A Naval Biographical Dictionary/McClintock, Francis Leopold
M‘CLINTOCK. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Francis Leopold M‘Clintock is second son of the late Henry M‘Clintock, Esq., formerly in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, Collector of Dundalk, by Elizabeth Melisina, daughter of the late Venerable Geo. Fleury, D.D., Archdeacon of Waterford; first cousin of Commander W. B. M‘Clintock Bunbury, R.N., whose memoir immediately follows; and brother-in-law of the late Capt. Chas. Henry Paget, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy in 1831; passed his examination 23 Oct. 1838; and after having been for several years employed as Mate in the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Gorgon steamer, commanded on the south-east coast of America by Capt. Chas. Hotham, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 July, 1845. Being appointed, 16 Aug. following, to the Frolic 16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, he continued to serve in that vessel in the Pacific until 1847, in the course of which year he returned home and was paid off.