United States, and the Hon. Mr. Erskine thence to England. With the exception of an interval passed in the summer of 1810 on board the Salvador Del Mundo, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admiral Young, he continued under Capt. Raggett in the Africaine and Defiance 74, latterly in the North Sea, until Jan. 1813. He was then sent out to India on promotion in the Daedalus 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell; and on that frigate being wrecked off Ceylon in the following July, he was received on board the Minden 74, of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant 23 Sept. in the same year. In the early part of 1814 he successively removed, in the latter capacity, to the Hecate and Sphynx sloops, Capts. John Hill and Hon. Arthur Turnour. He was confirmed to the Sphynx 11 Feb. 1815, and, being paid off in the ensuing Dec, was afterwards appointed – in Nov. 1818, to the Newcastle 60, bearing the flag of the late Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys at Halifax, whence he returned in 1821 – 6 Nov. 1828, as First-Lieutenant (a rank he had held the last 12 months on board the Newcastle), to the Challenger 28, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, under whom, after taking possession of the colony at Swan River, he proceeded to the East Indies, whence his health obliged him to invalid in Oct. 1829 – and, 7 Oct. 1833, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained until superseded, at his own request, in the autumn of 1838. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1828, Maria Janetta, daughter of the Rev. John Mudge, Vicar of Brampfordspeke, and Rector of Lustleigh, co. Devon.
MOUBRAY. (Captain, 1812. f-p., 21; h-p., 37.)
George Moubray, born 9 Feb. 1773, is son of the late Geo. Moubray, Esq., of the ancient family of Moubray of Cockaidnie, co. Fife; brother-in-law of the late Vice-Admiral Jas. Katon; and cousin of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Hussey, K.C.B., G.C.M.G.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1789, as Midshipman, on board the Bellona 74, Capt. Fras. John Hartwell, on the Home station; and in June of the same year removed to the Adamant 50, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Hughes at Halifax, where he remained until June, 1792. He then joined in succession the Hannibal 74, Capt. John Colpoys, and Juno 32, Capt. Sam. Hood; and in Jan. 1794 he was acting as Master’s Mate of the latter ship when she effected an extraordinary escape from the harbour of Toulon, into which she had entered in ignorance of the evacuation of the British. Being shortly afterwards received on board the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Hood, he served in the boats at the sieges of St. Fiorenzo and Bastia. He was promoted, 27 May, 1794, to a Lieutenancy in La Moselle sloop, Capts. Percy Fraser, Chas. Dudley Pater, and Chas. Brisbane, under the latter of whom he was hotly engaged and all but captured in Hotham’s first partial action, 14 March, 1795; and he was subsequently appointed – 19 Aug. 1796, to La Virginie 40, Capt. Anthony Hunt, in which frigate, after the Spithead mutiny, he escorted the Duke and Duchess of Wurtemberg to Cuxhaven, Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian to the Cape of Good Hope, and Lord Mornington to Calcutta, and then cruized in the East Indies until the peace of Amiens – 7 May, 1803, as Senior, to the Seahorse 38, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, fitting for the Mediterranean – 4 Nov. 1804, to the Royal Sovereign 100, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton off Toulon – and, 5 Oct. 1805, as First, to the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Robt. Redmill, part of the victorious fleet employed in the ensuing action off Cape Trafalgar. Succeeding to the command of the latter ship immediately after the action, owing to the serious illness of his Captain, Lieut. Moubray had the good fortune, during the gale that followed, to regain possession of the Argonauta Spanish 80, and deliver her over to Admiral Collingwood off Cadiz. He afterwards took in tow the Victory, with the body of Lord Nelson on board, and conducted her to the mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar; and he also, in spite of her mutinous crew, carried the Swiftsure French 74, in a similar manner, from the neighbourhood of Cadiz to Gibraltar. On 24 Dec. 1805 he was promoted to the rank of Commander; and he was next, 27 Jan. 1809 and 27 March, 1812, appointed in that capacity to the Rhodian 10, and Moselle 18; in which vessels he served in the West Indies, the chief part of the time with a small squadron under his orders for the protection of the Bahamas, until 31 March, 1813. Capt. Moubray, whose promotion to Post-rank had taken place 12 Aug. 1812, was not again employed until 23 Sept. 1844, when he obtained command of the Victory 104, at Portsmouth, which he retained until admitted into Greenwich Hospital 25 March, 1846.
He married, 14 June, 1812, Eliza Pellew, eldest daughter of A. N. Yates, Esq., Naval Storekeeper at Jamaica, by whom he has issue five sons and three daughters.
MOUBRAY. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Robert Hussey Moubray passed his examination 13 March, 1837; and from 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 Dec. 1845, was employed in the East Indies as Mate of the Hazard 18, Capts. Chas. Bell and Fras. Philip Egerton. He served during several months of 1847 on board the Terrible steam-frigate, of 800-horse power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay.
MOUBRAY. (Lieut., 1843. f-p., 14; h-p., 2.)
William Hobson Moubray, born 28 Aug. 1818, is third son (by Laura, fourth daughter of Wm. Hobson, Esq., of Markfield, co. Middlesex) of Sir Robt. Moubray, Kt., K.H., of Cockaidnie, co. Fife, a Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for that shire, and a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, who was for 10 years employed in India, and for eight in the Mediterranean, where, as Captain in the 80th Regt. of Foot, he served in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby. His eldest brother, Robert, is a Captain in the Fifeshire Militia; his second, Richard, a Captain in the 1st Madras Light Cavalry, died 20 April, 1843; and his youngest, Edward, is now a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Lieut. Moubray, a descendant of the family of William the Conqueror, is nephew of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Hussey, K.C.B., G.C.M.G.,[1] who assumed the name of Hussey by sign-manual on inheriting the estates of his cousin Admiral Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton, Bart., K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 April, 1831, on board the Barham 50, Capt. Hugh Pigot, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he was present at the restoration of Athens and the Negropont to the Greeks. After a servitude of three years in South America in the North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt, and Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, he became Mate, about Jan. 1838, of the Hastings 72, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and John Lawrence. In that ship he escorted
- ↑ Sir Rich, Hussey Hussey was born 16 Mar. 1776; and embarked, in 1789, on board the Impregnable 98. He served in the Europa 50, Commodore Ford, at the capture, in Sept. 1793, of Jeremie and St. Nicholas Mole, St. Domingo; and, being shortly afterwards promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, was present as First of the same ship at the reduction of Port-au-Prince. He was advanced, in June, 1794, to the command of the Fly sloop, in which vessel he assisted at the detention of five Dutch men-of-war, and of a large convoy in Plymouth Sound, 19 Jan. 1795. He attained Post-rank 10 April, 1797; and after serving as a volunteer under Capt. Sir R, Bickerton on board the Ramillies and Terrible 74’s, was appointed to the successive command, between 1801 and 1814, of the Maidstone and Active frigates, and Montagu and Repulse 74’s. During the whole of that period (thirteen years) he was never absent from his duty for a single day, even on leave. In the Active he passed the Dardanells with Sir John Duckworth in Feb. 1807; and in the Montagu he played an important part at the reduction of Sta. Maura in March, 1810. He was created a C.B. in June, 1815; a Rear-Admiral in July, 1821; a K.C.B. in April, 1833; and a G.C.M.G. and a Vice-Admiral in 1837. He died a Vice-Admiral of the Red 6 Nov. 1642.
