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GILL—GILLMOR—GILMORE—GILMOUR.
whose promotion was confirmed on his arrival home by commission dated 8 May, 1804, subsequently served, until promoted to the rank of Commander at the conclusion of the war, 15 June, 1814, in the Prince 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, Combatant 20, Capt. A. Bissell, Aurora 28, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, Kingfisher 18, Capt. Wm. Hepenstall, Medway 74, Capt. Augustus Brine, and Semiramis 36, Capt. Chas. Richardson. He also for short periods, in 1804-6-9, commanded the Tartar Revenue-cutter, the Aurora (as Acting-Captain), and the Panther prison-ship. While Lieutenant of the Aurora, under Capt. Elliot, he participated in an action of three hours with some Spanish gun-boats near Tarifa, three of which were captured. He likewise either conducted in person, or bore a prominent share in, a variety of boat operations on the coast of Italy, and on every occasion displayed a gallant and characteristic bearing, particularly in the month of December, 1806, when, in command of two boats belonging to the Kingfisher, he chased an armed felucca on shore, then landed at the head of a party of 40 officers, seamen, and marines, secured the prize, plundered a neighbouring village, and ultimately brought off the spoil, although the enemy had rallied, and had brought together a force of 500 men to oppose him. On 27 June, 1808, he was again wounded at the capture, after a smart action of nearly 30 minutes, of the letter-of-marque Le Hercule, of 12 guns and 57 men, which vessel he subsequently conducted into Malta. Capt. Gill’s appointments, after his promotion to the rank of Commander, were, we find – 28 April, 1829, to the Sparrowhawk 19, on the West India station – and, 22 July, 1830, as Acting-Captain, to the Magnificent, receiving-ship at Port Royal, Jamaica, whence he invalided 19 Feb. 1831. He was promoted to the rank he now holds 10 Jan. 1837; and has since been unemployed.
Capt. Gill married, 16 Aug. 1816, and has issue, with six daughters, three sons, of whom the eldest Thos. Cadman Roberts, is a Mate, R.N. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
GILL. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
William Young Gill entered the Navy 17 Sept. 1808; served as Mate of the Albion 74, Capt. John Coode, at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; and obtained his commission 13 July, 1824. He was afterwards appointed – 26 July, 1830, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 15 Oct. 1831, to the Coast Guard – 2 July, 1840, to the Victoria Revenue-vessel – and, 4 March, 1843, as First, to the Styx steamer, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emerie Vidal, employed in surveying the Azores. He has been on half-day since 1845.
Lieut. Gill is married, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
GILLMOR. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
Clotworthy Gillmor, born 5 April, 1773, is youngest son of Wm. Gillmor, Esq., who was High Sheriff for co. Sligo in 1789.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1794, as A.B., on board the Ambuscade 32, Capt. Geo. Duff, with whom he served, in the same ship, and in the Glenmore 36, on the North Sea and Irish stations, until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 13 Feb. 1801, in the Serpent 16, Capt. Thos. Roberts. On the 30 Oct. in the latter year he joined for a few months the San Fiorenzo 40, Capt. Chas. Wm. Paterson, and we afterwards find him serving, from 8 April, 1803, to 27 Jan. 1806, on board the Texel 64, Malabar 50, and Belliqueux 64, all commanded by Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, under whom, in the last-mentioned ship, he assisted at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope. After an attachment of some months in 1807 to the Zealand, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Thos. Wells, Mr. Gillmor joined the Marlborough 74, Capt. Graham Moore; and while in that ship, he escorted the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils, and attended the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. Being next appointed, 14 July, 1810, to the Melpomene frigate, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, he for some time commanded the Naval Brigade, consisting of 500 men, employed in co-operation with the army under the Duke of Wellington at the lines of Torres Vedras, and materially assisted in battering the town of Santarem, and in destroying all the boats with which General Massena’s army was to have crossed the Tagus. The subject, of this memoir, who has not been employed since the summer of 1811, became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 1 Dec. 1830, and on the Senior 17 Nov. 1845.
He is married, and has issue. His son, the Rev. Clotworthy Gillmor, M.A., is Vicar of Dartford, co. Kent; and his youngest daughter is the wife of Capt. C. H. Thomas, Hon.E.I.Co.’s service.
GILMORE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
John Gilmore entered the Navy, in July, 1806, as A.B., on board the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, and, on his return from a visit to the West Indies, successively joined, in 1807-8, the Enchantress gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Paisley, and, as Midshipman, the Tribune 36, Capt. Geo. Reynolds. On 12 May, 1810, we find the latter frigate very gallantly beating off, on the coast of Norway, after a smart action of two hours and a quarter, in which she lost 9 men killed and 15 wounded, four Danish man-of-war brigs, carrying altogether 74 guns. Mr. Gilmore, who continued to serve in the Tribune until July, 1813, then joined the Impregnable 98, and, next, the Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Admirals Young and Sir Alex. Cochrane, under the latter of whom he saw much active service on the coast of North America. Among other operations he appears, on 14 Dec. 1814, to have served with the boats of a squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, which did not surrender until the British, after a desperate conflict, had been occasioned a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. From Dec. 1814 until 4 June, 1815, he commanded, as Acting-Lieutenant, the Harlequin and Firebrand gun-vessels, in the Gulf of Mexico. He then assumed his present rank by commission dated back to 28 Peb. 1815, and since that period has been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
GILMOUR. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 33; h-p., 35.)
Alexander Gilmour entered the Navy, in 1779, as A.B., on board the Fortune cutter, Lieut.-Commanders Brown and Rich. Donell; on his transference from which vessel to a Midshipman’s berth in the St. Fermin, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, he was captured, in April, 1780, and detained for 14 months a prisoner of war in Spain. From the period of his release, until promoted to a Lieutenancy, 4 Dec. 1795, in the Impregnable 98, Capt. John Thomas, he then served, on the Home and West India stations, in the Dragon, Eurydice, Proselyte, Triumph, Orestes, Advice,[1] Spitfire, Marie Antoinette, and Swan. His after appointments, until 1807, were, to the Juste 80, Orion 74, Glory 98, Castor frigate, and Diomede 50. In the Orion, commanded by Sir Jas. Saumarez, he participated in the glories of 14 Feb. 1797, and 1 Aug. 1798; and, in the Diomede, Capts. Joseph Edmonds and Hugh Downman, he witnessed the capture of the Cape in Jan. 1806, and of Monte Video in Feb. 1807. We subsequently find him commanding the Vengeance and Suffolk, prison-ships at Portsmouth, from 19 Jan. 1808 to Nov. 1812, and, for some months in 1814, the Signal station at Beechey Head. Not having been since employed, he at length accepted the rank of Retired Commander on the Senior List 26 Nov. 1830.
- ↑ The Advice cutter, Lieut.-Commander Edward Tyrrel, was wrecked in the Bay of Honduras, in Dec. 1793. Crew saved.
