoy passing through the Gut of Gibraltar, was wounded and taken prisoner by a powerful Spanish privateer, after a highly honourable defence in which the British lost 8 men killed and 11 wounded.[1] He was promoted to the command, 29 Sept. 1813, of the Rapid sloop, on the Home station, whence, on his removal, 9 Oct. 1814, to the Goldfinch 10, he sailed for the West Indies. The latter being paid off in Dec. 1815, he next joined, 12 May, 1827, as Second-Captain, the Britannia 120, flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. He attained Post-rank 29 Sept. 1827, and was subsequently appointed to the command, 18 Aug. 1841, of the Madagascar 44, on the coast of Africa. Since his return to England in 1844 he has not been afloat.
Capt. Foote, in consideration of the wound we have above noticed, received at the time a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund. He is married and has issue.
FOOTE. (Commander, 1845.)
John Foote entered the Royal Naval College 2 Feb. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his first commission 27 Jan. 1835. He was afterwards appointed, on the Mediterranean and South American stations – 4 April, 1835, to the Sapphire 28, Capt. Rich. Freeman Rowley – 4 Nov. 1839 and 8 Feb. 1842, to the successive command of the Fawn brigantine, of 1, and Curlew, of 10 guns – and, 16 Sept. 1843, to the Dublin 50, flagship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas. He acquired his present rank 29 March, 1845; and, since 5 Nov. 1846, has been in command of the Rosamond steam-sloop at the Cape of Good Hope. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
FOOTE. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Pearson Foote passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 27 Dec. 1827. He does not appear to have been since employed. He married, in 1840, Dinah, daughter of J. Nicholes, Esq., R.N. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
FORBES. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
Alexander William Forbes was born 21 May, 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Sept. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impérieuse, of 44 guns, Capts. Lord Cochrane, Thos. Garth, and Hon. Henry Duncan; under the first of whom he took part in a variety of active operations on the coasts of France and Spain, destroyed numerous semaphore stations and batteries, co-operated in the reduction of the castle of Mongat and in the celebrated defence of Fort Trinidad, and warmly assisted at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads. After attending the expedition to Flushing he returned to the Mediterranean, and there joined, in Jan. 1811, the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers; from which ship he appears to have been transferred, in Jan. 1813, to the Armide 38, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, on the North American station. Independently of much detached service in the Chesapeake, Mr. Forbes joined in the attack upon New Orleans, and throughout the whole of the proceedings connected with that disastrous enterprise was incessantly employed in command of a boat on the Mississippi. On one occasion, when in the Armide’s launch, he boarded two American gun-boats. Being promoted, while in the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 March, 1815, he returned to England in the following Sept. on board the Saracen 18, Capt. Alex. Dixie. He has since been on half-pay. From May, 1818, to Nov. 1821, and again from May, 1824, to Jan. 1826, Mr. Forbes acted as Collector of the Customs at Demerara. He married, 12 Jan. 1824, and has issue.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 1522.
