first-cousin of the present Capt. Robt. Patton, R.N.; and brother-in-law of the late Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Puissant 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Portsmouth. Becoming attached, shortly afterwards, to the Bellerophon 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram, he fought as Midshipman of that ship in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. At the commencement of 1806 he joined the Niobe 40, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, in time, we believe, to assist at the capture of Le Néarque corvette of 16 guns. After a servitude of 12 months on the Jamaica station in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, he wag nominated, 25 Oct. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon; to which ship the Admiralty confirmed him 1 Feb. 1811. Invaliding home in the ensuing Oct., he was next in succession appointed – 16 March, 1812, to the Sybille 44, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, on the Irish station – in the early part of 1813, to the Aboukir and Gladiator, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Edw. Jas. Foote at Portsmouth – and, 24 Aug. in the same year, to the Astrea 36, Capt. John Eveleigh. In the latter ship he shared, we understand, in a yard-arm-and-yard-arm conflict of upwards of an hour with the French 40-gun frigate Etoile, which terminated in a drawn battle, wherein the British lost 9, including their Captain, killed, and 37 wounded, and the enemy 20 killed and 30 wounded. On leaving the Astrea in Sept. 1814 he took up a Commander’s commission bearing date 6 Dec. 1813. He subsequently, from 6 Sept. 1815 until 22 Oct. 1818, commanded the Alban 12, on the Plymouth station, and on 12 Aug. 1819 was advanced to the rank of Captain. His last appointments were – 28 Nov. 1823, to the Rattlesnake 28, fitting for the West Indies – and, 16 Sept. 1825, to the Isis 50, bearing the flag of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted at Jamaica, whence he returned in 1827. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
PATTON. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Robert Patton, born in 1791, is son of the late Retired Captain Chas. Patton, R.N.;[1] and first-cousin of Capt. Hugh Patton, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Utrecht 64, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, bearing the flag in the Downs of his uncle Vice-Admiral Philip Patton. In the following June he removed as Midshipman to the Puissant 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Portsmouth; and on being received, next, into the Bellerophon 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram, he was afforded an opportunity of participating, 21 Oct. 1805, in the battle of Trafalgar. After having served for three years and nine months in the Niobe 40, commanded by his old Captain, J. W. Loring, under whom, during that period, he had assisted at the capture of Le Néarque corvette of 16 guns, he became Master’s Mate, in Nov. 1809, of the Polyphemus 64, Capts. Wm. Pryce Cumby and Thos. Graves, of which ship, stationed at Jamaica, he was nominated, 26 Aug. 1810, an Acting-Lieutenant. He was confirmed 13 Nov. following, and was subsequently appointed – 26 April, 1811, for five months, to the Dispatch sloop, Capt. Jas. Aberdour, also in the West Indies – 29 July, 1812, to the Doterel 18, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniel, successively employed in the Channel, the West Indies, and North America – and, in April, 1813, and Nov. 1814, to the Loire 40 and Junon 38, Capts. Thos. Brown and Clotworthy Upton, both on the station last named, where he performed, in both ships, the duties of First-Lieutenant. Attaining the rank of Commander 13 June, 1815, he served in that capacity from 3 May, 1826, until posted, 30 April, 1827, in the Trinculo 18, on the Cork station. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted the Retirement in 1847.
Capt. Patton was presented with the honorary medallion of the Royal Humane Society 13 April 1826.
PATTON. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Patton entered the Navy, in Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Otter sloop, Capts. John Davies and Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under the latter of whom, in the same vessel and the Nériéide 36, he saw a great deal of active service. He was present in the Nériéide in particular at the capture of Ile de Bourbon in July, 1810; also when she compelled the enemy’s sloop Victor to surrender, and exchanged broadsides with the 40-gun frigate Minerve; and again during a series of unhappy although heroic operations, which, by 28 Aug. 1810, terminated in the self-destruction, in Port Sud-Est, Isle of France, of the French frigates Magicienne and Sirius [errata 1], and the capture by a French squadron of the Néréide and Iphigenia – the former after being reduced to a mere wreck, and incurring a loss of nearly her whole crew. On the reduction of the Mauritius in the following Dec. Mr. Patton was sent home in the Minerva frigate, Capt. Robt. Tom Blackler. On his arrival he successively joined the Ann tender, Lieut.-Commander John Turner, lying at Swansea, and the Salvador del Mundo 112, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. John Nash. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812. His last appointments were – 11 July and 3 Aug. following, to the Egeria and Forester sloops, Capts. Lewis Hole and Alex. Kennedy, on the Home station – 21 April, 1813, to the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, in the West Indies – and, 26 Oct. 1814, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Dowell O’Reilly, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Aug. 1815.
PAUL. (Commander, 1841.)
Alfred John Paul was born 11 Jan. 1811, and died 18 Aug. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Jan. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tamar 26, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer, under whom he witnessed the establishment of a colony on Melville Island, Australia. In Sept. 1825 he removed to the Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant in the East Indies of Commodore Thos. Coe; and in June, 1826, five months after he had left the latter ship, he became Midshipman of the Victory 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis lying at Portsmouth. Joining next, in April, 1827, the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, he served for nearly three years in that ship on the Mediterranean station, where it was his fortune to act a part in the battle of Navarin. In Oct. 1830 Mr. Paul, at that time in the Prince Regent 120, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, passed his examination. He was subsequently employed on the Mediterranean, African, South American, Lisbon, and East India stations, as Mate, in the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, Lynx 3, Lieut.-Commander Henry Vere Huntley, Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Eden, Dublin 50, Capts. Wm. David Puget and Geo. Wickens Willes, Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, and Alligator 28, Capt. Sir J. J. G. Bremer. While in the latter ship, in which he served from Sept 1837 until Jan. 1840, he was present at the formation of a colony at Port Essington, and was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 28 June 1838. On quitting her he removed to the Wellesley 72, on board which ship Sir Gordon Bremer (to whom, in the following June, he became
- ↑ Capt. Chas. Patton was made a Lieutenant 17 Feb. 1780, a Commander 25 Sept. 1781, and a Post-Captain 30 May, 1 795. During the whole of the late war he was in superintendence of the Transport department at Plymouth, and acquitted himself of his duties in a manner that gained him the esteem of all who were employed under him, at the same time that it yielded unqualified satisfaction to the Board of Admiralty and the Commander-in-Chief at the port. He was the author of a work entitled ‘An Attempt to establish the Basis of Freedom on simple and unerring_Principles,’ 8vo., published in 1793; and of another called ‘The Effects of Property upon Society and Government;’ to which was added, by his brother, Admiral Philip Patton, ‘An Historical Beview of the Monarchy and Republic of Rome,’ 8vo. 1797.
