Admiral Lord Gardner, Rear-Admiral William O’Brien Drury and Vice-Admirals Whitshed and Thornbrough, as commanders-in-chief on the Irish station.
Captain Grosett’s post commission bears date Oct. 21, 1810. Previous to his leaving Cork, the mayor and corporation held a special meeting for the purpose of voting him the freedom of that city: the committee of merchants also assembled and voted him their unanimous thanks for his great attention to their interests, whilst commanding the guard-ship, a period of upwards of seven years.
From the foregoing sketch it will be seen that Captain Grosett twice served under the immediate eye of Earl St. Vincent, who so highly approved of his conduct on every occasion as to present him with a medal, – a convincing proof of the esteem in which he was held by that celebrated chieftain. While in attendance upon the royal family at Weymouth, between May and Oct. 1801, the subject of this brief memoir had likewise the honor of being most graciously noticed by our late revered monarch. Since his advancement to post-rank he has not been able to obtain any employment.
Captain Grosett’s only son died at Jamaica, in 1824, aged 22: his daughter is married to W. Hudson Heaven, of Penridge House, co. Somerset, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford and Son.
FRANCIS JOHN NOTT, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Acted as Lieutenant of the Leviathan a third rate, at the defeat of the French fleet by Earl Howe, June 1, 1794[1]; and was wounded on board the Sans Pareil 80, in Lord Bridport’s action off l’Orient, June 23, 1795[2]. He was made a Commander into the Curaçoa sloop, on the Jamaica station, at the latter end of 1801: and subsequently appointed to
