A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Jones, Henry Paget
JONES. (Lieutenant, 1814.)
Henry Paget Jones was born in June, 1792. This officer entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Egyptienne frigate, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, and on the evening of 8 March following served in the boats, under Lieut. Philip Cosby Handfield, at the cutting-out, beneath an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach in the harbour of Muros, in Spain. He next, in the course of 1807, joined the Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent, Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and Cambrian 40, commanded by his former Captain, Paget, under whom he accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen. In Aug. 1808, after he had been attached for a few months to the Spencer 74, flagship of Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Leviathan 74, Capts. Paget and Thos. Harvey, he was further received by Capt. Paget on board the Revenge, another third-rate, and was thus afforded an opportunity of sharing in the prominent part borne by that ship on the occasion of Lord Cochrane’s celebrated attack on the enemy as they lay at anchor in Basque Roads in April, 1809. He continued to serve in the Revenge under the flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, latterly at the defence of Cadiz, until April, 1812, from which period until the following Oct. he acted as Lieutenant of the .St. Albans 64, Capt. John Ferris Devonshire. In March, 1813, we find him resuming the duties of Midshipman on board the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christ. Cole, stationed off Rochefort, and in about 12 months after that period transferred to the Venerable 74, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, who, on 19 July, 1814, caused him to be again invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant – an appointment which the Admiralty sanctioned by a commission dated on 26 Sept. in the same year. His succeeding appointments were – for a few months in 1815, to the Heron sloop, Capt. Fras. Chas. Annesley, in which vessel he returned to England and was paid off – 13 Nov. 1821, to the Brazen 26, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, on the Irish station – 11 March, 1823, to the Superb 74, Capt. Adam Mackenzie, with whom he served in the West Indies, and off Bermuda and Lisbon, until the close of 1825 – and, in 1826, to the command, we believe, of the Otter steamer, which he retained until 1844.
Lieut. Jones, who is at present Commissioner of Pilotage at Holyhead, married, 13 Oct. 1837, Margaret, daughter of Norris M. Goddard, Esq., formerly Agent for conducting the Packet Service at that place. By that lady he has issue three children.