A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harper, George
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HARPER. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
George Harper passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his commission 6 June, 1837. His appointments have since been – on 12 of the same month, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 14 April, 1838, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the North America and West India station – 1 Feb. 1839, to the Implacable 72, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Edw. Harvey – and, 3 June, 1842, as First-Lieutenant, to the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, attached to the force in the Pacific, whence he returned in 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.