A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Raper, Henry (b)
RAPER. (Lieutenant, 1823.)
Henry Raper entered the Navy 17 Nov. 1811; and was made Lieutenant, 17 May, 1823, into the Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, on the Mediterranean station; where he removed, 29 July following, to the Dispatch 18, Capt. Edw. Hinton Scott. He has been on half-pay since 1825.
In 1834 the Lieutenant, who has been for many years Secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society, gave to the world his ‘Remarks on Mr. Robert Steele’s Report to the Chamber of Commerce of Greenock on the Bill then before Parliament for the Measurement of Tonnage.’ He afterwards published ‘Rules for finding Distances and Heights at Sea;’ and in 1843 appeared, also from his pen, ‘The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.’ Agents – Hallett and Robinson.