loch and Hugh Pigot; and since 24 Oct. 1840 has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
He married, 16 April, 1832, a daughter of ___ Cole, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N.
MILLS. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Henry Forster Mills entered the Navy 23 Aug. 1814; passed his examination in 1821; and obtained his commission 30 April, 1827. His appointments have since been – 27 June, 1829, to the Algerine 10, on the South American station, where he continued, part of the time as First-Lieutenant, under Capt. Hon. John Fred. Fitzgerald De Roos, until the close of 1833 – 6 Jan. 1837, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Trinculo 16, Capt. Henry Edw. Coffin, attached to the force off Lisbon, with which he served until superseded in May, 1838 – and, 17 April, 1847, to the Victory 104, Capt. John Pasco, guard-ship at Portsmouth, where he is now employed. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
MILNE. (Captain, 1839. f-p., 22; h-p., 8.)
Alexander Milne, born in Nov. 1806, is second and youngest son of the late Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B., by his first wife, Grace, daughter of Sir Alex. Purves, Bart.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 8 Feb. 1817; and embarked in 1819 on board the Leander 50) Capt. Edw. Chetham, bearing his father’s flag in North America. In June, 1820, we find him joining the Conway 26, Capt. Basil Hall; in which vessel, and in the Ramillies 74, and Ganges 84, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, Albion 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and Ganges again, Capts. Pat. Campbell and Sam. Hood Inglefield, bearing the flag for some time of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, he continued employed on the South American, West India, Home, and Brazilian stations, latterly as Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, until June, 1827. He then removed, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Cadmus 10, Capts. Chas. Gordon and Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, also on the coast of Brazil; where he further served in that vessel (being confirmed to her by commission dated 8 Sept. 1827) until her return to England in April, 1830; on 25 Nov. in which year he was advanced to the rank of Commander. Obtaining an appointment, 26 Dec. 1836, to the Snake 16, Capt. Milne, on his arrival in that sloop in the West Indies, had the good fortune, during a cruize off the island of Cuba, to effect the capture, 23 Nov. 1837, of the Portuguese brigantine Arrogante having on board 406 slaves, and, 5 Dec. following, of the Matilda Spanish schooner, laden with 259 slaves. He was made Post, 30 Jan. 1839, into the Crocodile 26; and, in Nov. 1840, after having served in various parts of the North America and West India station (where he made prize of the Spanish slaver Mercedita, and had tor some months charge of the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries), he removed to the Cleopatra 26. In that vessel, when in the West Indies, he took, 27 Jan. 1841, the Secundo Rosario Spanish schooner, carrying 284 slaves. Returning, in the ensuing March, to the Crocodile, Capt. Milne continued in her, affording protection in the mean while to the fisheries in the river St. Lawrence, until paid off in Nov. of the same year. He was next, from 27 April, 1842, until April, 1845, employed in the Caledonia 120, as Flag-Captain to his father, Commander-in-Chief at Devonport: and from 7 Oct. 1846 until Dec. 1847 he ofiiciated, in the St. Vincent 120, in a similar capacity under Sir Chas. Ogle, Port-Admiral at Portsmouth. Since the date last mentioned Capt. Milne has filled a seat at the Board of Admiralty. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
MILNE, G.C.B., K.S.J., K.W.N. (Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p. 30; h-p., 36.)
Sir David Milne was born in May, 1763, at Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, and died 5 May, 1845, while on his passage, in the Clarence steamer, from London to, Granton Pier, in Scotland. He was son of David Milne, Esq., merchant, of Edinburgh, by a daughter of ___ Vernor, Esq., of Musselburgh.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 May, 1779, as Midshipman, on board the Canada 74, Capts. Hugh Dalrymple, Sir Geo. Collier, and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. While in that ship, in which he continued until the close of 178$, he accompanied Admiral Darby to the relief of Gibraltar in 1780; assisted, after having been repeatedly engaged with the Spanish gun-boats and batteries, at the capture, despite a brave defence, of the Santa Leocadia Spanish frigate of 44 guns; was with the fleet under Sir Sam. Hood when thrice attacked, in Jan. 1782, by the Comte de Grasse at St. Kitt’s; enacted a warm part in Rodney’s famous actions of 9 and 12 April (for his conduct on the latter of which occasions he was awarded the rating of Master’s Mate); and was present in the ensuing Sept. in a dreadful hurricane, which only allowed the Canada and Jason, out of 10 ships of war, all homeward bound, to reach their destination. On leaving the Canada, as above, Mr. Milne was received on board the Elizabeth 74, Capt. Kingsmill, fitting for the East Indies; but being in a few weeks paid off, and having no immediate prospect of employment in his own profession, he entered the merchant service, in which he continued, part of the time in the East Indies, until the renewal of war with France in 1793, when he was afforded an opportunity of joining the Boyne 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, who, on his arrival in the West Indies, promoted him, 13 Jan. 1794, to a Lieutenancy in the Blanche of 38 guns, Capts. Christopher Parker, Robt. Faulkner, and Chas. Sawyer. Under the second-named of those officers we find him actively employed in the proximate operations against the French islands, particularly in an attack upon one of the Saintes, where he landed and assisted in taking the enemy by a coup-de-maln. On her return to the West Indies, after conveying H.R.H. the Duke of Kent to Halifax, the Blanche was stationed off Guadeloupe, the whole of which island, with the exception of Fort Matilda, had again fallen into the hands of the French; and Lieut. Milne was in consequence repeatedly employed on detached service. On one occasion he so distinguished himself by the manner in which he boarded and brought a vessel out from under a pelting fire from the batteries in Mahout Bay, that Capt. Faulknor, on being presented by him with the French commander’s sword, returned it to him with many flattering compliments; and on another, 30 Dec 1794, with an equal degree of gallantry, he cut out a large armed schooner of 8 guns irom beneath a destructive fire from a fort and a body of troops, not fifty yards distant, in the island of Deseada. On 5 Jan. 1795 it was his fortune to be Second-Lieutenant of the Blanche when, after a deadly action of nearly four hours and a half, and a loss to herself, out of 198 men, of 8 persons (including Capt. Faulknor) killed and 21 wounded, she effected the capture of the French frigate La Pique, of 38 guns and about 279 men, of whom 76 were killed and 110 wounded. As the boats of both ships, at the end of the conflict, were either completely destroyed or unable to float, Mr. Milne, followed by 10 seamen, swam to the conquered vessel, and took possession of her.[1] As a reward for his valour on so dashing an occasion, he was promoted, as soon as the intelligence reached the Admiralty, to the command of the Inspector sloop; but, prior to the receipt of his commission, he appears to have been further present in the Blanche in the unsuccessful attack on Ste. Lucie, and, until the troops were obliged to re-embark and return to Martinique, to have been constantly employed in her boats. When at length apprized of his promotion, the Inspector being on a distant service, Capt. Milne was successively nominated Acting-Captain of the Quebec 32 and Alarm 32; in the latter of which frigates, having previously escorted convoy to the northward of the islands, he destroyed, in the neighbourhood of
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1795, p. 148.
