A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gooding, James Glassford
GOODING. (Retired Commander, 1838. f-p., 26; h-p., 26.)
James Glassford Gooding entered the Navy, in Dec. 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Lion 64, Capts. Edm. Crawley and Manley Dixon. On 15 July, 1798, being off Carthagena, he took part in a brilliant action between the Lion and four Spanish frigates of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender of one of the latter, the Santa Dorothea. During the afterpart of the French Revolutionary war Mr. Gooding served under Capt. Dixon in the Généreux and Alexander 74’s, also on the Mediterranean station. On the renewal of hostilities in 1803 he joined the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant off Martinique of Sir Sam. Hood, by whom, in Oct. of the same year, he was appointed to the command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the Berbice schooner. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 20 Nov. 1805, he continued to serve until May, 1806. He then removed to the Northumberland 74, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, but being soon afterwards again invested with the command of a schooner, the Flying Fish, he joined in a successful expedition against a nest of privateers located at Batabano, in Cuba, and was likewise a participator in the Bueno-Ayrean operations of 1807. In June, 1809, Mr. Gooding was appointed to the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, under whom he accompanied the expedition to the Walchcren, whence, after the reduction of Flushing, he invalided. His last appointments were – between 1810 and 1813, to the Rosario 10, Capt. Booty Harvey, and to the First-Lieutenancy of several line-of-battle ships, bearing the flag on the Baltic and Brazilian stations of his old Captain, Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon – and, 28 Nov. 1823, to the command of the Cygnet packet, which he retained until paid off 18 Oct. 1832. He assumed the rank of Retired Commander 18 April, 1838.