HON. THOMAS BEST.
[Captain of 1830.]
Son of Lord Wynford, better known us Mr. Serjeant Best. This officer was made a lieutenant into the Superb 78; bearing the broad pendant of Sir Thomas M. Hardy, on the South American station, Mar. 6th, 1822; appointed to the Ranger 28, Captain Peter Fisher, Dec. 18th in the same year; to the Aurora frigate. Captain John Maxwell, Feb. 25th, 1825; to the Diamond 40, Captain Lord Byron, May 30th following; and to the Alligator 28, Captain William Pitt Canning, Jan. 4th, 1827. He was made a commander April 30th, 1827; appointed to the Icarus sloop, fitting out for the Jamaica station, Mar. 1st, 1828; to be second captain of the William and Mary yacht, at Woolwich, Jan. 14th, 1830; and promoted to the rank of captain on the 22d July following.
WILLIAM CUPPAGE, Esq.
[Captain of 1830.]
Lost a leg whilst serving as signal midshipman on board the San Josef 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, in a skirmish with the French fleet, near Toulon, Nov. 5th, 1813[1]; obtained the rank of lieutenant in April 1815, and a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum, April 4th, 1816; served under Captains Sir Archibald C. Dickson, John Brett Purvis, William Paterson, William Holmes, Thomas Forrest, William F. Carroll, and Sir James Brisbane, in the Rochfort 74, Magicienne frigate, Minden 74, Arab sloop, Isis 50 (flag-ship of Sir Lawrence W. Halsted, on the Jamaica station), Warspite 76, Boadicea and Java frigates; the latter ship, as also the Warspite, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Cage, on the East India station. He was appointed second captain of the Java, Dec. 21th, 1827; and promoted to his present rank, July 22d, 1830.
