Royal Naval Biography/King, Richard Henry

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RICHARD HENRY KING, Esq.
[Commander.]

Passed for lieutenant in May or June 1811; obtained his first commission on the 12th July, 1813; and subsequently served under Captains Joseph G. Garland and Thomas J. Cochrane, in the Alert sloop and Forte frigate, the latter employed for some time on the West India and Halifax stations. He was advanced to his present rank on the 27th Aug. 1828.

This officer married, May 4th, 1830, Mary, daughter of the late Samuel Twyford, Esq., of Trotton, co. Sussex.