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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Borough, William

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​BOROUGH. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p. 39.)
William Borough was born in 1781.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 July, 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Invincible 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham. He accompanied the same officer shortly afterwards into the Juste 84, attached to the fleet in the Channel; served, from July, 1797, to Aug. 1799, in the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flags in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admirals Sir John Orde and Thos. Lennox Frederick; and, on joining the Penelope 36, Capt. Hon. Hen. Blackwood, took part in the blockade of Malta, and was present, 31 March, 1800, at the capture, after a furious action, of the French 80-gun ship Guillaume Tell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès. Mr. Borough, who passed his examination in the following Sept., subsequently removed for a brief period to the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Lord Keith, by whom he was promoted, 10 Feb. 1801, to a Lieutenancy in the Modeste, armée en flûte, Capt. Hinton. For his services during the ensuing campaign in Egypt, where he landed part of the 42nd Highlanders, and was actively employed until the close of the hostilities, Mr. Borough received, in common with other officers, a gold medal from the Grand Seignor. The Modeste, to which he had been confirmed on 30 July in the same year, being paid off at the peace, he next joined, 27 Aug. 1803, the Curlew 16, Capt. Jas. Murray Northey – 12 Nov. 1804, L’Espiégle 16, Capt. Morris – and, 7 Dec. 1805, the Princess Royal 98, Capt. Reynolds – severally employed on the North Sea, Cork, and Channel stations. He left the last-named ship in Feb. 1807; and afterwards commanded the Nepean cutter, of 8 guns, on the coast of Ireland. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List, 12 June, 1843; and on the Senior, 21 Aug. 1846.
Commander Borough married a first cousin of Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, by whom he has had issue. One of his sons, Richard, Fst.-cl. Vol. of the Redwing, Capt. Clavering, was blown up in that vessel on the coast of Africa, at the age of 14; another, Thomas, died in the Upper School at Greenwich.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Borrowman, William

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​BORROWMAN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
William Borrowman entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1805, as A.B. on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell; attained the rating of Midshipman 2 March, 1806; and was employed in blockading the Texel until 1807, when he attended the expedition to Copenhagen. We subsequently (on the Nassau’s hard-wrought extrication from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) find him present, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, 22 March, 1808, off the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. From Nov. 1809, until April, 1814, Mr. Borrowman served, as Master’s Mate, on board the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley, and during that period, in the participation of much active service on the Mediterranean station, assisted in taking, 27 Nov. 1811, the French frigate La Corceyre, mounting 28 guns; and witnessed the reduction, in July and Oct. 1813, of Fiumé and Trieste. He afterwards accompanied Capt. Rowley, on his advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and nomination to the Chief Command at the Nore, into the Namur 74; while serving in which ship he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 Feb. 1815.. Being next appointed, on 3 April following, to the Daphne 22, Capt. Jas. Green, he cruized on the Leith station and in the Bay of Biscay until Sept. in the same year, when he returned to port, and was paid off; He has not since been afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Borthwick, Alexander

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​BORTHWICK. (Commander, 1818. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Alexander Borthwick entered the Navy, 13 Feb. 1795, as Midshipman, on board La Seine frigate, Capt. Robt. M‘Douall, and, from April, 1796, to Nov. 1799, served with the same officer in the Ganges 74, in which ship he was present at the reduction of Ste. Lucie, in May, 1796. He next joined the Triton 32, Capts. John Gore and Robt. Lewis Fitzgerald, employed in the Channel and off the coast of Spain, and was made Lieutenant, 12 Feb. 1802, into the Cambridge 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Pasley at Plymouth. He left that ship in May following; and was subsequently appointed, 24 Aug. 1803, to the Zealand, bearing the flag, at the Nore, of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley – 3 July, 1805, to the Zealous 74, Capts. John Okes Hardy, John Giffard, Wm. Pierrepont, and Thos. Boys, to which ship he continued attached, in the Baltic and Mediterranean, off the coasts of France, Portugal, and Spain, and at the defence of Cadiz, until he invalided in Aug. 1814 – and, 20 Nov. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the Ramillies 74, flag-ship, on the Leith station, of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope. He was paid off in Sept. 1818, and advanced to his present rank 7 Dec. following. Since that period he has been unemployed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Borland, Oswald

