A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, Richard
MORGAN. (Commander, 1834. f-p., 22; h-p., 20.)
Richard Morgan entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Prevoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Dan. McCoy, and, after serving for a few months off Gibraltar and Cadiz in that vessel and the Colossus 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, joined the Canopus 80, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis, Geo. Martin, and Chas. Boyles. Under the first-mentioned of those officers he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, enacted a part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French frigate Le Président, and, after attending Sir John Duckworth’s expedition to Constantinople in Feb. 1807, assumed a share in the ensuing operations in Egypt. Under Rear-Admiral Martin, he joined, in Oct. 1809, in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, off Cette, of the French ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion. Removing, in Sept. 1811, to the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was for about 18 months employed in that ship in the Adriatic, where he aided in blockading the French and Venetian squadrons at Venice, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea, and several of each class fitting in the arsenal. In Feb. 1814, having returned with convoy to England, and been for a short time engaged at the blockade of Cherbourg, he became Master’s Mate of the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel, whence, in the course of the same year, he sailed for North America with Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in the Royal Oak 74. After witnessing, as Supernumerary-Midshipman on promotion of the Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, the attack on New Orleans, he was nominated, 19 May, 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the Belle Poule troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Baker. On his arrival home in the ensuing summer he found that he had been officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 6 of the preceding Feb. His succeeding appointments were – 19 May, 1818, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flagship of Sir Geo. Campbell at Portsmouth, where he served until paid off in 1821 – 30 April, 1827, to the Brittania 120, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth – 22 Sept. 1828, and 28 April, 1830, to the Asia 84, and Brittania again, in which ships he continued employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea, under the flag of Sir P. Malcolm, until the close of 1831 – and, 8 March, 1833, a third time, to the Britannia, as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 April, 1834; and, from 29 March, 1837, until the spring of 1840, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.