A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halsted, George Anthony
HALSTED. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 19; h-p., 12.)
George Anthony Halsted is son of the late Capt. Geo. Halsted, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 March, 1816, and embarked, 18 Feb. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. After serving for five years on the Mediterranean station in that frigate, and in the Rose sloop, Capt. Thos. Ball Clowes, and Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, he sailed for the West Indies in the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Hugh Patton, and was there promoted to a Lieutenancy, 25 Feb. 1824, in the Icarus 10, Capt. John Geo. Graham. On 24 Dec. 1825, having been further employed in the Serapis schooner, and Hussar and Dartmouth frigates, Capts. Jackson, Geo. Harris, and Henry Dundas, he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the Isis 50, to his uncle, Sir L. W. Halsted, then Commander-in-Chief on the same station. He was in consequence advanced to his present rank by commission dated 13 June, 1827. With the exception of some months in 1837-8, and again in 1843-4, he has been employed in the Coast Guard ever since 18 March, 1834. Agent – J. Hinxman.