A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Torlesse, Henry Boden
TORLESSE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Henry Boden Torlesse entered the Navy, 10 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Antelope 50, Capts. Henry Bazely and Edw. Galwey; under the former of whom he escorted the East India trade to and from St. Helena, and conveyed the Earl of Caledon to the Cape of Good Hope. After visiting the Mediterranean he followed Capt. Galwey, in April, 1809, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Dec. 1807), into the Isis 50, In which ship, commanded next by Capt. Woodley Losack, we find him, in the course of the same year, accompanying the expedition to the Walcheren. From Feb. 1810 until Dec. 1811, and from the latter date until March, 1814, he was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly on the coast of North America, in the Belvidera 36, Capt. Rich. Byron, and Morgiana 18, Capt. David Scott; he then returned to England in the Terpsichore frigate, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends; and from the following June until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 11 May, 1815, he served on the Portsmouth station in the Tyrian brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Torlesse has been for some time a Police Magistrate at Van Diemen’s Land.