assumed the temporary command of the Venus, rated at 36 guns. He subsequently commanded the Junon and Pique frigates, on the Jamaica station, but was obliged to resign the latter, on account of ill-health, in Mar. 1817, since which he has not been employed.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
GILBERT HEATHCOTE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Youngest son of Sir William Heathcote, Bart, by Frances, daughter and co-heiress of John Thorpe, of Embley, co. Hants, Esq.
This officer was born in 1779, made a Lieutenant in 1799, advanced to the ranlc of Commander in 1802, and posted Sept. 5, 1806. He had the misfortune to lose the Suffisante sloop of war, on Spike Island, Cork, during a heavy gale of wind, in Dec. 1803. Captain Heathcote married, 1809, Anne, daughter of Charles Syell, of Kinnardy, co. Angus, N.B., Esq.
Agent.– Messrs. Clementson.
WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP PROCTOR, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, Bart, by Mary, second daughter of Robert Palmer, of Sunning, co. Berks, Esq. was born at his father’s seat, Langley Park, Norfolk, Oct. 14, 1781; and commenced his professional career, as a Midshipman, on board the Stag frigate, in Sept. 1794. Previous to the completion of his fourteenth year, this officer was slightly wounded in an action with a Dutch frigate, the capture of which has been noticed in our memoir of his first commander, the present Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke[1], K.C.B. with whom he continued, on very active service, until the early part of 1798, when he left the Stag in order to join Earl St. Vincent, commander-in-chief on the Mediterranean station; under whose auspices he completed his time as a Mid-
