other members of the court. The Zealous was immediately afterwards put out of commission, she being no longer fit for service.
During the naval administrations of Lord Mulgrave and the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Captain Anderson presented the Admiralty with plans for the preservation of the health of seamen in the West Indies, and for the checking of smuggling in the narrow seas. He has also written several pieces, principally relating to the navy; but the only production in print which bears his name is entitled “Observations on the Peculiarities of the Tides between Fairleigh and the North Foreland.” – This latter paper is inserted in the Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1819.
Captain Anderson married, in Sept. 1790, Jane Ann Thornhill, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Harris, M.A. Rector of St. Lucy’s parish in the island of Barbadoes.
Agent.– Messrs. Goode and Clarke.
WILLIAM SHEPHEARD, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
This officer was born at Portsea, co. Hants, 1769. He entered the navy, at the age of 12 years, as a midshipman on board the Thetis 32, Captain Robert Linzee; and was wrecked in that frigate, at St. Lucia, in 1781. He afterwards joined the Santa Monica 36, Captain John Linzee, which ship was lost off Tortola, in 1782. We subsequently find him serving in the Ville de Paris (late flag-ship of the Count de Grasse), Magnificent 74, Dido 28, Saturn 74, and Hector of similar force; on the West India, North American, and Channel stations.
From the Hector, Mr. Shepheard was removed to the Alcide 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Robert Linzee; under whom he continued to serve after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place during the occupation of Toulon, in 1793. The Alcide sustained some damage in her hull, masts, and rigging, and had 9 men wounded, at the unsuccessful attack upon Fornelli, in Corsica, Sept. 30, 1793.[1]
