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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Vesconte, Henry

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​LE VESCONTE. (Commander, 1828.)
Henry Le Vesconte is brother of Commander Philip Le Vesconte.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 June, 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Boger, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Admiral Graves. He was discharged, in the following Jan.; but re-embarked, in March, 1793, on board the Duke 98, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Geo. Murray, and between the close of that year and the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 27 Oct. 1800, was employed on the Home, North American, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in 12 different ships, in the capacities of Volunteer, Midshipman, and Acting-Lieutenant. Joining, then, the Jamaica 24, Capts. John Mackellar and Jonas Rose, he shared in that vessel in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801; and on 21 of the following Aug. took command, in conjunction with Lieut. Jas. John Chas. Agassis, of the boats of a squadron, and gained the praise of Lord Nelson for his gallantry and zeal at the capture and destruction, with but slight loss to the British, of six flat-bottomed gun-vessels which had been driven on shore near St. Valery, and were protected by the fire of a body of military and five field-pieces. He invalided from the Jamaica in Jan. 1804, and was subsequently appointed – 16 June following, to the Naiad 38, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Thos. Dundas, under the latter of whom he fought at Trafalgar, and on that occasion assisted in extricating the Belleisle 74. from a perilous position near the shoals, whither she was fast drifting – 5 July, 1808, after seven months of half-pay, to the Raven, sloop, Capt. Jas. Grant, on the Mediterranean station – 1 Feb. 1809, and 18 March aftd 1 Aug. 1811, to the Ville de Paris 110, and, as First-Lieuteiuint, to the Rodney and Milford 74’s, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Admirals Lord Collingwood and Thos. Fras. Fremantle – 1 Feb. 1812, to the acting-command, for a few weeks, of the Epervier sloop, on the same station – and, afterwards, to the Queen 74, bearing the flag, also in the Mediterranean, of the late Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose. He attained his present rank 5 Jan. 1828; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Le Vesconte is Senior of 1828. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Mesurier, Frederick Henry

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​LE MESURIER. (Lieutenant, 1824. f-p., 16; h-p., 22.)
Frederick Henry Le Mesurier, born 1 Sept. 1795, is brother of Lieut.-General Le Mesurier, late Governor of Alderney.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daphne 20, Capt. Philip Fipon, stationed in the Baltic, where, in the same ship, and as Midshipman in the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served until March, 1812. He then sailed for the East Indies in the Theban 36, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, which frigate, when in the China Sea in the following Sept., had the misfortune to be dismasted in a typhoon. On his return to England with Capt. Digby in the Cornwallis 74, Mr. Le Mesurier, in Oct. 1813, joined the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and, until the close of the American war, was employed at Bermuda. For a short period in the summer of 1815, in May of which year he passed his examination, we find him on duty at Portsmouth in the Prince 98, Capt. Edm. Boger. Being appointed, in July, 1816, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Fury bomb, Capt. Constantine’ Rich. Moorsom, he assisted in that vessel at the bombardment of Algiers; after which, and until confirmed in his present rank, 12 Nov. 1824, he served in the same capacity, and also as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Severn 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Myrmidon 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier, Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibley, Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, Andromache frigate, Capt. Joseph Nourse, and Espiègle 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman – on the Home, Mediterranean, American, and Cape of Good Hope stations. He continued to officiate as Lieutenant of the latter vessel until July, 1825, when, being at the time at the Mauritius, he was compelled to invalid and return to England in consequence of the repeated attacks of a severe complaint which for the last ten years has completely laid him up. From 10 April, 1826, until May, 1827, Mr. Le Mesurier served at Plymouth in the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez.
He married, 11 Sept. 1828, Jane Catherine, only daughter of the late Thos. Cecil Maunsell, Esq., of Thorpe Malsor, co. Northampton, by whom he has issue five sons.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Hunte, Francis

