Royal Naval Biography/Godby, John Hardy

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JOHN HARDY GODBY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]

Son of the late John Godby, Esq. Steward of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, by a daughter of Josiah Hardy, Esq. H.M. Consul at Cadiz, and formerly Governor of the Jerseys, North America[1].

He was made lieutenant in 1800; commander Sept. 25, 1806; appointed to the Prospero sloop, Nov. 18, 1809; and posted June 27, 1814. On the 17th Feb. 1811, he destroyed a Danish privateer cutter, of 2 guns and 25 men, near Christiansand, on the coast of Norway.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.