island of Malta; a disaster of any share in which Capt. M‘Kinley was by court-martial fully acquitted. On afterwards leaving the Bulwark, he was appointed, 16 Jan. 1818, a Captain of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and in April, 1821, he was nominated Superintendent of the Royal Naval Asylum on the occasion of its incorporation with the former institution. His services in the latter capacity were acknowledged in 1828 by a special increase of 100l. per annum to his salary. He became a Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Vice-Admiral M‘Kinley married a sister of the late Vice-Admiral Aiskew Paffard Hollis, by whom he has issue. Agent – J. Chippendale.
M‘KIRDY. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 16; h-p., 34.)
John M‘Kirdy entered the Navy, in March, 1797, as L.M., on board the Glenmore frigate, Capt. Geo. Duff; employed off the coast of Ireland; and in 1798 became Midshipman of the Hyaena 24, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle and David Lloyd, stationed at first in the Channel, and then in the Mediterranean; where, in 1799, he joined the Santa Teresa 32, Capt. Robt. Campbell. While in that ship he commanded a boat under Lieut. John Chiene, and had two of his men killed, in cutting out a vessel from under a battery on the coast of Catalonia. He assisted likewise at the capture, 19 June, 1739, of Rear-Admiral Perrée’s squadron of three frigates and two brigs, and served at the blockade of Malta and in the operations on the coasts of Genoa and Egypt. When next in the West Indies in the Blenheim 74, flag-ship of Sir Archibald Dickson, we find him present, as Master’s Mate, in one of two boats commanded by Lieut. Thos. Furber, and aiding, in a most spirited manner, at the boarding and carrying, after a pull of an hour and a half in the heat of the sun, and under a fire of grape and musketry, of La Fortune French privateer, of 2 guns, 6 swivels, and 29 men, 15 Sept. 1803, On 16 of the following Nov. he participated in another gallant exploit of the same nature, also conducted by Lieut. Furber, namely, the cutting out from the harbour of Marin, Martinique, with loss to both parties, of the Harmonie, a notorious privateer of 8 guns and 66 men. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for nearly five months as such, in the Heureux 24, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Younghusband, and John Morrison, 8 May, 1804. He continued actively employed in that vessel in the West Indies until she was lost in 1806; and was subsequently appointed – 4 Feb. 1807, to the Malabar 74, Capt. John Temple, stationed in the North Sea – 14 May, 1803, to the Ardent 64, flag-ship at Leith of Vice-Admiral Jas. Vashon – 20 Jan. and 16 Nov. 1809, to the Alcmène 32[1] and Muros brig, Capts. Wm. Henry Brown Tremlett and Clement Sneyd, both on the Channel station – 27 Aug. 1810, to the Hibernia 120, Capt. John Nash, lying at Portsmouth – 14 Nov. following, to the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, under whom he officiated as First-Lieutenant at the defence of Cadiz – and, 23 Dec. 1811, to the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker. He served in the ship last mentioned in the North Sea and Channel until 22 April, 1314; and on 28 Feb. 1837, not having been further employed, he accepted his present rank. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
M‘KIRDY. (Lieutenant, 1814.)
Robert M‘Kirdy died about the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy (into which he was impressed), 16 April, 1806, on board the Enterprize receiving-ship at the Tower. In the following June, after he had for a short time been attached to the Zealand, commanded at the Nore by Capt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, he became Midshipman of the Theseus 74, Capts. Geo. Hope and John Poo Beresford, in which ship and the Poictiers 74, also under the orders of Capt. Beresford, we find him serving on the Home station, in the capacities of Masters Mate and Second-Master, until July, 1812. He was in consequence present, in the Theseus, at the destruction of the enemy’s shipping in Basque Roads in April, 1809. On leaving the Poictiers he sailed for the East Indies in the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Sam. Hood, who nominated him, 2 May, 1813, Acting-Lieutenant of the Cornwallis 74, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby. He went on half-pay in Aug. 1314, having been officially promoted on 4 of the preceding Feb.; and he was afterwards employed, for a long time, in command of the Tickler cutter and Martial gun-brig. In the former vessel he was engaged in superintending the herring-fishery on the N.W. coast of Scotland.
MACKWORTH. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Herbert Mackworth, born 1 Oct. 1791, is second son of the late Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., by his first wife, Jane, only daughter of the Rev. Matthew Deere; and brother of the present Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., K.H., a Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, who served in the Peninsula, in France, and at Waterloo, and was lately Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief. His father’s second wife was a daughter of General Sir Jas. Affleck, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and after a servitude of 17 months, on the Channel and Irish stations, was transferred, in May, 1805, to the Pearl, Lieut.-Commander Woodger, lying at Portsmouth. Proceeding in the summer of 1806 to the Mediterranean in the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he there, in Oct. of that year, rejoined Capt. Blackwood in the Ajax 74; on the destruction of which ship by fire near the island of Tenedos, 14 Feb. 1807, he was received into the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj, Hallowell, under whom he took part in the ensuing operations on the coast of Egypt. In April, 1808, he was again placed under the orders of Capt. Blackwood in the Warspite 74, also attached to the force in the Mediterranean. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Mutine brig, Capt. Nevinson De Courcy, on the Brazilian station, 29 April, 1811; and between Aug. 1812 and Nov. 1818 was successively employed in the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, Eurydice 24, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, Scamander 36, Capts. Sir John Louis, Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, and Wm. Elliott, Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, and Severn, Coast Blockade-ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – on the Mediterranean, Cork, West India, and Home stations. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Mackworth was lately High Sheriff for Trinidad. He married Miss Jesse Anderson, and by that lady has issue two sons and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
M‘LEAN. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Charles Clayton M‘Lean entered the Navy 24 March, 1810; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 6 Dec. 1826; and since 2 Aug. 1833 has been employed in the Coast Guard service.
MACLEAN. (Commander, 1823. f-p., 18; h-p., 31.)
Rawdon Maclean entered the Navy,24 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Terpsichore 32, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, employed in the Mediterranean and then in the Channel, where, from Oct. 1800 until April, 1802, he served as Midshipman in the Atlas 98, Capt. Theophilus Jones. In Oct. 1803 he re-embarked on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris; on accompanying whom into
- ↑ The Alcmène was wrecked off Nantes, While blockading two of the enemy’s frigates, 29 April, 1809.
