A Naval Biographical Dictionary/O'Grady, Hayes
O’GRADY. (Captain, 1814.)
Hayes O’Grady is son of the late Darby O’Grady, Esq., of Mount Prospect, co. Limerick, by Mary, daughter of Jas. Smyth, Esq., and brother of the late and uncle of the present Viscount Guillamore. He is uncle also of Lieut. Hon. John O’Grady, R.N.
This officer was educated at the Royal Naval College, and embarked, 4 Dec. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leda 38, Capts. Jas. Hardy and Robt. Honyman; in which ship, after contesting with the enemy off Boulogne, and serving for some months under the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, he assisted as Midshipman at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, and then accompanied the expedition to the Rio de la Plata; where we find him employed in the boats as Master’s Mate at the destruction of an armed brigantine off Montevideo 9 Sept. 1806.[1] On 21 March, 1807, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, nearly six months after he had been ordered to act as such, in the Howe alias Dromedary store-ship, Capt. Edw. Killwiok. He was sent in the course of the same year to England in charge of a prize; and he was subsequently appointed – 28 Dec. 1807, to the Thetis 38, Capts.Wm. Hall Gage and Geo. Miller, employed on the St. Helena, Channel, Leeward Island, and Halifax stations – 22 Aug. 1809, to the Comet sloop, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle, attached to the force on the coast of North America – and, 15 Sept. following, to the Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Admiral Holloway at Newfoundland. He attained the rank of Commander 15 June, 1810, and between that period and April, 1814, was employed in the Shark receiving-ship at Jamaica, and for three years in the Sappho brig in various parts of the West Indies. Since his promotion to Post-rank, which took place 7 June, 1814, he has been on half-pay.
Capt. O’Grady married, in July, 1831, Susan, daughter of Jas. Finucane, Esq., and grand-daughter of the late Mr. Justice Finucane. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 126.