399
GILSON—GITTINGS—GLADSTONE—GLAIRE—GLANVILL—GLANVILLE.
His promotion to the Senior took place 28 April, 1836.
Commander Gilmore married, 4 Aug. 1832, Mrs. Harding, widow of Sam. Harding, Esq., formerly of the Victualling Yard, Portsmouth.
GILSON. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Thomas Andrew Gilson entered the Navy 21 May, 1812; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 16 Jan. 1829; and since 3 April, 1333, has been in the Coast Guard. He is the Senior Lieutenant of 1829.
GITTINGS. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Henry Gittings (b) entered the Navy, 2 Dec. 1810; and passed his examination in 1821. Since his promotion, which took place 5 Sept. 1830, he has been on half-pay.
He married, in May, 1830, Hannah, only daughter of _____ Longley, of Gillingham, co. Kent.
GLADSTONE. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 11; h-p., 16.)
John Neilson Gladstone is third son of John Gladstone, Esq., of Fasque, co. Kincardine, N.B. This officer entered the Navy, 2 March, 1820; and passed his examination in 1826. Obtaining his first commission 7 July, 1827, he was afterwards appointed – 22 Jan. 1829, and 14 Oct. 1830, to the Warspite 76, and Druid 46, Capts. Wm. Henry Shirreff and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, on the South American station – and, 15 Jan. and 7 Feb. 1834, to the Rainbow and Tyne 28’s, both commanded, the latter in the Mediterranean, by Viscount Ingestrie. He was placed on halt-pay 30 June, 1835, and has not since been employed. The commission he now holds bears date 26 Feb. 1842.
Commander Gladstone is M.P. for Ipswich. He married, 7 Feb. 1839, Elizabeth Honoria, second daughter of Sir Robt. Bateson, Bart., M.P., and has issue. Agents- Messrs. Stilwell.
GLAIRE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Glaire entered the Navy, 4 May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nautilus 18, Capts. Geo. Oldham, John Sykes, and Edw. Palmer, which vessel (whose Captain and 62 of the crew were destroyed by famine) was wrecked on Cerigotto, a barren rock in the Levant, 4 Jan. 1807. In July following he became Midshipman of the Adbora 28, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour; and we afterwards find him serving on board the Pallas 32, commanded by the same officer, and by Capts. Hon. Geo. Cadogan, Edwards Lloyd Graham, and Geo. Paris Monke, under the latter of whom, after witnessing the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and attending the expedition to Flushing, he was again wrecked, off Edinburgh Frith, 18 Dec. 1 810. Between that period and his attainment of the rank of Lieutenant, 7 Feb. 1815, Mr. Glaire served as Master’s Mate, chiefly on the Home station, of the Port Mahon 18, Capts. Villiers Fras. Hatton and Fred. Wm. Burgoyne, Bbune 38, armée en flûte Capt. Wm, Stanhope Badcock, and Mercurious 16, Capt. Thos. Renwick. He has not since been employed. Aqent – J. Hinxman.
GLANVILL. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 18; h-p., 39.)
George Glanvill entered the Navy, 3 June 1790, as L.M., on board the Winchelsea, Capt. Hon. Chas. Carpenter, on the Channel station, from which ship he was discharged in the following December. Re-embarking, in Nov. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Fortitude 74, Capts. Wm. Young and Thos. Taylor, he witnessed the ensuing evacuation of Toulon, assisted at the reduction of the island of Corsica, took part in Hotham’s two actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795, and on 7 Oct. in the latter year was in company with the Censeur 74, when that ship was captured by a French squadron under M. Richery. After a further servitude of three years and a half with Capt. Taylor in the Fame 74, and with Capts. Jas. Young and Philip Wilkinson in the Unicorn 32, Mr. Glanvill was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 13 July, 1799, in the Cynthia 18, Capts. Micajah Malbon, John Dick, and John Wesley Wright; under the two first of whom he attended the expeditions. to Holland, Ferrol, and Egypt. For the services he performed on the latter occasion he was presented. with the Turkish gold medal. Being next appointed, 13 Oct. 1803, to the Malta 80, Capts. Sir Edw. Buller, Wm. Shield, and Robt. Waller Otway, the subject of this memoir, who continued to serve in that ship for the space of five years, had the fortune to participate in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, and also to assist at the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of the French frigate Le Président. We afterwards find him commanding, from Nov. 1808 to Aug. 1809, the Rowena and Ann hired brigs, on the Channel station, whence he was then sent to serve with the flotilla at the siege of Flushing. His last appointments were, 13 April, 1811, to the Christian VII. 80, flag-ship of Admiral Young in the North Sea – and, 13 Feb. 1813, to the Spitfire sloop, Capt. John Ellis, on the coast of Africa, whence he invalided, in July, 1814. He assumed the rank of Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior, 14 Oct. 1843.
GLANVILLE. (Capt., 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 10.)
William Fanshawe Glanville is son, we believe, of Fras. Glanville, Esq., of Catchfrench, co. Cornwall, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that county, and formerly M.P. for Malmesbury, by Elizabeth, second daughter of Robt. Fanshawe, Esq., Commissioner of Plymouth Dockyard; and nephew of Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1821; and obtained his first commission 15 Dec. 1827. He was afterwards appointed – 28 Aug. 1828, to the Pallas 42, Capts. Adolphus FitzClarence and Manley Hall Dixon, employed on Particular Service – 7 Nov. 1832, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Robt. Tait, in South America – 25 Nov. 1836, to the Dido 18, Capt. Lewis Davies, on the Mediterranean station – 6 Jan. 1839, to the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag there of his uncle Sir Robt. Stopford – 29 April, 1839, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier – and, 6 March, 1840, again to the Princess Charlotte. For his services as Flag-Lieutenant of the latter ship at the capture of St. Jean d’Acre (where, besides the duties he had to perform in the signals, he was actively employed in the boats communicating with the different ships along the line of the two divisions as necessity required, and was in consequence personally recommended to the notice of the Admiralty[1]) he was promoted to the rank of Commander by commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. He afterwards served, from 10 Jan. 1843 until Nov. 1845, as Second-Captain of the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmonth; and on 9 Nov. 1846, was advanced to his present rank. He is now on half-pay.
He married, 7 July, 1841, his cousin Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Bedford, of Stonehall.
GLASCOCK. (Capt., 1833. f-p., 24; h-p., 23.)
William Nugent Glascock entered the Navy, in Jan. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Glenmore frigate, Capt. Geo. Duff; on removing with which officer to the Vengeance 74, he is reported to have commanded a launch at the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Being paid off on his return from a voyage to the West Indies, in 1802, he next, on the renewal of hostilities, became successively attached, as Midshipman, to the Colossus 74, Barfleur 98, and Fortunée 36, Capts. Geo. Martin and Henry Vansittart; under the first of whom, in the Barfleur, he officiated as Signal-Mate in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805; and also wit-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 3988.
