A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Glasse, Frederick Henry Hastings
GLASSE. (Captain, 1846. r-p., 20; h-p., 9.)
Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse, born 11 April, 1806, is only son of the late Rev. Geo. Henry Glasse, A.M., Rector of Hanwell, co. Middlesex, Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge, and a Magistrate for Middlesex, by his second wife, Harriet, daughter and heiress of Thos. Wheeler, Esq., R.M., of Waterford; and half-brother of the present Geo. Henry Elliot, Esq., of Binfield Park, Berks. His mother married, secondly, Commodore Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 20 Nov. 1818; and passed his examination in 1825. Obtaining his first commission 20 Feb. 1826, he was afterwards appointed — 28 Nov. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye — 7 Sept. 1829 and 1 May, 1830, to the St. Vincent and Caledonia, flag-ships at Plymouth — and, 28 Aug. and 11 Nov. 1833, to the command, on the Home, Lisbon, and African stations, of the Magpie 4, and Rolla 10. He paid the latter vessel off towards the close of 1837; attained the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; served from 28 June, 1841, until put out of commission at the close of 1844, in the Nimrod 20, on the East India station; and was awarded a Post-commission 9 Nov. 1846. He is now unemployed. Agent — J. Hinxman.