A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grierson, William Charles
GRIERSON. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Charles Grierson passed his examination 8 Sept. 1837; and served, as Mate, from the close of 1842 until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Jan. 1845, in the Queen 110, and Formidable 84, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. He joined, on 19 May in the latter year, the Styx steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Windham Hornby, on the coast of Africa; and, since 8 of the following Oct., has been employed in the Pacific on board the Juno 26, Capt. Patrick John Blake.