A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Coventry, Percy William
COVENTRY. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Percy William Coventry entered the Navy 23 Sept. 1831; passed his examination 5 Dec. 1837; and after intermediately serving in North America, the West Indies, and Mediterranean, as Mate of the Comus 18, Capt. Evan Nepean, and Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Owen, was advanced to the rank he now holds 14 June, 1844. His appointments have since been – 9 Sept. 1844, to the Waterwitch 10, Capt. Thos. Fras. Birch, fitting at Portsmouth – 8 Jan. 1845, to the Comus 18, Capt. Thos. Sparke Thompson, stationed on the south-east coast of America – and, 29 Oct. 1845, to the Vernon 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, with whom he is now employed in the East Indies.