A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smart, John Norval
SMART. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
John Norval Smart died 8 Feb. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1806, as Ordinary, on board the Ariel sloop, Capts. Joseph Oliver and Thos. White, under whom he served for nearly three years in the North Sea and Baltic. He was next, from March, 1809, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 Nov. 1815, employed on the Home, East India, Cape of Good Hope, Halifax, and Cork stations, as Master’s Mate, in La Flèche 16, Capt. Wm. Buchanan, Hecate sloop, Capts. Joseph Drury, Thos. Graham, Geo. Henderson, and Geo. Rennie, Barbadoes 24, Capts. Brian Hodgson and Edw. Rushworth, St. Fiorenzo troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Edm. Sexton Pery Knox, Montagu 74, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, Laurestinus 24, Capt. Thos. Graham, and Lightning 20, Capt. G. Rennie. In Dec. 1810 he was present in the Hecate at the reduction of the Isle of France; on 7 Sept. 1811 he was wounded in an attack made, in company with the Goshawk 16, on seven French gun-brigs, carrying 3 long 24-pounders and a mortar each, and manned with 75 men; and in 1813, in the course of which year he took part in the Laurestinus in a variety of operations in the Chesapeake, and was again wounded, he commanded a boat in the attack upon Crany Island and at the capture of Hampton. The gun-brigs above alluded to were chased into Calvados, and one of them driven on shore. In March, 1821, Lieut. Smart obtained an appointment to the Doris 42, Capts. Thos. Graham and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon (now Harcourt), fitting for South America; where he removed, 21 Sept. 1822, to the Alacrity sloop, Capt. Thos. Porter.
He married, 23 Aug. 1830, Mary Eleanor Robins, only daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Lyall, R.N.