and in May, 1807, after he had been for a short time re-attached to the Favorite, Capt. John Naime, on the Guernsey station, he was appointed to the Mutine sloop, Capt. Hew Steuart, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren. Quitting the latter vessel in April, 1808, Mr. Ingram did not again go afloat until July, 1826; on 27 of which month he received an appointment to the Gloucester 50, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and H. Steuart, with whom, it appears, he served until advanced, 28 Oct. 1829, to the command of the Aetna bomb. He paid that vessel off 26 May, 1830; and has not since been employed.
Commander Ingram married, 7 Sept. 1806, Miss Wilmot, of Oyster Street, Portsmouth.
INMAN. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 10; h-p., 23.)
Robert Inman died 2 June, 1845.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 4 Feb. 1813; and embarked, 21 May, 1815, as Midshipman, on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, bearing the flag of Sir Benj. Hallowell, whom he soon followed into the Tonnant 80 – both ships lying in Plymouth Sound. From Aug. in the same year until Dec. 1818 he served on the St. Helena and Cape stations, as Admiralty Midshipman, in the Racoon sloop, Capts. John Cook Carpenter, Geo. Fred. Rich, Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, Jas. Wallis, and Geo. Brine; and he next, until May, 1822, officiated in the same capacity, on the Channel and Halifax stations, on board the Camelion brig, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, Phaeton 38, Capts. Wm. Henry Dillon and Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Newcastle 60, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Atholl 28, Capt. Henry Bourchier, in which vessel (being confirmed to her on 29 of the following Aug.) he continued until Jan. 1823. He did not afterwards go afloat.
Lieut. Inman married, 16 June, 1839, Anne, eldest daughter of Jas. Upton, Esq., of Okey Lodge, Sedbergh, co. York.
INNES. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 27; h-p., 13.)
Robert Wintle Innes is brother of the late Retired Commander Wm. John Innes, R.N. This officer entered the Navy, 21 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Favorite sloop, Capts. John Nairne and Fred. Hoffman, employed at first off the coast of Africa, and then in the West Indies, where he accompanied Capt. Hoffman into the Goelan 18. Proceeding in 1808 to the East Indies in the Cornelia frigate, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, he there, in 1810-11, served on shore, as Midshipman, at the taking of the Isle of France, and similarly assisted at the storming of Fort Cornells during the operations connected with the reduction of Java. He returned home in 1812 with Capt. Edgell on board the Piedmontaise 38; and on 6 Dec. 1813, after he had further served on the Home station in the Thisbe 28, Capt. Thos. Dick, and San Josef and Queen Charlotte flag-ships of Lord Keith and Sir Pulteney Malcolm, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 22 Feb. 1814, to the Harrier 18, Capts. Andw. Pellet Green, John Forbes, and Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, employed off the Canary Islands – in 1815, to the Rifleman 18, and Pique 36, Capts. Henry Edw. Napier and Hon. Anthony Maitland – 21 Feb. 1816, to the Glasgow 40, Capt. Hon. A. Maitland, under whom he fought at Algiers – in April, 1821, to the command of the Ionia colonial vessel – 13 Dec. 1827 and 2 March, 1829, to the Infernal bomb, Capts. Edm. Williams Gilbert and Brunswick Popham – and Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, both on the Mediterranean station – for a short time in 1832 to the Vernon 50, Capt. Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, fitting at Woolwich – and 5 March, 1836, to the command of the Pandora packet on the Falmouth station. He has been on half-pay since Jan. 1842. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
INNES. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)
William John Innes died 24 March, 1847, at 23, Oxford-terrace, Hyde Park, in his 58th year. He was brother of the present Lieut. R. W. Innes, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 Feb. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Jas. Oughton, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Andw. Mitchell; with whom, from May, 1802, until Aug. 1806, he served, as Midshipman, in the Leander 50, on the North American station; where, after he had been further employed on board the Milan frigate, Capt. Sir Robt. Laurie, Vesta schooner, Lieut.-Commander Atkin Hayman, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Indian sloop, Capt. Chas. John Austen, he was confirmed, 30 March, 1808, into the Atalantb, Capt. Fred. Hickey. Continuing in North America until Oct. 1811, he commanded, from June, 1809, to Dec. 1810, the Cherub schooner, and served, during the rest of the period, in the Belvidera frigate, Capt. Rich. Byron. His last appointments were, 30 Jan. 1812, and 6 May, 1813, to the Queen 74, and Volontaire 38, Capts. Lord Colville and Hon. Geo. Waldegrave, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. He was paid off from the latter ship 4 Dec. 1815; and on 18 Jan. 1845, he accepted the rank of Retired Commander. Agents – Case and Loudon.
INSKIP. (Lieutenant, 1834.)
Peter Palmer Inskip entered the Navy 9 Dec. 1821; served as Midshipman on board the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his commission 27 Aug. 1834; and (with the exception of a command from 13 June, 1839, until Oct. 1842, of the Royal George Revenue-vessel) has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard Since 25 Feb. 1836.
His exertions in the preservation of life from drowning have been acknowledged by the presentation of a medal from the Royal Humane Society. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
IRBY. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)
The Honourable Charles Leonard Irby was born 9 Oct. 1789, and died 3 Dec. 1845. He was youngest son of the second Lord Boston, by Christiana, only daughter of Paul Methuen, Esq., of Corsham House, Wilts; and brother of Rear-Admiral of the Red Hon. Fred. Paul Irby, C.B., who commanded the Amelia 38 in a desperate action with the French 40-gun frigate L’Aréthuse, off the Iles de Los, 7 Feb. 1813, and died 24 April, 1844, aged 65.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 May, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Narcissus 32, Capts. Percy Fraser and Ross Donnelly. In that frigate, after cruizing in the North Sea, and also in the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the capture, 8 July, 1803, of the French corvette L’Alcion, of 16 guns and 96 men, he accompanied the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1805; on her passage whither the Narcissus, besides effecting the capture of Le Prudent privateer of 12 guns and 70 men, retook the English merchant-ship Horatio Nelson, mounting 22 guns, and drove on shore the Napoléon privateer of 32 guns and 250 men. Subsequently to the reduction of the Cape, and the capture of the 46-gun frigate Volontaire, Mr. Irby proceeded to the Rio de la Plata, whence we find him returning to England with the despatches announcing the conquest of Buenos Ayres. Being again ordered out, however, with Capt. Donnelly in the Ardent 64 he joined in the operations of Feb. 1807 against Monte Video, and was slightly wounded while serving on shore in the advanced battery.[1] After the place had surrendered to the British, he took a passage home on board the Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman; and prior to his advancement to the rank
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 473.
