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HALLOWES—HALLYBURTON—HALSTED.

out of four Danish vessels from under the protection of a 6-gun battery and two gun-boats in Kioge Bay. In May, 1813, after a brief attachment to the Ceres 32, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge, Mr. Hallowes was invested with the command of No. 5 gun-boat, in which he cooperated with Capt. Arthur Farquhar in an attack made on 30 Nov. following upon the strong batteries that defended Cuxhaven, and in the ensuing and very arduous siege of Glückstadt.[1] Being promoted for the latter service, by commission dated Jan. 1814, he was subsequently appointed, in the capacity of Lieutenant – 28 March, 1814, to the Pincher brig, Capt. Jas. Wallis, in the Downs – 7 April, 1815, to the Redpole 10, Capt. Edm. Denman, employed off the coasts of France and Holland – 2 June, 1815, to the command, for a short period, of No. 25 gun-boat, again in the Downs – Nov. 1822, to the Dolphin Revenue-cutter, of which he retained command until 1826 – and 25 Sept. 1830, 4 April, 1833, and 21 Aug. 1834, as Senior, to the Wellesley 74, Serpent 16, and Malabar 74, Capts. Sam. Campbell Rowley, John Chas. Symonds, and Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, on the Home, Lisbon, West India, and Mediterranean stations. He was promoted from the latter ship to the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837; and afterwards employed as Second-Captain, from 4 Dec. 1841 until the receipt of his Post-commission, bearing date 5 Dec. 1842, of the St. Vincent 120, flagship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Hallowes married Margaret, only daughter of the late Col. Nich. Ramsay, by whom he has issue seven sons and two daughters. Agent – John P. Muspratt.



HALLOWES. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 33.)

Thomas Hallowes entered the Navy, 8 Jan. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Edgar 74, Capt. Robt. Jackson, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith; and while next attached, from May in the same year until Jan. 1814, to the Resistance 38, and Invincible 74, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Adam, was very actively employed, particularly in co-operating with the patriots on the coast of Spain, where, in 1811-12-13, he witnessed, as Midshipman, the defence of Tarragona, the reduction of the town of Almeria, and the capture of the fort of St. Philippe, in the Col de Balaguer. He afterwards served for short periods, on the Home station, in the Dublin 74, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Keith; and on 3 Aug. 1815 was advanced to his present rank. He has not been since employed. Agent – John P. Muspratt.



HALLYBURTON, formerly Gordon, G.C.H., M.P. (Captain, 1836.)

The Right Honourable Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, born 15 Aug. 1799, is third son of the Marquess of Huntley, by Catharine, daughter of Sir Chas. Cope, Bart.; brother of Lords Cecil and Fras. Arthur Gordon, of the Army; and nephew of the late Dukes of Richmond, Manchester, and Bedford, as also of the second Marquess Cornwallis. He assumed the name of Hallyburton in 1843.

This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Indus 74, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, under whom, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, he witnessed, as Midshipman, Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet, 13 Feb. 1814. During the seven following years we find him successively employed, on the Home, South American and again on the Mediterranean station, in the Eurotas 38, Capts. Robt. Bloye and Jas. Lillicrap, Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower, Euphrates 36, Capt. Robt. Preston, Amphion 32, Commodore Wm. Bowles, and Larne sloop, Capts. Henry Forbes and Robt. Tait. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 13 Dec. 1821, in the Rochfort 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Graham Moore; rose to the rank of Commander 6 Aug. 1828; paid off the Pandora sloop, on his return from the East Indies, in Feb. 1830; and acquired the rank he now holds 4 Aug. 1836. He has not since been afloat.

His Lordship, who is M.P. for Forfar, was nominated a G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836. He married, 24 Aug. 1836, Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine, relict of the Hon. John Kennedy Erskine, and sister of Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, Captain R.N. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.



HALSTED. (Capt., 1842. f-p., .19; h-p., 7.)

Edward Pellew Halsted is son, we believe, of the late Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, G.C.B.,[2] by Emma Mary, eldest daughter of the first Lord Exmouth, and sister of Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, Kt., K.C.H. The late Capt. Geo. Halsted, R.N., was his uncle.

This officer entered the Navy 1 March, 1821; passed his examination in 1828; and obtained his first commission 28 Jan. 1829. He was subsequently appointed – 15 Oct. 1829, to the Nimrod 20, Capt. Sam. Radford, on the Irish station – and 28 Jan. and 25 Feb. 1831, and 26 March, 1834, to the Asia 84, St. Vincent 120, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham and Sir Josias Rowley. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 6 Dec. 1836; and from 8 April, 1839, until the close of 1842, was next employed, on board the Childers 16, in the East Indies, and also in China, where he served in the Yang-tse-Kiang during the operations against the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo 21 July, 1842.[3] He then went on half-pay, having been advanced to his present rank on 15 of the preceding April; and has not since been afloat. Agent – J. Hinxman.



HALSTED. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 44.)

George Halsted died 25 March, 1846. He was brother of Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, G.C.B.; and uncle of Capt. E. P. Halsted, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1788, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ganges 74, Capt. Sir Roger Curtis, on the Home station, where, and for a short time in the West Indies, he afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 27 May, 1796, served, in the Wasp, Capt. J. K. Mosse, Magnificent 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, Edgar 74, Capt. J. A. P. Molloy, Beaulieu and Andromeda frigates, both commanded by Capt. Lord Northesk, Theseus 74, Capt. Robt. Calder, and London and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships of Sir John Colpoys and Earl Howe. He then joined, for a few weeks, the Plover sloop, Capt. John Chesshyre, lying at Sheerness; was next, from 28 Juhe, 1796, until the spring of 1800, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean on board the Phoenix 36, commanded by his brother, Capt. L. W. Halsted; and served lastly, from May in the latter year until 1801, and from 4 Feb. 1807 until advanced to the rank of Commander 21 Jan. 1809, in the Alkmaar and Royal William, bearing the flags on the Mediterranean and Home stations of Admirals John Holloway and Geo. Montagu. He was superannuated with the rank of Captain 10 Sept. 1840.

  1. Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 127.
  2. Sir L. W. Halsted (whose father, Capt. W. A. Halsted, R.N., died about 1778) was born 2 April, 1764, and entered the Navy in 1776. He served as midshipman of the St. Albans 64, in Admiral Harrington’s two actions with the Comte d’Estaing; was in the same ship at the reduction of Ste. Lucie; fought in the Bellona 74, at the capture, 30 Dec. 1780, of the Dutch 54-gun ship Princess Caroline; and officiated as third Lieutenant of the Canada in Rodney’s actions, 9 and 12 April, 1782. On 12 May, 1796, he commanded the Phoenix, of 44 guns and 271 men, at the taking of the Dutch frigate Argo, of 36 suns and 237 men; and he was afterwards presented with a medal for his conduct as Captain of the Namur 74, in Sir Richard Strachan’s action 4 Not. 1805. From 1834 until 1827 he commanded in chief on the Jamaica station. At the period of his death, which took place 22 April, 1841, he was an Admiral of the White, and in the receipt of the Good-Service pension.
  3. Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3404.