1830, again as First, to the Dryad 42, bearing the broad pendant of the last-named officer on the coast of Africa – and, 23 Sept. 1833, to the command, on the same station, of the Lynx brigantine of 3 guns. While in the Dryad, Mr. Huntley had successive charge of the Seaflower, Fair Rosamond, and Black Joke tenders, in the second of which, mounting but 1 gun, and having only 21 effective men on board, he very gallantly took, on 10 Sept. 1831, the Regulo and Rapido slavers, carrying between them 13 guns and 140 men. In the Lynx, which vessel he paid off in 1837, we also find him making several captures. Since the attainment of his present rank, 28 June, 1838, he has been on half-pay.
Sir Henry Vere Huntley, who afterwards received the honour of Knighthood, 9 Oct. 1841, very ably assisted Capt. Robt. Craigie, R.N., in conducting a difficult negotiation with the King and Chiefs of Bonny in the early part of 1837, on which occasion he was sent home with intelligence of the proceedings. In 1839 he was appointed Lieut.-Governor of the settlements on the river Gambia; and, while there, he repelled an irruption made into Cartabar by the barbarous chiefs of Dunkasseen. Since Aug. 1841 Sir Henry has filled the office of Lieut.-Governor of Prince Edward’s Island. He married, 20 Sept. 1832, Anne, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-General John Skinner, and sister both of Lieut.-Col. Thos. Skinner, C.B., of the 31st Regt., who figured in Affghanistan, and died from the effects of the hardships he there underwent, and of the late Capt. Jas. Skinner, chief Commissariat officer at Cabul, who had the good fortune, through his interest with Akbar Khan, to preserve Lady Sale and her friends from destruction in the disastrous retreat from Affghanistan. He has issue two sons and a daughter. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HURDIS. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 20; h-p., 44.)
George Clarke Hurdis is son of the late Jas. Hurdis, Esq. of Seaford, co. Sussex; and brother-in-law of Lieut. John Reddie Black, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1783, on board the Griffin cutter, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Cook, from which vessel, employed in the Channel, he was discharged 12 July, 1786. On 4 May, 1791, he re-embarked, as Midshipman, on board the Illustrious 74, Capt. Chas. Morice Pole; and, from the following Sept., until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 June, 1795, he served with Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Edw. Jas. Foote, and Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in the Niger and Latona frigates, on the Home station; where, while lent, we believe, to the Brunswick, he was wounded in Lord Howe’s action,[1] and escorted, in the Latona, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick to this country. He then joined the Leander 50, Capt. Thos. Boulden Thompson, under whom he accompanied Sir Horatio Nelson’s expedition to Teneriffe, and then visited the North Sea, Baltic, and Mediterranean; and on 27 April, 1798, and 15 March, 1801, he was appointed to the Diomede 50, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, and Wilhelmina, Capt. Jas. Lind, both on the East India station. He attained the rank of Commander 29 April, 1802; was employed in that capacity in the Galway district of Sea Fencibles from March, 1804, to March, 1810; and accepted his present rank 10 Sept. 1840.
HURST, K.W. (Lieut.,1810. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
George Hurst entered the Navy, in Dec. 1798, as Ordinary, on board the Diana 38, commanded at Cork by Capts. Jonathan Faulknor and Alex. Fraser; proceeded to Lisbon, towards the close of 1799, as Midshipman of the Impregnable 98, Capt. J. Faulknor; and, from Oct. 1799, until June, 1802, served, on the Home station, in the Glory 98, Capt. Thos. Wells, and Achille 74, Capts. Sir Edw. Buller and John Okes Hardy. He then accompanied Capt. Hardy into the Courageux 74, in the boats of which ship he assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in 1803; and he was subsequently, until July, 1807, employed, in the Channel, and off Cork and Cadiz, in the Britannia 100, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk, Virginie 38, Capt. Edw. Brace, and Atlas 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Child Purvis. The next three years were passed by Mr. Hurst, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Illustrious 74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, Minorca 18, Capt. Phipps Hornby, and Excellent and Bombay 74’s, Capts. John West and Wm. Cuming, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. In Nov. 1808 we find him serving on shore in command of a party of the Excellent’s seamen, and uniting in the defence of Rosas, a citadel on the north-eastern extremity of Spain. Being confirmed 4 Dec. 1810, and appointed a few days afterwards to the Guadeloupe of 16 guns and 102 men, Capts. Joseph Swabey Tetley, Geo. Rose Sartorius, and Arthur Stow, he served in that vessel, on 27 June, 1811, in a close and spirited action of an hour and 35 minutes, fought by her, off the town of Vendre, with the French corvette Tactique of 18 guns and at least 150 men, and armed xebec Guêpe of 8 guns and 65 or 70 men; both of whom were in the end beaten off with great slaughter to themselves, and with a loss to the British (who for some time had been simultaneously opposed by the fire of two heavy batteries) of 1 man killed and 12 or 13 wounded. On 9 Nov. 1813 Mr. Hurst commanded the boats of the Guadeloupe, in conjunction with those of the Undaunted, and distinguished himself by the gallant manner in which he aided at the capture of a vigorously defended tower, 30 feet high, together with several batteries in the harbour of Port Nouvelle, where lay 7 French vessels, whose destruction was fully effected.[2] After further contributing, in the boats of the same sloop and of the Salsette frigate, to the capture of a French privateer in the Archipelago, he removed, 24 Nov. 1813, to the Ganymede 20, Capts. John Brett Purvis and Wm. M‘Culloch, with whom he served, as First-Lieutenant, in the Mediterranean and at Bermuda, until 5 Aug. 1815. He was next employed, in a like capacity, from. 15 Oct. 1832 until he invalided in March, 1833, on board the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, with whom, during that period, he served in the North Sea, and made a voyage to Lisbon. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Hurst was appointed a Naval Knight of Windsor in 1838.
HUSKISSON. (Capt., 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Huskisson was born 31 July, 1784, at Oxley, near Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, and died 21 Dec. 1844. He was brother of Geo. Huskisson, Esq., formerly an officer of the Royal Marines, who died Collector of the Customs at the island of St. Vincent in Feb. 1844, having held that appointment since 1820; and half-brother of the late Right Hon. Wm. Huskisson, one of H.M. Principal Secretaries of State, as also of Major-General Sam. Huskisson. One of his sisters married the Rev. Jas. Walhouse, uncle to the present Lord Hatherton.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 July, 1800 (under the patronage of Admiral Mark Milbanke), as A.B., on board the Beaver sloop, Capt. Christopher B. Jones, lying at Portsmouth; and, on removing, in the following Oct., to the Romney 50, Capt. Sir Home Popham, proceeded to the Red Sea, where he was detached, as Midshipman, during a few months of 1802, in a small hired brig, to assist in surveying the coast of Arabia. After visiting other parts of India he returned home, and joined in June, 1803, the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, under whom we find him enacting a warm part in the action off Cape Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. Being next transferred to the Foudroyant 80, successive flag-ship of Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Albemarle Bertie, he had an opportunity, on 13 March, 1806, of witnessing the capture of the Mar-
