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HARROP—HARROW—HARSTON—HART.
whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1833 – having been elevated to Post-rank on 9 of the previous Oct. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Harrison married, 15 ApriJ, 1820, Catherine, daughter of Mr. Mottley, of Portsmouth.
HARROP. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 25.)
David Harrop entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sultan 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean; and in Aug. 1809 became Midshipman of the Formidable 98, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In Dec. 1811, after having served for some time on the Baltic and North Sea stations, in the latter ship and in the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Wm. Young, he joined the Manilla 36, Capt. John Joyce, in which frigate he had the misfortune, on 28 of the following January, to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until the peace of 1814, when, on his return to England, he was received on board the Impregnable 104, flag-ship at the time of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, but subsequently commanded off Lisbon by Capt. John Wentworth Loring. Mr. Harrop was next transferred in succession to the Niobe 40, armée en flûte, Capt. Henry Collins Deacon, and Centurion 50, and Bulwark 74, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith on the Halifax station; where, being created a Lieutenant of the last-mentioned ship, by commission dated 1 May, 1815, he continued to serve until paid off in Aug. of the same year. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1818, to the Britomart and Wolf sloops, both commanded by Capt. Bernard Yeoman, under whom, in 1821, he escorted George IV. to Ireland – early in 1822, to the Helicon 10, Capt. Wm. Robt. Dawkins, in which vessel he sailed for the West Indies – and, 4 Feb. 1824, to the Valorous 26, Capt. Jas. Murray. Since the paying off of the latter vessel, on her return from Jamaica to England, Mr. Harrop has been unemployed. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
HARROW. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Henry Harrow entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Adamant 50, Capts. John Stiles, John Fyffe, and Micajah Malbon, of which vessel, successively employed on the African and West India stations, he soon became Midshipman. From Dec. 1807 until Oct. 1813, we find him serving, chiefly in the West Indies, Baltic, and Channel, on board the Goelan and Favorite sloops, both commanded by Capt. Benj. Clement, Rover 18, Capt. Justice Finley, Crescent frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, and Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, bearing each the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. During his attachment to the Favorite, a period of nearly two years, he appears to have been very arduously employed, and to have passed through scenes of great mortality. On one occasion, we believe, he assisted by his indefatigable exertions in subduing an alarming fire which had broken out at Falmouth, on the north side of the island of Jamaica; and he was afterwards, while returning with convoy to England, present in a desperate hurricane, in which the same vessel lost her topmasts and sustained considerable injury. On leaving the Ville de Paris, as above, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Ferret brig, commanded on the north coast of Spain by Capt. Wm. Ramsden, but he went back to the former ship in Feb. 1814, and continued to serve in her until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June following. Mr. Harrow, who was subsequently employed for 10 months in the West Indies and Channel on board the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, has been on half-pay since Aug. 1815.
He married, in April, 1834, Ann, youngest daughter of the late E. D. Bridger, Esq., of Barton Farm.
HARSTON. (Commander, 1845.)
Henry Cooke Harston entered the Navy 16 Aug. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and, on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Oct. 1840, was appointed to the Albert steamer, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, employed on an expedition up the river Niger. Quitting the latter vessel towards the close of 1841, he was subsequently appointed First, 15 April, 1842, and 25 Jan. 1845, of the Philomel surveying-vessel, and Eclair steam-sloop, commanded on the Brazilian and African stations by Capts. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan and Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt. Having the good fortune to survive the ravages of the fearful disease which, in Sept. 1845, swept away the Captain and nearly the whole of the crew belonging to the Eclair, Mr. Harston, on his arrival home, was promoted to his present rank by commission bearing date 6 Dec. in the same year. He has since been on half-pay.
HART. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Benjamin Hart entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1807, as Clerk, on board the Peterel sloop, Capt. John Lamborn, employed on the Jamaica station, whence he returned in Nov. 1808. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1809, of the Minotaur 74, Capt. John Barrett, he continued to serve under that officer, on the Baltic station, until 22 Dec. 1810, when he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, and taken prisoner. On his release from captivity in May, 1814, he joined the Leviathan 74, Capts. Adam Drummond and Thos. Briggs, in which ship we find him employed, off Lisbon and Cork and in the Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. He then took up a commission, dated on 6 of the previous March, and has since been on half-pay.
HART. (Commander, 1830.)
Francis Hart died in March, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Niobe 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. -Augustus Montagu, in which frigate he served on the coasts of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and France, also in the West Indies, and off Greenland and the Western Islands, until Dec. 1813; participating during that period, as Midshipman, in an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the Diana, upon the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries near Cherbourg, as likewise in the subsequent destruction of one of the same ships, near Barfleur, 25 March, 1811. Joining, next, the San Josef 110, bearing the successive flags of Rear-Admirals Edw. Jas. Foote and Sir Rich. King, he witnessed, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, the two partial actions with the Toulon fleet of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. Towards the close of the latter year he sailed for the East Indies in the Cornwallis 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, from which ship, commanded latterly by Capt. Robt. O’Brien, he removed, 9 April, 1816, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Leda 36, Commodore Geo. Sayer. He was officially promoted 20 Jan. 1818, and subsequently appointed – 6 Oct. and 3 Dec. following, to the Minden 74, flagship of Sir Rich. King, and Conway 26, Capt. Edw. Barnard, also in the East Indies – 3 Dec. 1821, to the Semiramis frigate, bearing the flag at Cork of Lord Colville – 22 Sept. 1825, to the Volage 28, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Michael Seymour, on the South American station – and, 22 Aug. 1829, to the Alligator 28, Capt. Chas. Philip Yorke, in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 26 Nov. 1830, but was not afterwards employed. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
HART. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 11; h-p., 16.)
George Vaughan Hart is son of the late Gen. G. V. Hart, M.P. for co. Donegal, and Military Governor of Londonderry and Culmore forts. This officer entered the Navy, in 1820, as Midshipman, on board the Rochfort 80, Capt. Chas.
