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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crocker, Henry

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​CROCKER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 37; h-p., 6.)
Henry Crocker entered the Navy, 12 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Adamant 50, Capt. Geo. Burlton, on the Home station; and, on removing to the Resolution 74, attained the rating of Midshipman 2 July, 1806, and was present, under the same officer, at the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807. In 1808 he joined the Trident 64, Capt. Campbell, in the Mediterranean, where he appears to have been successively transferred, until Sept. 1810, to the Kingfisher 18, Capt. Hepenstall, Theodosia, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Younger, and Ganymede 26, Capt. Robt. Cathcart. From May, 1811, until promoted, 7 Feb. 1812, he next served in the West Indies on board the Arethusa 38, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Chas. Stirling, and Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, in which latter ship he returned to England. Being then appointed to the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, he visited Hudson’s Bay, and again the West Indies, on his arrival home from which station he was paid off in Sept. 1815. Mr. Crocker (who subsequently joined, 11 Feb. 1818, the Grasshopper 18, Capt. Henry Forbes) obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 29 March, 1820; and, since his resignation of that office in 1833, has been successively invested with the command – 18 March, 1834, of the Wickham revenue-cutter – 22 June, 1836, again of a Coast Guard station – 4 Sept. 1838, of the Wickham again – 22 March, 1839, of the Syrian packet, on the Falmouth station – 27 Feb. 1843, once more of a station in the Coast Guard – and, 20 June following, and 29 Jan. 1844, of the Shamrock and Prince Albert, other revenue-vessels, in the latter of which he is at present serving.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crofton, Henry Robert

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​CROFTON. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 12; h-p., 1.)
Henry Robert Crofton is fifth son of Duke Crofton, Esq., of Lakefield, co. Leitrim, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant; and brother of Wm. Crofton, Esq., Surgeon R.N. (1846), now attached to the Penelope steam frigate.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 Dec. 1834, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Actaeon 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, with whom he served on the South American station until March, 1838. In the following summer he sailed for the East Indies as Midshipman of the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias, and there removed, in Nov. 1840, to the Modeste 18, Capts. Harry Eyres and Rundle Purges Watson. Participating afterwards in the various operations connected with the war in China, Mr, Crofton landed at the storming of the enemy’s works below Whampoa Reach, mounting 54 pieces of cannon, 27 Feb. 1841 – was present, 13 and 16 March following, at the capture of a fort and rafts near the Canton entrance of the Macao passage, and in the boats under Commander Thos. Jordaine Clarke at the taking of Canton – commanded, as Mate, the Modeste’s pinnace at the reduction of Chinghae, 10 Oct. in the same year – assisted in towing four fire-rafts clear of the shipping off Ningpo, in an attack made by the Chinese 10 March, 1842 – and, on 15 of the same month, and 18 May and 16 June ensuing, served on shore under Capt. Thos. Bourchier, in the assault on the enemy’s encamped hill of Segoan, and at the capture of Tze-kee and Chapoo, and of the batteries at Woosung. He obtained in consequence a commission dated 23 Dec. 1842; and has since been appointed, 2 Feb. and Aug. 1844, to the Tortoise store-ship, Capt. Wm. Finlaison, and Prometheus steam-sloop, Capt. John Hay – and, 28 July, 1843, to the Alert 6, Capts. Chas. John Bosanquet and Wm. Ellis, all stationed on the coast of Africa, where he is at present employed.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841 p. 1501.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1503, 1505.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 397.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 2388.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 2391, 3694, 3400.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crofton, Thomas

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​CROFTON. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 16; h-p., 20.)
Thomas Crofton is brother of Lieut. Morgan Crofton, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 1 March, 1811; and embarked, 11 March, 1814, as a Volunteer, on board the Elephant 74, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, lying at Spithead. He next served, for nearly two years, on the coast of Africa, as Midshipman of the Ariel 16, Capt. Dan. Boss; was afterwards employed, from 1816 to 1819, in the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, off Newfoundland and in the Channel; and then proceeded to the East Indies on board the Leander 50, Capt. Chas. Richardson, where he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Topaze 46, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, 9 Nov. 1821. He was subsequently appointed – 11 March, 1823, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Rich. Moorsom – and, 18 March, 1826, to the North Star 28, Capt. Septimus Arabin, whom he accompanied to the coast of Africa. He invalided in 1827; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Critchell, William

