A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harriott, Thomas
HARRIOTT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 37.)
Thomas Harriott is brother of Wm. Harriott, Esq., Master R.N. (1828), now Superintendent of Convicts at Bermuda.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1800, on board the Hannibal 74, Capt. Solomon Ferris, which ship, having grounded under the enemy’s batteries, was compelled, after a long and deadly resistance, inflictive on her of a loss of 81 men killed and 62 wounded, to strike her colours, in the action off Algeciras, 6 July, 1801. Being soon, however, restored to liberty, Mr. Harriott returned to England, and in the following Nov. was discharged. He re-embarked, in Oct. 1803, on board the Terrible 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet, fitting at Portsmouth; and in May, 1804, and March, 1805, we find him joining the Tigre and Renown 74’s, Capts. Benj. Hallowell and Sir Rich. John Strachan; in the last-mentioned of which ships he came home from the Mediterranean, immediately after his removal to her, and was paid off. He did not again go afloat until Jan. 1808, when he succeeded in obtaining a berth on board the Erebus 18, Capts. Wm. Autridge, Henry Lyford, Geo. Brine, John Forbes, and David Ewen Bartholomew, under whom he thenceforward served, on the Home, Baltic, and North American stations, until Sept. 1814.
During the closing portion of that period Mr. Harriott bore a warm part in the different Potomac operations connected with Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon’s brilliant expedition against Alexandria, in the course of which the Erebus particularly signalised herself and incurred a loss of 17 men killed and wounded. He was afterwards employed for nearly 12 months, latterly on, the coast of France, in the Euryalus 36, Capts. Chas. Napier and Thos. Huskisson. He then took up a commission bearing date 28 Feb. 1815, and has since been, on half-pay.
Lieut. Harriott is married and has issue three children.