HON. EDMUND SEXTEN PERY KNOX.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Second son of Thomas, second Viscount Northland, by Diana Jane, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Viscount Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in three successive parliaments.
This officer received his first commission, Sept. 1, 1806; obtained the rank of Commander, June 2, 1809; and was made a Post-Captain, Feb. 28, 1812. He married, July 3, 1813, the sister of James Hope, of Cragie Hall, West Lothian, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, & Son.
HON. GEORGE DOUGLAS.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Youngest surviving son of the late Archibald Lord Douglas, of Douglas, in Lanarkshire, Lord Lieutenant and Hereditary Sheriff of the county of Forfar; by Lady Frances Scott, daughter of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, and sister to Henry, third Duke of Buccleugh, K.G. &c. &c[1].
This officer was born, Aug. 2, 1788; and he entered the navy, as a midshipman on board the Excellent 74, Captain the Hon. Robert Stopford, Dec. 17, 1801. While in that ship, he witnessed the suppression of an alarming mutiny among the black troops garrisoned at Fort Shirley, in the island of Dominica, mention of which has been made at p. 750 et seq. of Vol. I. Part II.
On his return from the West Indies, Mr. Douglas joined the Castor frigate, and subsequently the Spencer 74, in which latter ship he completed his time under Captain Stopford. The Spencer accompanied Lord Nelson to the Coast of Egypt in quest of the Toulon fleet under Mons. Villeneuve, and formed part of the squadron with which that great commander pursued the combined forces of France and Spain to
- ↑ Lord Douglas died at Bothwell Castle, co. Lanark, Dec. 26, 1827, in his 80th year.