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​CRITCHELL. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 24; h-p., 14.)
William Critchell entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Caledonia 120, Capt. Wm. Bedford, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, whom he followed, as Midshipman, in 1811, into the Boyne 98. From 1812 until July, 1816, this officer, who had been hitherto employed in the Channel, served with Capt. Phipps Hornby of the Stag and Spartan frigates, on the Cape of Good Hope and Mediterranean stations; after which he became attached, as Admiralty Midshipman, to the Martin 16, Capt. Andrew Mitchell, off Cork, and Iphigenia 36, Capts. John Tancock and Hyde Parker, under the latter of whom, in 1818, he escorted to Quebec the Duke of Richmond, then recently appointed Governor-General of Canada. He was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Confiance, Capt. Alex. Montgomerie, on the West India station, 14 Oct. 1819; and afterwards appointed – 11 Sept. 1824, to the Esk 20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, off the coast of Africa – 3 July, 1834, as First, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Edw. Stanley, in the East Indies – 15 April, 1836, to a station in the Coast Guard – 16 Dec. 1837, and 27 June, 1839, again as Senior Lieutenant, to the Electra 18, Capts. Wm. Preston and Edw. Keeves Philip Mainwaring, and President 50, Capt. Wm. Broughton, on the South American station – and, 1 March, 1843, and 16 Nov. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the Hecla steam-sloop, Capt. John Duffill, and Bonetta surveying-vessel, Capt. Thos. Saumarez Brock, both employed in the Mediterranean. Since the attainment of his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Critchell has been on half-pay.
He married, 23 Feb. 1830, Fanny, youngest daughter of the late T. Croft, Esq., by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmer, William

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​PALMER. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
William Palmer, born 9 April, 1789, at Monkwearmouth, co. Durham, is son of Mr. Wm. Palmer, shipowner, of that place.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Nov. 1804, as A.B., on board the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, flag-ship for some time of Sir Edm. Nagle and Sir Jas. Saumarez on the coast of France. On his removal, as Master’s Mate, in April, 1808, to the Belle Poule 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, he sailed for the Mediterranean, where he was for nearly two years very actively employed, and assisted, in the course of 1809, at the capture of Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu, and at the reduction of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo. Returning in the spring of 1810 to England in the Excellent 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, he joined the Victory 100; in which ship, besides being for a long time stationed in the Baltic under the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he escorted a body of troops sent in 1811 to the coast of Portugal under Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. After serving for a few months off Cherbourg in the Lacedaemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and again in the Baltic on borad the Defiance 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Hope, Mr. Palmer was promoted, 17 Aug. 1813, to a Lieutenancy in the Rolla 10, Capts. Wm. Hill and Robt. Julyan; under the former of whom we find him present, in Feb. 1814, at the celebrated passage of the flotilla under Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose across the bar of the Adour; on which occasion he had the good fortune to save the lives of two persons, whose boat had capsized. His last appointment was, 17 Dec. 1814, to the Amelia 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until the summer of 1816. On 15 July, 1815, while engaged in the Amelia’s pinnace in an attempt to capture a French vessel of very superior force at Campo, in the island of Elba, he was wounded by a musket-ball, which entered his right side above the hip-joint, and has never been extracted. He was at the same time made prisoner, hut shortly afterwards exchanged.
Lieut. Palmer married, in 1830, Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Mr. Kingswood Greenwell, shipowner, and grand-daughter of the late Dr. Greenwell, of Scot’s House. He was left a widower, with one daughter, in Jan. 1844.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parish, John Edward

