WILLIAM KEATS, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
Was made a lieutenant, Aug. 6th, 1813; and commander, April, 17th, 1816 ; appointed to the Cherokee sloop, attached to the Leith station, Aug. 7th, 1822; and promoted to the rank of captain. Mar. 27th, 1826.
Agents.– Messrs. Stillwell.
HON. GEORGE BARRINGTON,
One of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
Second son of George Viscount Barrington, D.D., Prebendary of Durham, and Rector of Sedgfield, by Elizabeth, second daughter of Robert Adair, Esq. and grand-daughter of William (second) Earl of Albemarle. He was born on the 20th of Nov. 1794; made a lieutenant May 16th, 1814; appointed to the Slaney sloop. Captain Charles Sotheby, Sept. 16th following; and to the Liverpool 50, Captain F. A. .Collier, June 8th, 1818; promoted to the rank of commander Dec. 7th, in the same year; and appointed to the Parthian sloop, Feb. 15th, 1823. His commission as captain bears date. Mar. 27th, 1820.
This officer married, in Jan. 1827, Caroline, third daughter of Earl Grey, on whose accession to office, in the year 1830, he was nominated a Lord of the Admiralty,
Agents.– Sir F. M. Ommanney and Son.
HENRY JOHN LEEKE, Esq.
A Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Southampton.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
This officer, while serving as midshipman of the Volontaire frigate. Captain Charles Bullen, bore an active part at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the Bay of Rosas; which brilliant service has been described in Suppl. Part III. p. 158 et seq. His first commission bears date Nov. 24th, 1810; and we subsequently find him a lieutenant
