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HON. FRANCIS MAUDE.
[Commander.]

Fifth and youngest son of Cornwallis, first Viscount Hawarden and Baron de Montalt, by his third wife, Isabella Elizabeth Stanley, sister to the first Viscount Monck[1].

This officer was born in 1798; and made a lieutenant on the 7th Oct. 1820; previous to which he had been acting as such in the Superb 78, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Thomas M. Hardy, on the South American station. He obtained the rank of commander on the 30th April 1827; and subsequently married Frances, second daughter of the Hon. A. H. Brooking, collector of H.M. Customs at St. John’s Newfoundland, and Member of the Council for that island.



PERCY FRASER HALL, Esq.
[Commander.]

A son of the late Very Rev. Charles Henry Hall, Dean of Durham, who died in 1827, by the Hon. Anna Maria Bridget Byng, third daughter of John, fifth Viscount Torrington, and aunt to the present peer.

This officer was made a lieutenant on the 16th Oct. 1821; appointed to the Active frigate. Captain Andrew King, Feb. 25th, 1822; and promoted to his present rank April 30th, J827. He married, Sept. 25th, in the same year, Amelia Ourry, eldest daughter of the late Captain George Wolfe, R.N., C.B.



THOMAS MAITLAND, Esq.
A Deputy Lieutenant of Berwickshire.
[Commander.]

This officer entered the naval service in 1816; obtained his first commission on the 16th May, 1823; and was promoted