A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Arthur, William Stephens
ARTHUR. (Commander, 1824. f-p., 11; h-p., 25.)
William Stephens Arthur entered the Navy, 2 June, 1811, as L.M., on board the Caledonia 120, Capt. Rich. Harward, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew; became Midshipman, in Nov. 1811, of the Rainbow 26, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, employed in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia; served, from Feb. 1813, to Feb. 1818, in the Iphigenia 36, Capts. Andrew King and John Reynolds, under the former of whom, besides witnessing the fall of Genoa, he was wounded, we are informed, in an attack on Fort Erie, in 1814; then joined the Impregnable 104, flag-ship, on her return from the East Indies, of Lord Exmouth, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth; and, on 6 Feb. 1821, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. His next appointment was, 10 July, 1823, to the Isis 50, flag-ship of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, on the Jamaica station, where he attained his present rank, while serving in the Bustard sloop, 11 Oct. 1824. He has not since been employed. Agent – John P. Muspratt.