MATTHEW BUCKLE, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer, a son of the late Admiral Buckle, was made a Lieutenant in 1791; commanded the Camel store-ship in 1801: and obtained post rank April 29, 1802. During the late war he was employed in the Sea Fencible service, and as Captain of the Adamant, a 50 gun ship, and Latona frigate.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
JOHN ALLEN (a), Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant April 21, 1783; and a Post-Captain, April 29, 1802.
Agent.– William Marsh, Esq.
JAMES NOBLE, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is the second and only surviving son of a patriotic gentleman, descended from a respectable mercantile family settled at Bristol, co. Somerset, who after sacrificing considerable property in the royal cause, was killed by a party of American rebels, when proceeding to New York on public service[1].
He entered the navy in 1788, and served his time as a Midshipman on board the Impregnable, a second rate; Ter-
- ↑ During the war with the colonies, Captain Noble’s father raised an independent corps, consisting chiefly of Germans employed at the iron works on his estate in the Bergen county, East Jersey; and was nominated a Major in Colonel Buskirk’s regiment, attached to General Skinner’s brigade; but having received a bayonet wound in his right eye, and his skull being fractured in an affair with the republicans, he was thereby deprived of his reason for upwards of eighteen months, during which time the majority was bestowed on another. Having at length recovered, he obtained an appointment as Assistant Commissary from Sir Henry Clinton, in which situation he died, leaving three sons to lament his loss; viz. Richard, who was drowned in la Dorade, a French privateer, prize to the Clyde frigate†; James, the subject of this memoir; and Dejoncourt, who fell a victim to the yellow fever when serving as a Midshipman on board the Vanguard of 74 guns, in the West Indies.