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​BORLAND. (Lieut., 1845. f-p., 13; h-p., 1.)
Oswald Borland entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 8 May, 1840; and served, as ​Mate, on board the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam on the North America and West India station – and Queen 110, commanded at Devonport by Sir Baldwin Wake Walker. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 1 Dec. 1845, in the Nimrod 20, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, fitting for the African station, but was superseded in Jan. 1846, and is at present on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Borlase, John

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​BORLASE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Borlase entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1826; passed his examination 26 Nov. 1832; served for some time in South America as Mate of the Imogene 26, Capt. Hen. Wm. Bruce; and was promoted from the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, 11 June, 1841. His appointments have since been – 8 Dec. following, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Cornwallis 72, flagship in the East Indies of Sir Wm. Parker – 25 Aug. 1842, to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the same station – 17 March, 1843, again to the Cornwallis – and, 1 March, 1845, to the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean, where he now serves.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bosanquet, Charles John

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​BOSANQUET. (Captain, 1846.)
Charles John Bosanquet, born 5 May, 1807, is fifth son of the late Sam. Bosanquet, Esq., F.R.S., of Forest House, co. Essex, and Dingestow Court, co. Monmouth, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for those shires, by Laetitia Philippa, youngest daughter of Jas. Whatman, Esq., of Vinters, co. Kent; brother of Mr. Bosanquet, the banker of Lombard-street; and nephew of the late Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, P.C., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
This officer, who entered the Navy 5 May, 1821, we first find serving on the coast of Africa, as Senior Mate of the Black Joke tender, of 2 guns, 18-pounders, and 48 men, in which he particularly signalised himself, 25 April, 1831, at the capture, after an action of about four hours and a half, of the slave-brig Marinereto, mounting five 24-pounders, with a crew of 75 men, of whom 13 were killed and 15 wounded. The Black Joke had only 1 killed and 5 wounded, including, however, Mr. Bosanquet, who received a cutlass-wound in the neck while in the act of boarding, and was for his conduct made Lieutenant, 15 Aug. following, into the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes. His next appointments were, 19 July, 1833 Pallas 42, Capt. Wm. Walpole – 16 July, 1834, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the President 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn on the North America and West India station -and, 11 Sept. 1835, to the command of the Leveret brig, ​of 10 guns. Finding on his arrival, in the latter vessel, at Mozambique, in Sept. 1836, that that place was in a state of insurrection and all the authorities under arrest, Mr. Bosanquet, by a bold coup de main, restored public tranquillity and re-established the ascendancy of the Queen of Portugal. Landing at night with his ship’s company, supported by a party of the well-affected, he took the insurgents by surprise, seized an 84-gun battery, obtained possession of the Custom and Government Houses, released the authorities, and in three days re-embarked, his energetic promptness having been attended with the most complete success. For this important service he was made a Commander of the Portuguese order of Christo, and presented with a handsome letter of thanks from the Mozambique government. Three months after the latter event, Mr. Bosanquet fell in with, chased for 800 miles, and ultimately captured by hoarding, a slave-vessel, the Diogenes, of five 24-pounders and 70 men, within musket-shot distance of a Portuguese frigate and of the battery above alluded to. He continued in the Leveret until the summer of 1839, on 10 May in which year he was promoted for his services to the rank of Commander. He next, from 28 July, 1843, until June, 1846, commanded the Alert sloop on the coast of Africa; and, on 9 Nov. following, was advanced to his present rank. He is now on half-pay.
Commander Bosanquet married, 5 June, 1832, his cousin, Charlotte Eliza, youngest daughter of the late Jacob Bosanquet, Esq., of Broxbournbury House, Herts, 45 years an East India Director, and has issue two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boswell, Walter

