him to invalid from the West Indies, he assumed command of the Barbara schooner, of 111 tons, 10 12-pounder carronades, and 50 men; and in that vessel he continued employed for upwards of two years on the Irish, Downs, Baltic, and Plymouth stations. He contrived, during the period, to beat off, 11 Feb. 1813, a detachment of seven luggers, carrying from 8 to 14 guns each, after more than an hour’s close action, fought in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. On the following day he drove a lugger on shore and destroyed her; and he subsequently, among a host of dashing affairs, cut out a ship of 400 tons, two galliots, and a sloop, laden with corn, from the harbour of Aalbourg, although hotly pursued by nine Danish armed vessels 13 April, 1813 – brought to and examined, 18 June following, a licensed Danish merchantman, under the fire of three national brigs and five gun-boats, close inshore off Christiansand – engaged, 3 July, the Norge, a cutter-rigged praam, mounting 2 long 32-pounders and 6 18-pounder carronades, with a complement of 80 men, supported by several other armed vessels, near Fladstrand – and on 11 Aug. came a second time into action with the Norge, through whose fire, and that of nine gun-boats in her company, the Barbara sustained severe damage. On 6 Oct. in the same year, 1813, a very gallant exploit was performed a few miles to the southward of Wingo Sound, where, by a five-oared boat under the command of Lieut. Rich. Banks of the Forward gun-brig, and by the Barbara’s four-oared gig under Lieut. Morgan, a Danish cutter, mounting one howitzer, with a complement of 25 men, was boarded and carried in spite of a fierce resistance, in which the enemy sustained a loss of 5 men killed and their commander badly wounded, and the British of 2 killed and 3 (including Lieut. Morgan severely) wounded. During her stay in the Baltic, a period of nine months, the Barbara captured and destroyed not less than 2544 tons of the enemy’s shipping, navigated by 136 seamen; and, in conjunction with the Hawke privateer, of Hastings, made prize of a Danish privateer, and re-took a ship from under the batteries on Lessee Island and the fire of 13 gun-boats and 10 privateers.[1] So much activity and gallantry on the part of Lieut. Morgan could not do otherwise than elicit strong expressions of approbation from his successive Commanders-in-Chief; the late Admirals Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Graham Moore. Quitting the Barbara about June, 1814, he was next employed in command, from April to Sept. 1815, and from the latter date until Feb. 1818, of the Aggressor gun-brig and Picton schooner, on the Irish station. He obtained a second promotal commission 19 July, 1821; and afterwards officiated as an Inspecting-Commander of the Coast Guard at Whitby and Newhaven, from 1827 to 1830, and from 16 March, 1831, until promoted to Post-rank 15 Jan. 1836. On leaving the Whitby district in June, 1830, he was presented by his officers with a handsome piece of plate “as a grateful testimony of his kind and gentlemanly conduct towards them.” He has not been employed since his last promotion.
Capt. Morgan is a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and is the Senior Captain of 1836. He married, 24 July, 1833, Eliza, daughter of T. C. Faulconer, Esq., of Newhaven.
MORGAN. (Captain, 1846.)
James William Morgan was born in 1802.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 May, 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leyden 64, Capt. John Davie, attached to the force in the North Sea; and between 1815 and 1822 was employed as Midshipman, on the Cape of Good Hope, Home, North American, and St. Helena stations, in the Centaur 74 and Malta 84, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, Carnation 18 and Tamar 26, each under the orders of Capt. Hon. John Gordon, and Vigo 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert. He then, having passed his examination in 1821, became Mate of the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood; a capacity in which he further, from 1823 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 March, 1833, served in South America on board the Tartar 42, Capt. Thos. Brown, Ganges 84, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, and Druid 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. His succeeding appointments were – 23 March, 1833, to the Madagascar 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the early part of 1835 – and 22 Sept. in the latter year, 18 April, 1836, and (after about 12 months of half-pay) 8 April, 1839, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Curaçoa 24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, all in South America. He came home on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and was next, from 1 Feb. 1844, until posted 9 Nov. 1846, employed on Home service as Second-Captain of the Camperdown 104, Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and John Neale Nott. He is not at present afloat.
He married, 11 June, 1838, Caroline Dorothea, eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Thos. Brown.
MORGAN. (Commander, 1837.)
John Morgan was born 29 Jan. 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 11 July, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Uranie 38, Capts. Christopher Laroche and Thos. Manby, on the Guernsey station; joined, next, the Horatio 38, and Royal William, Capts. Geo. Scott and Hon. Courtenay Boyle, lying at Portsmouth; and from the close of the same year until May, 1811, was employed in the East and West Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope in the Sapphire 18, Capts. Geo. Davies and Bertie Cornelius Cator, Charwell 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, and Sapphire again, Capts. B. C. Cator, Wm. Fitzmaurice, Hon. W. Gordon, Geo. Davies, and Henry Montresor. The ensuing three years and ten months were passed by Mr. Morgan on the West India, Portsmouth, Mediterranean, and Irish stations, in the Helena sloop, Capt. H. Montresor, Gladiator 44 and San Josef 110, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Wm. Hargood and Sir Rich. King, and Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford. He was then promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 17 Feb. 1815; and was subsequently appointed to the command – 4 Aug. 1826, for two years, of the Sprightly Revenue-cruizer – and 2 June and 28 Aug. 1832, of the Cracker and Seaflower cutters, in which vessels he served until paid off in 1835. Prior to joining the Cracker, Mr. Morgan commanded for some time the Sylvia cutter. He obtained a second promotal commission 10 Jan. 1837; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1842, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
MORGAN. (Commander, 1834. f-p., 22; h-p., 20.)
Richard Morgan entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Prevoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Dan. McCoy, and, after serving for a few months off Gibraltar and Cadiz in that vessel and the Colossus 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, joined the Canopus 80, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis, Geo. Martin, and Chas. Boyles. Under the first-mentioned of those officers he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, enacted a part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French frigate Le Président, and, after attending Sir John Duckworth’s expedition to Constantinople in Feb. 1807, assumed a share in the ensuing operations in Egypt. Under Rear-Admiral Martin, he joined, in Oct. 1809, in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, off Cette, of the French ships-of-the-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 2167.
