Henderson, Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Brace, and Blazer steam surveying-vessel, Capt. John Washington, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845. He was then appointed to the Heroine 6, Capt. Chas. Edmunds, fitting for the coast of Africa, whence, in 1847, he returned to England.
PAYNE. (Lieutenant, 1834.)
William Rousseau Payne entered the Navy 30 July, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his commission 2 April, 1834; and was afterwards appointed – 29 Aug. 1835, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Mediterranean station – 10 May, 1837, to the Childers 16, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, attached to the force on the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England at the close of the same year – and, 1 Nov. 1838 and 1 Oct. 1840, to the Howe 120 and Camperdown 104, bearing the flags of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Sir Henry Digby, and Sir Edw. Brace at the Nore. Of the latter ship he was for some time First-Lieutenant. He has been on half-pay since Nov. 1843.
PAYNTER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Charles Paynter, born in Jan. 1791, is second son of the late Chas. Paynter, Esq., of Penzance, co. Cornwall, himself the son of Fras. Paynter, Esq., of Boskenna, near that place. An heiress of the house of Paynter, Margaret Paynter, of Trelissick, became the wife of John Hearle, Esq., and was the mother of three daughters, co-heiresses, who allied themselves to families of eminence, one espousing Commissioner Wallis, the circumnavigator, another Henry Hawkins Tremayne, Esq., of Heligan, and the third Col. Fras. Rodd, of Trebartha. Lieut. Paynter is cousin of Commander John Pender Paynter, R.N.; and a distant relation of Capt. Wm. Pender Roberts, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the San Josef 110, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd and Tristram Robt. Ricketts, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton. On leaving that ship, of which he had been nominated Midshipman in Oct. 1803, he was again, in Jan. 1806, placed under the orders of Capt. BRdd on board the Indefatigable 44, commanded afterwards by Capt. Hen. Edw. Reginald Baker. Uniting, 15 July following, with the boats of a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, he assisted at the cutting-out, in face of a desperate and well-concerted resistance, at the entrance of the river Gironde, of the French corvette Le César, mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 86 men, who, with a loss to themselves of 14 killed and wounded, occasioned one to the British of 9 killed and 39 wounded. In April, 1809, we find the Indefatigable forming part of the force employed in Lord Cochrane’s operations against the French fleet in Aix Roads, where, on 12 of that month, she was for upwards of 10 hours exposed to the fire of the enemy’s batteries, and was for 50 minutes engaged in close action with La Ville de Varsovie of 80 guns, which ship, during the preceding night, had run on shore. The only injury sustained by the Indefatigable on the occasion was the loss of her maintopmast. On 15 Jan. 1810, having been placed in charge of a schooner captured on the coast of Spain, Mr. Paynter had the misfortune to be wrecked on the Penmarck rocks and taken prisoner. The hardships he at first experienced were such as to throw him on a bed of sickness. In the course of time, however, he recovered; but it was not until the month of Dec. 1813 that he was restored to liberty. He then, having effected his escape, made the best of his way to Holland, whence he embarked for England. On his arrival in Feb. 1814 he was ordered on board the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Portsmouth, where, in the course of the following month, he passed his examination. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June in the same year; and was lastly, from the ensuing Nov. until paid off in Sept. 1815, employed with Capt. J. T. Rodd on board the Warrior 74. During the passage home of that ship from the West Indies, in the summer of the latter year, she was caught in a violent hurricane, was totally dismasted, received 11 feet water in her hold, and all but foundered.
PAYNTER. (Commander, 1846.)
James Aylmer Dorset Paynter entered the Navy 1 Jan. 1826; passed his examination 11 Feb. 1833; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Nov. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean, as Mate, on board the Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole. His succeeding appointments were – 5 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies – and, 6 July, 1846, to the command, on that station, of the Royalist brig. On 19 Aug. 1845, assuming charge ot the Agincourt’s barge, he served with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered an earnest opposition, and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.[1] In July, 1846, during an expedition conducted by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, he contributed, as officer in command of the field-piece and rocket brigade, to the capture and destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. While ascending that stream he appears to have been lent to the Phlegethon steamer, and to have so astonished and dismayed the enemy assembled on the banks by the admirable nature of the fire he kept up that they precipitately fled.[2] As a reward for his meritorious conduct he was advanced to his present rank by a commission bearing date 8 July, 1846. He was in consequence superseded in the command of the Royalist, to which he had been appointed as above, and is now on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
PAYNTER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
John Meyrick Paynter entered the Navy, 25 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral Sir) Rich. Goodwin Keats; and while in that ship, commanded for some time by Capts. Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Jackson, was present, as Midshipman, at the bombardment of Copenhagen, the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish General the Marquis de la Romans and his patriot troops, and the capture of Flushing. After a servitude of eight months at Spithead and Plymouth in the Puissant 74, Capts. Robt. Hall and John Irwin, and Menelaus 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, he joined, in July, 1810, the Milford 74, bearing the flag, at the defence of Cadiz, of his old Captain, Sir R. G. Keats, whom, in Aug. 1811, he followed into the Hibernia 110. Being again, in Aug. 1812, placed under the orders of Sir Peter Parker on board the Menelaus, he sailed in that ship for the coast of North America; where, on being nominated, 27 July, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the Weser troop-ship, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan, Bartholomew Kent, and Dan. Lawrence, he witnessed the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, and took part in the unsuccessful attack made upon Baltimore. His appointment to the Weser being confirmed by commission dated 11 Oct. 1814, he continued in that vessel until Nov. 1815, and was in consequence present in the expedition against New Orleans. Since 20 March, 1835, he has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
PAYNTER. (Commander, 1816. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
John Pender Paynter, born 1 Nov. 1788, is a cousin of Lieut. Chas. Paynter, R.N. His brother,
