A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Guyon, John Frederick
GUYON. (Lieutenant, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 6.)
John Frederick Guyon was born 21 Nov. 1807.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Feb. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune 42, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, in the boats of which frigate he served at the capture of several piratical vessels in the Grecian Archipelago. In the course of 1826 he successively joined the Gloucester 74, commanded at Sheerness by Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, and Ganges 84, fitting for the flag of Sir Robt. Otway, then about to assume the direction of naval affairs in South America. In Sept. 1829, a few months after he had passed his examination, Mr. Guyon returned to England. He subsequently joined, in the capacity of Mate – 10 June, 1830, the Ganges again, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, attached to the force in the Mediterranean – 21 April, 1832, the Trinculo 18, Capt. Jas. Rich. Booth, off the coast of Ireland – 9 Nov. following, the Malabar 74, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean, and there served, latterly in the Canopus 84, until Feb. 1837 – and 9 Aug. 1837, the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, Capt. Arthur Wakefield, employed on the same station. His appointments, as Lieutenant, which rank he attained 28 June, 1838, were, also in the Mediterranean – 25 July, 1838, to the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry – 19 Nov. 1839, to the Cyclops steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, in which vessel he participated In the capture of the castle of Gebail, the town of Sidon, and other places on the coast of Syria – and, 3 Feb. 1841, to the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence. He has been on half-pay since Feb. 1842.