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GALLOWAY—GALLWEY—GAMBIER.
took place 4 May, 1810, Lieut. Gallichan has been on half-pay.
GALLOWAY. (Commander, 1806. f-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
James Galloway died 12 Aug. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1793, as A.B., on board the Berwick 74, Capt. Sir John Collins, and during the six following years served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Britannia 100, flag-ship of Admiral Wm. Hotham, Tartar 28, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone, Queen 98, flagship of Sir Hyde Parker, and Ceres 32, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway and R. Pearson. During that period he officiated as Signal-Midshipman of the Britannia in the actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795; was wrecked in the Tartar, off St. Domingo, in April, 1797; and was on board the Ceres at the evacuation of Port-au-Prince in May, 1798. Being promoted to a Lieutenancy, 24 July, 1799, in the Roebuck 44, Capt. John Buchannan, he attended the ensuing expedition to Holland; after which he joined the Success 32, Capt. Shuldham Peard, and on 13 Feb. 1801 was captured in the Mediterranean by a French squadron under M. Ganteaume. On being released a few days afterwards, he went on board the Hector 74, bearing the flag of Lord Keith; for his services under whom, during the expedition to Egypt, he received the Turkish gold medal. At the cessation of hostilities we find Mr. Galloway paying off, as First-Lieutenant, the Foudroyant 80, to which Ship Lord Keith had transferred his flag. From 1803 until advanced to the rank of Commander, 22 Jan. 1806, he further served with the latter nobleman, as his Flag-Lieutenant, in the Monarch and Edgar 74’s, on the Mediterranean and Home stations. In 1809 he obtained a command in the Sea Fencibles at Killybegs, in Ireland; and he was afterwards appointed – 24 May, 1810, to the Princess guard-ship at Liverpool – 19 Dec. 1812, to the Despatch 18, in which sloop he appears to have been very actively employed at the blockade of Santona and San Sebastian in 1813,[1] and at the destruction of Stonington, in America – in Oct. 1814, pro tem, to the Narcissus 32, off New London – and, in Dec. following, to the Penelope frigate, armée en flûte which he had the misfortune to lose in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 30 April, 1815. He was not afterwards employed.
Commander Galloway obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 11 Feb. 1830. He married Jane Athol, youngest daughter of Wm. Duthie, Esq., of Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, N.B.
GALLWEY. (Commander, 1841.)
Henry John Windham Sherbrook Payne Gallwey entered the Navy 1 April, 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 6 June, 1834. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were, on the Cape of Good Hope, Home, and Mediterranean stationa – 8 Sept. 1834, to the Thalia 46, Capt. Robt. Wauchope – 21 Jan. 1835, to the Pelorus 16, Capt. Rich. Meredith – 5 April, 1836, to the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson – 15 March, 1837, to the Revenge 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott – 30 Nov. 1837, to the Volage 28, Capt. Henry Smith – 19 Dec. 1837, to the Howe 120, flagship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway – and, 25 Nov. 1839, to the Pique 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer. Besides commanding the boats of the latter frigate at the capture of the towns of Caiffa and Tsour, on the coast of Syria – on the former of which occasions he was officially spoken of in the highest terms[2] – he served on board of her at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He was advanced to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and, from 27 Dec. 1845 until superseded in March, 1847, had command of the Rapid 10, on the coast of Africa. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
GALLWEY. (Retired Captain, 1844.)
Thomas Gallwey entered the Navy, 1 June, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Plover 18, Capts. Edw. Galwey and Matthew Forster, chiefly employed on the West India station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 5 May, 1802. In May, 1803, he joined the Melpomene 44, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver, Christopher Laroche, arid Peter Parker, and, on 22 Sept. 1807 (after an intermediate servitude in the North Sea, Channel, and Mediterranean, latterly in the Amphion 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste), was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. During the next two years and a half we find him employed, on the Home station, in the Shannon 38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke; after which he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in the Menelaus 38, Capt. Peter Parker, and assisted at the capture of the Isle of France in Dec. 1810. His advancement to the rank of Commander took place 17 March, 1812, at which period he was serving on board the Lion 64, flag-ship of Hon. Robt. Stopford. He joined the Water-Guard service 11 Aug. 1819; obtained a three years’ command in the Ordinary at Chatham, 3 Feb. 1831; and retired with the rank of Captain 27 Aug. 1844.
Capt. Gallwey is at present H.M. Consul at Naples. He is married and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Hallett and Robinson.
GAMBIER. (Captain, 1821. f-p., 15; h-p., 24.)
George Cornish Gambier is brother of Capt. Robt. Gambier, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 June, 1808, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Thisbe 28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, bearing the flag in the river Thames of Hon. Hen. Edwin Stanhope; served, as Midshipman, from 20 Oct. 1809, to 14 Nov. 1811, of the Unicorn and Acasta frigates, both commanded by Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, in the Bay of Biscay; then joined the Malta 80, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell; and, on 6 March, 1815, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His next appointments were, on the East India station, to the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, Minden 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and Topaze 46, Capt. John Rich. Lumley. He assumed command, 7 Dec. 1819, of the Curlew sloop, and on 4 June, 1821, was posted into the Dauntless 24. He was paid off, on his return from India, towards the close of 1823, and since that period has been on half-pay. Agents – Collier and Snee.
GAMBIER. (Captain, 1814.)
Robert Gambier, born 3 Aug. 1791, at Wateringbury, co. Kent, is son of the late Commissioner Sam. Gambier, R.N., who died 11 May, 1813, by Jane, youngest daughter of Dan. Mathew, Esq., of Felix Hall, co. Essex; brother of Capt. G. C. Gambier, R.N., and of Sir Edw. John Gambier, Judge of Madras; nephew of Admiral Lord Gambier, G.C.B.;[3] and second-cousin of Capt. R. F. Gambier, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Lively 38, Capt. Graham
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.
- ↑ On 1 Sept. 1813, Commander Galloway was sent with a division of boats, as was Commander Robert Bloye, of the Lyra, to make a demonstration on the back of the rock of St. Sebastian – an operation which, although conducted under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries, had the successful effect of diverting a large proportion of the garrison from the defence of the breach which had been created in the walls of the town, and of thereby enabling the British to enter – Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 1826.
- ↑ Lord Gambier was born at the Bahamas 13 Oct. 1756. He commanded the Thunder bomb when that vessel was captured by the Comte d’Estaing in 1778; served on shore with the naval brigade, while Captain of the Raleigh 32, at the reduction of Charlestown, in 1780; commanded the Defence 74, on 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794, on which latter occasion he was the first to cut through the enemy’s line; became Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Newfoundland in 1802; co-operated with Lieut.-General Lord Cathcart, and was created a Baron of the United Kingdom for his seizure of the Danish fleet, in 1807; and was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet when Lord Cochrane made his celebrated attack on the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809. On 30 July, 1814, his Lordship was nominated the head of a commission for negociating a treaty of peace with the plenipotentiaries duly authorized for that purpose on the part of the United States of America. He had previously for many years filled a seat at the Board of Admiralty. He died Admiral of the Fleet 19 April, 1833.
