any work, though the pages of the Naval Chronicle are enriched with numerous hydrographical communications made by him. We are likewise ignorant of the periods at which he attained the degree of D.C.L., and the no less creditable designation of F.R.S.
Viscount Torrington has been twice married; his first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Langmead, of Hoegate-house Plymouth, Esq. M.P. His present lady, to whom he was united Oct. 5, 1811, is the second daughter of Sir Robert Barlow, K.C.B., late Commissioner of Chatham Dock-yard, and niece to Sir George H. Barlow, Bart.
Residence.– Yotes Court, near Meriworth, Kent.
ROSS DONNELLY, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
This officer, a son of the late Dr. Donnelly, entered the naval service early in the American war; served under Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot; and was employed in a battery during the siege of Charlestown, in 1780[1]. Some time after the capture of that place, he had the misfortune, when in charge of a prize, to be taken prisoner by the enemy, who inhumanly turned him adrift, with his crew, in an open boat, without sails or provisions, and in that helpless condition left him to find his way to Trepassay, where he arrived in a state of exhaustion, after a laborious pull of two days and a night. In the following year, he was promoted by Rear-Admiral Edwards to the rank of Lieutenant, in the Morning Star, of 16 guns, on the Newfoundland station; from which vessel he removed into the Cygnet sloop of war, as first Lieutenant. His next appointment was to the Mediator, 44, commanded by Captain Luttrell, with whom he continued till that ship was put out of comaussion, at the end of the war, in 1783.
We next find Mr. Donnelly serving as Mate of an East Indiaman, in which capacity he continued from 1785 till the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, when he was appointed first Lieutenant of the Montagu, a 74-gun ship, commanded by the gallant Captain James Montagu, who, it will be remembered, fell in the glorious battle of
- ↑ See Retired Captain Sir A. S. Hamond, in our next volume.
