by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Kerr, Mark Robert (1823)
“ The Lion was at that time commanded by the late Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower, Knt. [1] We next find Lord Mark serving as a Lieutenant on board the Sans Pareil, of 80 guns, in the action off l’Orient, June 23, 1795; on which occasion, as already stated at p. 246, three French line-of-battle ships fell into the hands of the British. He afterwards commanded the Fortune sloop of war, mounting 12 guns, on the Mediterranean station, under the orders of Sir John Jervis, by whom he was promoted, Feb. ”
