A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halliday, George Richard
HALLIDAY. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Richard Halliday entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 24 June, 1830; passed his examination 7 Jan. 1835; was promoted, while serving on board the Britannia 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir John Acworth Ommanney, to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Nov. 1841; and afterwards joined – 3 Dec. 1841, as Additional, the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis – and 24 Oct. 1843, the Daphne 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow. He returned home from the Pacific (where he had been employed ever since his appointment to the Alfred) in the early part of 1846; and is now on half-pay.