the enemy,” until he had the satisfaction to see the American colours lowered.
The Cherub returned home from Brazil in charge of a large fleet of merchantmen, and Captain Tucker was afterwards successively appointed to the Andromeda and Comus, each rated at 22 guns. He has not been employed since the end of May, 1816.
This officer married, Jan. 23, 1811, Anne Byam, eldest daughter of the late D. Hill, Esq. a merchant and land proprietor in the island of Antigua, by whom he has issue two sons and three daughters. His eldest brother, Henry St. George Tucker, is a Director of the Hon. East India Company; his second brother, George, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and Assistant-Adjutant-General to the forces under Sir Arthur Wellesley, perished in the Primrose sloop of war, when returning to the peninsula, after a short leave of absence[1]. His next brother, Lieutenaut-Colonel John G. P. Tucker, has served in India and at the Cape of Good Hope, at Monte Video, in Canada, and in France; the next, Captain Nathaniel B. Tucker, Brigade-Major to Sir M. Nightingale, shared the melancholy fate of his brother George; the next in point of age, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hon.E.I.C. service, and Deputy-Quarter-Master-General at the presidency of Bombay, died at sea, when returning home on leave of absence, in 1826; the next, Captain Charlton B. Tucker, of the dragoons, served as aide-de-camp to Sir M. Nightingale when that officer was commander-in-chief of the army at Bombay; and the youngest brother, Richard A. Tucker, is now Chief Justice at Newfoundland.
JOHN BOWKER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]
This officer, the second son of the late Robert Bowker, Esq. of Queen’s County, Ireland, was born Dec. 1, 1770; and he entered the naval service, in Aug. 1785, as a midshipman on board the Trusty of 50 guns, commanded by Captain William Wolseley, and then fitting for the broad pendant
- ↑ The Primrose, of 18 guns, Captain James Mein, was wrecked on the Manacle rocks, near Falmouth, Jan. 22, 1809. – all on board perished.
