A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Courtenay, Henry
COURTENAY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Henry Courtenay entered the Navy, 24 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, with whom he sailed for the East Indies, and thence returned in convoy of a fleet of Indiamen. In Sept. 1808, he joined the Stately 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, flag-ship afterwards in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Thos. Bertie, and ultimately commanded by Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, under whom he co-operated, as Midshipman, in the defence of Tarifa, in Dec. 1811. From June, 1812, until Aug. 1815, he next served on board the Rodney 74, Capt. E. D. King, off Toulon, Pyramus 36, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, in the Bay of Biscay, Royalist 18, Capts. Jas. John Gordon Bremer and Thos. Parry Jones Parry, off the coast of Spain, Hyperion 36, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, on the Lisbon station, and Achates sloop, Capt. Thos. Lambe Polden Laugharne, off Scilly. While with Capt. Bremer in the Royalist, Mr. Courtenay assisted, in company with the Scylla 18, and in sight of the Rippon 74, at the capture, 21 Oct. 1813, of the French frigate Le Weser, of 40 guns and 340 men, after a stern conflict, and a loss to the Royalist of 2 men killed and 9 wounded. Having obtained his commission 8 March, 1815, he appears to have been subsequently appointed – 4 June, 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and, 21 Dec. 1831, as First, to the Revenge 78, Capt. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, stationed off Lisbon. Mr. Courtenay has been on half-pay since 1833.