Captain Coffin’s post commission bears date April 29, 1802. He had previously commanded the Sphynx sloop of war, on the Cape station; and held an appointment in the Sea Fencible service. During the late war he was appointed to command a portion of the same corps at Tralee, in Ireland; and after its dissolution we find him serving in the Arethusa frigate, on the Jamaica station.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
JEFFERY RAIGERSFELD, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is descended from a noble German family. He obtained post rank April 29, 1802; and married, about the same period, a daughter of the Rev. Peter Hawker, Rector of Woodchester, and of Hampnett, co. Gloucester.
CHARLES RYDER, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1789: his post commission bears date April 29, 1802.
CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILLIAMS NESHAM, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is a son of the late Christopher Nesham, Esq., who served as Aid-de-camp to Colonel Monson, at the capture of Manilla, in 1762, by Mary Williams, sister of the present Admiral Freeman, and a relative of the late Lord North[1].
He was born in 1771; entered the naval service under the patronage of his maternal uncle in 1782; and served as a Mid-
- ↑ Captain Nesham’s grand-father, John Nesham, of Houghton-le-spring, co. Durham, Esq., was possessed of considerable coal mines and landed property. His youngest son, Christopher, was a Captain in the 63d regiment, but left the army on being presented with a civil appointment by Lord North.
memoir, we have ascertained that the intelligence of a Dutch squadron being on its way from the Texel to the Cape of Good Hope, was forwarded to that officer by George Baldwin, Esq., H.M. Consul-General in Egypt.