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​PARISH. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
John Edward Parish passed his examination 11 July, 1842; and from the close of that year until advanced to his present rank, 4 May, 1846, was employed on the Mediterranean and Home stations as Mate in the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capts. Sir Thos. Hastings and Henry Ducie Chads, and St. Vincent 120, flagship of Sir Chas. Ogle. He has been since serving, again in the Mediterranean, on board the Vanguard 80, Capts> Geo. Wickens Willes and Geo. Fred. Rich.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parker, Charles

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​PARKER. (Commander, 1829. f-p., 18; h-p., 17.)
Charles Parker is son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Kt., by his second wife, Frances, daughter of Admiral Sir Rich. Onslow, Bart.; brother of Rich. Parker, Esq., Capt. in the Life Guards; and half-brother of the present Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tenedos 38, commanded by his half-brother, under whom he was for three years very actively employed on the North American station, where he witnessed the surrender, in Jan. 1815, of the U.S. frigate President. From Aug. in the latter year until Oct. 1818 he served at Halifax, as Midshipman, in the Scamander 36, Eurotas 38, and Forth 40, all commanded by Capt. Sir John Louis. On 30 March, 1819, he rejoined Capt. Parker, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Iphigenia 42, on the Jamaica station; and in the following Jane he was transferred, in a similar capacity, to the Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. After again acting as Lieutenant in the Iphigenia, and also in the Sapphire 26, Capt. Henry Hart, he was confirmed in that rank 20 Jan. 1820, and re-appointed to the Iphigenia. He subsequently joined – 8 Dec. 1821, the Fly 18, Capts. Geo. Tyler and Edw. Curzon, employed on the Mediterranean and Cork stations – 21 Feb. 1823, the Egeria 24, Capt. Sam. Roberts, whom he accompanied to Newfoundland – 28 May, 1825, the Victory 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth – 8 May, 1826, the Aurora 46, Capt. Chas. John Austen, in the West Indies – and, 23 May, 1828, as First, the Barham 50, bearing the flag at Jamaica of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. On 8 Sept. 1829 he was advanced to the command of the Slaney sloop. He paid that vessel off 29 Jan. 1831; and has not been since afloat.
Commander Parker married, 16 June, 1835, Kate, widow of the Rev. Hely Hutchinson Smith, and third daughter of the late John Williams, Esq., of Elm Grove, Southsea, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmer, George

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​PALMER. (Commander, 1840. f-p., 25; h-p., 17.)
George Palmer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pluto sloop, Capt. Rich. Gaire Janvrin, employed on the Home station; where, and in the Baltic, he continued employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Royal William, Capt. John Irwin, Pandora 18, Capts. R. G. Janvrin and John Macpherson Ferguson, Namur 74, Capt. Shepheard, and Briseis 10, Capts. Chas. Thurlow Smith and John Boss, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Nov. 1812. In the Pandora he assisted at the capture, 31 Dec. 1810, of Le Chasseur privateer of 16 guns and 36 men; and while in the Briseis he served, 29 June, 1812, in the pinnace belonging to that vessel, containing 18 men, under the orders of Lieut. Thos. Jones, at the cutting-out from Pillau Roads the (lately British) merchant ship Urania, mounting 6 carriage-guns and 4 swivels, in the possession of some French troops, who, notwithstanding a spirited resistance, were driven off the decks into their boats, which were on the opposite side, with no greater loss to the assailants than one man killed and himself slightly wounded. Being re-appointed to the Briseis in Sept. 1813, Lieut. Palmer continued attached to that sloop (with the exception, of an interval between Oct. 1814 and May, 1815, occasioned by ill health), under the command of Capts. Wm. Rush Jackson and Geo. Domett, until Jan. 1816. His last appointments were – 12 Sept. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 5 April, 1831 (on the latter service being abolished), to the Coast Guard – 11 Oct. 1834, to the command of the Skylark Revenue-vessel – and, 26 Sept. 1837, again to the charge (which he retained until advanced, as a reward for his services, to the rank he now holds 1 Jan. 1840) of a station in the Coast Guard. Commander Palmer is Senior of 1840.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmer, John

