man killed; this was her Captain’s coxswain, whose aged mother was afterwards placed in the workhouse of Mary-le-bone parish, and during the remainder of her life, allowed by Sir Edward half-a-crown per week to procure tea and sugar. She died about 1814. The only person wounded was Lieutenant Taite, of the Marines, who lost his right leg, and to whom, on the salvage money for the re-capture being paid, Sir Edward presented 100 guineas (one moiety of his own share), for the purchase of a sword. With the other half he bought a chronometer for his first Lieutenant, Mr. George Chamberlayne, who had conducted the enterprise.
During the greater part of the late war, the subject of this memoir commanded the Mary yacht. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; appointed to the Prince Regent yacht, Dec. 7, in the same year; and created a Baronet of Great Britain, as a reward for his meritorious services, Dec. 8, 1818. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place July 19, 1821.
Sir Edward Hamilton married, in Nov. 1804, a daughter of John Macnamara, of Langoed Castle, co. Brecon, Esq. and niece to Rear-Admiral James Macnamara, by whom he has issue.
Country-seat.– Trebinsharn House, Breconshire, South Wales.
Town Residence.– 38, Nottingham Place.
THOMAS BAKER, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Blue; a Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; and a Knight of the Order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands.
This officer was a Lieutenant at the commencement of the French revolutionary war (previous to which he had been in the East India Company’s service); commanded the Fairy sloop, in 1797; and obtained post rank in the Princess Royal, a second rate, forming part of the Channel fleet, on the 13th June in the same year.
Early in 1799, Captain Baker was appointed to the Nemesis, of 28 guns; and in the summer of 1800, he was entrusted with the command of a small squadron, stationed in the
