THE Affleck family, whose name is modernised from that of Auchinleck, is of Scotch extraction; and the gentlemen, whose services we are about to notice, belonged to a branch which had long been settled in the county of Suffolk.—Philip Affleck, Esq. was the younger brother of the late Admiral Sir Edmund Affleck, Bart, and the uncle of Sir Gilbert, the present representative of the family.

Mr. Philip Affleck was born about the year 1725. He was originally in the service of the East India Company; but afterwards entered into the royal navy, and obtained a lieutenant's commission on the 2d of May, 1755. He served in this rank, either on board the Hunter sloop, or the Ætna bomb ketch, at the siege of Louisbourg, and so particularly distinguished himself at the time that the Prudente and Bienfaisant were boarded by the boats of the squadron, that he was promoted by Admiral Boscawen to the rank of master and commander.

In Admiral Boscawen's action with the French squadron, under the command of M. de la Clue, in the Mediterranean, on the 18th of August, 1759, Mr. Affleck commanded the Grammont, of 14 guns; and, soon after the engagement, the admiral made him post, in the Namur, of 90 guns, by commission bearing date August 28, 1759.

Captain Affleck was soon afterwards removed into the Panther, of 60 guns, and ordered to the East Indies, where he continued till nearly the close of the war.