and is descended in the male line from the ancient and noble family of Harcourt, the last of whose Earls died in 1830, at which period the title became extinct. Capt. Hargood’s father, a gentleman in the law, was an elder brother of the Admiral.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 June, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fylla 22, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, bearing the flag of his uncle on the Jersey and Guernsey station, where he accompanied the Admiral into the Alonzo sloop, and continued until June, 1814. During the next three years we find him employed as a student at the Royal Naval College. On leaving that institution he re-embarked, as a Volunteer, on board the Blossom 24, Capts.,Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Vernon, and sailed for South America, where he appears to have been employed, the last 20 months as Midshipman, until Sept. 1820. He then joined the Sybille 44, of which ship, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Chas. Rowley, he was created a Lieutenant 5 Oct. 1822. Being paid off in June, 1823, Mr. Hargood was next appointed – 6 Dec. following, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, with whom he was once more ordered to South America – 27 Oct. 1825 (after seven months of half-pay), to the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, lying at Newhaven for the purposes of the Coast Blockade – and, 5 Dec. 1826, again to the Sybille, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Fras. Augustus Collier on the coast of Africa, where, on one occasion, while officer of the watch, he received so severe a contusion of the fore-finger of the left hand as to render its immediate amputation necessary. He remained in the Sybille until promoted to the rank of Commander 15 Jan. 1828; after which he procured an appointment, 20 July, 1832, to the Scout 18. In that sloop he proceeded to the North Sea, whence, in the following year, after having been intermediately employed in imposing an embargo on the ships belonging to the subjects of the King of the Netherlands, he was ordered to the Mediterranean. Exchanging, in Dec. 1833, into the Scylla 16, Capt. Hargood soon afterwards returned to England, and on 8 March, 1834, was paid off. He has not been since afloat. His present rank was conferred on him 10 Jan. 1837.
Capt. Hargood married, 1 Oct. 1828, Catherine, eldest daughter of Henry Harison, Esq., of Seaford, co. Sussex, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HARLEY. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 26; h-p., 39.)
Edward Harley died in Aug. 1846, in the 71st year of his age.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1781, as A.B., on board the Warspite 74, Capt. John Reynolds, lying at Portsmouth, where, in the following year and in 1785-6, he became Midshipman of the Diligente and Queen, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Pye and Admiral Montagu, and Hector, Capt. Sir John Collins. Between 1787 and Nov. 1794, he was employed, on the West India and Home stations, as Midshipman, in the Alert, Capt. Geo. Burden, Active, Capt. Peter Rainier, Vanguard and Bedford, both commanded by Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, and Duke, Glory, and Resolution, bearing each the broad pendant of Commodore Geo. Murray. He was then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Thisbe, Capt. John Okes Hardy, on the Halifax station, and in Jan. 1795 he removed in a similar capacity to L’Espérance sloop, Capt. Jonas Rose, also employed off the coast of America. Being confirmed in the latter vessel by commission dated 8 Oct. 1796, Mr. Harley was subsequently appointed – in Jan. 1798, to the Isis 50, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, with whom he made a voyage to St. Helena – 1 Aug. 1799, to the Andromache frigate, Capt. Sir Robt. Laurie, employed, until Feb. 1804, on the North American and Jamaica stations – 14 Oct. 1807, to the Centurion 50, Capt. Chas. Webb, in which ship he proceeded to Gibraltar – 2 June, 1808, to the Gorgon 44, Capt. Robt. Brown Tom, successively stationed at Woolwich and the Nore – and, 9 July, 1808, to the command of the Ildefonso, at Spithead. He went on half-pay in July, 1814; and became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830. His promotion to the Senior List took place 26 Dec. 1837. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HARNAGE, Bart., formerly Blackman. (Commander, 1820. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Sir George Harnage, born 19 July, 1792, is eldest son of the late Sir Geo. Harnage, Bart., by Mary, eldest surviving daughter of Henry Harnage, Esq., of Belswardyne, co. Salop, Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, who served as Major of the 62nd Regt., under General Burgoyne, during the first American war, and was severely wounded at the battle of Freeman’s Farm 19 Sept. 1777. Sir George (whose brother, Capt. John Lucie Blackman, of the Coldstream Guards, fell at Waterloo) assumed the name of Harnage in 1821; and succeeded his father, as second Baronet, 19 Nov. 1836.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 May, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Hibernia 120, flag-ship in the Channel and off Brest of Sir Jas. Saumarez. Removing, in July following, to the Penelope 36, Capt. John Dick, he was for some time employed at the blockade of Ferrol; after which he visited North America and the West Indies, and in Feb. 1809 was present at the capture of Martinique. Having been further attached for three years to the Defiance 74, commanded in the North Sea and Baltic by Capt. Rich. Raggett, he had the fortune, on 12 Aug. 1813, to be awarded a Lieutenant’s commission. His subsequent appointments were – 4 Feb. 1814, to the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Edw. Chetham, stationed off Newfoundland, where, in the following Sept., that vessel suffered so severely from the effects of a hurricane as to necessitate her being in a few months broken up – 11 April, 1815, to the Boyne 98, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Israel Pellew, Captain of the Mediterranean fleet, in which capacity he officiated until 29 June, 1816 – and, 4 Aug. 1818, to the Salisbury 58, bearing the successive flags in the Leeward Islands of Rear-Admirals Donald Campbell and Wm. Chas. Fahie. While in the latter ship, in Sept. 1819, Mr. Blackman, being at the time at anchor in the harbour of the island of St. Thomas, was again present in a hurricane of so fearful a nature that on the following morning the wrecks of 96 vessels were counted, independently of numerous others which had foundered – the Salisbury, indeed, out of 115 sail, being the only ship left afloat. He obtained command of the Raleigh sloop 16 Aug. 1820, and continued to serve in the West Indies until the close of 1821, when he returned to England with a freight of 320,000 dollars. He was paid off 14 Jan. 1822, and has not since been afloat.
Sir Geo. Hamage married, 26 Jan. 1826, Caroline Helena, youngest daughter of Bartlett Goodrich, Esq., of Saling Grove, Great Saling, co. Essex, and by that lady has issue an only son. Agent – J. Chippendale.
HARNESS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
Richard Stephens Harness, born in July, 1792, at Wickham, co. Hants, is son of the late Dr. John Harness, F.L.S., many years a Commissioner of the Transport Board; a gentleman who was twice married, the second time to the widow of Admiral Robt. Linzee.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diadem 64, Capt. Sir Home Riggs Popham, and in the course of 1806 attended the expeditions to the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres. In Dec. of the latter year he became Midshipman of the Sampson 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, from which ship, on her return to England, he removed to the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, part of the force employed at the bombardment of Copenhagen in Sept. 1807. After, that event he joined the Volontaire 33,
