gate he dismantled and laid up at Trincomalee about the close of 1818. From thence he returned to England in the Malabar, a new 74, Sept. 1819.
Captain Clavell’s last appointment was to command the ordinary at Portsmouth; where he has been recently superseded in consequence of the accidental destruction of H.M.S. Diamond[1].
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
WILLIAM STANDWAY PARKINSON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
{{sc|This} officer is said to have been “one of the earliest followers of Nelson,” to whose notice he was recommended by Captain (now Sir Charles Morice) Pole, Bart.[2]. He received his first commission in 1704; served as junior Lieutenant of the Dido 28, in her gallant action with la Minerve French frigate, June 24, 1795[3], and was third of Nelson’s flag-ship at the defeat of the French fleet in Aboukir bay, Aug. 1, 1798. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place Aug 12, 1799.
Captain Parkinson subsequently commanded the Zebra bomb and Merlin sloop, on the North Sea station; and the Favorite sloop, employed under Sir Alexander Cochrane, at the Leeward Islands. He was advanced to post rank (on his arrival at the Admiralty with the despatches announcing the surrender of the Danish West India colonies) Feb. 9, 1808. He married, in 1800, the only daughter of the Rev. Edward Clarke, of Uckfield, Sussex.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
JAMES MURRAY GORDON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
Was made a Lieutenant Feb. 25, 1803; advanced to the rank of Commander Feb. 1, 1806; and posted Feb. 15, 1808. He married, Dec. 13, 1810, Mrs. Charlton, daughter of Archdeacon Caulfield.
- ↑ See Hampshire Telegraph of Mar. 19, 1827.
- ↑ See Nav. Chron. Vol. 19, p. 144.
- ↑ See Vol. II., Part I., p. 86.
