Royal Naval Biography/Heathcote, Gilbert

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GILBERT HEATHCOTE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]

Youngest son of Sir William Heathcote, Bart, by Frances, daughter and co-heiress of John Thorpe, of Embley, co. Hants, Esq.

This officer was born in 1779, made a Lieutenant in 1799, advanced to the ranlc of Commander in 1802, and posted Sept. 5, 1806. He had the misfortune to lose the Suffisante sloop of war, on Spike Island, Cork, during a heavy gale of wind, in Dec. 1803. Captain Heathcote married, 1809, Anne, daughter of Charles Syell, of Kinnardy, co. Angus, N.B., Esq.

Agent.– Messrs. Clementson.