went in pursuit of Jerome Buonaparte to the West Indies, and was present in a hurricane which dismasted the ship), and San Josef again, commanded by Capt. John Conn as Flag-Captain to Sir Jas. Saumarez off Guernsey. In April and July, 1807, Mr. Maingay was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Barfleur and Dreadnought 98’s, Capts. Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke and Wm. Lechmere; and on 1 1 Sept. in the same year he was confirmed into the Racehorse 18, Capt. Wm. Fisher, stationed, as were the two ships last named, in the Channel. His succeeding appointments were – 24 Dec. 1807, a second time to the Audacious, in which ship he escorted the army under Sir John Moore to and from Gottenborg, accompanied that officer and Lieut.-Generals Sir Harry Burrard and Sir John Hope to the shores of Portugal, and assisted in embarking the army after the battle of Corunna – 21 April, 1809, as Senior, to La Nymphe 36, Capts. Hon. Josceline Percy and Edw. Sneyd Clay, under the latter of whom he was wrecked in a gale at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, 18 Dec. 1810 – 1 May, 1811, to the Argo 44, Capt. Fred. Warren, lying at Spithead – 27 July following, and for a short time in 1812, to the Swiftsure 74, and Rainbow 26, Capts. Temple Hardy and Gardiner Henry Guion, both in the Mediterranean – 4 Sept. in the latter year, to the Success 32, armée en flûte Capt. Thos. Barclay, stationed at first on the coast of Spain, and then in the Chesapeake, where he had command of the boats on an occasion in which they were cut up by the musketry of the enemy, whose fire killed the coxswain in his (Mr. Maingay’s) own boat – 24 Nov. 1813, to the Harlequin 18, Capt. Wm. Kempthorne, employed at Sheerness – 20 April, 1814, to the Hermes 20, Capt. Hon. Henry Wm. Percy, which vessel, after 25 of her men had been killed and 24 wounded in an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Bowyer, Mobile, was set on fire and destroyed in order to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, 15 Sept. 1814 – and 11 May, 1815 (having previously united in the operations against New Orleans), to the Vengeur 74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, attached to the force off Brest. He was advanced to the rank he at present holds on 13 of the ensuing June; and was next, from 6 July, 1830, until 1833, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. He has not been since able to procure an appointment.
Commander Maingay married, in March, 1818, Emeline, fourth daughter of the late John Carne, Esq., of Falmouth, co. Cornwall. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
MAINWARING. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 17; h-p., 26.)
Benjamin Mainwaring, born 5 April, 1794, is brother of Capt. Edw. R. P. Mainwaring, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Sept. 1804, as A.B., on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, and on 21 Oct. 1805 was present in the action off Cape Trafalgar, where that ship occupied a position next astern of the Victory, and enacted a most distinguished part. In March, 1806, he became Midshipman of the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of the last-named officer, and afterwards of Hon. Michael de Courcy, off Cadiz; and he next, between July 1808 and May 1814, served in the St. George 98, successive flag-ship in the Baltic and Channel of Rear-Admirals E. Harvey, Fras. Pickmore, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, Cordelia 10, commanded by Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy on the Downs station, and Revenge 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir John Gore. During the period he continued in the latter ship he served in her boats and assisted in cutting out two privateers from under the enemy’s batteries on the coast of Catalonia.[1] He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for a few weeks as such) in the Trident receiving-ship at Malta, Capts. Rich. Budd Vincent and Chas. Hope Reid, 19 July, 1814. He came home in the early part of 1816, and was lastly, from 26 July, 1831, until 1836, employed in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Mainwaring married, 6 Jan. 1819, Miss Mary Milbon.
MAINWARING. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 33; h-p., 15.)
Edward Reeves Philip Mainwaring, born 16 June, 1788, is eldest son of the late Edw. Mainwaring, Esq., who served as an officer during the first American war, and who eventually obtained a considerable grant of land as an acknowledgment for the services he had rendered in raising a company of loyalists at his own expense. His family is a branch of that of Mainwaring of Whitmore, co. Stafford, now represented by Capt. Rowland Mainwaring, R.N. He is brother of Lieut. Benj. Mainwaring R.N. Another of his brothers, Senior Major of the 51st Regt., served in most of the Peninsular actions and was present at Waterloo; a third, a Captain in the 22nd Regt., saw much service in the Persian Gulf, in Ava, and at Hyderabad, and was twice wounded; a fourth, Charles, a Captain in the 47th Regt., died, from the effects of cholera, at Calcutta; and a fifth, Edwin, a Lieutenant in the 1st Regt., died at Madras. One of his uncles, Capt. Jemmett Mainwaring, R.N., commanded the Babet 20 when that vessel foundered with all on board in the West Indies in 1801; and another, Lieut.-General Mainwaring, who died in 1842, served in 1809 at the siege of Flushing, where, with two companies of the 51st and two of the 82nd Regt., he repulsed the French on the occasion of a sortie made by them, taking 600 of their number prisoners, and capturing 2 9-pounders.
This officer entered the Navy, in the summer of 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol. on board the Roebuck 44, Capt. Wm. Buchannan, and after accompanying the expedition to Egypt, where he was employed at the landing of the troops, removed as Midshipman, in Nov. 1801, to the Haerlem 64, commanded at first by Capt. Buchannan and next by Capts. Jas. Murray Northey and John G. Saville. He subsequently, between Jan. 1803 and Aug. 1S06, served on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations in the Caroline 36, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Wm. Hotham, and Queen 98, Capts. Mauley Dixon and Fras. Pender, bearing the flag latterly of Lord Collingwood. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Espoir sloop, Capt. Henry Hope, also in the Mediterranean; and on 11 June, 1807, he was confirmed into the Plantagenet 74, Capts. Thos. Eyles and Robt. Lloyd. Continuing in that ship until paid off in April, 1815, he served in her in the Baltic, and on the North American and West India stations; and on one occasion, when off New York, was sent with two boats in pursuit of a letter-of-marque, the Rapid, carrying 1 long 24-pounder, with small arms and a crew of 40 men, which vessel, after pulling for 11 hours in a calm, he succeeded in capturing in so gallant a manner as to elicit the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief Sir John Borlase Warren. His succeeding appointments were – 4 Nov. 1818,[2] as a Supernumerary, to the Severn Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, under whom he served until Sept. 1820-1 Aug. 1821, as First, to the Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, lying at Portsmouth – and 31 May, 1823, to the Ganges 84,[3] to which ship (at the particular request of her successive Captains, E. Brace and Patrick Campbell, and of Rear-Admiral Robt. Waller Otway, who hoisted his flag on board her) he continued attached, in the capacity last mentioned, on the West India, Home, and Brazilian stations, until advanced to the rank of Commander 27 May, 1826. He was afterwards employed – from June 1827 until 1830, and again from 20 March, 1832, until 1835, in the Coast Guard ser-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 124.
- ↑ For some time prior to the above date he had had command of a West Indiaman.
- ↑ The Ganges, through Mr. Mainwaring’s exertions, was got ready for sea with so much rapidity, that Capt. Brace was induced to bring his name in an especial manner under the notice of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
