and niece of William Lord Hotham: 2dly, April 11, 1815, Gertrude Grace, youngest daughter of Paul Cobb Methuen, Esq., of Corsham House, co. Wilts, by whom he had two children: and, 3dly, April 16, 1822, Lady Elizabeth Somerset, second daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
FRANCIS GODOLPHIN BOND Esq
This officer received his first commission May 14, 1782; served as first Lieutenant of the Providence armed ship, under the command of Captain William Bligh, during the breadfruit expedition in 1791 and following years[1]; and obtained the rank of Commander for his active exertions in the Netley schooner on the Lisbon station, towards the conclusion of the French revolutionary war. He was made a Post-Captain April 29, 1802, and appointed to a command in the Sea Fencibles about June 1803; from which period we find no farther mention of his name.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
STEPHEN FOLVIL, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was educated at the college of Navarre; and prepared for the naval service at Bettesworth’s celebrated marine academy, so often mentioned in the course of this work. He embarked as a Midshipman on board the Narcissus, of 20 guns, commanded by the late Vice-Admiral d’Auvergne[2] in 1787; and subsequently served under Captains Salisbury, Hicks, and Archibald Dickson, in the Andromeda frigate, Powerful 74, and Egmont of the same force[3],
- ↑ See note * at p. 630.
- ↑ Captain Folvil is directly descended from the ancient and highly respectable family of la Tour d’Auvergne: but he is not, as has been supposed, in any way related to the late Vice-Admiral d’Auvergne.
- ↑ Whilst in the Andromeda Mr. Folvil had his nose and right leg broke by the snapping of a hawser; and previous to his leaving that ship he appears to have had a very narrow escape, a boat in which he was employed being swamped during a gale of wind in a dark night, by which accident 7 out of 9 persons were drowned.
