by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Shirley… (1823)
“ This officer entered into the royal navy in the beginning of 1779; and served without a day’s intermission from that period until advanced to the command of the Mars 74, by post commission dated April 26th, 1798. The flag-officers and captains under whom he passed the first eighteen years of his professional life, always in most active employment, were the late Lords Bridport and Hood, Sir Samuel Hood, Alexander Hood, Sir William Domett, and Sir Charles Morice Pole, the present Sir Philip C. H. Durham, and the late John Woodley. ”
