A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Heseltine, Albert
HESELTINE. (Commander, 1846.)
Albert Heseltine passed his examination in 1832; obtained his first commission 28 Sept. 1837; and on 14 of the following Nov. joined the Electra 18, Capt. Wm. Preston, fitting for the South American station, where he became, 3 April, 1839, First Lieutenant of the Grecian 16, Capt. Wm. Smyth. He was afterwards appointed, in the latter capacity, on the Brazilian and the Cape of Good Hope station – 19 July, 1840, to the Stag 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan – 22 March, 1843, after nearly two years of half-pay, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope – and, 12 March, 1844, to the Conway 26, Capt. Wm. Kelly. He was advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, and has since been unemployed.
Commander Heseltine, in the earlier part of his career, served in the Andromeda frigate, in the East Indies, and was frequently engaged in her boats against the pirates of Malacca. He married, 28 Sept. 1840, Georgina, only daughter of Lieut. J. O’Reilly, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.