of Parliament. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Aug. 12, 1819; previous to which he had been nominated a Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
Our officer married, March 17, 1806, Jane Elizabeth, relict of Charles Viscount Andover (son of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire) and daughter of Thomas William Coke, Esq., M.P. for Norfolk, who in respect to landed property, is one of the most powerful commoners in Great Britain. The Rear-Admiral’s family consists of two sons and one daughter.
Town-residence.– 78, Harley Street.
CHARLES EKINS, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Blue; a Companion of the most honoruble Military Order of the Bath; and a Knight of the Order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands.
This officer entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Berwick, of 74 guns, commanded by the Honorable Keith Stewart, and was present in the battle between Sir Hyde Parker and Admiral Zoutman, off the Dogger Bank, in 1781[1], on which occasion the Berwick had 18 men killed and 58 wounded. He afterwards removed into the Cambridge, 84; which ship formed part of the armament under Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar; and in the partial action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, Oct. 20, 1782, had 4 men slain and 6 wounded; among the latter was Mr. Ekins, at that time acting as aid-de-camp to Captain Stewart. He subsequently served on board the Marquis de Seignally sloop of war, and Pearl frigate; and was made a Lieutenant into the Lion, of 64 guns, in 1790.
From this period Mr. Ekins was appointed successively to the Flirt brig, Alarm frigate, and Boyne, of 98 guns. The latter, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, he joined in the West Indies; and he was junior Lieutenant of her at the time she was unfortunately destroyed by fire at Spithead[2]. In the summer of 1795, we find him commanding the Fer-
- ↑ See note §, at p. 175, et seq.
- ↑ See Retired Captain Hon. Sir George Grey, in our next volume
