A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Nason, Henry
NASON. (Lieutenant, 1809. f-p., 9; h-p., 35.)
Henry Nason lost a brother at the battle of Almeida.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 March, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Antelope 50, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith; and, on 16 May, 1804, was present in an attack made by a British squadron on a division of the enemy’s flotilla passing alongshore between Flushing and Ostend. After a servitude of two years and a half in the North Sea and off Brest in the Crescent frigate, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, he again, in Dec. 1806, joined Sir W. S. Smith on board the Pompée 74, in which ship, in the course of 1807, we find him sharing in a series of operations on the coast of Calabria, and accompanying also the expeditions past the Dardanells and to Copenhagen. During the 20 months which immediately preceded his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 28 Oct. 1809, he served on the Home and Brazilian stations in the Victory 100, Capt. John Serrell, and London 98, Foudroyant 80, and Diana 38, bearing each the flag of Sir W. S. Smith. His succeeding appointments were – 18 Dec. 1809, to the Argus 16, Capt. Stewart, on the Irish station – 11 April, 1810, to the Thais 20, Capt. Ferrier, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where, owing to the death of his brother, and to the necessity of attending to his family affairs, he was superseded at his own request in Jan. 1811 – and, 30 April, 1813, as Senior, to the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in the North Sea. In 1810 he commanded the boats of the Thais at the re-capture of two merchant-vessels under the protection of two privateers off Cape Spartivento. He invalided from the Bonne Citoyenne from the effects of rheumatism in Nov. 1813, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Nason is married and has issue.