A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Mesurier, Frederick Henry
LE MESURIER. (Lieutenant, 1824. f-p., 16; h-p., 22.)
Frederick Henry Le Mesurier, born 1 Sept. 1795, is brother of Lieut.-General Le Mesurier, late Governor of Alderney.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daphne 20, Capt. Philip Fipon, stationed in the Baltic, where, in the same ship, and as Midshipman in the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served until March, 1812. He then sailed for the East Indies in the Theban 36, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, which frigate, when in the China Sea in the following Sept., had the misfortune to be dismasted in a typhoon. On his return to England with Capt. Digby in the Cornwallis 74, Mr. Le Mesurier, in Oct. 1813, joined the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and, until the close of the American war, was employed at Bermuda. For a short period in the summer of 1815, in May of which year he passed his examination, we find him on duty at Portsmouth in the Prince 98, Capt. Edm. Boger. Being appointed, in July, 1816, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Fury bomb, Capt. Constantine’ Rich. Moorsom, he assisted in that vessel at the bombardment of Algiers; after which, and until confirmed in his present rank, 12 Nov. 1824, he served in the same capacity, and also as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Severn 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Myrmidon 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier, Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibley, Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, Andromache frigate, Capt. Joseph Nourse, and Espiègle 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman – on the Home, Mediterranean, American, and Cape of Good Hope stations. He continued to officiate as Lieutenant of the latter vessel until July, 1825, when, being at the time at the Mauritius, he was compelled to invalid and return to England in consequence of the repeated attacks of a severe complaint which for the last ten years has completely laid him up. From 10 April, 1826, until May, 1827, Mr. Le Mesurier served at Plymouth in the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez.
He married, 11 Sept. 1828, Jane Catherine, only daughter of the late Thos. Cecil Maunsell, Esq., of Thorpe Malsor, co. Northampton, by whom he has issue five sons.