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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]

1. Katherine Augusta Westenra Macleod and died.
2. Caroline Flora Macleod was born on 16 Oct 1809; was christened on 11 Jan 1810 in Saint Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; and died.
3. Harriet Macleod was born in 1818; was christened on 10 Jun 1818 in Walmer, Kent, England; and died.