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​BOSWELL. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 30; h-p., 35.)
Walter Boswell entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1782, as Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the Blenheim 74, Capt. Adam Duncan, with whom we find him present, 20 Oct. following, in Lord Howe’s partial action with the combined French and Spanish fleets, near Gibraltar. He afterwards served chiefly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Halifax, Home, and Mediterranean stations, on board the Ariadne, Capts. Joseph Ellison and Sam. Osborn, Vixen, Lieut.-Commander Mark Wentworth, St. George, Lieut.-Commander Barker, Gorgon, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Craven, Impregnable 98, Vice-Admiral Graves, Inspector, Capt. Alex. Mackey, Scout, Capt. R. R. Bowyer, Trimmer, Capt. Fras. Fayerman, Courageux 74, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave (in which ship he participated in the reduction of Toulon in Aug. 1793), and Queen Charlotte 100, Admiral Lord Howe. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 20 March, 1795, in the Barfleur 98, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Vice-Admiral Waldegrave, his former Captain, and afterwards joined, 14 Jan. 1797, the Gibraltar 80, Capt. John Pakenham, off Lisbon – 3 April following, the Romney 50, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Waldegrave off Newfoundland – 16 May, 1801, the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, under whom he assisted, in Sept. 1803, at the capture of Port Dauphin, St. Domingo – 29 Oct. following, the Cumberland 74, in which ship he returned home – and 29 Oct. 1804, the Conquest gun-brig, which he commanded in the Channel until 30 Aug. 1814. Since that period, shortly previous to which, 15 June, he had been advanced to his present rank. Commander Boswell has been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boteler, John Harvey

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​BOTELER. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 19; h-p., 20.)
John Harvey Boteler, born at Eastry, co. Kent, 11 Feb. 1796, is next brother of Commander H. Boteler, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rochester prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Matthew Bowles Alt, lying in the river Medway, where he successively joined the Irresistible 74, Commodore Geo. Fowke, and the Majestic 74, commanded by his relative, Capt. Thos. Harvey. In Feb. 1810, he became Midshipman of the Ruby 64, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon; and, while afterwards serving on the same station, in the Dictator 64, Capt. Robt. Williams, we find him engaged in several boat affairs with the enemy. During the three years and a half immediately preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 19 Sept. 1815, Mr. Boteler appears to have been further employed, principally in the North Sea and West Indies, on board the Sceptre and Zealous 74's, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Thos. Boys, and Orontes 36, Capt. Nath. Day Cochrane. His succeeding appointments were – 3 Oct. 1815, to the Antelope 60, flag-ship in the Leeward Islands of his uncle, Rear-Admiral John Harvey – 7 Feb. 1820, to the Northumberland 74, Capts. T. Harvey and Thos. Jas. Maling, guard-ship at Sheerness, whence he was detached for nine months in 1821-2, in command of the Seagull tender, to cruize in the North Sea, and was afterwards lent to the Royal Sovereign yacht – 3 Dec. 1822, as First Lieutenant, to the Ringdove 18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, whom he accompanied to the West Indies – 1 May, 1823, to the Gloucester 74, Capts. G. F. Rich and Jas. Lillicrap, on the latter station, whence, after commanding for three months the Ringdove schooner, ill health obliged him to invalid in the following September – 30 Aug. 1825, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, by whom, subsequently to the battle of Navarin, he was employed, in charge of the Lyra 10, off Lisbon – and, in Sept. 1828, to the Royal George yacht, Capts. Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Wm. Hoste, and Geo. Mundy, lying at Portsmouth, whence he was sent, again in command of a tender, the Onyx 10, to Gibraltar, the Brazils, and West Indies. Since 14 Jan. 1830, the date of his last promotion, Commander Boteler has been on half-pay.
He married, 15 Aug. 1832, Helen Agnes, fifth daughter of the late Jas. West, Esq., of Bryanstone Square, London, and by that lady has issue a son and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crofton, Stephen Smith Lowther

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​CROFTON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Stephen Smith Lowther Crofton entered the Navy 6 Nov. 1831; passed his examination 22 June, 1838; and on proceeding afterwards to China, as Mate of the Wellesley 72, Commodore Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, was present in action with the batteries and defences of Amoy, 26 Aug. 1841, and commanded the ship’s pinnace at the reduction of Ching-hae 10 Oct. following, He obtained his commission 7 Jan. 1842; served from 6 April, 1843, until paid off in 1845, as Additional Lieutenant, in the Devastation steam-sloop, Capts. Hastings Reginald Henry and Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, on the Mediterranean station; and since the latter date has been unemployed. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 82.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 397.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crofton, George Alfred

