A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Halsted, Lawrence George
HALSTED. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 11; h-p., 1.)
Lawrence George Halsted died suddenly, 7 Nov. 1846, while serving, as below, on board the Spiteful,.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Sept. 1834; passed his examination in 1840; and for his performances in China, where he was mentioned in the despatches as having served on shore as Mate of the Wellesley 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, at the capture of Amoy and Chinghae,[1] was promoted, towards the close of 1842, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated back to 8 Oct. 1841. He afterwards, from 23 Sept. 1843, until the period of his death, served in the Spiteful steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Maitland, on the East India station; where, during an expedition conducted in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, he commanded the pinnace, and assisted at the destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune.[2] Agent – J. Hinxman.