A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lewis, Henry (b)
LEWIS. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Henry Lewis (b) entered the Navy, 27 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Amethyst frigate, Capts. Alex. Campbell and John Wm. Spranger employed in the North Sea and Baltic; and in May, 1805, became Midshipman of the Diomede 50, Capts. Hugh Downman and Joseph Edmonds. On his return to England in the summer of 1807, after having witnessed the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope and the operations against Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, he joined the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, and forthwith accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen under Admiral Gambier. Between Dec. of the same year and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1815, Mr. Lewis was successively employed, the latter part of the time as Master’s Mate, on board the Minotaur 74, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Africa and Stately 64’s, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Fred. Ryves, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Chas. Bateman, Impétueux 74, Capt. Bateman, Eridanus 36, Capt. Henry Prescott, Ceres 32, Capt. Jas. Prevost, and Scamander 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote. The Stately was attached to the force engaged in the defence of Cadiz; the other ships occupied on the Home station. Since his promotion Mr. Lewis has been on half-pay.