A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amherst, Jeffery Reid
AMHERST. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 29.)
Jeffery Reid Amherst is son of the late Gen. Amherst.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. With that officer (if we except a brief attachment, towards the conclusion of the war, to the Nereus 32, Inconstant 36, and Albacore 18, Capts. Manley Hall Dixon, Sir Edw. Tucker, and Joseph Patey) he continued to serve, in the Ruby 64, and Vigo, Montagu, Achille, and Valiant 74’s, on the Baltic and Brazilian stations,, until presented by him with a hauling-down commission, 3 May, 1815. During the term of his servitude in the Baltic, Mr. Amherst was much employed in escorting large convoys through the Baltic and protecting them against the repeated attacks of the enemy’s flotilla. His appointments, subsequent to the peace, appear to have been – 1 May, 1830, to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag, latterly in the Channel, of Sir Manley Dixon and Sir Edw. Codrington – and, 26 Nov. 1831, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of the former officer at Plymouth. He has been on halfpay since May, 1833.