A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hallowes, Francis
HALLOWES. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Francis Hallowes entered the Navy, 16 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monarch 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith, whom he followed as Midshipman, in Aug. 1805, into the Edgar 74. In Feb. 1806, after a short attachment to the Revenge 74, commanded at Portsmouth by Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he joined the Phoebe 36, Capts. Jas. Oswald, Hassard Stackpoole, and Jas. Hillyar, with whom he successively served in the North Sea, Channel, Mediterranean, and Baltic. On his return home from the latter station in Nov. 1809, in the Monkey gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Fitzgerald, he was received on board the Namur 74, bearing the flag at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Wells. In the following summer he sailed for the Mauritius as Master’s-Mate in the Menelaus 38, Capt. Peter Parker; from which ship, after assisting at the reduction of the above island, he was removed, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Actaeon brig, Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, then on the point of returning to England with the intelligence of the event. Resuming, in March, 1811, his former duties in the Menelaus, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where Sir Edw. Pellew, the Commander-in-Chief, appointed him Lieutenant, 25 June, 1812, of the Alfred 74. That ship being however ordered to England before he could join, Mr. Hallowes was obliged to serve for some time as a Supernumerary on board the Impétueux 74, and Stately 64, flag-ships at Lisbon of the present Sir Geo. Martin, who, on 26 May, 1813, gave him an order to act as Lieutenant of the Zenobia brig, Capts. Rich. Foley and Nich. Chas. Dobree – an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed on 14 of the following June. He was transferred from the Zenobia in May, 1815, to the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Lord Keith at Plymouth, where he remained until the following Aug. He then went on half-pay, and has not since been afloat. Agent – J. Woodhead.