A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Heddington, Thomas
HEDDINGTON. (Commander, 1806.)
Thomas Heddington entered the Navy, previously to the year 1786, as a Boy, on board the Invincible 74, and, after an intermediate servitude in the Pégase and Castor frigates, Capts. Sam. Marshall and John Sam. Smith, became Midshipman, in Feb. 1791, of the Chatham, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Robt. Broughton and Peter Puget, under whom he made a voyage of discovery round the world, and was for a considerable time engaged in surveying the coast of America. He was promoted, on his return home, to a Lieutenancy, 6 Nov. 1795, in the Kangaroo 18, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle; and, between July, 1796, and the early part of 1802, he was next employed, on the Channel and Irish stations, in the Dryad 36, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Havock, Capt. Philip Bartholomew, Saturn 94, Capts. Jacob Waller and Thos. Totty, Venus frigate, Capt. Thos. Graves, and Orion 74, Capt. Robt. Carthew Reynolds. Attaining the rank of Commander, after having for two years and a half had charge of a Signal-station at Hawkesley Point, 25 Sept. 1806, he was subsequently, between Feb. 1808 and April, 1814, employed at various places as Regulating Captain, and Agent for Prisoners of War. He has since been on half-pay.