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​LE HUNTE, K.F.M. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 36.)
Francis Le Hunte entered the Royal Naval Academy 1 Nov. 1800, and, after a course of more than four years’ study at that institution, embarked, 18 April, 1805, as a Volunteer, on board the Nemesis 28, Capt. Phihp Somerville, stationed in the Channel, where, from Sept. 1806 to April, 1808, he cruized as Master’s Mate in the Narcissus 32, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. The next nine months were employed by this officer in the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Eras. Seymour, on the coast of Spain. In July, 1811, exactly two years after he had passed his. examination, he received, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, an appointment to the Sicilian flotilla at Messina. His confirmation took place 26 Sept. following; and on 15 Feb. 1813 we find him serving on shore in command of a party of seamen, and co-operating with the troops under Brigadier Hall, in an attack upon a strong body of the enemy, consisting of a complete battalion, with two troops of cavalry and two pieces of artillery, located at Pietra Nera, on the Calabrlan coast. On that occasion he stormed and carried, in a very gallant style, several obstinately defended batteries, and by his exemplary conduct attracted as well the admiration of the Brigadier as the observation both of soldiers and sailors. He was afterwards sent with a division of gun-boats to guard the island of Ponza; and in March and April, 1814, being attached to the expedition against Genoa and its dependencies, he particularly distinguished himself by his gallant and able conduct at the reduction of the enemy’s forts in the Gulf of Spezia. During the short war of 1815, Commander Le Hunte, who had been advanced to his present rank on 15 June in the preceding year, was selected to serve in the river Scheldt with a brigade of seamen under the orders of Capt. Chas. Napier. After the overthrow of Napoleon he assumed command, 20 June, 1815, of the Erebus 16, and retained it, in the Downs, until 4 Sept. following. He has since been on half-pay.
In consideration of the valour and intrepidity he had displayed at Pietra Nera, Commander Le Hunte was presented by the King of the Two Sicilies with the insignia of the Small Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
* ↑ The enemy at Pietra Nera had upwards of 150 men killed and wounded, and 163 taken prisoners. The loss of the British was very trifling. – Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 726.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 984.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Mesurier, Edward

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​LE MESURIER. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 30.)
Edward Le Mesurier entered the Navy, in Sept. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, in which ship and in the Diomede 50, and Victory 100, all flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Guernsey station, until April, 1810, He then joined the Euryalus 36, commanded off Toulon by Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and after a short attachment to the Ville de Paris 110, Capt. John Duff Markland, was received, in March, 1811, on board the Unité 36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne; under whom, on 1 of the following May, he assisted, in company with the Pomone 38, and Scout, at the destruction, after a gallant action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, of the store-ships Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and both protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. On 29 May in the same year we find him further contributing to the capture, at the close of a severe running fight of four hours, of the 26-gun store-ship La Persanne, supposed, until the moment of her capture, to be a fully armed frigate. Removing, in July, 1814, to the Undaunted 38, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, Mr. Le Mesurier was present, in that ship, during the war of 100 days, at the reduction of the Tremiti ​islands and the cutting out of a convoy from Barletta. On being paid oif in Oct. 1815, he took up a commission dated on 24 of the preceding March. His last appointment was, 19 March, 1816, to the Florida 24, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, stationed in the North Sea, where he was superseded at his own request 16 Oct. 1817. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Neve, Anselm Peter

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​LE NEVE. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Anselm Peter Le Neve entered the Navy, 25 Dec. 1806, as L. M., on board the Majestic 74, Capts. Geo. Hart, Valentine Collard, Matthew Forster, Fred. Watkins, and Thos. Harvey. While in that ship, which bore the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell, we find him present as Midshipman at the surrender of Heligoland in Sept. 1807, and afterwards employed in escorting the trade through the Great Belt, where he constantly came into collision with the Danish gun-boats. Removing, in Feb. 1810, to the Grampus 50, Capt. Wm. Hanwell, he accompanied a convoy in that ship to China; on his return whence, in Dec. 1811, he joined the Maidstone 36, Capts. Geo. Burdett and Wm. Skipsey, with whom, until Dec. 1814, he served as Master’s Mate on the North American station. He then took up a commission bearing date 25 July in the latter year; and was lastly, from 24 Nov. 1815 until 6 June, 1816, employed with Capts. Wm. Skipsey and Edw. Chetham, in the Leander 50, on Home service. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Vesconte, Henry Thomas Dundas

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​LE VESCONTE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte entered the Navy 19 May, 1829; passed his examination in 1836; and, joining (as Mate of the Calliope) in the China war, assisted at the destruction of a 20-gun battery at the back of the island of Anunghoy, 23 Feb. 1841 – served in the boats, on 13 March, at the capture of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton – was similarly employed at the capture of that city on 18 of the same month – and, during the second series of hostilities against it, was afresh engaged in the boats at the destruction, 26 May, of the whole line of defences, extending about two miles from the British factory. In consequence of these performances he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 8 June, 1841. His appointments have since been – 16 Oct. following, to the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Geo. Goldsmith, in the East Indies – 15 June, 1842, to the Clio 16, Capts. Edw. Norwich Troubridge and Jas. Fitzjames, under whom he was for upwards of two years employed on the same station and off the coast of Africa – 17 Dec. 1844, as Senior, to the Superb 74, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, attached to the Channel squadron – and, 4 March, 1845, to the Erebus discovery-ship, Capt. Sir John Franklin, in which he is at present concerned in a renewed attempt to explore the North-west Passage through Lancaster Sound and Bering Strait. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1497.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1503.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1505.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 2512.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Leach, Charles

