A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tomkins, Henry Weston
TOMKINS. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 9; h-p., 30.)
Henry Weston Tomkins entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tartar 32, Capts. Geo. Edm. Byron Betterworth and Joseph Baker; under the former of whom, who was killed, he was present, 15 May following, in a severe action of an hour and a half with a Danish flotilla, near Bergen. After serving in the Baltic he removed in Oct. 1811 as Midshipman, a rating he had attained 18 months previously, to the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, in which ship he was employed during the next three years and 10 months in the Channel and North Sea, and in escorting convoy to and from the West Indies and Cape of Good Hope. In Oct. 1815 he became Admiralty-Midshipman of the Niger 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, on the Halifax station; he acted from 1 to 28 May, 1816, as Lieutenant in the Gorée 16, Capt. Wm. Snuggs Gammon, at Bermuda; and on 16 Sept. following, having fought as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Cordelia 10, Capt. Wm. Sargent, at the battle of Algiers, he was advanced to his present rank. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.