Sir Josiah Coghill has been twice married: his present lady is the eldest daughter of Charles Kendall Bushe, Esq. the late Solicitor-General in Ireland.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
NATHANIEL DAY COCHRANE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Was made a Lieutenant in 1800, and promoted to the rank of Commander, July 30, 1805. On the 18th Dec. following, being then in the Kingfisher sloop, he captured l’Elisabeth, French privateer, of 14 guns and 102 men.
Captain N. D. Cochrane is the officer who brought home the despatches announcing the result of the action between Sir John T. Duckworth and the French Rear-Admiral Leissegues, off St. Domingo[1] his advancement to post rank took place Mar. 26, 1806; and he subsequently commanded the Alexandria and Orontes frigates, on the North Sea and Cape of Good Hope stations.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
JOHN AYSCOUGH, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Son of the late Captain Ayscough, R.N. a gallant and veteran officer, who was often wounded whilst fighting the enemies of his country; who expended a large portion of his private property in raising several thousands of seamen for her service, at the period when she was engaged in a serious dispute with Spain, respecting the occupancy of Falkland’s Islands; and whose last injunction to his sons, then very young, was “Serve your King and Country[2].”
- ↑ See Vol. I. p. 262.
- ↑ Captain Ayscough, senior, was between forty and fifty years in the royal navy. His son, James, was a Lieutenant of the Monarch 74, at the sanguinary battle off Copenhagen, April 2, 1801; on which occasion he distinguished himself in a most gallant manner. Shortly after the renewal of hostilities, 1803, we find him serving in the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hood, by whom his conduct in storming a battery of six 24-pounders, on Cape Salines, Martinique, was so highly extolled, that the Patriotic Society at Lloyd’s resolved to present him with
