A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tracey, Augustus Frederick
TRACEY. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Augustus Frederick Tracey entered the Navy 20 Oct. 1811; passed his examination in 1819; and obtained his commission 17 Sept. 1828. His succeeding appointments were – 9 Sept. 1829, to the Hyperion 42, Coast-Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, lying at Newhaven – 9 July, 1830, to the Kent 78, Capt. Sam. Pym, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1831 – and 17 May, 1833, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Thos. Brown, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean. He was superseded from the ship last mentioned in the summer of 1834; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Tracey has been for many years Governor of Tothill-fields Prison, Westminster. He married, 5 Nov. 1835, Georgiana, daughter of the late G. Palliser, Esq., and was left a widower 20 Feb. 1845.