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1811, to the Laurel 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, in which frigate he was wrecked, on the Govivas rock, in the Teigneuse passage, under a heavy fire from the French batteries, 3l Jan. 1812. Being sent on shore on that occasion to solicit assistance from the enemy, and to request the French commandant to cease his cannonade, he was detained prisoner; nor did he succeed in procuring his enlargement until the conclusion of hostilities in May, 1814. He was then successively appointed to ,the Impregnable 98, bearing the flag of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and Magicienne 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon; and on 23 of the following July was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has not been since employed. Agents – Messrs. Halford.
GREENE. (Commander, 1833. f-p., 3; h-p., 12.)
Thomas Greene entered the Navy, in Jan. 1812, as a Volunteer, on board the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir .John Gore, stationed in the Channel. In June following he became Midshipman of the Fawn 20, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, in which ship, we believe, after accompanying a convoy to the West Indies, he assisted at the recapture of the Perthshire letter-of-marque, of 14 guns, and destruction of the Rosamund, a notorious American privateer, of 8 heavy guns and 105 men. From Oct. 1813 until June, 1817, he was employed, on the Home station, in the Eridanus 36, Capts. Hen. Prescott, Wm. Paterson, and Wm. King; and between the latter date and March, 1823, he further served, on the Cork, West India, Home, and South American stations, in the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell, Tribune 36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, Tartar frigate. Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, Bulwark and Gloucester 74’s, bearing each the flag of Sir B. Hallowell, and Beaver 10, Capts. Arch. M‘Lean and Thos. Bourchier. He was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 7 June, 1823, in the Doris 42, Capts. Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon, Thos. Bourchier, and Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, under the latter of whom he was for some time employed off the port of Pernambuco for the protection of British property. His next appointment, we find, was to the Semiramis 42, Capt. Robt. Rowley, in which frigate he served on the Cork station until May, 1827. He attained his present rank 2 July, 1833; and he subsequently, from 9 Oct. 1834 until the autumn of 1837, and again from 27 Sept. 1838 until the same period in 1843, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
GREENE. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 17; h-p., 20.)
William Burnaby Greene is son of Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, R.N. (1811), who died in 1837. This officer entered the Royal Naval College 27 Jan. 1810; and embarked, 3 May, 1812, as Midshipman, on board the Ganymede 26, Capt. John Brett Purvis, under whom he appears to have been employed until Sept. 1814 on the coast of Spain, where he frequently came into action with the enemy and saw much active boat-service. During the next four years we find him successively joining the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Astraea 36, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, Challenger 16, Capt. Hen. Forbes, Falmouth 20, Capt. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, Phaeton 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, and Royal Sovereign and Royal George yachts, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Hon. Chas. Paget. In all of those ships, with the exception of the Falmouth and Phaeton, in which he visited St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Greene served on the Home station. Obtaining his first commission 9 Nov. 1818, he was next appointed, in the capacity of Lieutenant – 22 May, 1821, to the Rose 18, Capt. Thos. Ball Clowes, in which vessel, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, he had the misfortune to be severely wounded – 8 July, 1822, to the William and Mary yacht, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, lying at Dublin – and, 25 Nov. 1823, to the Revenge 76, bearing the flag on the Mediterranean station of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He was promoted, 30 Dec. 1826, to the command of the Medina 20, which sloop he paid off in 1827; and he next, from 22 July, 1830, until put out of commission 13 Dec. 1821, officiated as Second-Captain, again in the Mediterranean, of the Kent 78, Capt. Sam. Pym. He was advanced to the rank he now holds 6 June, 1834; but has not since been afloat.
Capt. Greene married, 21 April, 1829, Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Sam. Powell, Esq. (of Hammerton and Brandlesome Halls, cos. York and Lancaster, and of Barley Street, London), and sister of Capt. Hen. Folliott Powell, of the Ceylon Rifle Regt, by whom he has issue.
GREENE. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
William Pomeroy Greene died in the autumn of 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 1 March, 1810; passed his examination in 1816; and obtained his commission 30 Jan. 1826. We do not believe he was afterwards employed.
GREENING. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
Richard Greening was born 20 Oct. 1783. This officer (who had been previously employed for flve years in the merchant-service) entered the Navy, into which he was impressed, 7 Nov. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Hero 74, Capts. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner and John Poo Beresford. In that ship he fought and was slightly wounded in Sir Robt. Calder’s and Sir Rich. Strachan’s actions, 22 July and 4 Nov. 1805; and on 13 of the following March he further witnessed the capture of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. In the summer of 1807, after a brief attachment with Capt. Beresford to the Ville de Paris 110, he sailed for the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate of the Minstrel 18, Capts. John Hollinworth, Ralph Randolph Wormeley, and John Campbell; in which sloop, besides assisting at the capture, 16 July, 1808, of the national schooner Ortenzia, pierced for 16, but carrying only 10 guns, he was present, 13 Dec. 1810, at the destruction of a large convoy protected by two batteries in the Mole of Palamos, where the boats, commanded by Capt. Fras. Wm. Fane, sustained a loss, out of 600 officers and men, of upwards of 200 killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Mr. Greening, who also participated while in the Minstrel in many boat-skirmishes in the Adriatic, next, in 1813, proceeded to the East Indies in the Salsette 36, Capt. John Bowen. He was there appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 19 June, 1815, of the Minden 74, Capt. Donald Hugh Mackay; and on his return home for the purpose of being paid off in March, 1816, he found that he had been officially promoted by commission dated 20 Sept. in the same year. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Greening married, in 1831, Miss Frances Bruton.
GREENSWORD. (Retired Commander, 1842.)
Edward Nathaniel Greensword died 17 June, 1845, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 71.
This officer (whose name had been previously borne for upwards of seven years on the books of the Brune and London) embarked, 2 July, 1795, on board the Coromandel, Capt. John Inglis, under whom, on removing to the Belliqueux 64, he bore a part in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797. He was promoted, 8 Oct. 1798, to a Lieutenancy in the Woolwich, armée en flûte, Capt. Michael Halliday, from which vessel, after visiting the Cape of Good Hope, he was sent, sick, to Haslar Hospital, 24 Feb. 1800. He became a Retired Commander, on the Junior List, 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior, 5 Jan. 1842. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
GREENWAY. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
George Courtenay Greenway entered the Navy, 2 Oct. 1806, as Fst,-cl. Vol., on board the
