Royal Naval Biography/Child, John

by John Marshall

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JOHN CHILD, Esq.
[Commander.]

Son, we believe, of the late Admiral Smith Child^[1]. He was made a lieutenant in 1790; promoted to the command of the Merlin sloop, on the Jamaica station, Sept. 15th, 1800; and employed, during part of the late war, in the Irish Sea-Fencible service.

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1. See Suppl. Part I. note ‖ at p. 5.