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After Elizabeth's death in 1842, he remarried to Joanna Burn Smeeton in 1849, but she died five years later in 1854. Willes-Johnson again remarried in 1858, to Margaret Ann Pugh, daughter of
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bearing the flag of the late Lord Exmouth. Willes-Johnson then went on half-pay in 1814, before returning to full pay in 1815. After this he sailed with the
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where he was involved in a number of boat affairs. One such occasion in 1812 included capturing a Franco-Venetian
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He then had a short further period of half-pay, before being nominated in 1817 to be Flag-Lieutenant to the
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sloop captained by Villiers Francis Hatton. In August 1810, he returned to the seas with Graham on the
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Willes-Johnson then returned to England, where his arrival was received for three months on the
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and Ann née Vaughan, and they had one child: Maud Felicia Frances Ann Johnson (1862–1919).
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Entering the navy in 1807, Willes-Johnson became a first class volunteer serving on the
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A Journal of a Tour through parts of France, Italy and Switzerland, in the years 1823–4
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
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Wiltshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1916
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on its voyage to China where he arrived towards the end of the
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under Captain Edwards Lloyd Graham for two years at Home and
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Royal Navy personnel of the Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
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Going to Extremes: The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt
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in 1809, he was then placed in charge of the merchantman
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where he remained until promoted to Commander in 1821.
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Willes-Johnson and Graham then sailed together on the
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies
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Member of Parliament
Montgomery
David Pugh
Charles Hanbury-Tracy
South Stoke
Somerset
Highworth
Wiltshire
Conservative
Conservative Party
South Stoke
Archdeacon of Wells
David Pugh
Highworth
Hannington
Vestal
Newfoundland
master's mate
Lisbon
Cadiz
ruse de guerre
Port Mahon
Pallas
Southampton
Alcmène
Adriatic Sea
trabaccolo
Pylades
James Erskine Wemyss
Caledonia

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