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pears to have been then appointed to the Amethyst 36 Capts. Henry Rich. Glynn and Alex. Campbell, and afterwards, in 1803-4-8, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capts. John Wells and Davidge Gould, Mars 74, Capts. Geo. Duff, Robt. Dudley Oliver, and Wm. Lukin, and Onyx sloop, Capt. Chas. Gill. While in the Mars he was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805[1] – assisted, in 1806, at the capture of Le Rhin of 44 guns, and also of La Gloire 46, and L’lnfatigable 44, two out of four French frigates that had been pursued and brought to action by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood – and during the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen was employed in landing troops, and in fitting out the Danish ships preparatory to their being sent to England. On 1 Jan. 1809, being at the time First of the Onyx, of 10 guns and 75 men, Mr. Garrett aided, and was strongly recommended for his valuable conduct, at the capture, after a severe action, in which the enemy lost 5 men killed and 6 wounded, and the British only 3 wounded, of the Dutch brig Manly, of 16 guns and 94 men.[2] He subsequently, with the assistance of only a boat’s crew, succeeded in conducting the prize with all the prisoners into port; and, being rewarded for his gallantry by commission dated 16 of the same month, was next appointed, 22 Oct. 1810, to the Hope 10, on the Channel station, where he captured, 23 June, 1813, an American lugger privateer, armed with swivels and small arms, and manned with 31 men. He was placed on half-pay 14 July following; and, on 6 Feb. 1844, was admitted into Greenwich Hospital.
Commander Garrett obtained a grant from the Patriotic Society in consideration of the wound he received at Trafalgar. He married, in 1815, the only daughter of the late John Burrell, Esq., Hon.E.I.C.’s service, and sister of Wm. Burrell, who was lost when Midshipman of H.M.S. Saldanha 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham, 4 Dec. 1811.
GARRETT. (Vice-Admiral of the White, 1840. f-p., 46; h-p., 15.)
Henry Garrett was born in 1774, and died 11 April, 1846. He was son, we believe, of the late Daniel Garrett, Esq., of Portsmouth; and uncle of the present Capt. John Brett Purvis, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Nov. 1785, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Trimmer sloop, Capt. Chas. Tyler, on the Irish station; and, during the after-part of the peace, served, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Hebe frigate, Capt. Edw. Thornbrough, Bellona 74, Capt. Fras. John Hartwell, Hebe, again, Capt. Alex. Hood, and Romney 50, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. Being promoted, under the latter officer, to a Lieutenancy, 24 June, 1793, in the Princess Royal 98, he served on shore at the occupation of Toulon, assisted at the reduction of Corsica, and participated in the actions of 13 March and 14 July, 1795; after which he successively assumed command of the Vésuve and Trial; and in the latter vessel, a cutter of 12 guns, took, near Portland, 25 July, 1797, a French brig privateer, Le Courrier de Mer, of similar force,[3] besides energetically contributing, off Havre, to the destruction, 1 May, 1798, of La Confiante frigate, and a republican cutter.[4] He was promoted to the command, 27 Dec. 1798, of the Alecto fire-ship; afterwards commanded the Calypso sloop, and Puissant hulk; attained Post-rank 16 Sept. 1799; officiated as Captain, during the early part of the peace of Amiens, of the Texel 64, and Endymion 40; and from 21 Sept. 1805, until 1 Aug. 1808, commanded the Kent 74, and also the Ville de Paris and Royal Sovereign, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Thornbrough. On 31 Dec. in the latter year Capt. Garrett was appointed Agent for Victualling at Deptford, where he continued until nominated Governor, 24 Feb. 1820, of Haslar Hospital. The latter appointment he held until April, 1838. He was created a Rear-Admiral 6 Oct. 1833, and a Vice-Admiral 12 Nov. 1840.
By his wife, who died 26 Aug. 1812, he had issue. His eldest son died Acting-Lieutenant of the Curlew, at Bombay, in Nov. 1819; and another son, in the Hon.E.I.C.’s Civil service, married, 29 June, 1835, Sarah, third daughter of Capt. John Clavell, R.N.
GARRETT. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 28; h-p., 20.)
Henry Garrett was born 19 Dec. 1786, at Hambledon, co. Southampton.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impregnable 98, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, under whom, on 19 Oct. following, he was wrecked, as Midshipman, between Langstone and Chichester. He then joined the Puissant, at Spithead, and, while afterwards attached, from Jan. 1801, to Jan. 1806, to the Belleisle 74, Capts. Wm. Domett, Chas. Boyles, John Whitby, and Wm. Hargood, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, and took part in the battle of Trafalgar. On subsequently joining the Culloden 74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Edw. Pellew, he was there appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 18 April, 1807, of La Bellone 28, Capt. John Bastard; in which capacity he followed the latter officer into the Dédaigneuse 36, and next removed to the Psyche 36, Capts. John Edgecombe and Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing. Mr. Garrett, who commanded the boats of the latter vessel at the attack on a fort and the destruction of several vessels at Rutterah, during a rebellion among the natives of Travancore, on the Malabar coast, was not, however, confirmed by the Admiralty until 21 Aug. 1809; at which period he had been fulfilling for eight months the duties of First-Lieutenant of a frigate. In 1810-11, being still Senior of the Psyche, he assisted at the reduction of the Mauritius and of the island of Java. As Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, he afterwards, during the summer of 1812, served on shore in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and was wounded while in command of a battery at Santander. His next appointments, we fimd, were – 11 Dec. 1813, to the Medway 74, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope – and, 7 Feb. 1815, to the Harpy 18, Capt. Geo. Tyler, with whom he returned home and was paid off in March, 1816. From 8 March, 1832, to 8 March, 1837, he appears to have had charge of the Semaphore station at Holder Hill, co. Sussex. Since 10 Dec. 1841, he has been similarly employed at Petersfield, co. Hants.
Lieut. Garrett married, 10 Oct. 1816, a daughter of the late Mr. Goldsmith, of Southampton. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
GARRETT. (Commander, 1833. f-p., 19; h-p., 18.)
John Garrett is second son of the late John Garrett, Esq., of Ellington, near Ramsgate, co. Kent; and brother of Lieut.-Colonel Garrett, K.H., commanding the 46th Regiment.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, in which ship he visited St. Helena and cruized on the Irish station until June, 1812, when he followed the same Captain, as Midshipman, into the Briton 38. On his return from the Pacific in Aug. 1815, he joined the Niger 38, Capt. Peter Rainier; and then the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. After sharing, as a passed Midshipman, in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816, Mr. Garrett became successively attached, on the Irish, American, and Home stations, to the Cyrus 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. F. Wise, Wolf 14, Capt. Bernard Yeoman, and Valorous 26, Capt. Jas. Murray. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 26
