A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Horton, William
HORTON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Horton is son (by Grace, daughter of _____ Treacher, Esq., and widow of Henry Whorwood, Esq., of Headington House, co. Oxford) of Joshua Sydney Horton, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the White (1830), who died 24 Nov. 1834, at Boulogne-sur-mer, aged 67. His grandfather’s first wife was a daughter of Geo. Clarke, Esq., Lieut.-Governor of New York; and his uncle, the late Thos. Horton, Esq., of Howroyde, co. York, married the Lady Mary Gordon, youngest daughter of George, third Earl of Aberdeen. The Lieutenant is nephew of Geo. Wm. Horton, Esq., a Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 13 Dec. 1839; and served, as Mate, on board the Talbot 26, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Robt. Fanshawe Stopford (under the former of whom he participated in the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre), and Queen 110, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington. He obtained his commission 7 March, 1842, but, rejoining the St. Vincent soon afterwards, continued in that ship until appointed, 6 Dec. following, to the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Chas. Hotham, on the South American station. On 25 Nov. 1844, after about 12 months of half-pay, he went back to the St. Vincent, then bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, with whom, however, he continued but a few months. Lieut. Horton, whose next appointment was, 25 July, 1846, to the Queen, Commodore Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, has been attached, since 14 Oct. in that year, to the Thetis 36, commanded by his former Captain, Codrington.
He married, 18 Feb. 1846, Agnes Jane, second daughter of the late J. Jeddere Fisher, Esq., of Great Culberden, Tunbridge Wells.