A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dicken, Henry Perry
DICKEN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 11.)
Henry Perry Dicken entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats, in which he witnessed the ensuing embarkation from Nyeborg of the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot army – was frozen up a whole winter at Gottenborg – and assisted at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809. After an attachment of four months to the Puissant 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth, he removed, in March, 1810, to the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, on the Lisbon station. In Aug. following he rejoined Sir R. G. Keats, as Midshipman, in the Milford 74; from which ship, after intermediately serving with the flotilla at the siege of Cadiz, he followed the same officer, in July, 1811, into the Hibernia 110, on the Mediterranean station; where; during a subsequent employment of two years in the Franchise 36, Capt. Rich. Buck, he co-operated much with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Mr. Dicken, whom we next find officiating as Admiralty Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and of the Bellerophon 74, and Salisbury 50, flag-ships of his patron. Sir R. G. Keats, obtained his commission 7 March, 1815. His appointments have since been – 14 Sept. 1815, to the Hazard 16, Capt. John Cookesley, off Newfoundland – 13 Sept. 1816, to the Tiber 46, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, in the Channel – 31 Jan; 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 50, and Ramillies 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until 1825 – and, 11 Jan. 1830, 18 July, 1843, and 8 April, 1845, to the command of the Reindeer, Linnet, and Seagull packets, on the Falmouth station, in the last-mentioned of which he is at present employed.
Lieut. Dicken married, in June, 1833, Emily, youngest daughter of Henry Williams, Esq., of Falmouth, by whom he has issue. Agent- – Joseph Woodhead.