England and was paid off in Aug. 1837 – and, 1 Nov. 1841, in a similar capacity, to the Alfred 50, equipping at Sheerness for the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis. He was advanced to his present rank on 23 of the month last mentioned; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Molyneux married, 8 June, 1837, Martha Maria, only daughter of the late Admiral Sir Andw. Mitchell, K.B., by whom he has issue two sons and a daughter.
MONDAY. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
Edward Monday was born 13 May, 1782.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Dec. 1798, as Ordinary, on borad the Hazard sloop, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and K. J. Neve; and while in that vessel, in which he remained until Aug. 1805, he was continuously employed on the Irish and Channel stations – chiefly in the capacities of Midshipman and Master’s Mate; in which latter he assisted, in June, 1803, in cutting out a French brig and chasse-marée from under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries and musketry in Hodierne Bay. After serving for short periods, as Midshipman, in the Ville de Paris and Hibernia, flag-ships of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis and Earl St. Vincent, as Acting-Lieutenant in the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western, and again, as Midshipman, in the Hibernia, he was nominated, in Oct. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Phoenix 36, Capts. Zachary Mudge, Jas. Bowen, Wm. Henry Webley, and Chas. John Austen; under whom, the appointment being confirmed on 7 of the following month, he continued (with the exception of a brief attachment, from Dec. 1808 until March, 1809, to the Alert sloop, Capt. Williams) to serve, until wrecked, during a hurricane near Smyrna, 20 Feb. 1816. He comanded her boats, during that period, at the capture of El Cupido Spanish schooner from Buenos Ayres, bound to Corunna, carrying 1 large gun on a circular slide and 17 men, in Dec. 1806; in conjunction with those of the Jalouse, at the very gallant capture, with a loss to the British of 1 man killed and another wounded, of Le Charles French brig privateer of 14 guns and 90 men, under a heavy fire of grape and musketry, 29 Jan. 1810;[1] at the reduction of Fort Pulo Kissa, in the Eastern Archipelago, in March, 1811; together with the boats of a squadron, in an attack on Sambas, a piratical settlement on the coast of Borneo, in Jan. 1813; and at the capture of two piratical proas in the Grecian Archipelago in 1815. He also, in 1811, took, by escalade, with a party of seamen and marines, Fort Concordia, on the island of Timor, mounting 26 pieces of cannon; and in 1812 he was employed in the boats of a squadron at the reduction of Palambang. During four months of 1812-13 Mr. Monday (by whom all the above services, with the exception of the capture of El Cupido, were performed in the capacity of First-Lieutenant), acted as Captain of the Phoenix. After nearly 32 years of half-pay he was advanced to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846!
Commander Monday is married, and has issue six children.
MONDAY. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 20; h-p., 21.)
John Monday entered the Navy, 15 March, 1806, as Clerk, on board the Bustler gun-brig, Lieut.Commander Richard Welsh. Although present, as we are informed, in the Foudroyant at the capture, in the following month, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, his name, we believe, continued borne on the books of the above vessel, chiefly as Midshipman and acting Sub-Lieutenant, until Jan. 1809, during which period he saw much boat-service on the Downs station. After an employment of two years and a half, as Master’s Mate, in the Diomede 50, flag-ship off Guernsey and in the East Indies of Admirals D’Auvergne and Wm. O’Brien Drury, he became attached, in Oct. 1811, to the Queen 74, Capts. Lord Colville and John Coode; under the former of whom he was landed in 1812 for the purpose of co-operating with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. He continued to serve in the Queen, as an acting and confirmed Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 30 Jan. and 27 Jane, 1814), until Dec. 1815, part of the time in the West Indies and Mediterranean, under the flags of Rear-Admirals Sir Fras. Laforey and Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and was next appointed, in the capacity of First-Lieutenant – 1 Sept. 1821, to the Semiramis 42, flag-ship of Lord Colville at Cork, where he remained until paid off in April, 1825 – 14 April, 1826, to the Clio 18, Capt. Robt. Aitchison, stationed in the North Sea – and, 3 Aug. following, to the Glasgow 60, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. For his conduct in the latter ship at the battle of Navarin he was presented with a second promotal commission dated 22 Oct. 1827. He afterwards, 28 Sept. 1832, obtained a three years’ appointment in the Coast Guard, and from 12 Dec. 1836, until advanced to his present rank 27 Dec. 1838, he commanded the Stag 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan in South America, He has since been on half-pay. Capt. Monday is married, and has, issue.
MONEY, C.B. (Captain, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 36.)
Rowland Money, born 28 April, 1782, is son of the late Wm. Money, Esq., of Horn House, co. Hereford, by Mary, daughter of Wm. Webster, Esq., of Stockton-on-Tees; and brother (with Geo. Money, Esq., late Master in Equity, Accountant-General, and Keeper of the Records in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta) of the Rev. Wm. Money Kyrle, the present possessor of Horn House. His eldest brother. Sir. Jas. Kyrle Money, Bart., was a Major-General in the army, and died 26 June, 1843; another, the Rev. Kyrle Ernie Money, M,A., was Prelector and Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral; and a third, John, a Commander in the Indian Navy, died 6 Aug. 1825.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 April, 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, attached to the force in the Channel; where, and on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations, we find him, from March, 1798, until Aug. 1802, serving, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in April, 1797) and Master’s Mate, in the St. Albans 64, Capt, Fras, Pender, Thetis 36, Capt, Hon. Alex, Cochrane, Naiad 38, Capt. Wm, Pierrepont, Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. A. Cochrane, and Maidstone and Narcissus frigates, both comanded by Capt. Ross Donnelly. Towards the close of 1804 he joined the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, off Weymouth. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 12 Jan. 1805; and in the course of that and the following year was successively appointed to the Valorous, Capt. Geo. Nicholas Hardinge, Vestal 28, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, and Lively 38, Capt. Geo. McKinley. In March, 1806, Mr. Money, then in the Vestal, was the means, under very hazardous circumstances, of saving the crew of a merchant-brig, the Friendship, of Hull, which had grounded on the Gunfleet, near Harwich, in a heavy gale of wind. On the evening of 19 Nov. 1807, after having escorted the troops under Lord Cathcart to Copenhagen, and when in lat. 47° 10' N., long. 16° W., he again manifested the intrepid benevolence of his disposition by volunteering in the jolly-boat (although it was thought that no boat could live in the sea then running) to rescue the crew of a foundering merchantman to leeward. He made, notwithstanding, three successive trips to the distressed vessel, and had the happiness of saving every soul. On ultimately regaining the Lively, the jolly-boat, so tempestuous was the weather, was cut adrift, it being found impossible to preserve her. On leaving the Lively, Mr. Money, in Aug. 1809, rejoined the Royal Sovereign yacht, commanded at the time by Capt. Hen.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 178.
