A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grove, Henry Leslie
GROVE. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Henry Leslie Grove entered the Navy, 9 June, 1795, as a Volunteer, on board the Narcissus frigate, Capt. Percy Eraser, whom he accompanied to the Bahama Islands. From 1796 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Aug. 1801, he served as Midshipman, on the Home station, in the Porcupine, Capt. John Draper, London 98, flag-ship of the late Sir John Colpoys, La Nymphe 36, Capt. P. Eraser (one of Lord Bridport’s ships in the action of Ile de Groix, 23 June, 1795), Namur 98, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy, and Narcissus again, Capt. P. Eraser. He was then successively intrusted with the command, until July, 1802, of the William and Constant gun-brigs. Independently of a further command, from Nov. 1803 to April, 1804, of the Hope cutter, stationed off Havre, Mr. Grove was employed, between June in the former year and Jan. 1806, in the Beaver 10, Capt. Chas. Pelly, Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, Pallas frigate, Capt. Lord Cochrane, and Impétueux 74, Capts. John Erskine Douglas, Thos. Byam Martin, and John Lawford. Being in May 1807 appointed an Agent for Transports, he visited in that capacity Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Lisbon; after which we find him officiating, between 1809 and 1815, as Agent for prisoners of war at Gottenborg, and again, in the Transport service, as Resident Agent at Deptford, Guernsey, and Cork. He was invested with the rank of Retired Commander on the Junior List 19 Oct. 1831; and on the Senior 12 Oct. 1846.
Commander Grove holds the appointment of Collector of the Customs at Exeter.