A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Perry, James Clewlow
PERRY. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 17; h-p., 20.)
James Clewlow Perry was born in 1798. This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Talbot 18, Capts. Hon. Alex. Jones and Spelman Swaine, employed off the coast of Ireland; removed, in Aug. 1812, to the Warspite 74, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Lord Jas. O’Bryen; became Midshipman, in Oct. 1814 and Aug. 1815, of the President 38, Capt. Archibald Duff, and Trent 36, both on the Irish station; joined, in April, 1818, after two years of non-servitude, the Eden 26, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, in the East Indies; was there transferred, in 1820, to the Leander 60, flag-ship of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood; invalided home in 1821; and from 1823 until paid off in 1830 served, at first at home and afterwards in South America, on board the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship at Portsmouth, Rifleman 18, Capt. Jas. Montagu, Spartiate 76, and Wellesley 74, bearing each the flag of Sir Geo. Eyre, Ganges 84, Doris frigate, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, and Forte 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan. Having accompanied, in the Eden, an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, he there, in Jan. 1820, assisted, as a passed Midshipman, at the bombardment of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal resort and head-quarters, where the fortifications were all destroyed, their vessels burnt, and a large quantity of treasure seized. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Forte 3 March, 1828; and since that vessel was put out of commission has been on half-pay.
In 1837 he was appointed Inspector of the Gaol at Cork, where he continues.