A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Layton, Buxton
LAYTON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32)
Buxton Layton entered the Navy, 27 May, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ethalion frigate, Capts. Chas. Stuart and Joseph Spear, employed at first in the North Sea, and then in the West Indies, where, in March, 1806, he became Midshipman of the Amelia 38, Capt. Wm. Champain. From the following Aug. until Dec. 1810, he appears to have been again stationed in the North Sea, as also in the Baltic, on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell, Edgar 74, Capt. Stephen Poyntz, and Stately 64, Capt. R. Campbell. While in the Nassau, which ship was for a long time employed in blockading the Texel, and formed part of the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, Mr. Layton (on her being extricated from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) assisted, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. In Dec. 1810 he accompanied Capt. Campbell into the Tremendous 74, and sailed for the Mediterranean, where he remained with that officer until May, 1815, participating intermediately in a variety of important services. He then took up a commission dated 10 Feb. 1815, and has since been on half-pay.