mer (now Coghill); he was officially promoted 24 April, 1815; and he was subsequently appointed 25 Sept. in the latter year, to the Eridanus 36, Capt. Wm. Paterson, stationed in the Channel, where he served until June, 1817 – 21 May, 1827, to the Astrea Falmouth packet, Capt. Wm. King – and 3 Dec. 1828, to the command of the Kingfisher brig, also employed as a packet on the Falmouth station. Since 1830, in the course of which year he left the vessel last mentioned, he has been on half-pay.
WALKER. (Retired Commander, 1834. f-p., 16; h-p., 35.)
George Walker entered the Navy, in 1796, as Midshipman, on board the Apollo frigate, Capt. John Manley, with whom, after serving on the coast of Ireland and in the North Sea, he removed, in 1799, to the Mars 74. In that ship, which bore the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he continued employed in the Channel during the remainder of the war. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and occasionally on the Lisbon stations – 29 June, 1802, and 15 Jan. 1805, to the Hazard and Sylph sloops, Capts. R. J. Neve and Wm. Goate – 11 Jan. and 2 Aug. 1806, to the Zealand 64, flag-ship of Admiral Rowley (at the Nore), and Colossus 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris – 14 Aug. 1807, to the Quebec 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett – 22 Oct. 1810 (he had quitted the Quebec in the preceding Jan.), to the Pallas 32, Capt. Geo. Paris Monke, under whom he was wrecked 18 Dec. following, off St. Abb’s Head – 11 Feb. 1811, for a short time, to the Princess Charlotte 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin – in March, 1812, and March, 1813, to the Stirling Castle and Rippon 74’s – and 3 Nov. 1813 (a few weeks after ill health had obliged him to leave the Stirling Castle), to the Magicienne 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon. While belonging to the Pallas he commanded her boats, 13 Dec. 1810, at the capture in the Cove of Siveraag, on the coast of Norway, of two Danish cutter-privateers, one mounting four, the other two guns.[1] He was paid off from the Magicienne 20 July, 1814; and was invested with his present rank 25 March, 1834. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WALKER. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Walker was born 4 Feb. 1817.
This officer entered the Navy 5 Nov. 1830; passed his examination 25 Feb. 1837; and served as Mate of the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, during the operations on the coast of China; where he assisted at the capture of Canton, Amoy, Chinghae, and Tsekee.[2] As a reward for his conduct he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 16 April, 1842, to the Cruizer 16, Capt. Joseph Pearse, in the East Indies – 5 Sept. 1843, six months after his return to England, to the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, in which ship, stationed in the Pacific, he served for about three years and a-half – and 16 July, 1847, to the Amphitrite 24, Capt. Thos. Rodney Eden, under whom he has been since employed on the coast of Africa, and again in the Pacific. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
WALKER. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Henry Walker (a) entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryves, stationed in the Mediterranean. In July, 1804, he became Midshipman to the Bellerophon 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram; in which ship, after serving at the blockade of Brest, Rochefort, and Cadiz, we find him participating, 21 Oct. 1805, in the glories of Trafalgar. On removing next to the Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, he was afforded an opportunity, 13 March, 1806, of witnessing the surrender (while in quest of a French squadron with Jerome Buonaparte on board) of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. In the following Dec. he joined Rear-Admiral Geo. Murray in the Polyphemus 64; and in July, 1807, having been lent to the Néréide 36, Capt. Peter Heywood, he took part in the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres. After again serving under the flag of Sir John B. Warren in the Swiftsure 74 and other ships on the Halifax station he was received, in Nov. 1808, on board the Cleopatra 32, Capt. Sam. John Pechell. On his arrival in her in the West Indies he contributed, 22 Jan. 1809, to the capture (the British ships Jason 32 and Hazard 18 in company) of the French 40-gun frigate La Topaze,[3] after a very spirited action fought chiefly between the Cleopatra and the enemy; and in the following month he co-operated in the reduction of Martinique. In Oct. of the same year he joined, first the Penelope 36, Capt. John Dick, and next, as Acting-Lieutenant, the Atalante sloop, Capt. Fred. Hickey. On his return to England as Acting-Lieutenant in the former ship, to which he had gone back, he was officially promoted 3 Oct. 1810. He served afterwards, until Sept. 1817, on the Home, Baltic, North American, and Mediterranean stations, in the Courageux 74, Capt. Philip Wilkinson, Manilla 36, Capt. John Joyce, Tartarus 20, Capt. John Pasco, Cuttle schooner, commanded by himself (from 27 July, 1811, until 27 May, 1812), Julia, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, Beaver, Capt. Edw. O’Brien Drury, Niobe 40, Commodore Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Menelaus 38, Capt. Edw. Dix, and Leander 50, Capts. Wm. Skipsey and Edw. Chetham. He has since been on half-pay. When in company, in the Menelaus, with a squadron under the present Sir Chas. Malcolm he aided, 18 July, 1815, in capturing, in the boats, an armed cutter, a praam-brig, and a gun-vessel, together with a convoy reposing under their protection in the harbour of Corrijou. He was slightly wounded in the Leander at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816.[4]
WALKER. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Henry Walker (b) entered the Navy, 1 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Téméraire 98, Capts. Elias Harvey and John Larmour; and in the following Oct. was present at the battle of Trafalgar. In the early part of 1806 he joined the Anson 40, Capt. Chas. Lydiard, lying at Spithead, and, in the capacity of Midshipman, the Africa 64, Capts. Isaac Wolley, Henry Wm. Bayntun, and John Barrett. In the latter ship he witnessed the unsuccessful attack made by Lieut.-General Whitelocke on Buenos Ayres in July, 1807. From Feb. 1808 until Feb. 1813 he was employed on the Brazilian, Home, and North American stations in the President 38 and Bedford and Canada 74’s, all commanded by Capt. Adam Mackenzie, Christian VII. 80, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, and Impregnable 98 and San Domingo 74, flag-ships of Admirals Wm. Young and Sir John Borlase Warren. He was then, 26 Feb. 1813, placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Cuttle schooner, also on the American station; where from 8 March following until 26 Aug. 1815 he served as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 28 May, 1813) in the Mohawk sloop, Capts. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng and Henry Litchfield, and Dragon 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Collier and Snee.
WALKER, formerly ROBERTSON. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)
James Robertson Walker, born 22 June, 1783, is eldest son of the late Jas. Robertson, Esq., a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant for
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 2062, and Gaz. 1811, p. 161.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1503-5, and Gaz. 1842, pp. 84, 896, 2391. His behaviour at Amoy was such as to induce Capt. Bourchier to make especial mention of his name, and describe him as a young officer of much promise.
- ↑ Protected by a small battery to the southward of Pointe- Noire, Guadeloupe.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1816, p. 1793.
