WILLIAM BURNABY GREENE, Esq.
[Captain of 1834.]
Son of Captain Pitt Burnaby Greene, R.N.
This officer entered the royal navy in 1810; and served as midshipman under Captain John Brett Purvis, in the Ganymede 26, on the Mediterranean station. He was made a lieutenant on the 9th Nov. 1818; appointed to the Rose sloop, Commander Thomas Ball Clowes, fitting out for foreign service, May 22d, 1821; removed to the William and Mary yacht, Captain (now Sir Charles) Malcolm, stationed at Dublin, July 18th, 1822; promoted to the command of the Medina sloop, Dec. 30th, 1826; appointed to the Kent 78, July 22d, 1830; paid off from that ship Dec. 13th, 1831; and advanced to the rank of captain June 6th, 1834.
HON. GEORGE GREY.
[Captain of 1834.]
Fourth son of Earl Grey, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Ponsonby, and grand-daughter of Viscount Molesworth.
This officer was born on the 16th May, 1801); and entered the royal navy in 1822. He was made a lieutenant on the 17th Feb. 1829; appointed to the Alfred 50, Captain Robert Maunsell, fitting out for the Mediterranean station, Feb. 23d, 1831; promoted to the command of the Scylla sloop, Sept. 3d, 1831; removed to the Scout sloop, Dec. 10th, 1833; and advanced to the rank of captain July 14th, 1834. He arrived at Plymouth, from the coast of Egypt, in Nov. 1834.
JOHN JAMES ONSLOW, Esq.
[Captain of 1834.]
A younger son of the late Admiral Sir Richard Onslow, Bart., G.C.B., Lieutenant-General of Marines (who so highly distinguished himself as second in command of the
