A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Foreman, Richard
FOREMAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Richard Foreman entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Essington, whom he accompanied in the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. 1807. On 1 Dec. following he became Midshipman of the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, in the Baltic, and he subsequently served, from 1809 until Jan. 1815, in the Owen Glendower 36, Capts. Wm. Selby and Edw. Henry A’Court, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Sam. Hood in the East Indies, Cornwallis 74, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, Slaney 20, and Tamar 24, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Sothehy, and Boyne 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland. He then officiated for upwards of two months as Acting-Lieutenant of the Insolent 14, Capt. Wm. Kelly, on the Irish station, and, after a further servitude of six months in the Mediterranean, as Master’s Mate of the Boyne, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, was promoted to his present rank by commission dated 3 March, 1815.
For the last 25 years Lieut. Foreman has been confined in a lunatic asylum.