A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ogilvie, Henry
OGILVIE. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Henry Ogilvie was born 1 Sept. 1791. This officer entered the Navy, 23 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bacchante 20, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, stationed in the Channel; he removed, in the following Aug., to the Canopus 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell in the Mediterranean; and, from March, 1805, until Dec. 1810, he served on board the Donegal 94, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm. He accompanied Lord Nelson, in the latter ship, in his pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back – participated in the capture of El Rayo of 100 guns, one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar – was wounded in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, for which he received a gratuity of 40l. from the Patriotic Fund – escorted Sir Arth. Wellesley’s army from Cork to Portugal in 1808 – witnessed the destruction, 24 Feb. 1809, of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne – was present in the ensuing April at Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the enemy’s shipping in Basque Roads – and on 15 Nov. 1810 assisted in an attack made, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the Diana, on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg. On leaving the Donegal he became attached to the Illustrious 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Robt. Broyghton in the East Indies; where, on his removal, as Master’s Mate, to the Akbar 50, Capt. Hen. Drury, he aided in effecting the conquest of Java. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted four months as Mate) in the Doris 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, 7 Feb. 1812; and, returning to England in the following Dec, was next appointed – 2 June, 1813, to the President 38, Capts. Fras. Mason and Arch. Duff, for some time employed off the north coast of Spain, where he served, under Lieut. Dowell O’Reilly of the Surveillante, in the breaching batteries at the siege of St. Sebastian – 12 July, 1815 (he had invalided from the President in Aug. 1814), to the Nightingale 16, Capt. Christopher Nixon, in which vessel, stationed in the Downs, he remained but a few weeks – and, 2 April, 1816, to the Newcastle 50, bearing the flag at St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope of his former Captain, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, to whom he became Signal-Lieutenant 20 Sept. following. He has been on half-pay since 16 Aug. 1817.