In the beginning of 1834, the King was graciously pleased to confer on Commander Woollnough the insignia of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.
This officer is the author of several letters on the education of young gentlemen on board H.M. ships, in which he particularly, and very properly condemns the old system of putting them to mess with warrant officers. These letters appeared in the latter volumes of the Naval Chronicle.
Commander Woollnough married, Feb. 16th, 1833, Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Richard Williams, Gent., one of the solicitors of the Lord Mayor’s Court, and widow of Charles Waylock, Gent., of West Wratting, co. Cambridge, and Stoke Newington, in Middlesex, also a solicitor of the same court.
SAMUEL MEREDITH, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 24th Nov. 1815; and appointed, as supernumerary, to the Severn frigate. Captain William M‘Culloch, superintendent of the coast blockade, Oct. 4th, 1820. He subsequently served in the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag of the late Sir Benjamin H. Carew, stationed off Gillingham. He obtained his present rank on the 7th May, 1828.; and was appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard in July, 1830.
This officer married, June 21st, 1819, Lydia, third daughter of John Dyer, Esq., Secretary of Greenwich Hospital.
EDWARD KELLY (a), Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 27th Dec. 1803; and appointed to the Lynx sloop, Captain John Willoughby Marshall, on the Baltic station, in the spring of 1809. He obtained great credit for his conduct in the command of that ship’s boats, at the capture of three Danish armed luggers, near Rostock, Aug. 13th, in the latter year[1]. His last
