Septimus Arabin

His paternal great-grandfather John Arabin raised the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot at the onset of the Seven Years' War.

[2] In November 1802 he was ranked midshipman and transferred to the newly-launched 50-gun HMS Antelope which was based in the English Channel protecting against the potential French invasion.

In 1806 he was given the role of master's mate on the 74 gun HMS Pompee and was involved in major attacks on the Turkish fleet in February and March 1807 at the Dardanelles under Captain Richard Dacres.

He remained in this status for 7 years eventually being given command of the sloop HMS Argus in July 1821, serving off Halifax, Nova Scotia with a crew of 120 men.

He moved to the South of France on health grounds and died in Nice in the final days of December 1855.