A short time before he hauled down his flag, Rear-Admiral Otway was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh; and entertained at a public dinner given him by the noblemen and gentlemen of the club in St. Andrew’s Square, as a testimony of their respect for his public and private character.
Our officer married, on his return from the Baltic in Aug. 1801, a daughter of the present Admiral Holloway, and by that lady has a numerous family.
Country-seat.– Westwood, near Southampton.
WILLIAM LUKIN, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the White.
This officer, the eldest son of the late Dr. Lukin, Dean of Wells, and nephew and heir of that celebrated statesman the late Right Hon. William Windham[1], was a Lieutenant in 1793; commanded the Hornet sloop of war in 1795; and obtained the rank of Post-Captain on the 28th Nov. in the same year. We subsequently find him serving in l’Espion frigate, and Standard, 64. From the latter ship, after cruizing for about six months off the Texel, under the orders of Admiral Duncan, he removed, towards the close of 1796, into the Thames, of 32 guns, the command of which vessel he retained until the peace of Amiens.
The Thames formed part of the fleet at Spithead during the mutiny in 1797[2]; but owing to Captain Lukin’s judicious
- ↑ It is not, we believe, generally known, that Mr. Windham actually embarked in the same vessel in which the immortal Nelson made his first voyage, under Commodore Phipps, to determine the practicability of a N.E. passage to India. On this voyage of discovery, some men of science were despatched, carrying with them an excellent apparatus for mathematical and astronomical operations, to which Mr. Windham was through life warmly attached. Unfortunately, however, for science, he found himself incapable of sustaining the vicissitudes of a voyage; he became so seasick as to be dangerously indisposed; and the Commodore was obliged to land him in Norway, whence he returned to Norfolk in a Greenlandman.
- ↑ See pp. 548, et seq.
flag when going to assume the command at Leith, sailing each time from Spithead. She was built about 1780, and is now in active service.
