120, bearing the flag, as before, of Sir E. Pellew, under whom he participated in the actions of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814 with the Toulon fleet. He was promoted (from the Prince Frederick prison-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Rich. Pridham) to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Feb. 1815; but has not been since employed.
KENDALL. (Commander, 1845.)
Walter Kendall entered the Navy 29 Nov. 1327; passed his examinatian in 1834; and served, as Mate of the Nimrod 20, Capt. Chas. Anstruther Barlow, during the operations of March and May, 1841, against Canton, where he gained the character of being a very deserving officer, but had the misfortune to lose a leg.[1] Being in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 8 June in the latter year, he was afterwards appointed, in that capacity – 10 Oct. 1842, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 31 Jan. 1843, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport. He attained his present rank 13 March, 1845, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
KENDERDINE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
John Kenderdine entered the Navy, 22 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Caroline frigate, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, on accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the Cressy 74 (commanded afterwards by Capt. Chas. Dashwood), he was in company with the St. George and Defence when those ships were lost on their passage home from the Baltic during a violent gale in Dec. 1811. He continued in the Cressy, on the West India and Home stations, until Feb. 1814; between which period and Aug. 1815 we find him employed, at Portsmouth, in North America, and at Plymouth, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Diadem 64, Capt. John Martin Hanchett, and St. George 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He then took up a commission dated 7 March, 1815, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1827, Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of Mr. Brutton, Governor of the County Prison, Stafford.
KENMURE, Viscount. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
The Right Honourable Adam Gordon Viscount Kenmure, born 9 Jan. 1792, at Drungan Lodge, near Dumfries, N.B., is son of the late Hon. Adam Gordon, by his first wife. Miss Harriet Davies. His eldest brother, John, died a Lieutenant in the R.N. 31 Dec. 1813; and his youngest, Edward Maxwell, a Lieutenant in the 22nd Infantry, lost his life at Jamaica 14 Dec. 1827. The Viscount succeeded his uncle in the Peerage 21 Sept. 1840.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 74, Capts. Lord Garlies, Christopher Laroche, Wm. Brown, and John Pilfold, in which ship we find him sharing, in the course of 1805, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, also in Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest, and in the battle of Trafalgar. Removing, in April, 1806, to the Seahorse of 42 guns, he was present, on the night of 5 July, 1808, when that ship, with only 251 men on board, put to flight the Turkish frigate Alis-Fezan of 26 guns and 230 men, and captured, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the British of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, her consort, the Badere-Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were killed and 200 wounded. During his continuance in the Seahorse Mr. Gordon was often engaged with the enemy’s batteries and gun-boats at Cadiz; he assisted, too, in reducing the islands of Gianuti and Pianosa;[2] and in one of several boat affairs on- the coast of Italy he received a slight contusion. Being unfortunately, on 21 Oct. 1809, taken prisoner in a prize, oif Sardinia, by the Lettéros letter-of-marque, he was carried to Genoa, and subsequently to Verdun, where it was his lot to be detained en parole until 1814. He then sailed for Quebec in the Psyche, Capt. Peter Fisher, for the purpose of joining the Canadian Lake service, to which he continued attached, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 9 April and 1 July, 1815), until he invalided in Aug. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Viscount Kenmure is Deputy-Lieutenant for Kirkcudbrightshire. He married, 2 Nov. 1843, Mary Anne, daughter of the late Jas. Wildey, Esq., of the Oxford Militia.
KENNEDY. (Commander, 1809. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
Alexander Kennedy (a) entered the Navy, 24 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Magnanime frigate, Capt. Hon. Mich. De Courcy, with whom he served on the Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman of the Canada 74, until April, 1800. Removing then to the Thames 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he witnessed Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 July, 1801, in the Gut of Gibraltar, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the cutting out of a gun-boat and convoy from the Bay of Estapona. The Thames being paid off in Jan. 1803, he next, in the following April, joined the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, under whom he assisted at the capture of Le Courier de Terre Neuve privateer of 16 guns and 60 men, and L’Atalante, a beautiful corvette of 22 guns and 120 men. In 1804 we find Mr. Kennedy sailing in the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, for the East Indies, where, after an attachment of a short period to the Concorde 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 2 April, 1806, in the Sceptre 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham; which ship, on 11 of the ensuing Nov., made a dash, with the Cornwallis 50, into St. Paul’s Bay, Ile de Bourbon, and opened a fire upon the shipping there at anchor, consisting of the Semillante French frigate, three armed ships, and 12 sail of merchantmen, the whole protected by seven batteries, mounting upwards of 100 pieces of cannon. On his return home in 1808, Lieut. Kennedy was appointed to the Captain 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and ordered to the West Indies; on his arrival on which station he was invested with the acting-command, on 28 Oct. in the same year, of the Port d’Espagne sloop, in which, we understand, he contributed to the reduction of Martinique. At the period of his official promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 2 June, 1809, our officer had charge of the St. Pierre sloop. In the course of 1810 he obtained successive command of the Pelorus, Surinam, and Forester, all on the Halifax station; where, and again in the West Indies, he served until April, 1814. He has since been unemployed. The Forester, on 5 May, 1813, assisted, in company with the Sapphire sloop, in capturing the Mary Ann American privateer of 2 guns and 30 men. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
KENNEDY. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 15; h-p., 30.)
Alexander Kennedy (b) entered the Navy in Nov. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, employed off the coast of Spain; and in 1804, on that officer hoisting his flag in the Culloden 74, sailed with him for the East Indies. In Dec. 1805 he became Midshipman of the Concorde 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, but, rejoining the Culloden in Dec. 1806, was afforded an opportunity of witnessing the destruction, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1503, 1505, 2501, 2513.
- ↑ Vide Capt. Thos. Bennett.
