latter part of the war superintended the depot for prisoners, of war at Norman Grogs.
Captain Hanwell married, in 1800, Miss Hanwell of Mixbury, near Brackley, Northamptonshire.
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THOMAS MANBY, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer is descended from a family whose existence we can trace to the reign of Henry III, His progenitors possessed large estates at Manby in Yorkshire; and his father, Captain Matthew Pepper Manby, considerable property at Hilgay, co. Norfolk[1].
When very young, he was appointed one of the Stationers to the Ordnance department, over which his friend the late Marquis Townshend at that time presided; but notwithstanding the emoluments of this situation, his predilection for the Naval profession was so great as to induce him to resign it, and embark as a Midshipman on board the Hyaena of 34 guns, in which ship he served on the Irish station from 1783 till 1785; at which latter period his naval patron, the late Hon. Admiral J. Levison Gower, placed him in the Cygnet sloop of war, under the protection of Captain (now Sir Henry) Nicholls, with whom he proceeded to the West Indies, and afterwards removed into the Amphion frigate.
After visiting the whole of the West India and Bahama islands, the Mosquito Shore, Bay of Honduras, Carthagena, and the Spanish Main, he returned to England in the Amphion, and soon after joined the Illustrious pf 74 guns, bearing his patron’s flag. Towards the close of 1790 he embraced an offer made him by Captain George Vancouver, to accompany him as a Master’s-Mate, in the Discovery, a ship which had been fitted out early in the year, for the purpose of exploring
- ↑ Captain M. P. Manby, was owner of the Wood Hall estate, and Lord of the Manor. He served several years in the Welch Fuzileers; but being severely wounded during the siege of Belleisle in 1761*, he was compelled to withdraw from service in the field. He subsequently acted as an aide-de-camp to George Viscount Townshend, Viceroy of Ireland.
* See Schomberg’s Naval Chronology, Vol. I. p. 354, et seq.
