A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Holloway, Thomas
HOLLOWAY. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Holloway entered the Navy, in Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Utrecht 64, Capt. Thos. Seccombe. With that officer, after having served a few months in the Downs under the flag of Rear-Admiral John Holloway, he removed to the Glatton 50, and proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, until the close of 1808, he was actively employed with Capt. Robt. Waller Otway on board the Montagu 74, and Malta 84. During the next 12 months we find him serving, on the Downs and Newfoundland stations, in the Isis 50, Capts. Laugharne and D. M‘Leod, and Antelope 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Holloway. He then rejoined Capt. Otway in the Ajax 74, and on 20 July, 1810, was on board that ship in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British, with a slender force, beat back a powerful division of the French fleet [errata 1]. After an attachment of some time to the Cumberland 74, commanded on the Home station by Capt. Thos. Baker, Mr. Holloway was made Lieutenant, 10 March, 1812, into the Fame 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, under whom he long cooperated with the patriots on the coast of Spain, and came into frequent contact with the French. Since he was paid off, in Oct. 1814, he has not been afloat.