The Aquilon was paid off at Deptford, in April 1816; and Captain Vincent has not since been employed. He was nominated a C.B. at the first establishment of that order in June, 1815.
Agents.– Messrs. Goode and Clarke.
ARTHUR FARQUHAR, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; and Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword.
[Post-Captain of 1805.]
This officer is the sixth son of the late Robert Farquhar of Kincardineshire, N.B. Esq. by Agnes, daughter of James Morison, of Elsich, Esq. who was Provost of Aberdeen in the memorable year 1745, and who particularly distinguished himself at that trying period, by his firm attachment to the illustrious House of Brunswick[1].
Mr. Arthur Farquhar was born at Newhall, a small paternal estate in the above county, and educated there under a private family tutor. He commenced his naval career in Oct. 1787, and served his time as a Midshipman on board the Lowestoffe frigate, Hyaena of 24 guns, and Alcide 74; the two former employed as cruisers on the Channel, Mediterranean, Milford, and Irish stations; the latter a guard-ship at Portsmouth, commanded by his earliest and principal professional patron, the late Sir Andrew Snape Douglas[2].
After passing the usual examination for a Lieutenant, Mr. Farquhar was induced to quit the royal navy, and proceed to the East Indies as a free mariner; but he had scarcely arrived there when a war broke out between Great Britain and the French Republic, which caused him to change his plans, and
- ↑ Provost Morison had several narrow escapes during the rebellion. On one occasion he was seized and carried by force to the cross of Aberdeen, where the rebels forced a glass of wine down his throat, to the health of the Pretender. His daughter, Agnes, was the mother of 18 children, five of whom were devoted to H.M. service, viz. Robert, now Purser of the Argonaut, hospital ship at Chatham; James, Surgeon R.N., drowned in 1818; Thomas, an officer in the Guards, deceased; William, a Lieutenant-Colonel, Governor of Sincapore; and Arthur, the subject of this memoir.
- ↑ See note * at p. 54.
