A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mackworth, Herbert
MACKWORTH. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Herbert Mackworth, born 1 Oct. 1791, is second son of the late Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., by his first wife, Jane, only daughter of the Rev. Matthew Deere; and brother of the present Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., K.H., a Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, who served in the Peninsula, in France, and at Waterloo, and was lately Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief. His father’s second wife was a daughter of General Sir Jas. Affleck, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and after a servitude of 17 months, on the Channel and Irish stations, was transferred, in May, 1805, to the Pearl, Lieut.-Commander Woodger, lying at Portsmouth. Proceeding in the summer of 1806 to the Mediterranean in the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he there, in Oct. of that year, rejoined Capt. Blackwood in the Ajax 74; on the destruction of which ship by fire near the island of Tenedos, 14 Feb. 1807, he was received into the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj, Hallowell, under whom he took part in the ensuing operations on the coast of Egypt. In April, 1808, he was again placed under the orders of Capt. Blackwood in the Warspite 74, also attached to the force in the Mediterranean. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Mutine brig, Capt. Nevinson De Courcy, on the Brazilian station, 29 April, 1811; and between Aug. 1812 and Nov. 1818 was successively employed in the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, Eurydice 24, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, Scamander 36, Capts. Sir John Louis, Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, and Wm. Elliott, Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, and Severn, Coast Blockade-ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – on the Mediterranean, Cork, West India, and Home stations. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Mackworth was lately High Sheriff for Trinidad. He married Miss Jesse Anderson, and by that lady has issue two sons and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.