A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hallowes, John
HALLOWES. (Captain, 1842. f-p., 21; h-p., 23.)
John Hallowes is second son of the late Col. John Hallowes, of Glapwell Hall, co. Derby.
This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ranger 18, Capt. Chas. Coote. That vessel being unfortunately captured by the Rochefort squadron 17 July, 1805, he was sent a prisoner to Verdun, and there detained for a period of nearly five years and a half. On his release in Dec. 1810, he joined the Helder 36, Capt. John Serrell, stationed in the Baltic, where, on 10 July, 1811, we find him serving in a boat with the present Lieut. Wm. Henry Dixon at the cutting out of four Danish vessels from under the protection of a 6-gun battery and two gun-boats in Kioge Bay. In May, 1813, after a brief attachment to the Ceres 32, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge, Mr. Hallowes was invested with the command of No. 5 gun-boat, in which he cooperated with Capt. Arthur Farquhar in an attack made on 30 Nov. following upon the strong batteries that defended Cuxhaven, and in the ensuing and very arduous siege of Glückstadt.[1] Being promoted for the latter service, by commission dated Jan. 1814, he was subsequently appointed, in the capacity of Lieutenant – 28 March, 1814, to the Pincher brig, Capt. Jas. Wallis, in the Downs – 7 April, 1815, to the Redpole 10, Capt. Edm. Denman, employed off the coasts of France and Holland – 2 June, 1815, to the command, for a short period, of No. 25 gun-boat, again in the Downs – Nov. 1822, to the Dolphin Revenue-cutter, of which he retained command until 1826 – and 25 Sept. 1830, 4 April, 1833, and 21 Aug. 1834, as Senior, to the Wellesley 74, Serpent 16, and Malabar 74, Capts. Sam. Campbell Rowley, John Chas. Symonds, and Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, on the Home, Lisbon, West India, and Mediterranean stations. He was promoted from the latter ship to the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837; and afterwards employed as Second-Captain, from 4 Dec. 1841 until the receipt of his Post-commission, bearing date 5 Dec. 1842, of the St. Vincent 120, flagship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Hallowes married Margaret, only daughter of the late Col. Nich. Ramsay, by whom he has issue seven sons and two daughters. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 127.