A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halsted, Edward Pellew
HALSTED. (Capt., 1842. f-p., .19; h-p., 7.)
Edward Pellew Halsted is son, we believe, of the late Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, G.C.B.,[1] by Emma Mary, eldest daughter of the first Lord Exmouth, and sister of Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, Kt., K.C.H. The late Capt. Geo. Halsted, R.N., was his uncle.
This officer entered the Navy 1 March, 1821; passed his examination in 1828; and obtained his first commission 28 Jan. 1829. He was subsequently appointed – 15 Oct. 1829, to the Nimrod 20, Capt. Sam. Radford, on the Irish station – and 28 Jan. and 25 Feb. 1831, and 26 March, 1834, to the Asia 84, St. Vincent 120, and Caledonia 120, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham and Sir Josias Rowley. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 6 Dec. 1836; and from 8 April, 1839, until the close of 1842, was next employed, on board the Childers 16, in the East Indies, and also in China, where he served in the Yang-tse-Kiang during the operations against the city of Chin-Kiang-Foo 21 July, 1842.[2] He then went on half-pay, having been advanced to his present rank on 15 of the preceding April; and has not since been afloat. Agent – J. Hinxman.
- ↑ Sir L. W. Halsted (whose father, Capt. W. A. Halsted, R.N., died about 1778) was born 2 April, 1764, and entered the Navy in 1776. He served as midshipman of the St. Albans 64, in Admiral Harrington’s two actions with the Comte d’Estaing; was in the same ship at the reduction of Ste. Lucie; fought in the Bellona 74, at the capture, 30 Dec. 1780, of the Dutch 54-gun ship Princess Caroline; and officiated as third Lieutenant of the Canada in Rodney’s actions, 9 and 12 April, 1782. On 12 May, 1796, he commanded the Phoenix, of 44 guns and 271 men, at the taking of the Dutch frigate Argo, of 36 suns and 237 men; and he was afterwards presented with a medal for his conduct as Captain of the Namur 74, in Sir Richard Strachan’s action 4 Not. 1805. From 1834 until 1827 he commanded in chief on the Jamaica station. At the period of his death, which took place 22 April, 1841, he was an Admiral of the White, and in the receipt of the Good-Service pension.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3404.