Admiral, Loney,
The death is announced as having taken place, at hiqresidenceat Plymouth, at the advanced age of ninety-five, of Adm. £p_bert> Loney, the " father", of* the Brltish'iiavyy who, 'for the long* period 'of eighty-four or eighty-five years, had' been connected with the naval < arm of the public services.' Born in 1787, he entered the navy 1797, as a^ boy on the Atlat. the services f which he rendered >r during ithe civil' wau in < Portugal, in 1835, in, .conjunction with those he afforded by.^he prptectjkfn^ojEj British interests'^ he 'was' rewarded with the j^^^<»pinmttdetv-ia Januaryt~'lB37r From- that time Xe r was* on, the half rp.ay lisi^ being 'appointed £^' b^pwin iri.auguslj \ 1852, and placed Wtbljre'tired-list , ,witli ■ the- tank '61 reaMianiiftllf f iif 1 AtfriV ' 18^ f Heffiu promoted '^W be" 7 retir6d 'Vjcei admiral in August, 1,873, and retired
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1534, 4 May 1882, Page 3
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138Admiral, Loney, Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1534, 4 May 1882, Page 3
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