A family archive relating to COMMANDER GEORGE EYRE POWELL RN (1790-1855) his ancestors and descendants, contained in a larg

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  A family archive relating to COMMANDER GEORGE EYRE POWELL RN (1790-1855) his ancestors and descendants, contained in a large scrapbook.On page 1 of the book there are personal details including a facsimile of a portrait, a wax impression of his seal and locks of his hair. On page 2 there is a published obituary and on page 3 a pencil sketch of HMS Heron on which he served from 18/1/1817 to October 1822. He was on board when Napoleon died at St Helena and sailed with her when she took news of his death to England. The album also contains a facsimile after Ibbetson of a sketch of Napoleon. Other details of the family include his Irish forebears and descendants. Other family names connected to the Powells include Kingdon, (GEPs wife), Evans, Doidge, and Weld. The archive continues in to the early years of the 20th Century. GEP moved to Colyton Devon in the 1820s and had very close connections with George Meeting (Unitarian).The memorial stone to George Eyre Powell and his wife were in the building and there is a photograph of it in the archive.There is also a small collection of letters documents and other papers including;Several 19th century copy wills.1704 sealed indenture from the Earl of Limerick and other documents.19th century passport document Eyre Powell 1861 and another similar. Cronebane Yeomanry document issued to Eyre Powell 1827.1772 Powell family indenture.Eyre Evans Powell to Ann EyreCollection of 19th and early 20th century family documents and original letters.A small collection of 19th century letters stamps and envelopes including a signed photograph of Tennyson, a mid 19th century valentine to Miss Wolfe in its original stamped envelope, and a forged early 19th century guinea note purporting to be Bank of Ireland but stamped forgery with a letter from the Bank dated 18 Sept 1812 confirming this. Books include; Book of Common Prayer 1741 published OxfordBritish curiosities in art and nature, 1728George Eyre Evans, Colytonia: a chapter in the history of Devon. signed copy, with inscription Thomas M Powell from Annie M Powell.Hand written cash book 1836-1858BIOGRAPHYA Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) by William Richard O'Byrne George Eyre Powell, born in 1790, is fifth son of the late Eyre Powell, Esq., of Great Connel, co. Kildare. Two of his brothers fell in the service of their country.This officer entered the Navy, 19 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Wizard sloop, of 16 guns and 95 men, Capts. Edm. Palmer and Abel Ferris. Attaining soon the rating of Midshipman, he served in that capacity in the expedition to Egypt in 1807. A wound he received in the course of the same year at the cutting-out of a vessel from under the protection of a martello tower on the coast of Calabria had the effect of procuring him a grant from the Patriotic Fund. He subsequently, by jumping overboard, proved of material assistance in saving the life of the Captains coxswain, a man named Wm. Johnstone, who had been upset in the jolly-boat; and in May, 1808, he was on board the Wizard when she fell in with, chased for 88 hours, and, after having run a distance of 369 miles, and once beaten her opponent in an action of one hour and a half, compelled the French brig-corvette Le Requin, of 18 guns and 110 men, to seek refuge in the neutral port of Tunis. Removing in the following June to the Amphion 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste, he was placed a short time afterwards in command of a tender, with the rating of Masters Mate, and detached on a cruize in the Adriatic, where he succeeded in capturing many of the enemys vessels. In March, 1809, he was sent in charge of a heavily-laden prize, accompanied by another one intrusted to the care of the present Commander Henry Browne Mason, to Malta, for the purpose of obtaining stores for the use of the Amphion. At day-break on the 6th, observing the approach of two privateers (the one carrying a long 22-pounder in the bow, a carronade in the stern, and 38 men, and the other a 22-pounder in the bow and 28 men), Mr. Powell, concentrating the force of the two prizes on board his own, made all the opposition that could be expected from 2 one-pounder swivels and 6 muskets in the hands of 14 men. The enemy at length boarded on each quarter; and the British, having no alternative, surrendered. Mr. Powell, with his companions, was carried to Zara, thence taken to Ancona, and ultimately marched across the Alps to Brianon and Verdun. Escaping, in the autumn of 1810, with two other Midshipmen, Messrs. Burbidge and Thomas, he traversed Holland under great privations, and on reaching its shores embarked in a fishing-boat, in which he had the good fortune to be picked up by the Idas cutter, Lieut.-Commander Duncan. In that vessel, after he had been conveyed on board the Christian VII., flagship of Sir Edw. Pellew in the North Sea, and been by him highly complimented, he was sent to England. Reporting himself, on his arrival, at the Admiralty, he was at once ordered to join the Thisbe 28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, guard-ship at Woolwich. Soon after this, while absent on leave, he was attacked by the Walcheren fever, and for several weeks incapacitated from exertion. On his return to the Thisbe he was removed, in Dec. 1810, to the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, under whom we find him, during the next 12 months, employed in escorting troops to Lisbon, protecting the trade to Quebec, and cruizing off Flushing. Rejoining Capt. Hoste at the end of that period as Masters Mate on board the Bacchante 38, he accompanied him a second time to the Adriatic, and again acted a part in more than one animated scene. On the night of 31 Aug. 1812, receiving charge of the Bacchantes launch, he served with a detachment of boats under the command of Lieut. Donat Henchy OBrien, and assisted in cutting out from the port of Lema seven vessels laden with ship-timber for the Venetian Government, together with La Tisiphone French national xebec of 1 six-pounder, 2 three-pounders, and 28 men; one gun-boat with a nine-pounder, 2 three-pounders, and 24 men; and another of 1 nine-pounder and 20 men, intended for the protection of the trade on the coast of Istria from Pola to Trieste. On 6 Jan. 1813 Mr. Powell, with the same launch under his orders, united in a successful attack made by the boats of the Bacchante and Weasel sloop on five of the enemys gun-vessels in the neighbourhood of Otranto. While in command, previously to the latter affair, of the above-named Tisiphone, which had been converted into a tender and named the Amphion, he had fallen in, 2 Sept. 1812, with a convoy of 11 sail under the escort of two gun-boats; one of which, carrying 1 long 28-pounder in the bow, 1 22-pounder in the stern, together with 6 brass swivels and 38 men, he had succeeded, although with but 1 Midshipman, 13 seamen, and 5 marines on board, in driving on the rocks, after a running action of 35 minutes, in so shattered a condition that she soon went down. The other gun-boat was driven off the field. As a reward for his frequently distinguished conduct Mr. Powell was made Lieutenant, 22 Jan. 1813, into the Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell. While in that ship he assisted at the reduction of the Castle of Trieste, and commanded a battery and a division of seamen at the taking of Rovigno, and in other operations on the coast of Istria. In charge of the flotilla employed in co-operation with the Austrians under Marshal Belgrade, he ascended the Po as far as the river Mincio, and aided at the blockade of Mantua, displaying in his exertions so much zeal, alacrity, and perseverance, that he elicited the thanks of the Marshal, and induced the late Sir Chas. Rowley, then commanding the Eagle 74, to mention him in a very warm manner in his despatches to Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, the chief naval authority in the Adriatic. On the restoration of Naples to its ancient sov
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