Soon after this event, Captain Loring was obliged to come on shore for the recovery of his health; and it was not until September following, that he found himself able to resume the command of the Niobe, which ship had been kept vacant for him by the appointment of a Captain to act in her during his absence. During the latter part of the war, he commanded the Impregnable, a second rate, bearing the flag of Admiral William Young, commander-in-chief on the North Sea station.
Captain Loring was nominated a C.B. in 1815. He succeeded the late Captain Wainwright as Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Naval College, Nov. 4, 1819; and has since received a diamond ring, value one hundred guineas, from the Empress of Russia, for his attention to a young protege of her Imperial Majesty, who completed his education at that excellent school, and afterwards embarked as a Midshipman in the British service on board the Active frigate.
The subject of this memoir married, July 18, 1804, Anna, second daughter of Vice-Admiral Patton, who then held a seat at the Board of Admiralty[1]; and by that lady has three sons and three daughters.
The Lieutenant-Governor’s eldest brother, Dr. Henry Lloyd Loring, died Archdeacon of Calcutta, in 1822. The character of this excellent clergyman is correctly drawn in the Gentleman’s Magazine for April 1323. Another brother, Captain William Loring, of the Horse Artillery, served under Sir John Moore during his celebrated retreat, from the fatigues of which he never recovered, and died at Madeira in 1809. A third brother, Major R. R. Loring, still living, was Military Secretary to Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B., Governor of the Canadas, during the late war with America.
JOHN WINNE, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1790; commanded the Rambler cutter, attached to Lord Howe’s fleet, and rendered essential service to the crew of the distressed Vengeur,