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​PALMER. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Palmer entered the Navy 24 Nov. 1825; passed his examination 6 Jan. 1832; and at the period of his promotion to his present rank, which took place 26 Aug. 1841, was serving, as Mate, in the Southampton 50, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Durnford King at the Cape of Good Hope. His appointments have since been – 30 Aug. 1841, again to the Southampton – 10 March, 1843, to the Rose 18, Capts. Henry Rich. Sturt and Rich. Wilson Pelly, fitting for the North America and West India station, whence he returned home and was paid off at the close of 1846 – and, 12 Oct. 1847, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, ​Chief in North America and the West Indies, where he is now employed on Surveying-service.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Park, John Steele

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​PARK. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
John Steele Park was born 3 June, 1791. This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rosamond 18, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, fitting at Chatham. In the course of the same year he sailed for the East Indies as Midshipman in the Monmouth 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King; and on his return to England in Sept. 1808 he successively joined the Stately 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, and Princess Caroline 38, Capts. Chas. Dudley Pater and Hugh Downman. While in the latter ship we find him, 25 July, 1809, commanding one of the boats of a squadron under Capt. Thos. Forrest, in a long and desperate action with a Russian flotilla;, near Fredericksham, in the Gulf of Finland, which, with a loss to the British of 60 men killed and wounded, terminated in the total defeat of the enemy, 87 of whom met a similar fate. He continued in the Princess Caroline, the last four months in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, until Sept. 1814; and after an intermediate servitude at Sheerness and Portsmouth as Master’s Mate, in the Namur 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams and Sir Chas. Rowley, and Leven 20, Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett, was officially advanced to his present rank 16 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Park married, 23 Aug. 1827, Sarah, eldest daughter of W. Clark, Esq., of the Triangle, Hackney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmer, John Jervis

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​PALMER. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
John Jervis Palmer passed his examination 7 Oct. 1840; and between that date and the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Jan. 1843, was employed in the East Indies, and China, as Mate, on board the Endymion 44, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, and Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, who noticed him as having served in the boats which covered the assault on the town of Chin-Kiang-Foo 21 July, 1842. On leaving the Cornwallis he joined the Serpent 16, Capt. Wm. Nevill, also in the East Indies, where, in Sept. 1843, he removed to the Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads. His appointments since his return to England in the summer of 1845 have been, on the Mediterranean station – 1 Dec. in that year to the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker – 24 Dec. 1846, to the Gladiator steam-vessel of 430 horsepower, Capt. John Kobb – and, 26 Oct. 1847, to the Acting-command, which he yet retains, of the Mutine 12.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Panton, Paul Griffith

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​PANTON. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
Paul Griffith Panton, born 31 Oct. 1795, is second son of Jones Panton, Esq., of Plusgurm, co. Anglesey.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hydra 38, Capt. Geo. Mundy; and on being lent, after cruizing for some time in the Mediterranean, to the Canopus 80, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Louis, fought in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. On finally leaving the Hydra, of which ship he had been created a Midshipman in April, 1807, he joined, in Oct. 1810, the Ulysses 44, bearing the flag at Jersey of Vice-Admiral D’Auvergne. In March and July, 1811, he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant and Master’s Mate of the Marlborough 74, and Aeolus 32, Capts. Matthew Henry Scott and Lord Jas. Townshend; and on 7 Feb. 1812, at which period he was again acting as Lieutenant in the Morgiana sloop, Capt. David Scott, he was officially advanced to the rank he now holds. His last appointments were – on 25 of the month last mentioned, to the Colibri 18, Capt. John Thompson, under whom he was wrecked in Port Royal, Jamaica, 22 Aug. 1813 – 2 Sept. following, to the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, which ship he left in Jan. 1814 – and, 5 June, 1818, to the Bellette 20, Capt. Geo. Rich. Pechell, fitting for the Halifax station, whence he returned in 1821.
Lieut. Panton married 3 Oct. 1326, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pardoe, William