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​CROFTON. (Captain, 1812. f-p., 20; h-p., 29)
The Honourable George Alfred Crofton, born in 1785, is third son of Sir Edw. Crofton, Bart., M.P., Colonel of the Roscommon Militia, by ​Anne, only daughter and heir of Thos. Croker, Esq., of Baxtogon, co. Kildare, who was created a Baroness in her own right, 1 Dec. 1797. He is brother of Capt. Hon. Wm. Gorges Crofton, of the Coldstream regiment of Foot Guards, who was killed in action at Bayonne, 14 April, 1814; brother-in-law of General Sir Peregrine Maitland, and of Commander Jas. Caulfeild, R.N.; and uncle of the present Lord Crofton.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1798, as a Volunteer, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Thos. Larcom, successively flag-ship in the Mediterranean ond Channel of Sir Roger Curtis and Sir Chas. Cotton. While next serving, as Midshipman, in the Triton and Medusa frigates, both commanded by Capt. John Gore, he took part, between May, 1801, and May, 1804 in an attack made by Lord Nelson on the Boulogne flotilla. Soon after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 10 Oct. 1804, Mr. Crofton was appointed to the Cambrian 40, Capt. John Poo Beresford, on the Halifax station, in command of the barge belonging to which frigate he distinguished himself at the capture, 13 June, 1805, of the Spanish privateer Maria, of 14 guns and 60 men. He obtained, 24 June, 1806, the acting-command of the Observateur brig, in the West Indies, where, after witnessing the surrender, in the Mulgrave sloop, of the Danish Islands, he was confirmed, 9 Feb. 1808, to the Demerara, another sloop, and appointed, in the course of the same year, to the Fawn 18. in which vessel we find him assisting at the reduction of Marie-galante and Martinique, and taking, 11 Oct. 1810, Le Téméraire privateer, of 10 guns, 6 large swivels, and 35 men. Capt. Crofton, whose Post-commission bears date 1 Feb. 1812, afterwards joined – 11 Aug. 1813, the Dictator troop-ship, in which he participated in the attacks upon Baltimore and New Orleans, and in other operations on the coast of America – 4 Feb. 1815, the Narcissus 32, employed on the same station, whence he returned in May, 1816 – and, 24 July, 1826, the Dryad 42. He came home from the Mediterranean in 1829, and has not since been afloat.
Capt. Crofton, during the war, received an honorary reward from the Patriotic Society.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Croft, William

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​CROFT. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 12; h-p., 40.)
William Croft, born in April, 1782, is second son of the late Stephen Croft, Esq., of Stillington Hall, co. York; and brother of Col. Harry Croft, now of Stillington, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for that county.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amazon 36, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds. In April, 1796, he assisted, in company with the Indefatigable 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, at the capture of L’Unité, of 38, and La Virginie, of 44 guns; and, on 14 Jan. 1797, he was wrecked and taken prisoner, near Isle Bas, at the close of a gallant action of 10 hours with Les Droits de l’Homme 74, on which occasion the Amazon, whose consort in the engagement had again been the Indefatigable, sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 15 wounded. On being released Mr. Croft, in 1797, joined, as Midshipman, the Centaur 74, Capt. John Markham, under whom he took part in the reduction of Minorca, in Nov. 1798. Becoming subsequently attached to the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, he attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt, where he served on shore with the naval brigade, and was present at the capitulation of Alexandria. He was confirmed, 22 Dec. in the same year, to a Lieutenantcy in the Success 32, Capt. Geo. Burlton; and being paid off at the peace, was next successively appointed, in the course of 1803, to the Revolutionnaire 44, Capt. Walter Lock, Camel store-ship, Capt. John Ayscough, and Hercule 74, flagship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. After witnessing the unfortunate attack on Curaçoa he was promoted to the command of the Vigilante sloop, 8 May, 1804. Invaliding, however, in the following August, he did not again go afloat until appointed, 4 Feb. 1807, to the Alacrity 18. For his services during the subsequent operations against Copenhagen, Capt. Croft was elevated to Post-rank, by commission dated 13 Oct. 1807. From Aug. 1810, until Dec. 1813, he further officiated as regulating officer at Hull. Unable to procure employment, he has since been on half-pay. His advancement to Flag-rank took place 23 Nov. 1841.
Rear-Admiral Croft is Treasurer of the North Riding of Yorkshire. He married, in March, 1805, Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Hall Plumer, Esq., of Hockton Hall, co. York, and niece of Sir Thos. Plumer, Master of the Rolls, by whom he has issue ten children. His third son, Henry, is a Lieutenant R.N.; and his youngest daughter, Marianne, the wife of Capt. Geo. Joseph Huband, late of the 8th Hussars.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Crofton, Morgan

