zeal for the public service gave offence to Commodore Braughton, who, on his return from Java, where he had been joined by the Malacca, applied to Sir Samuel Hood, the new commander-in-Chief, for a court-martial, which terminated in Captain Butterfield’s dismissal from that frigate, to the great regret of her crew, from whom he received a warm and affectionate address previous to his return to England, as a passenger on board the Modeste, an address alike gratifying to his feelings, and honorable to his character[1].
At the general promotion in June 1814, Captain Butterfieid was appointed to succeed Sir Home Popham in the command of the Stirling Castle 74; but peace with France having previously taken place, the only service he had an opportunity of performing in her was that of bringing the guards from Bourdeaux to England. We are sorry it is not in our power to insert a copy of a very handsome letter which we know he received from the officers of that distinguished corps, acknowledging the attention he paid to their comforts during the passage. The Stirling Castle was paid off at Plymouth about Nov. 1814.
Captain Butterfield has been more than once married, and is the father of a large family. One of his sons is a Midshipman in the R.N.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
RICHARD BYRON, Esq
A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
It being our intention to present the reader with some very curious and interesting particulars of the Byron family, under the head of their representative, the present Captain Lord Byron, we shall merely state in this place that the officer now before us is the eldest son of the late Hon. and Rev. Richard Byron, by Mary, daughter of Richard Farmer, of Leicester, Esq., and sister of Dr. Richard Farmer, Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge, a Canon residentiary of St.
- ↑ Captain Butterfield, previous to his leaving the Mars, was presented by that ship’s company with a very elegant sword, as a token of their gratitude for his constant humane attentions to the sick.
