A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hurdis, George Clarke
HURDIS. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 20; h-p., 44.)
George Clarke Hurdis is son of the late Jas. Hurdis, Esq. of Seaford, co. Sussex; and brother-in-law of Lieut. John Reddie Black, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1783, on board the Griffin cutter, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Cook, from which vessel, employed in the Channel, he was discharged 12 July, 1786. On 4 May, 1791, he re-embarked, as Midshipman, on board the Illustrious 74, Capt. Chas. Morice Pole; and, from the following Sept., until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 June, 1795, he served with Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Edw. Jas. Foote, and Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in the Niger and Latona frigates, on the Home station; where, while lent, we believe, to the Brunswick, he was wounded in Lord Howe’s action,[1] and escorted, in the Latona, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick to this country. He then joined the Leander 50, Capt. Thos. Boulden Thompson, under whom he accompanied Sir Horatio Nelson’s expedition to Teneriffe, and then visited the North Sea, Baltic, and Mediterranean; and on 27 April, 1798, and 15 March, 1801, he was appointed to the Diomede 50, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, and Wilhelmina, Capt. Jas. Lind, both on the East India station. He attained the rank of Commander 29 April, 1802; was employed in that capacity in the Galway district of Sea Fencibles from March, 1804, to March, 1810; and accepted his present rank 10 Sept. 1840.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1704, p. 567.