A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Howard, Richard
HOWARD. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
Richard Howard entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diana 38, Capts. Chas. Grant and Wm. Ferris, employed on Channel service. In May, 1812, he became Midshipman of the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, also on the Home station; and between Dec. 1813 and June, 1815, he was employed in North America on board the Saturn 56, Capt. Jas. Nash. Until the early part of 1817 he again served at home in the Surprise 38, and Malta 84, Capts. Sir Thos. John Cochrane and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. Towards the close of 1818 he joined the Coast Blockade, in the capacity of Admiralty-Mate, having passed his examination in Oct. 1816; and after an attachment of three or four years to it he was successively appointed, with the same rank, to the Rifleman 18, Capts. Jas. Montagu, Wm. Webb, and Wm. Carleton, Briton 46, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and Hon. Wm. Gordon, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations. He was made Lieutenant, 5 June, 1828, into the Ocean 98, Capt. Patrick Campbell; but since May, 1830, when he returned from the Mediterranean, and was put out of commission, has been unemployed.