A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Patey, George Edward
PATEY. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
George Edward Patey, born in 1789, is only son of Lieut. Wm. Patey R.N., who lost his life while employed in embarking troops on the coast of Spain in 1810; and nephew of Commander Joseph Patey R.N. Two other uncles died Lieutenants in the service.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mars 74, Capts. John Sutton, Geo. Duff, Wm. Hennah, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, stationed at first off Brest and then off the port of Cadiz. After sharing as Midshipman and Aide-de-Camp to Capts. Duff and Hennah in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Jan. 1806, to the Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew; under whom he was for two years employed, chiefly at the blockade of the Texel. He then proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in the Bombay 74, he was for a further period of three years engaged in watching the port of Toulon. In April, 1811, and March, 1812, Mr. Patey became in succession Master’s Mate of the Vigo and Montagu 74’s, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon in the Baltic and South America. He was confirmed to the rank of Lieutenant, after having twice acted in that capacity, 20 July, 1813; and from the latter date until Feb. 1815 was employed, on the station last named, in the Nereds 36, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, and Albacore 18, Capt. Joseph Patey. In the Albacore he assisted, as First-Lieutenant, in chasing into St. Salvador, and in there detaining, a notorious American privateer, the True-Blooded Yankee, of equal force. In 1831 he was appointed Senior of the Pallas 42, Capt. M. H. Dixon; but a nearly fatal illness deprived him of the possibility of joining. He has not been since able to procure employment. We are told that during the war Lieut. Patey was captured in a transport-brig by two privateers after an honourable defence. He married, in Feb. 1817, Lucy, only child and heiress of the late Thos. Macnamara Russell, Esq., Admiral of the White, formerly Commander-in-Chief in the North Sea; by whom he has had issue four sons. One of them, the eldest, Russell, is a Lieutenant R.N.; a second, Macnamara, was a Lieutenant R.M. (184.3); and the two others are in the Church and Army. Agent – John P. Muspratt.