HOULTON. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 10; h-p., 47.)
Robert Houlton is second son of the late Joseph Houlton, Esq., of Farley Castle, co. Somerset, a Captain in the Army, by Dorothea Sarah, daughter of Chas. Torriano, Esq., Capt. R.A.; and brother (with the present Sir Geo. Houlton, Kt., late Capt. 43rd Regt.) of John Houlton, Esq., Colonel of the 1st Regt. of Somerset Militia, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for that co., who died 17 Feb. 1839 – of Lieut. Joseph Houlton, of the 40th Regt. of Infantry, who died in 1795 – and of Capt. Sam. Houlton, of the 11th Regt. of Native Infantry, who died at Dinapore, in the East Indies, in 1827.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as a Volunteer, on board the Bellona 74, Capt. Fras. John Hartwell, guard-ship at Spithead, and after serving with Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, in the Swan and Atalanta sloops, joined, in 1792, the Courageux 74, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. After that ship had assisted in the occupation of Toulon, and had been disabled in an engagement at Corsica, Mr. Houlton, while she was being hove down, was sent in the Moselle sloop to Gibraltar for ammunition. On his return to Toulon he was unfortunately captured by the enemy, who detained him in France until 1796. He was then appointed Master’s Mate of the Glenmore 36, Capt. Geo. Duff, stationed in the North Sea; and on 18 May, 1797, he was made Lieutenant into the Triton 32, Capt. John Gore, attached to the force on the French coast. Invaliding, however, in the following year, he did not again go afloat until Dec. 1805, on 15 of which month he obtained an appointment to L’Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford, off Brest. In 1806 he joined the Irish Sea Fencibles; and in 1807 he assumed charge of a Signal tower in co. Donegal. The latter, his last appointment, he held but a few months; a serious attack of asthma compelling him to invalid. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 18 Jan. 1840. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HOUSTOUN. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Wallace Houstoun entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 3 March, 1832; and was appointed – 8 Dec. 1832, to the Childers 18, Capt. Robt. Deans – 10 Jan. 1833, to the Spartiate 76, flag-ship of Sir Michael Seymour in South America – 10 March, 1834, to the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, with whom he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1835 – 9 June, 1836, to the Macagascar 44, Capts. Sir John Strutt Peyton and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, in which ship he served on the North America and West India station, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until put out of commission in the summer of 1839 – 23 July and 27 Oct. 1840, to the Impregnable 104, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth – and, 17 Aug. 1841, to the Illustrious 72, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Adam, in North America and the West Indies. Attaining his present rank 7 May, 1842, he was invested with the command, 3 Aug. following, of the Pilot 16, on the station last named; and on 4 March, 1843, was transferred to that of the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendant at Jamaica of Commodore Alex. Renton Sharpe. He has been on half-pay since June, 1844.
HOWARD, M.P. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 12; h-p., 12.)
The Honourable Edward Granville George Howard, born 23 Dec. 1809, is fourth son of the present Earl of Carlisle, K.G., by Georgiana, eldest daughter of William, fifth Duke of Devonshire, K.G.; brother of Lord Morpeth, M.P., Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, of Hon. C. W. G. Howard, M.P., and of Hon. Fred. Geo. Howard, an officer in the Army, who was accidentally killed in Nov. 1834; brother-in-law of the Duke of Sutherland and of the Earl of Burlington; and nephew of Hon. Fred. Howard, Major of Hussars, who was killed at Waterloo, and of the late Duchess of Rutland.
This officer entered the Navy 5 April, 1823; obtained his first commission 19 Sept. 1829; and, from 15 April, 1830, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 3 June, 1833, served in the Mediterranean on board the Pelican 18, Capt. Joseph Gape. His next appointments were, 24 Sept. and 13 Oct. 183G, to the Serpent and Wolverene, of 16 guns each; in the latter of which sloops he was again employed on the Mediterranean station until advanced to the rank he now holds 27 Dec. 1838. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Howard has been in Parliament, since 1840, as Member for Morpeth. He married, in 1842, Diana, only daughter of Hon. Geo. Ponsonby, and niece of the present Viscount Ponsonby, G.C.B., and of the late Major-General Sir Wm. Ponsonby, K.C.B. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HOWARD. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
Richard Howard entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diana 38, Capts. Chas. Grant and Wm. Ferris, employed on Channel service. In May, 1812, he became Midshipman of the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, also on the Home station; and between Dec. 1813 and June, 1815, he was employed in North America on board the Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash. Until the early part of 1817 he again served at home in the Surprise 38, and Malta 84, Capts. Sir Thos. John Cochrane and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. Towards the close of 1818 he joined the Coast Blockade, in the capacity of Admiralty-Mate, having passed his examination in Oct. 1816; and after an attachment of three or four years to it he was successively appointed, with the same rank, to the Rifleman 18, Capts. Jas. Montagu, Wm. Webb, and Wm. Carleton, Briton 46, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and Hon. Wm. Gordon, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations. He was made Lieutenant, 5 June, 1828, into the Ocean 98, Capt. Patrick Campbell; but since May, 1830, when he returned from the Mediterranean, and was put out of commission, has been unemployed.
HOWAT. (Commander, 1846.)
William Howat passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1826, into the Cyrené 20, Capt. Alex. Campbell, on the East India station, whence he came home with that officer in the Bombay 84, in Sept. 1828. His subsequent appointments were – 4 Jan. 1832, to the Talavera 74, Capts. Thos. Brown and Edw. Chetham, with the latter of whom he returned to England from the Mediterranean and was paid off 12 Feb. 1835 – 25 March, 1836, to the Pembroke 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, in which ship he was for nearly four years employed, part of the time as Midshipman, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – 27 Nov. 1841, in the latter capacity, to the Vanguard 80, off Lisbon, where he continued until the summer of 1843 – and, 14 Feb. 1845, again as Senior, to the same ship, then commanded by Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes as part of the Channel squadron. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and is now on half-pay.
HOWE. (Lieut., 1803. f-p., 35; h-p., 17.)
Alexander Borgoyne Howe, born 30 June, 1783, is second son of Alex. Howe, Esq., of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia; and grandson of Edw. Howe, Esq., of Annapolis, who was treacherously murdered while under a flag of truce and in parley with a French officer in New Brunswick in 1752. This officer entered the Navy 6 Jan. 1795 (under the patronage of H.R.H. Prince Edward) as Midshipman, on board the Africa 64, Capt. Roddam Home; and in March, 1796, was present in the unsuccessful attack made by the forces under Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker and Major-General Forbes on
