Northumberland, third-rates; the former was attached to the North Sea fleet, under the orders of Admiral Young; the latter, which had been for a considerable time stationed as a guard-ship in the Medway, he paid off in July 1821. He was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815; obtained a Colonelcy of Royal Marines, April 2, 1821; and became a Rear-Admiral on the 19th July in the same year.
Our officer married, March 28, 1805, Sarah, youngest daughter of the gallant Captain John Harvey, who was mortally wounded in the glorious battle of June 1, 1794; by which union he became the brother-in-law, as well as first cousin, of the present Rear-Admiral of that name[1], and of Captain Edward Harvey, R.N.
Residence.– Walmer, Kent.
RICHARD HUSSEY MOUBRAY, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Blue; and a Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
This officer, descended from an ancient family in Fifeshire, is the second and youngest son of Robert Moubray, M.D. proprietor of the lands of Cockairny, in that county, by Arabella, youngest daughter of Thomas Hussey, of Wrexham, in Denbighshire, Esq. He was born at Plymouth, March 16, 1776, and commenced his naval career as a Midshipman, on board the Impregnable, of 98 guns, bearing the flag of his relative the late Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart, in 1789[2]. At the time of the Spanish armament, 1790, that
- ↑ We avail ourselves of this opportunity, the earliest that has presented itself, of correcting two mistakes which occur in our memoir of Rear-Admiral John Harvey, p. 614. Instead of continuing in the Southampton at the Leeward Islands till the end of the French revolutionary war, he was removed from that ship into the Amphitrite frigate, about May 1801, and soon after ordered to England. He left the latter in October following. It is true that he commanded the Royal Sovereign, but not for so long a period as we have mentioned. On Captain Bedford, who had succeeded him in the command of that ship, obtaining his flag, Aug. 12, 1812, he was again offered her, but did not accept the appointment.
- ↑ Sir Richard Bickerton married the sister of Mr. R. H. Moubray’s mother.
