A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pengelly, Henry
PENGELLY. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Henry Pengelly entered the Navy, 30 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Leach, lying in Plymouth Harbour; removed, in Feb. 1806, to the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, attached to the Channel Fleet; and from the following Aug. until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Home, Baltic, and American stations, in the Solebay, Iris, and Spartan frigates, Capts. John Tower, Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Edw. Pelham Brenton. With the exception of an interval, between Sept. 1812 and Feb. 1813, he continued to serve on the coast of America in the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, Loire 38, Capt. Thos. Brown, and Bulwark 74, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, until May, 1815, since which period he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Pengelly married, at Jamaica, in 1834, Charlotte, youngest daughter of J. Heriott, Esq., formerly of Mexican Estate, in that island.