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non, first Earl of Beverley, was born on the 24th of March 1788. 

 He entered the Navy in 1801 as first-class volunteer on board the 

 Lion, 64, and became in the next year Midshipman of the Medusa, 

 32. In that ship, after sharing in the capture of several Spanish 

 frigates and merchantmen of great value, he sailed with the 

 Marquis Cornwallis for the East Indies, and returned from the 

 Ganges to the Lizard, a distance of 13,831 miles, in the sur- 

 prisingly short period of 84 days. He next served on board of 

 several vessels on the Home Station, and became in 1807 Lieute- 

 nant of the Decade frigate, and afterwards of the Hibernia. In 

 1810 he obtained the rank of Commander, and was appointed to 

 the Mermaid, 28, which was engaged in the conveyance of troops 

 to Portugal and Spain. He was posted in 1812, and in 1814 

 commanded the Hermes, 20, which vessel, after twenty-five of her 

 crew had been killed, and twenty-four wounded, in an unsuccess- 

 ful attack on Eort Bowyer, Mobile, was set on fire and destroyed 

 to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans. On the 

 court-martial which ensued, Captain Percy, who had also on this 

 occasion under his command the Canon, 20, and Sophia and 

 Childers, of 18 guns each, was honourably acquitted of all blame. 



He sat in two Parliaments, from 1818 to 1826, for the borough 

 of Stamford, and was appointed a Commissioner of Excise in 1828, 

 from which office he retired in 1849, having previously, in 1846, 

 accepted the rank of Rear- Admiral. His fellowship of the Linnean 

 Society dates from 1823, and he died, unmarried, at the house of 

 his brother, the present Earl of Beverley, in Portman Square, on 

 the 5th of last October, in the 68th year of his age. 



Henry Perkins, Esq., of Hanworth Park, in the county of 

 Middlesex, one of the celebrated firm of Barclay, Perkins and 

 Co., became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in the year 1825, 

 and was also a Fellow of the Geological and Horticultural 

 Societies. He died at Dover, on the 15th of April of the present 

 year, at the age of 78. 



John Beeves, Esq., F.B.S. Sfc, was the youngest son of the 

 Rev. Jonathan Reeves of Westham, near London, and was born 

 on the 1st of May 1774. Left an orphan at an early age, he 

 was educated at Christ's Hospital, and afterwards entered the 

 counting-house of a tea-broker, where he acquired so thorough a 

 knowledge of teas, as to recommend him in 1808 to the office of 

 Inspector of Tea in England in the service of the Honourable 

 East India Company. In 1812 he proceeded to China as Assist- 

 ant, and subsequently became Chief Inspector of Tea in the East 



