A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harward, Richard
HARWARD. (Capt., 1809. f-p., 14; h-p., 36.)
Richard Harward died 2 May, 1845, at Geneva.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 June, 1795. as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Caesar 80, Capts. Chas. Edm. Nugent and Roddam Home, of which ship, successively employed in the Channel and North Sea, he soon became Midshipman. Proceeding in 1798 to the Mediterranean in the Perseus, Capts. Jas. Oswald and Henry Compton, he assisted in the following year at the bombardment of Alexandria, and served in the ship’s launch in action with an enemy’s flotilla in the Bay of Naples. He subsequently became Acting-Lieutenant of the Blanche 36, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, and, on 3 Sept. 1801, after participating in the victory gained by Lord Nelson at Copenhagen, was officially promoted. His next appointments were – 26 March, 1803, to the Plantagenet 74, Capts. E. Hamond, Hon. Michael De Courcy, and Fras. Pender, on the Home station – 17 Sept. 1804, to the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget – in 1805, to the command of the Netley schooner and Swinger gun-brig, in the former of which vessels he conveyed despatches to the West Indies – and, in Nov. 1805, to the Northumberland 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Alex. Cochrane. For his conduct as First-Lieutenant of the latter ship in the action off St. Domingo, Mr. Harward was promoted to the rank of Commander 2 April, 1806. He subsequently joined, 2 March, 1808, the Delphinen 18, but, that sloop being unfortunately wrecked off the coast of Holland 4 Aug. following, he was next appointed, in Oct. of the same year, to the Parthian 10; in which vessel we find him capturing La Nouvelle Gironde, a notorious privateer of 14 guns and 58 men,[1] and ultimately attending the expedition to the Walcheren. Capt. Harward, whose Post-commission bore date 31 July, 1809, was lastly employed, from June, 1810, to June, 1812, as Flag-Captain to Sir Edw. Pellew in the Christian VII. 80, and Caledonia 120, on the Mediterranean station.
Capt. Harward was Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Gloucester. He married, first, 11 Jan. 1810, Julia, youngest daughter of Admiral the late Lord Exmouth; and, that lady dying in 1831, secondly, in 1834, Julia, daughter of Admiral Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, G.C.B., and grand-daughter of the above nobleman.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 659.