ral smaller vessels; and taking his passage in the Duke, of 90 guns, Captain Gardner, he arrived in the West Indies in March, and thus participated in the victory of 12th April, 1782, over the French fleet, being on board the Repulse, 64, Captain Dumaresq. Sir George Rodney had at once offered him a birth on board his flag ship, but as Captain Dumaresq was an intimate friend, he requested permission to join the Repulse. Colonel Tupper became a major-general on the 12th October, 1793, and, having attained the rank of commandant in chief of the marines, he died in London in January, 1795, his decease being probably hastened by the fall of his only son, at Bastia, a few months previously.
Major General Tupper married, at Cork, Ann Chilcott, the daughter of a gentleman who had been a captain in the fusileers. He had two children, Carré[1] and Ann; the latter, famed for her beauty, survived him,—she was the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Connell, of the Limerick militia.
Subjoined is an extract from the London Star of 19th November, 1794:—
The marine corps feel the utmost satisfaction at the appointment of Major-General Tupper to be colonel commandant of that corps, in the room of the late Lieut.-General Smith.
On Friday last the officers of the Chatham division, which General Tupper has for some time commanded with great credit and honor to himself, waited on him in a body to congratulate him on his appointment, and to express their sincere acknowledgments for his kind and polite attentions to them, so uniformly and happily blended upon every occasion with the due and necessary authority of military discipline. On Saturday the officers gave a dinner to the general, at their mess-room, on his resignation of the divisional command to Colonel Barclay until the arrival of Major-General Innes, who is appointed to it.
- ↑ So named from Mr. Carré, his mother's uncle, and a wealthy banker in Dublin.
