July, 1821, as Admiralty-Midshipman and Acting-Lieutenant in the Leven 24, surveying-vessel, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Robt. Baldey, among the Cape de Verde Islands and on the coast of Africa. He has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard since 26 Sept. 1826. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
WHITE. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
George William White died in 1848. This officer entered the Navy 13 June, 1815; passed his examination in 1823; and attained the rank of Lieutenant 7 Sept. 1829. He was afterwards, from 1 May until Dec. 1832, and from 5 April, 1837, until Jan. 1838, employed in the Vernon 50, Capt. Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, on particular service, and in the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, in the Mediterranean.
WHITE. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Henry Towry White passed his examination in 1823; obtained his commission 4 Sept. 1827; and was appointed, five days afterwards, to the Valorous 26, Capt. the Earl of Huntingdon, on the Jamaica station. He has been on half-pay since 1828.
WHITE. (Lieutenant, 1802. f-p., 40; h-p., 13.)
Hugh Brice White died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1794, as a Supernumerary Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal William, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Francis Pickmore, for the purpose of joining the Jason 38, Capt. Chas. Stirling; under whom he assisted, as Midshipman, in company with the Pique 36, at the capture, 30 June, 1798, off the coast of France, after an action in which the Jason sustained a loss of 7 men killed and 11 wounded, of the French 40-gun frigate La Seine. Being wrecked in the following Oct. near Brest, he was for some time a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. On his release he was again, about Feb. 1799, placed under the command of Capt. Stirling, in the Pompée 74; in which ship we find him, on his return from a voyage to the West Indies, present in Sir James Saumarez’ action with M. de Linois off Algeciras 6 July, 1801. On 25 Oct. in the latter year, at which period he was serving off Cadiz in the St. George 98, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Morice Pole, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Caroline 36, Capt. Bowen. In that frigate, to which he was confirmed 15 Jan. ensuing, he visited the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England, in the spring of 1802, and was paid off. His next appointments were – in April, 1803, to the Sea Fencible service – 3 July, 1804, to the Tonnant 80, Capts. Chas. Tyler and Thos. Browne, in which ship he cruized in the Channel, assisted at the blockade of Cadiz, fought at Trafalgar, and was for some time stationed off Cape Finisterre, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Elias Harvey – 16 Dec. 1806, to the Formidable 98, Capt. Fras. Fayerman – 13 Sept. 1809, to the acting-command of Le Var, lately a French frigate, which he brought home from Malta – 15 Feb. 1810, again to the Tonnant, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Stackpoole, and Sir John Gore – 17 July, 1812, after four months of half-pay, to the Pompée 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood – in Sept. and Dec. 1814, to the Elizabeth 74, flag-ship of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, and Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave – 15 Feb. 1815, again, for a few weeks, to the Elizabeth – and, 27 Oct. following, to the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. The Formidable, Tonnant, Pompée, Elizabeth, Volontaire, and Granicus, were employed chiefly in the Mediterranean, and on the coasts of Spain, Portugal, and France. The Pompée formed part of the force under Sir Edw. Pellew in his partial action with the French Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813. Mr. White invalided from the Granicus in July, 1816. From 9 Aug. 1827 until the period of his death he filled the appointment of Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.
He was married and had issue.
WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1645. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
John White (a) entered the Navy, 17 Jan. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Active frigate, commanded in the Channel by the late Sir Edm. Nagle. In the following Aug., having removed with that officer to the Artois of 44 guns and 281 men, he assisted at the destruction, off the Penmarcks, of a French frigate. La Volontaire, and two corvettes, L’Espion and L’Alert; and on 21 Oct. in the same year he took part in an action of 40 minutes which terminated in the surrender, with a loss to the Artois of 3 killed and 5 wounded, of La Révolutionnaire, of 44 guns and 351 men, 8 of whom were killed and 5 wounded. He accompanied the expedition sent in 1795 to Quiberon Bay in support of the French royalists; and he continued otherwise actively employed in the Artois until wrecked on a sand-bank off Rochelle 31 July, 1797. He served afterwards, on the Home station, in the Pallas 32, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon, Doris 36, Capt. Lord Viscount Ranelagh, Sylph 18, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, and Immortalité 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham; and on 26 April, 1800, he was made Lieutenant into the Wilhelmina troop-ship, Capt. Jas. Lind, whom we find him accompanying to the Red Sea on a mission hostile to the French. He returned home in 1802 in the Romney 50, Capt. Sir Home Popham; and was subsequently appointed – in 1803-4-6, to the Jalouse 18, Capt. Christopher Strachey, Madras 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, and Lively 38, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, all in the Mediterranean – 30 May in the year last mentioned, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, in the Channel – 22 Sept. 1806, to the command of the Ignition, on the same station – in Jan. 1807, to the Diomede 50, as Flag-Lieutenant, off Guernsey, to his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Sir E. Nagle – in Oct. 1808, to the acting-command, which he retained until the ensuing Dec, of the Albacore sloop, in the Channel – 4 Feb. 1809, for a short time, to the Sea Fencible service at Deal – and 28 Jan. 1811 and 8 March, 1813, to the Boyne 98 and Ville de Paris 110, flagships of Sir E. Nagle in the Channel. In Feb. 1814 he left the Ville de Paris. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 23 Jan. 1832; and on the Senior 8 Jan. 1845.
Commander White is at present Vice-Consul at Chili. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
WHITE. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 17;[1] h-p., 30.)
John White (b) entered the Navy, in May, 1800, as A.B., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats. In that ship, of which he became Midshipman and Master’s Mate, he bore a warm part la Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action with the Franco-Spanish squadron in the Gut of Gibraltar 12 July, 1801; accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies, in 1805, in pursuit of the combined fleets; and fought under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. He continued to serve with the officer last mentioned in the Royal George 100, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, until Sept. 1806. He then joined the Hibernia 120 and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships of Lords St. Vincent and Gardner, again in the Channel; where he was nominated, 29 Aug. 1807, Acting-Lieutenant of the Dragon 74, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott. He was officially promoted 12 Sept. following; and was afterwards appointed – 18 Oct. 1807, to the Barracouta 18, Capts. Geo. Harris, Wm. Wells, Rich. Kenah, and Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, under the two latter of whom we find him, in 1810-11, assisting at the reduction of the Dutch Spice Islands and of the island of Java – 15 March, 1813, and 1 Sept. 1814 (he had invalided from the East Indies in Dec. 1811), to the Heron sloop and Barrosa 36, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and John Maxwell, employed on the West India, American, and Home stations – 16 Sept. 1815, for upwards of four months, to the Ganymede 20, Capt. W. M‘Culloch, in the
- ↑ Deducting the time he commanded the Hind.
