Was made a lieutenant in 1795, and promoted to the rank of commander in Nov. 1808. On the 1st of that month, being then acting in the Cruiser sloop, he engaged a Danish flotilla, near Gottenburgh, captured one vessel of ten four-pounders, and compelled her consorts, about twenty in number, to take refuge under the island of Loesoe. In the summer of 1811, he was appointed to the Phipps sloop; and on the 11th Mar. 1812, we find him capturing le Cerf, French lugger privateer, of five guns and thirty-one men. On the 4th May following, he assisted at the recapture of H.M. sloop Apelles^[1]. This officer died on the continent, in 1825.