Dec. 1820, and has not been since employed. His commission as Commander bears date 8 Nov. 1821.
He married, in 1827, Anne, only daughter of the late Sam. Bilke, Esq., Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
LIDDON. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Matthew John Liddon entered the Navy 13 July, 1815; passed his examination in 1822; and obtained his commission 23 May, 1828. His appointments have since been – 16 Sept. 1828, to the Victor 18, Capt. Rich. Keane, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England in 1830 in the Fairy 10, Capt. Fras. Blair – and 14 July, 1838, to the Coast Guard, in which service he still continues.
LILBURN. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 21; h-p., 6.)
James Robert Roddam Lilburn, born 1 April, 1807, is son of Commander Jas. Lilburn, R.N. (who was killed in a cutting-out affair under the Molehead batteries in the port of Malaga 29 April, 1812), byPhillis, youngest daughter of Gilbert Selby, Esq., of Holy Island. He is brother of the present Lieut. Selby Lilburn, R.N.; and nephew of Lieut. Robt. Lilburn, R.N., who died while commanding a schooner in the West Indies.
This officer entered the R.N. College 3 Feb. 1820; embarked 7 Feb. 1822, as a Volunteer, on board the Active 46, Capt. Andrew King, lying at Portsmouth; and in the following Nov., after having been borne as a Supernumerary on the books of various ships, joined the Martin 20, Capts. Christ. Crackenthorp Askew and Henry Eden, on the Mediterranean station. He next, from Feb. 1825 until Oct. 1826, served in South America as Midshipman on board the Doris and Thetis frigates, Capts. Sir John Gordon Sinclair and Sir John Phillimore; and he was then for two years and a half employed as Mate, at home and in the Mediterranean, in the Herald yacht, Capts. Henry Eden and Edw. Wm. Corry Astley, Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom, Pearl 20, Capt. Geo. Chas. Blake, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm. On 9 July, 1829, he was made Lieutenant into the Wellesley 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, also on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in Sept. 1830. His appointments have since been – 6 April, 1831, for a few months, to the Savage 10, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, employed at Lisbon and at Cork – 15 April, 1835, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Geo. Wm. St. John Mildmay, stationed off the coasts of Spain and Portugal – 19 Nov. 1838, and 3 Nov. 1839, to the Daphne 18, and Vanguard 80, Capts. John Windham Dalling and Sir Thos. Fellowes, again in the Mediterranean – and 6 Dec. 1841, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continues.
When in the Doris, Wellesley, and Magicienne, Lieut. Lilburn distinguished himself by thrice jumping into the sea after persons who had fallen overboard. He married, 19 Sept. 1843, Christian, daughter of G. Markwell, Esq., of Holy Island, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LILBURN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Selby Lilburn is brother of Lieut. J. R. R. Lilburn, R.N.
This officer passed his examination 11 Nov. 1834; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 13 Aug. 1845, had been serving for several years on the East India and African stations in the Camelion 10, Lieut.Commander Geo. Martin Hunter, and Prometheus steam-sloop, Capt. John Hay. He was appointed, a few days afterwards, Additional-Lieutenant of the Penelope steam-frigate. Commodore Wm. Jones; with whom he returned home in the spring of 1846. He has since been on half-pay.
LILLICRAP. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 36; h-p., 31.)
James Lillicrap, a native of Plymouth, is uncle of Jas. Lillicrap Marchant, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N., one of whose brothers died a Midshipman, and another a Lieutenant, R.N.
This officer entered the Kavy, 5 Sept. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Eras. John Hartwell, lying at Plymouth, where his name, during several months in 1782-3, was borne on the books of the Dunkirk, Capt. Milligan. Joining, in Sept. 1784, the Racehorse sloop, Capt. Thos. Wilson, he was for two years and a half employed in that vessel on the Halifax station, and in the suppression of smuggling on the coast of Scotland. On leaving her he became for a short period attached to the Termagant, another sloop, Capt. Rowley Bulteel; and he was next, between 1788 and 1793, stationed at Home and in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman, in the Cumberland 74, Capt. John Macbride, Syren 32, Capt. John Manley, St. George and Windsor Castle 98’s, flagships of Rear-Admiral Phillips Cosby, and Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Hood. On 30 Oct. in the year last mentioned, after having served on shore at the occupation of Toulon, Mr. Lillicrap was promoted to a Lieutenancy in La Moselle 20, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett; in which vessel he continued until 7 Jan. 1794, when he had the misfortune to be taken prisoner in the jolly-boat while voluntarily reconnoitring the harbour at the above place subsequently to its evacuation by the British. Being exchanged in 1795, he embarked at Marseilles, and proceeded to Genoa, whence he returned overland to England via Cuxhaven, bringing with him despatches from Mr. Drake, the British Minister at Genoa. On his arrival he was appointed, 12 Oct. in the same year, to the Trusty 50, Capts. John Osborne and Andrew Todd; under the former of whom he partook of a variety of services in the North Sea and Channel, and assisted in conveying Lord Macartney to the Cape of Good Hope. During the mutiny which broke out on that station in 1797, Mr. Lillicrap was placed by Rear-Admiral Pringle in charge of the Rattlesnake sloop; which vessel he succeeded in placing so close under the guns of the Amsterdam battery, in Table Bay, that the ringleaders were obliged to surrender. Returning to England in the early part of 1799 on board the Trusty, he next, in the following April, joined the Venerable 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Geo. Fairfax and Sam. Hood, and was thus afforded an opportunity of sharing in an attack which was soon afterwards made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron in Aix roads, and of also participating in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ actions of 6 and 13 July, 1801, off Cadiz and in the Gut of Gibraltar. In consideration of his distinguished conduct as the Venerable’s First-Lieutenant on the latter occasion, and of the most able manner in which he supported Capt. Hood,[1] Mr. Lillicrap was rewarded with a Commander’s commission dated 18 Aug. 1801. His first appointment in his new rank was, 2 April, 1804, to the Vesuvius bomb, employed under Sir Wm. Sidney Smith on the Boulogne station; where, in Nov. 1805, he had 1 man killed and several wounded in an attack upon the enemy’s flotilla. While next in the Despatch 18, to which sloop he removed 25 Sept. 1806, Capt. Lillicrap, in the course of 1807, sailed from the Downs in command of a light squadron and with a large fleet of transports under his protection, having on board two divisions of the King’s German Legion. These his Indefatigable exertions and active measures enabled him to land in safety on the island of Rugen, at a time when the French army was besieging Stralsund, the capital of Swedish Pomerania. After he had for some time discharged the duties of Senior officer in Pert Bay, Capt. Lillicrap conducted the last division of troops under Lord Rosslyn from Rugen to Zealand, where he rendered good service by the mode in which he superintended their disembarkation in Kioge Bay During the operations against Copenhagen he was the Senior Commander employed in the in-shore squadron under Capt. Paget, and, until its surrender was in constant action with the enemy. Although,
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 1104.
