A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corneck, Henry Asser
CORNECK. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Henry Asser Corneck was horn, 29 Oct. 1791, in Devonshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capts. Graham Moore and John Phillimore; and, in Nov. following, sailed for the Brazils in escort of the Royal Family of Portugal. Having attained the rating of Midshipman in Nov. 1808, and taken part in all the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition in 1809, Mr. Comeck next, in April, 1811, joined the Laurel 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, under whom he suffered shipwreck, on the Govivas Rock, in the Teigneuse Passage, 31 Jan. 1812. He then rejoined Capt. Moore in the Chatham 74; and was afterwards on his passage to India in the Java of 46 guns and 377 men, when that frigate fell a victim, at the close of a deadly action of three hours and forty minutes, in which 22 of her men were killed, and 102, including her Captain, Henry Lambert, wounded, to the American ship Constitution, of 55 guns and 480 men, 29 Dec. following. Mr. Corneck – who on that occasion was slightly wounded, and for his steady and officer-like conduct promoted to the rating of Master’s Mate – passed his examination 3 Sept. 1813. He subsequently, until promoted 26 Dec. 1822, served, in that capacity, on the West India, Home, Halifax, and Mediterranean stations, on board the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, Leonidas 38, Capt. Wm. King, Newcastle 60, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Bellette 18, Capt. John Popham Baker, Mersey 26, Capt. Edw. Collier, Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, and Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of his old Captain, Sir Graham Moore. Having been promoted, as above, Mr. Corneck was placed on half-pay 2 April, 1823, since which period he has not been employed.
He married, 11 Nov. 1821, the youngest daughter of Jas. Brazier La Grange, Esq. (an American loyalist, who held a clerkship for upwards of 30 years in the late Marquess of Camden’s office in the Exchequer, and acted for two years as Deputy-Teller to that nobleman), and grand-daughter of the Rev. Wm. Warrington, 35 years vicar of Old Windsor, co. Berks. He has issue an only son, Henry Warrington, a Midshipman, R.N., who entered the service 29 Oct. 1841.