the Colossus 74, he received, in the battle of Trafalgar, a wound so severe that he still feels its effects.[1] A gratuity from the Patriotic Fund was his consequent reward. He removed, in Dec. 1805, to the Camilla 20, Capt. John Tower, but had not been many months in that vessel before he was promoted, 7 July, 1806, to the rank of Lieutenant, and re-appointed to the Colossus, commanded at first by Capt. Morris, and subsequently by Capt. Thos. Alexander. In Nov. 1808 we find him serving on shore under the present Earl of Dundonald, at the celebrated defence of the fortress of Rosas, on the north-eastern extremity of Spain. He commanded a gun-boat also during the siege of Cadiz by the French; and on 1 Dec. 1811 he assisted at the capture and destruction of part of an enemy’s convoy, protected by several armed vessels, near Rochelle. His health at length obliging him to leave the Colossus in Sept. 1813, after he had been altogether for nearly nine years attached to her, he was next appointed – 31 Jan. and 31 Oct. 1814, to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert, and Stork sloop, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, in which vessels he served in the Mediterranean and North Sea until 18 Sept. 1815 – and, 26 Nov. 1822, as Senior, to the Gloucester 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies. He was there promoted to the command, 1 July, 1823, of the Bustard 10. He removed, in the following Oct., to the Carnation 18, and after cruizing with activity in the suppression of piracy, returned home and was paid off in July, 1825. He has not been since employed.
From 1 Oct. 1841 until 1 Dec. 1843, Commander Maclean was Superintendent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in the West Indies. He married in Sept. 1829, and has issue one son and a daughter. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MACLEAN. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 8.)
William Maclean is ninth son of Colonel Alex. Maclean, of Ardgour, by the Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun, and grand-daughter of Alexander, fifth Earl of Leven and Melville. One of his brothers, Archibald, a Captain in the R.N. (1822), died in 1832.
This officer entered the Navy, early in 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the Briton 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, and sailed for South America, where, at home, and in India, he continued to serve as Midshipman in the same frigate, and in the Prince Regent 120, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, Thetis 46, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, Ranger 28, Capt. Lord Henry Fred. Thynne, and Prince Regent again and Southampton 52, flag-ships of Sir Henry Blackwood and Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, until promoted, 10 Feb. 1830, to a Lieutenancy in the Success 28, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, also on the East India station, whence he came home in Oct. 1831 in the Calcutta 84, Capt. Peter Fisher. His succeeding appointments were – 7 Nov. 1833, to the Blonde 46, Capt. Fras. Mason, fltting for South America – 5 April, 1836 (soon after his return to England), to the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham at Portsmouth, where he remained a period of three years – and, 27 Aug. 1841, to the Howe 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Fras. Mason in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. following; served in that capacity, from 28 Sept. 1843 until Feb. 1845, on board the Apollo troop-ship; obtained command, 22 Dec. in the latter year, of the Cruizer 16, on the East India station; and acquired his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Maclean married, 30 Aug. 1838, Elizabeth, only daughter Of the late T. Melet Charter, Esq., of Lynchfield House, co. Somerset, and grand-daughter of the late Mrs. Freke Gunston, of Frethey Cottage, near Taunton, by whom he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
M‘LEOD. (Retired Commander, 1824. f-p., 24; h-p., 46.)
Alexander M‘Leod (a) entered the Navy, 11 Nov. 1777, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Valiant 74, Capts. Hon. John Leveson Gower and Sam. Cranston Goodall. attached to the Channel fleet. Between Sept. 1779 and May, 1783, he served under various officers, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the Ajax, Vengeance, Diligente, and Argo, on the West India and Home stations; where, and in the Mediterranean, he was further, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1790, employed on board the Solitaire, Capt. Robt. Montagu, Edgar 74, Capt. Adam Duncan, Kingfisher sloop, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, Magnificent 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, and Princess Royal 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hotham. During the French revolutionary war we find him in succession appointed to the Beaulieu, Capts. Hon. Wm. Carnegie and John Salisbury, Rose, Capt. Robt. Faulknor, Ulysses, Capt. Rich. Morris, Hector, Capt. Cuthbert Collingwood, Sampson, Capt. Thos. Lewis, Weymouth armed transport. Diadem, Capt. John Dawson, Cynthia, Capt. Micajah Malbon, and Carysfort, Capts. Adam Drummond and Geo. Mundy. The Cynthia formed part of the expeditions to Holland and Vigo in 1799 and 1800; the other ships appear to have been chiefly employed in the West Indies; where, at the commencement of 1794, Mr. M‘Leod, we believe, assisted at the reduction of the French islands. After having had command for upwards of three years of the Sultan and Suffolk, on the Home station, and been deprived of part of his right hand, he was admitted an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital 22 Sept. 1806. He accepted the rank he now holds 4 Oct. 1824. Agent – J. Hinxman.
M‘LEOD. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 15; h-p., 23.)
Alexander M‘Leod (c) died 8 March, 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 27 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Snake sloop, Capts. Thos. Young and Wm. Hellard, on the Leith station; and in Oct. 1811, while holding the rating of Master’s Mate, was driven in a prize into Norway during a gale of wind, and there taken prisoner. On being restored to liberty in 1812, he again (after he had been for a short time borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Dictator 64 and Adamant 50, Capts. Wm. Autridge and Matthew Buckle) joined the Snake; in which vessel he continued to serve, under the orders of Capts. Hellard and Joseph Gape, on the West India, Cork, and Channel stations, until Oct. 1815. He subsequently became attached – 15 Dec. 1815, to the Phaeton 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, on the St. Helena station – 20 March, 1818, as Admiralty-Midshipman, to the Vengeur 74, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Thos. Alexander – and 3 Oct. following, and 26 Sept. 1822, in the same capacity and as Admiralty-Mate, to the Severn and Ramillies, Coast Blockade ships, each under the orders of Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. He obtained his commission 19 July, 1823; and (with the exception of a few weeks again passed, in 1824, in the Ramillies) remained thenceforward on half-pay.
Lieut. M‘Leod married, 19 Jan. 1841, Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of B. Alder, Esq., of Brixton.
MACLEOD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Robert Bruce Aeneas MacLeod is eldest son of Roderick Macleod, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of co. Cromarty, Deputy-Lieutenant of Rosshire, and late M.P. for co. Sutherland, by Isabella, daughter of Wm. Cunninghame, Esq., of Lainshaw, in Ayrshire; and grandson of the present Robt. Bruce Aeneas Macleod, Esq., of Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and of Invergorden Castle, in Rosshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1831; passed his examination 19 Aug. 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Aug. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Thunderer 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley. His appointments have since been
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1805, p. 1484.