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​PARDOE. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 17; h-p., 40.)
William Pardoe entered the Navy, 15 July, 1790, as A.B., on board the Tremendous 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, lying at Chatham; where, in the following Nov., he attained the rating of Midshipman. After a servitude of two years in the Pilote, Pigmy, and Sultana cutters, Lieut.-Commanders Henry Gunter, Henry Inman, and Digby Dent, he became successively attached, in the early part of 1798, to the Windsor Castle and St. George 98’s, both commanded by Capt. Hancock Kelly, and, as Master’s Mate, to the Marlborough 74, Capt. Hon. G. C. Berkeley. While participating, in the latter ship, in the glories of 1 June, 1794, he had the misfortune to have his skull fractured, his nose materially injured, and several parts of his body contused. The effects he still feels. In March, 1795, he followed Capt. Berkeley into the Formidable 98, commanded next by Capt. Geo. Murray; and on leaving that ship in Feb. 1797 he joined the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport, and Glory 98, Capt. Geo. Brine. On being advanced, 12 April following, to the rank of Lieutenant, he was appointed First of the Charon 44, armée en flûte, Capt. Thos. Manby, and was for some time employed in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland. His last appointments were 29 Nov. 1798, to the command (which he retained until 14 June, 1802) of the Fearless gun-brig, attached to the force in the Channel – 20 July, 1803, ​to the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Lincolnshire – 20 May, 1805, as Senior, to the Brilliant 28, Capt. Robt. Barrie, employed on the Irish station, whence he invalided 31 March, 1806 – and, 7 Jan. 1808, to the Impress service in Kent. In June, 1810, he was placed on half-pay. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 24 Dec. 1830; and, on the Senior, 16 April, 1839. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Palmes, John Philip

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​PALMES. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
John Philip Palmes is third son of Geo. Palmes, Esq., of Naburn, co. York, by Margaret Isabella, daughter of Wm. Lindsay, Esq., of Oatlands, near Glasgow. His eldest brother, Bryan, a Captain in the 57th light infantry, died at Barbadoes in 1839.
This officer entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 10 Nov. 1838; served for some time at Portsmouth, as Mate, in the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, while in the Royal George yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarenoe, 7 March, 1842. His succeeding appointments were – 29 March, 1842, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, employed, until the close of 1843, in the Mediterranean and on particular service – 11 Dec. 1844, as Additional, to the Hydra steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, on the coast of Africa – 2 April, 1845, to the Penelope steam-frigate, Commodore Wm. Jones, on the same station, whence he returned towards the close of the year – 31 March, 1846, to the Belleisle 24, troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome – and, 30 April, 1847, for a few months, to the Howe 120, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting at Portsmouth. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dickinson, Lundy

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​DICKINSON. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 17; h-p., 19.)
Lundy Dickinson entered the Navy, 19 July, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Berwick 74, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, employed in blockading the enemy’s fleet off the Texel. From Oct. following until Aug. 1815, he next served as Midshipman of the Tigre 80, Capt. John Halliday, on the Channel, West India, and North Sea stations; and, during the same period, escorted home a large convoy from St. Helena. In the Leveret 10, Capt. John Theed, and Rochfort 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, he appears to have been subsequently employed for three years off the latter island, during Buonaparte’s captivity, and at Portsmouth. Having passed his examination 3 Dec. 1817, we next find Mr. Dickinson discharging the duties of the Coast Blockade, as Mate of the Severn 50, and Ramillies 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. For his conduct in an affray with a large body of smugglers, in March 1819, he was rewarded with the expressed approbation of the Board of Admiralty, and of Sir John Gore, then Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. He was afterwards appointed, on the South American and West India stations – in July, 1824, to the Diamond frigate, Capt. Lord Napier – in Dec. 1826, to the Barham 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming – and, in Nov. 1827, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Fairy 10, Capt. Wm. O’Brien. On being confirmed by the Admiralty, 22 Jan. 1828, he invalided home in consequence of rheumatism contracted in the service. He has since been unemployed.
Lieut. Dickinson married Susanna, daughter of Jas. Enraght Moony, Esq., J.P., of the Doon, King’s co.