A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kingston, James
KINGSTON. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 11; h-p.,27.)
James Kingston entered the Navy, 25 Nov. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Muros brig, Capt. Clement Sneyd, on the Guernsey station; removed, in Aug. 1810, to the Hibernia 110, Capt. John Nash, lying in Portsmouth Harbour; and from the close of the same year until April, 1812, was employed at the defence of Cadiz in the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. He then joined the Medina sloop, commanded at first by Capt. Sneyd, and afterwards by Capt. Henry Bourchier, off Lisbon, whence, on his removal with the latter officer, in 1813, to the Medina 20, he proceeded to Newfoundland. Returning home in Jan. 1816, he next, in April, 1817, joined the Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson. In Oct. 1818 he was placed on board the Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant 25 July, 1820. While in her he visited Jamaica, and was employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean. He was paid off 12 June, 1821 : and has not been since afloat.