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​LEACH. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 21; h-p., 12.)
Charles Leach was born 12 Sept. 1800. This officer entered the Navy, 23 June, 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Wm. Wilkinson, flag-ship in the North Sea of the late Sir Thos. Foley. In the following month he removed to the Forester 18, Capt. Wm. Hendry, lying at Portsmouth; and during the next seven years we find him employed, on the Cape of Good Hope, Home, African, and South American stations, principally as Midshipman, in the Harpy 16, Capt. Geo. Tyler, Malta 80, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. Inconstant and Semiramis frigates, bearing each the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, and Alert 18, and Myrmidon 20, both commanded by Capt. Henry John Leeke. He then, in Nov. 1821, passed his examination, but it was not until 9 April, 1828, that he succeeded in obtaining a commission. By that time he had further served, almost without interruption, in the Fly 18, Capts. Geo. Tyler and Edw. Curzon, Doris 42, Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Moorsom at Chatham, and Ranger 28, Capt. Lord Henry Fred. Thynne – all which ships, excepting the Prince Regent, were stationed in South America, where, from the date of his promotion, as above, until the early part of 1830, and again from 6 Oct. 1832, until he invalided in March, 1834, he was further employed on board the Cadmus 10, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, and Spartiate 76, bearing the flag of Sir Michael Seymour. His last appointment was 28 July, 1834, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel in the East Indies, whence he returned home and was paid off in June, 1838. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Munton, William Anthony

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​MUNTON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
William Anthony Munton passed his examination 7 Oct. 1835; and was for several years employed in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the Inconstant 36, Capts. Daniel Pring and Fred. Thos. Michell. On 8 Nov. 1844, while serving on board the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was re-appointed to the Caledonia, in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant, 11 Dec. following; and he was next, from 4 Jan. 1845 until the close of 1846, stationed on the coast of Africa in the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Muriel, William

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​MURIEL. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
William Muriel, born 7 May, 1794, at Ely, co. Cambridge, is son of Robt. Muriel, Esq., Surgeon.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hero 74, Capts. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner and John Poo Beresford. On 4 Nov. following he fought in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action with the four line-of-battle ships escaped from Trafalgar; and on 13 March, 1806, he witnessed the capture of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. After a servitude of 17 months in the Channel on board the Dragon 74, he rejoined his first Commander, then Rear-Admiral Gardner, in the Bellerophon 74; in the boats of which ship, on her arrival in the Baltic, we find him in perpetual contact with the enemy’s gun-boats, batteries, &c. While next attached, between June, 1810, and Sept. 1812, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton, and Éclair sloop, Capts. Wm. Gregory, John Bellamy, and Fairfax Moresby, he saw much similar service in the Adriatic. On 15 of the month last mentioned he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Mermaid 32, armée en flûte, commanded by the present Sir David Dunn, with whom (the appointment being confirmed by commission dated 5 Dec. 1812) he continued until Nov. 1814. He took part, in consequence, in the siege of Trieste (where e served on shore and in the boats), also in the attack upon Leghorn, and in the capture of Genoa. His last appointment was, 2 Oct. 1817, to the Bulwark 74, Capts. Geo. M‘Kinley, Sam. Warren, Fras. Newcombe, and Alex. Skene; from which ship, stationed at Shecrness, he was lent to the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, for the purpose of escorting the Duke and Duchess of Clarence from Dunkerque to England. He has been on half-pay since 1820.
Lieut. Muriel married, in 1828, Miss Catherine M. Alexander, of London, and by that lady has issue a son and two daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Murley, William

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​MURLEY. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
William Murley entered the Navy, in Jan. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Belleisle 74, Capts. Wm. Domett, Chas. Boyles, John Whitby, and Wm. Hargood. In that ship, of which he was created Midshipman in the following Sept., he continued employed until Jan. 1806; serving at first in the Channel and Mediterranean, then accompanying Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined fleets, and finally participating, as Signal-Midshipman, in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. In Jan. 1807 he sailed for Buenos Ayres in the Thisbe 28, Capt. Lewis Shepheard; and on his arrival he was received on board the Diadem 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling. He was thus afforded an opportunity of witnessing, again as Signal-Midshipman, the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres, and the other operations which immediately preceded the evacuation of Spanish America. On his return to England he successively joined, in the early part of 1808, the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Gambier, both lying at Chatham. He was made Lieutenant, 29 June in the same year, into the Crocus 14, Capts. Robt. Merrick Fowler, Hon. Wm. Walpole, Rich. Buck, and John Bellamy; and next appointed, 18 Dec. 1810 and 8 May, 1811, to the Medusa 32, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew. When First of the Crocus, we find him commanding a flat-bottomed gun-boat at the siege of Flushing in 1809 : he served, in the Medusa, off Bordeaux; and in the Caledonia he was present in a partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813. He left the last-mentioned ship in Jan. 1814, having been awarded the rank of Commander on 29 of the preceding October; and he has since been on half-pay. He married, in June, 1815, Miss Mary Murley, a lady by whom he has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Murray, Augustus Charles

