A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Summers, John
SUMMERS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
John Summers was born 1 Jan. 1796. He is brother of Wm. Summers, Esq., Master R.N. (1826).
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Pigmy cutter, stationed in the Downs, He next, in the early part of 1812, joined the Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, employed in the North Sea and Baltic; and in the course of the same year, while absent in a tender, he was taken prisoner. On his release from captivity he was received, in Jan. 1813, on board the Pactolus 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, attached to the force on the Home station; where, in the West Indies, and at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, he served until after the conclusion of hostilities in the Ulysses 44, Capt. Thos. Browne, Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, and Phaeton 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell. Between 1816 (in Nov. of which year he passed his examination) and July, 1826, he was employed on the East India, Home, Mediterranean, Halifax, and West India stations, as Mate, in the Minden 74, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, Harlequin 18, Capt. Nepean, Britannia 120, and in another ship, the name of which has escaped us. On 10 of the month last mentioned he was made Lieutenant into the Beaver 10, Capt. Joseph O’Brien, also in the West Indies. He invalided in the same year, 1826; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Summers married, in Jan. 1830, Miss Harriette Elizabeth Howell.