A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Micklethwait, Henry Sharnborne Nathaniel
MICKLETHWAIT. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Henry Sharnborne Nathaniel Micklethwait, born 12 Aug. 1814, is second son of Nathaniel Micklethwait, Esq., of Taverham and Beeston Halls, co. Norfolk, by his second wife. Lady Charlotte Rous, second daughter of the first Earl of Stradbrooke; half-brother of Lieut.-Colonel Nathaniel Waldegrave Micklethwait, of the Scots Fusileer Guards; and nephew of Sir S. B. Peckham Micklethwait, some time a Captain in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, who was created a Baronet 27 July, 1838, for a personal service rendered to Her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s, co. Sussex, in Nov. 1832. His father’s first wife was the Lady Maria Waldegrave, daughter of George, fourth Earl of Waldegrave.
This officer entered the Navy, from the Royal Naval College, 11 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 3 June, 1835; and, after serving for a short time as Mate of the Dublin 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 Feb. 1842. His succeeding appointments were – on 7 of the same month, again to the Dublin – and, 1 Oct. 1844, and 15 April, 1845, to the Alfred 50, Commodore John Brett Purvis, and Curaçoa 24, Capt. Wm. Broughton, both on the south-east coast of America, whence he returned in 1847.