A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Vesconte, Philip
LE VESCONTE. (Commander, 1816. f-p., 21; h-p., 32.)
Philip Le Vesconte is son of Philip Le Vesconte, Esq., who lost a leg in Earl Howe’s action 1 June, 1794, and died Purser of the Royal William, flag-ship at Spithead, 25 May, 1807. He is brother of Commander Henry Le Vesconte, R.N.
This officer, entered the Navy, in 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Saturn 74, Capt. Jas. Douglas, and on 13 July, 1795, was present as Midshipman in Hotham’s partial action with the French fleet off the Hyères Islands. He removed, in 1797, to the St. Alban’s 64, Capt. Fras. Pender, and, after serving for two years in that ship on the Channel and Halifax stations, joined the Lynx sloop, Capt. Alex. Skene, attached to the force in the North Sea. On being received into the Monarch 74, Capt. Jas. Robt. Mosse, Mr. Le Vesconte bore a part and was wounded in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801;[1] in consequence whereof he was promoted, 23 May following, to a Lieutenancy in the Glatton 50, Capts. Wm. Birchall, Wm. Nowell, and John Ferris Devonshire, stationed in the Baltic, where he remained until April, 1802. His next appointment was, 6 Sept. 1803, to the Magnificent 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, in which ship, when forming part of the in-shore squadron off Brest, it was his misfortune to be wrecked, during a gale of wind, 25 .March, 1804. On being restored to liberty after seven years of captivity, we.find him joining, in the course of 1811, the Leopard 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, and Elephant 74, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen. With the latter officer he served in the North Sea and Baltic until May, 1814; in Aug. of which -year he obtained an appointment to the Queen 74, Capts. Lord John Colville and John Coode, flag-ship for some time of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose. He returned home from the Mediterranean in Dec. 1815; and has since been on half-pay. His promotion to the rank he now holds took place 7 Nov. 1816.
Commander Le Vesconte is at present Vice-Consul at L’Orient. He is married and has issue. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 404.