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​CROFTON. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Morgan Crofton, born in 1793, is brother of Lieut. Thos. Crofton, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College, 18 Nov. 1805; and embarked, in Dec. 1808, as A.B., on board the St. Albans 64, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen and Edw. Brace, in which ship he sailed with convoy for China; on his return whence in 1810, he served for 11 months at the defence of Cadiz, and was employed landing troops previous to the battle of Barrosa. On removing, in June, 1811, to the Poictiers 74, Capt. John Poo Beresford, he cruized for some time in the North Sea, and then proceeded to America; where he attended an expedition up the Potomac in 1813, as Acting-Lieutenant of the Diomede troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Montague Fabian. He eventually returned to the Poictiers in the latter capacity; and on 11 April, 1814, was confirmed into the Goliath 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland. His last appointment was, 16 Sept. following, to the Duncan 74, fitting for the flag of Sir J. P. Beresford, with whom he came home from the Brazils in 1815. Lieut. Crofton has not since been employed.
He married, in 1818, the second daughter of Col. O’Hara, of Ballymany; and has issue six children. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Criswick, Charles

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​CRISWICK. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Charles Criswick entered the Navy, 17 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Edw. Rotheram, bearing the flag off Cadiz of Vice-Admiral Collingwood; and, on accompanying those officers into the Royal Sovereign 100, took part in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. In Nov. following he removed with Capt. Rotheram, as Midshipman, to the Bellerophon 74, commanded afterwards in the Baltic and North Sea by Capts. Sam. Warren, Wm. Henry Dillon, and John Halsted, with whom he continued until transferred, in Feb. 1811, to the Southampton, of 38 guns and 212 men, Capt. Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. On 3 Feb. 1812, he assisted at the capture of the Haytian frigate Amthyste, of 44 guns and 700 men, at the close of a sharp contest, in which the enemy had 105 men killed and 120 wounded, and the British only 1 man killed and 10 wounded. The Southampton, after making prize of the United States brig Vixen 14, was eventually wrecked on a reef of rocks near Conception island, 27 Nov. 1812. From May, 1813, until Sept. 1814, Mr. Criswick appears to have been next employed on the Canadian lakes in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant. In March of the latter year, while commanding a division of gun-boats under Capt. Dan. Pring, he co-operated with Major Handcock in the defence of La Cole Mill, by forwarding stores and landing guns, as also by effectually obstructing the passage of General Wilkinson’s army ​across the river; and, on 11 Sept. following, he was on board the Confiance, of 37 guns and 270 men, Capt. Geo. Downie, when that ship and several others were taken beneath the hostile batteries of Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain, by a greatly superior American squadron under Commodore Macdonough, on which occasion the loss of the Confiance amounted to 41 killed, including Capt. Downie, and 60 wounded. Mr. Criswick, whose commission is dated 9 March, 1815, has not since been employed.
He is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Croft, Henry

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​CROFT. (Lieutenant, 1841)
Henry Croft is third son of Rear-Admiral Croft. This officer entered the Navy 16 Feb. 1828; passed his examination 7 Feb. 1833; and was serving on the North America and West India station, as Mate of the Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Keele, when promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Nov. 1841. He was afterwards appointed, 15 July and 23 Dec. 1842, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen, and Scout 18, Capt. Hon. Jas. Robt. Drummond, both on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the summer of 1845. Since 11 June, 1846, Mr. Croft has been employed, latterly in the Mediterranean, as First of the Crocodile 8, Capt. Geo. Lowe, and Spartan 22, Capt. Thos. Matt. Chas. Symonds. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.