A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, James William
MORGAN. (Captain, 1846.)
James William Morgan was born in 1802.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 May, 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leyden 64, Capt. John Davie, attached to the force in the North Sea; and between 1815 and 1822 was employed as Midshipman, on the Cape of Good Hope, Home, North American, and St. Helena stations, in the Centaur 74 and Malta 84, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, Carnation 18 and Tamar 26, each under the orders of Capt. Hon. John Gordon, and Vigo 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert. He then, having passed his examination in 1821, became Mate of the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood; a capacity in which he further, from 1823 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 March, 1833, served in South America on board the Tartar 42, Capt. Thos. Brown, Ganges 84, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway, and Druid 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. His succeeding appointments were – 23 March, 1833, to the Madagascar 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the early part of 1835 – and 22 Sept. in the latter year, 18 April, 1836, and (after about 12 months of half-pay) 8 April, 1839, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and, as First-Lieutenant, to the Curaçoa 24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, all in South America. He came home on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and was next, from 1 Feb. 1844, until posted 9 Nov. 1846, employed on Home service as Second-Captain of the Camperdown 104, Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and John Neale Nott. He is not at present afloat.
He married, 11 June, 1838, Caroline Dorothea, eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Thos. Brown.