on the 12th Aug. in the following year, advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral. In the spring of 1813, he was called upon to take a seat at the Admiralty, which he was obliged to resign through ill health in 1816.
At the extension of the most honourable Order of the Bath into three classes, Jan. 2, 1815, the insignia of a Knight Commander was conferred upon Lord Henry Paulet, and on the 12th August, 1819, he became a Vice-Admiral.
His lordship married, Oct. 27, 1813, Maria, youngest daughter of E. Ravenscroft, of Portland Place, Esq.
Residence.– West Hill Lodge, Titchfield, Hants.
CHARLES WILLIAM PATERSON, Esq
Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
This officer, a native of Berwick, is the son of the late Captain James Paterson of the 69th regiment of foot, by a daughter of Charles William Tonyn, Esq., Major of the 6th regiment or Inniskilling dragoons, and great-grand-daughter of Sir Patrick Hume, first Earl of Marchmont, the different branches of whose family intermarried with some of the first nobility of England and Scotland.
Having lost his father when very young, he entered the naval service in 1765, under the patronage of his noble relative the last Earl of Marchmont[1], on board the Shannon frigate, commanded by Captain Braithwaite. In 1768, we find him serving as a Midshipman of the St. Antonio, under the command of his uncle, the late Captain George Anthony Tonyn, with whom he removed into the Phoenix, on that officer being appointed Commodore on the African station, where he appears to have continued during the ensuing two years. He subsequently served as Master’s Mate, and Midshipman, in the Flora, Rose, Ardent, Ramillies, and Eagle; the latter bearing the flag of Lord Howe, whom he accompanied to America, where he assisted at the reduction
- ↑ The titles of Earl of Marchmont and Viscount Blazonberry, have been dormant ever since 1793. They descend to the heirs general, and are claimed by Lieutenant Alexander Home, R.N.
