HON. KENELM SOMERVILLE,
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
A son of the late Hon. Hugh Somerville, a colonel in the army, by his second lady, Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Wriothesley Digby, of Meriden, co. Warwick, and only surviving brother of the present Lord Somerville, in the Scotch peerage.
This officer was made lieutenant, Nov. 11, 1807; advanced to the rank of commander Feb. 1, 1812; and subsequently employed, in the Thames troop-ship, on the North American station. His conduct during the expedition up the Patuxent river, on which occasion he held a command in the British flotilla, obtained him the “warmest acknowledgments” of Rear-Admiral Cockburn, who “earnestly recommended” him to Sir Alexander Cochrane’s “favorable notice.” His post commission bears date June 7, 1814.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.