by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Fair, Robert (1823)
“ This officer is a native of county Cork. We first find him serving as master of the Amethyst frigate. Captain (afterwards Sir Michael) Seymour, by whom he was most highly spoken of for his conduct at the capture of the French 44-gun frigates Thetis and Niemen, Nov. 10th, 1808, and April 6th, 1809 [1] . He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 1st July in the latter year; and was appointed to the command of the Locust gun-brig, Nov. 23d, 1811. In the following month, he drove on shore, near Calais, a French national brig, which, from the violence of the surf, was beaten to pieces. ”
