A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shiffner, Henry
SHIFFNER, Bart. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 19; h-p., 26.)
Sir Henry Shiffner, born 4 Nov. 1789, is second and eldest surviving son of Sir Geo. Shiffner (whom he succeeded, as second Baronet, 3 Feb. 1842) by Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir John Bridger, Kt., of Coln, St. Aldwyns, co. Gloucester, and Combe Place, Sussex; and brother (with Capt. John Bridger Shiffner, 3rd Foot Guards, who was mortally wounded at the siege of Bayonne 14 April, 1814, and died the next day) of the Rev. Geo. Shiffner, Prebendary of Chichester. His grandfather, Henry Shiffner, Esq., of Pontrylas, co. Hereford, M.P. for Minehead, married Mary, daughter of John Jackson, Esq., Governor-General of Bengal in 1748, and niece of John Lord Bellenden.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in May, 1802; and embarked in Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Thetis 38, Capts. Wm. Hall Gage and Geo. Miller, under whom he was for three years employed in the North Sea, off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, in the Mediterranean, and at St. Helena. Soon after he had joined the Thisbe 28, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope at Deptford, he was made Lieutenant, 10 Feb. 1809, into the Trusty 50, Capt. Brian Hodgson. In the following March he removed to the Owen Glendower 36,[1] Capts. Wm. Selby, Edw. Henry A’Court, and B. Hodgson; and after serving for three years and seven months in that ship on the Baltic, Channel, North American, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, and East India stations, he received, in Oct. 1814, a Commander’s commission, dated 22 of the preceding Feb., appointing him to the Sphynx sloop, building at Bombay. Returning to England on Admiralty leave in 1815, he next, 6 Jan. 1818, and 1 July, 1819, obtained command of the Drake 10 and Carnation 18, both on the Newfoundland station; where he was nominated, 11 Sept. in the latter year, Acting-Captain of the Egeria 26. In that ship, to which he was confirmed 10 Nov. following, he remained until paid off 5 Jan. 1820. His last appointment was, 7 April, 1834, to the Hastings 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Hall Gage at Lisbon. He was placed on half-pay 12 Jan. 1838; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he accepted the Retirement.
Sir Henry Shiffner married, 9 July, 1825, Emily, second daughter of the late Thos. Brooke, Esq., of Church Minshul, co. Chester. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ In this ship be assisted at the capture of the island of Anholdt 18 May, 1889.