A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harrow, Henry
HARROW. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Henry Harrow entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Adamant 50, Capts. John Stiles, John Fyffe, and Micajah Malbon, of which vessel, successively employed on the African and West India stations, he soon became Midshipman. From Dec. 1807 until Oct. 1813, we find him serving, chiefly in the West Indies, Baltic, and Channel, on board the Goelan and Favorite sloops, both commanded by Capt. Benj. Clement, Rover 18, Capt. Justice Finley, Crescent frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, and Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, bearing each the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. During his attachment to the Favorite, a period of nearly two years, he appears to have been very arduously employed, and to have passed through scenes of great mortality. On one occasion, we believe, he assisted by his indefatigable exertions in subduing an alarming fire which had broken out at Falmouth, on the north side of the island of Jamaica; and he was afterwards, while returning with convoy to England, present in a desperate hurricane, in which the same vessel lost her topmasts and sustained considerable injury. On leaving the Ville de Paris, as above, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Ferret brig, commanded on the north coast of Spain by Capt. Wm. Ramsden, but he went back to the former ship in Feb. 1814, and continued to serve in her until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June following. Mr. Harrow, who was subsequently employed for 10 months in the West Indies and Channel on board the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, has been on half-pay since Aug. 1815.
He married, in April, 1834, Ann, youngest daughter of the late E. D. Bridger, Esq., of Barton Farm.