“April 16th, 1813.
“Dear Sir,– * * * I shall always be ready to bear testimony to the propriety of your conduct in the station assigned to you when serving under my command. Believe me yours very faithfully,
(Signed)“R. Bickerton.”
Commander Love’s next appointment was, through the recommendation of Viscount Fitzharris, Governor of the Isle of Wight, to the Medina yacht, an establishment which had existed upwards of a century, but which was done away with in the year 1817. He obtained the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital in Feb. 1830.
This zealous officer married Harriet, youngest daughter of Gabriel Acworth, Esq. Purveyor of the Navy, nephew to Sir Jacob Acworth, Surveyor of the Navy, who was grandfather of the late Sir Jacob Wheate.
One of Commander Love’s sons, Henry, is a lieutenant[errata 1] in the royal navy. His eldest brother, Thomas, served as master’s-mate of the Berwick 74, Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart, in Keppel’s action with D’Orvilliers; and as master of the Alfred, Captain John Bazely, at the glorious battle of June 1st, 1794: he died at Great Marlow. His other brother, Richard, after acquiring the professional knowledge requisite to qualify him for receiving a lieutenant’s commission, accepted a command in the Russian marine; incurred the displeasure of Prince Potemkin, by whom he was imprisoned; suffered shipwreck on his return to England from the Black Sea; was subsequently invested with authority by the Grand Seignor and the Nabob of Arcot, and died at Joppa in command of a country vessel.
WILLIAM MATHER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in 1799; and repeatedly distinguished himself whilst serving as lieutenant of the Mercury frigate, Captain Thomas Rogers, by which a letter to the following effect was addressed to Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, May 26th, 1801:
Errata:
- ↑ Correction: Henry, is a lieutenant should be amended to Henry Ommanney, is a commander
