JOHN WILSON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Obtained the rank of commander Dec. 27, 1808; and was present at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the bay of Rosas, Nov. 1, 1809[1]. His post commission bears date June 7, 1814.
On the 4th Aug. 1818, Captain Wilson was appointed to the Salisbury 58, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, and subsequently bearing that of Rear-Admiral (now Sir William C.) Fahie, on the Leeward Islands station, from whence she returned to Portsmouth, Sept. 10, 1821[2].
Captain Wilson’s next appointment was, Dec. 28, 1825, to the Java 52, fitting for the East India station, from whence he returned home in the Boadicea 46, July 19, 1827.
This officer married, in 1821, Caroline Constance, third daughter of Sir William Charles Fahie, K.C.B.
GEORGE PRINGLE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Was first lieutenant of the Jason frigate. Captain (now Sir Thomas John) Cochrane, at the capture of la Favorite, (formerly a British sloop of war) mounting 29 guns, with a complement of 150 men, on the Leeward Islands station, Jan. 27, 1807[3]. “His active conduct on this, as well as every occasion,” was duly acknowledged by Captain Cochrane, who regretted that it “did not afford him a greater opportunity of distinguishing himself.” He was made commander Dec. 27, 1808, and advanced to post rank, June 7, 1814.
- ↑ See note at p. 158.
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Campbell died Nov. 11, 1819.
- ↑ See Suppl. Part I. p. 135.
