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Companion of the Order of the Bath

Captain Donald M'Leod R.N. C.B.
April 4th. At his apartments in the Asylum at Greenwich Hospital, Capt. Donald M'Leod, R.N. C.B., aged 54 years. This officer entered the Navy at an early age, and after having served the usual period, passed his examination for Lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted Jan. 2nd, 1794. He subsequently served in the Namur and several other ships; and on the 29th April, 1802, was promoted to the rank of Commander. At the renewal of hostilities in 1803, he was in May of that year, appointed to command the Sulphur Bomb-vessel, in which he assisted at the attack on the gun-vessels and other craft and batteries on the pier of Granville, by Sir James Saumarez, in the Cerberus, Capt. Selby, on the 13th Sept. 1815. In the Catamaran expedition, (as it was termed,) against the Boulogne flotilla, he was the senior commander, and although the attempt was not attended with any favourable results, yet it afforded Capt. M'Leod an opportunity of displaying much ability. Capt. M'Leod was next appointed to command the Cygnet; and on the 22nd Jan.
1806, he was promoted to the rank of Captain. During the expedition against Copenhagen, in
1807, he commanded the Superb, (74,) bearing the pendant of Commodore (now Sir Richard) Keats; and He afterwards served, on the promotion of that gallant officer to the rank of Rear-Admiral, as his Flag-Captain, and also to Rear Admiral William A. Otway, and to Vice-Admiral John Holloway, when the latter commanded at Newfoundland. In 1810, Capt. M'Leod superintended the impress service at Liverpool, where he remained until the termination of hostilities. On the escape of Buonaparte from Elba, Rear-Admiral W. H. Scott hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief in the Downs, and Capt. M'Leod became his Flag-captain; and in Dec. 1815, after the ex-' tension of the Order of the Bath, Capt. M'Leod. was nominated one of the Companions. After Admiral Scott struck his flag, Capt. M'Leod was not employed until 1819, when he was appointed to superintend the ships in ordinary at Chatham, where he remained until 1822; and on the 19th April, 1824, was appointed one of the Captains of Greenwich Hospital, when on the promotion last, year of Capt. M'Kinley to the rank of Rear-Admiral, he succeeded that officer as superintendent of the boys in the lower school of that establishment. Capt. M'Leod has left a widow and family to lament his loss.
from: United Service Magazine H. Colburne 1831 page 143

Donald married Caroline Sophia Pye Bennet on 3 Jan 1809 in Hanwell Parish, Middlesex. Caroline (daughter of Mr Bennet and Miss Evans) was born in 1823 in Chatham, Kent, England; died on 30 Nov 1902 in Westminster, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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of C.S. Pye: St. G Hanover Square ???

BENNETT
Thomas Bennett, "customs officer" Anna [??Agnes] Maria Evans (?c.1750-1808), novelist, of 5 Nassau Street, Soho mistress of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye
~Thomas Pye Bennett (-1808), lieutenant, RN 1781-9400 1787 Mary Pye, dau, of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye
~ Harriet (1765-1865), actress, mistress of ke of Hamilton 1784 James Esten-(1757-1803), lieutenant, RN, of Half-Moon Street; 1812 Major John Scott-Waring (1747-1819), agent of Warren Hastings Maria Hughes
Harrjet Wildman Hunter Esten (1788-1881) Thomas Darby-Coventry
Anna Maria (-1803sp) Lowrma 1000 St Anne's Soho 1792 John Smith Braine, chief-clerk of the Navy Pay-office, of Craven-hill cottage .
Caroline Sophia Pye (-1857) UIPIl'IIU 00 1809 Captain Donald Macleod, RN, CB (-a.1852) \\
Katherine Augusta Westernra Macleod (1823-1902) 00 1852 Octavius Douglas-Hamilton, cousin of the Duke of Hamilton

Mrs. Darby- Coventry's Ancestors. These notes would, I feel sure, be considered incomplete without some notice of her predecessors. Her grandfather's name was Bennett, a descendant of an old Glamorganshire family, the Bennetts of Lalestone, Bridgend ; whilst her grand- mother, whose maiden name was Evans, was an Evans of Eaglesbush, Neath, an equally old Welsh stock.
Their properties lay near to each other ; it would thus seem an union of the two families was in the ordinary course of events. Of Mr. Bennett I have not been able to learn anything further ; but of Mrs. Bennett I have collected much that will, I feel sure, greatly interest her descendants ; and in this connexion I may mention the Bennetts had four children, one son and three daughters ; these were
Thomas Pye Bennett, R.N. ;
Harriet Bennett, who married first Mr. James Esten of Half-Moon Street, London, and afterwards Major Scott- Waring ;
Anna Maria Bennett, who married Mr. J. S. Braine, of the Navy Pay Office ; and
Caroline Sophia Pye Bennett, married to Captain Macleod, R.N.

Mr + Miss Evans. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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of Eaglesbush, Neath

Mrs. Bennett herself became a distinguished authoress, and between the years 1785 and 1808 wrote no less than eight works