A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boulton, William
BOULTON. (Lieut., 1817; f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
William Boulton entered the Navy, 24 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Unicorn 32, Capt. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman; and, after serving on the West India station, witnessed the reduction of Monte Video in Feb. 1807, and the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809. In May, 1813, having been unemployed for nearly four years, he re-embarked, as Master’s Mate, on board the Bahama, Lieut.-Commander Henry Smith Wilson, lying in the river Medway. He afterwards served – in 1814-15, in the Hasty gun-brig, Capt. John Brenton, on the Channel station – in 1815-16, in the Phaeton 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, with whom he visited the Cape of Good Hope, and subsequently conveyed Sir Hudson Lowe to St. Helena – and, in 1816-17, as Admiralty Midshipman, in the Eridanus 36, and Severn 50, Capts. Wm. King and Wm. M‘Culloch, on the Home station. He attained his present rank on 24 Nov. in the latter year, but has not since been afloat.