Note 116 — Chapter XXIII · PARRY AND HIS SCHOOL

Cyrus Wakeman, in the Dorothea with Buchan, and the Griper, 1819–20, was afterwards at the battle of Navarino, where his splendid gallantry is recorded by Lady Bourchier in her Memoirs of Sir Edward Codrington, II, p. 102 (Longman, 1873). He died in the Niger expedition.

Sir Joseph Nias, K.C.B., was in the Alexander, Hecla, and Fury with Parry, 1818–23. He distinguished himself in the Herald during the first China war, at the capture of the forts of the Bocca Tigris and in all the operations in the Canton river, becoming Rear-Admiral in 1857. In 1855 he married Isabella, only child of John Laing of Montagu Square, where he died December 16th 1879.