A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tonge, Louis Charles Henry
TONGE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Louis Charles Henry Tonge is youngest surviving son of Wm. Norris Tonge, Esq., of Alveston, co. Gloucester, and Highway, co. Wilts, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, and a Retired-Commander R.N. (Lieut. 1794), who died 4 April, 1844, aged 67, by Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Bryen, of co. Somerset. His grandfather, Henry Tonge, Esq., married Anne Eliza, daughter of Vice-Admiral Harry Norris, himself the son of Admiral Sir John Norris, by Hon. Elizabeth Aylmer, daughter of Matthew Lord Aylmer. His eldest brother, Augustus Henry, is a Captain in the Wiltshire Militia; and his next, John Henry, a Captain in the Army. One of his sisters, Lucy Elizabeth, is wife of the Rev. Augustus Wm. Noel, son of the late Capt. Hon. Fred. Noel, R.N. (1819).
This officer passed his examination 1 March, 1837; served in the Mediterranean and at Devonport, as Mate, in the Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, from 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 May, 1845; and from 20 June in the latter year until paid off in 1848, was employed on the Home station and again in the Mediterranean in the Trafalgar 120, Capts. John Neale Nott and Chas. Hope.