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​MURRAY. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Augustus Charles Murray, born 16 Dec. 1815, is eldest son of the late Hon. Alex. Murray, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, by Deborah, daughter of Robt. Hunt, Esq., Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas; and grandson of John, fourth Earl of Dunmore, Governor, successively, of New York and Virginia, and Captain-General of the Bahama Islands. He is brother of Virginius Murray, an officer in the Army; brother-in-law of Prince Louis Stanislas Kotska de la Tremouille; and first-cousin of Commander Jack Henry Murray, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 19 Jan. 1827; passed his examination 8 Aug. 1835; and was subsequently appointed Mate of the Dolphin 3, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Littlehales, on the coast of Africa; where, on the morning of 30 May, 1841, with the gig and cutter under his orders (the latter commanded by Mr. John Fletcher Rees, Second-Master), he succeeded, after a pull of two hours and a half, a fierce struggle of twenty minutes, and a loss to the British, out of 15 men, of 2 killed and 3 wounded, in capturing the Firme slaver, of 170 tons. Although knocked back into his boat by the butt end of a musket, which broke his collar-bone, he was the first to board the vessel, in effecting which his left hand was nearly severed at the wrist by the stroke of a cutlass; another blow was made at his head, but this he fortunately parried, hewing his opponent down. We may add that, determined not to be taken by an English man-of-war’s boats, the enemy had bestowed great attention on their arms, and had adopted every precaution in the arrangement of their vessel. As a reward for his gallantry Mr. Murray was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Oct. in the same year. His appointments have since been – 14 Dec. 1842 and 17 June, 1844, to the Spiteful steam-sloop and Pelican 16, Capts. Wm, Maitland and Philip Justice, both in the East Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the early part of 1845 – 6 Dec. in the latter year, as First, to the Terrible steam-frigate, of 800-horse power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay, employed on particular service – and, 20 March, 1847, as Additional, to the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean, where he continues.
Lieut. Murray, in consideration of his wounds, receives a pension of 45l. 12s. 6d. per annum. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Muller, Henry

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​MULLER. (Lieut., 1803. f-p., 23; h-p., 28.)
Henry Muller entered the Navy, 9 Oct. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Edgar 74, Capts. John McDougall and Edw. Buller, employed at first in the Channel, and then in the Mediterranean, where, in April, 1800, he removed as Midshipman, a rating he had attained in Dec. 1797, to the Adventure 44, armée en flûte, Capts. Robt. Mansel and Chas. Carter. After a servitude of two years and eight months on the Channel and Jamaica stations in the Autumn sloop, Capt. Wm. Richardson, Ambuscade 36, Capt. Hon. John Colville, Racoon 18, Capts. Wm. Rathborne and Austin Bissell, and Leviathan and Hercule 74’s, both flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, under whom he participated in many operations off St. Domingo, he was promoted, 4 Nov. 1803, to a Lieutenancy in the Tartar 32, Capts. John Perkins, Edw. Hawker, and Stephen Poyntz; in which ship we find him contributing to the capture, 9 June, 1806, of L’Observateur French national brig of 18 guns and 104 men. On his return to England from Halifax in the following Dec. he obtained an appointment to the Dreadnought 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby in the Channel. He was afterwards, from Feb. 1809 until Jan. 1815, and from Nov. 1818 until Jan. 1823, employed in command of a signal-station, and as an Inspecting Commander in the Water Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mundy, Meynell Horton Miller

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​MUNDY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Meynell Horton Miller Mundy is fourth son of the late E. M. Mundy, Esq., of Shipley, in the county of Derby.
This officer passed his examination 21 March, 1843; and from 31 July, 1845, until advanced to his present rank 4 May, 1846, was employed as Mate on board the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads. He has been serving since 26 of the latter month in the Eurydice 22, Capts. Geo. Elliot and Talavera Vernon Anson, now at the Cape of Good Hope.