Since 1815, Captain Douglas has enjoyed a pension of 250l. per annum for the severe wounds he received off Camperdown. His brother, William Henry Douglas, is a Commander of 1813.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
JOHN HUDSON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant Nov. 22, 1790; and was made a Commander about Sept. 1800. His subsequent appointments were to the Bellona armed ship. Spy sloop, the Sea Fencible service in Ireland, and Regulus 44, armed en flûte.
Captain Hudson’s post commission was dated Oct. 21, 1810. He died at St. Omer, in France, Feb. 1823, aged 58 years.
ROBERT BROWN TOM, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Entered the navy in 1781, as a midshipman on board the Royal George, a first rate, bearing the flag of Sir John Lockhart Ross, Bart, commander-in-chief on the North Sea station; from which ship he removed to the Ocean of 90 guns, and, in her, was present at the relief of Gibraltar, by Lord Howe, 1782.
After the peace of 1783, Mr. Tom successively joined the Assistance 50, flag-ship of Sir Charles Douglas; Thisbe 28, Echo 16, Fly 16, Tisiphone 12, and Amphitrite 24; from which latter ship he was promoted into the Conflagration fire-vessel, at Toulon, in Nov. 1793.
During the operations against Calvi, Mr. Tom served on shore as a volunteer; the Conflagration having been burnt at the evacuation of Toulon. From Corsica he returned home passenger in the Aquilon frigate; and we subsequently find him serving upwards of five years as second Lieutenant of the Polyphemus 64, bearing the flag of the late Sir Robert Kingsmill, Bart, on the Irish station.
Lieutenant Tom’s next appointment was to be first of the
