A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richmond, Henry
RICHMOND. (Lieut., 1819. f-p., 10; h-p., 28.)
Henry Richmond died in 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1809, as Fst.-el. Vol., on board the Amethyst frigate, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Jacob Walton; served next, from Feb. 1811 until Aug. 1815, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, in the Surveillante 38, Porcupine 22, and Leander 50, all under the orders of Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier; then joined, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the Princess floating-battery at Liverpool, Capt. Wm. Simpson; and from June, 1816, until Jan. 1820, was employed at St. Helena as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Eurydice 24 and Conqueror 74, Capts. Robt. Wauchope and Fras. Stanfell, and as Acting- Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 5 Oct. 1819) in the Nautilus 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman. While attached to the Surveillante he assisted at the reduction, in 1811-12-13, of several of the enemy’s towns and forts on the north coast of Spain, including those of Lequeytio, Bermeo Galea, Algorta, Bagona, El Campillo las Quersas, Xebiles, Castro, St. Ano, Guetaria, Santander, Santa Clara, and St. Sebastian. In the Leander he came several times into action with the enemy on the coast of North America. After he left the Nautilus he did not go afloat. Agents – Collier and Snee.