of Cadiz, on which service he remained until the termination of hostilities.
Some time after the renewal of the war, 1803, we find him in the Neptune, of 98 guns, employed in the blockade of Ferrol. In 1808, he accompanied Sir John T. Duckworth to the West Indies in pursuit of a French squadron; and on the 28th April in the same year, he received the honorable appointment of a Colonel of Royal Marines.
Sir Thomas Williams continued in the Neptune until the grand promotion that took place Oct. 25, 1809, the day on which his late Majesty entered into the fiftieth year of his reign; he was then advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral; and between that period and the autumn of 1811, hoisted his flag successively in the North Sea, at Lisbon, and in the Channel fleet.
About the month of Oct. in the last-mentioned year, our officer was appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, on which station he continued during the customary period of three years. He was made a Vice-Admiral, June 4, 1814; and on the 2d Jan. 1815, nominated a K.C.B.
Sir Thomas Williams married, 1800, Miss Whapshare, of Salisbury.
Residence.– Cobham, Surrey.
SIR THOMAS BOULDEN THOMPSON,
Baronet; Vice-Admiral of the Red; Knight Grand Cross of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital; a Director of the Chest; and a Visitor of the West India Naval School.
The subject of this memoir was born at Barham, co. Kent, Feb. 28, 1768. His father, Mr. Boulden, married the sister of the late Commodore Edward Thompson, an officer of very distinguished eminence, and a gentleman extensively known both in the polite and literary world.
In the month of June, 1778, Mr. Thomas Boulden’s uncle, by whom he had been tutored from his infancy, was appointed to the command of the Hyaena frigate; and at the
