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tion at Somerset House until the summer of 1808, by which period he had been further employed for two years, chiefly as Master’s Mate, and on various stations, in the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, and Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton. From the latter date, until officially promoted, 18 April, 1811, we find him successively officiating as Acting-Lieutenant, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, of the Hindostan 50, armée en flûte, Capts. Geo. Skinner and John Pasco, Merope, Capts. John Houstoun and Edw. Flinn, Pelorus 18, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, and Shark receiving-ship, Capt. Nicholas Pateshall. He was afterwards re-appointed to the Shark, but, being obliged to invalid in Feb. 1812 from a severe affection of the eyes, was next employed, from 13 of the following Oct. until 4 Oct. 1814, in the Kron Princessinn Maria, prison-ship at Portsmouth, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Burdwood, and Enterprize, Impress service-ship, on the river Thames, Capt. Thos. Richbell. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1825, to the command of the Dove Revenue-vessel – 15 July, 1829, to be Agent for Transports Afloat, the duties of which office he continued to fill, with the exception of a few months in 1830, until 1834 – and 21 May, 1842, again to the Transport service, in which he is still employed. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
HARRISON. (Lieutenant, 1834.)
George Harrison entered the Navy 21 July, 1816; passed his examination in 1824; and obtained his commission 6 Jan. 1834. He has since been on half-pay. Lieut. Harrison, the Senior of his rank on the List of 1834, is a Magistrate at Van Dieman’s Land. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HARRISON. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 22.)
John Harrison entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1804, as L.M., on board the Inflexible 64, Capt. Thos. Bayley, stationed in the Downs. He became Midshipman, in June, 1805, of the Elephant 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, and in Sept. 1807, after an intermediate servitude in the North Sea and West Indies, he was Appointed Master’s Mate of the Statira 38, Capts. Robt. Howe Bromley and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, under whom he cruized on the American and Spanish coasts until Feb. 1809. Joining, then, the Valiant 74, Capts. John Bligh, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, he witnessed the ensuing attack on the French shipping in Basque Roads, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the siege of Flushing. The Valiant being ultimately ordered to North America, Mr. Harrison there removed, in Aug. 1813, to the St. Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren. He obtained his commission 27 June, 1814, four years after he had passed his examination, and was subsequently, from 1817 until 1827, employed in command of different Telegraph stations on the Chatham and Portsmouth lines. He has not since held any official occupation.
HARRISON. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 19; h-p., 5.)
John Gustavus Harrison, born 19 Nov. 1810, is son of the Rev. Wm. Harrison, Vicar of Fareham, and Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 March, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ramillies 74, commanded on the Home station by Capt. Edw. Brace, with whom he was afterwards employed for some time in the West Indies as Midshipman of the Ganges 84. While next attached, from Nov. 1824 until Jan. 1827, to the Boadicea 42, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, we find him serving in the East Indies and participating in many of the operations connected with the Burmese war. He then for a few months joined the Java 52, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, on the same station; where, until the close of 1829, he further served in the Rainbow 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, and again in the Java, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. In Feb. 1830, immediately on passing his examination, Mr. Harrison was appointed Mate of the Victory 104, flag-ship at Plymouth of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford. He was next transferred in succession to the St. Vincent 120, and Asia 84, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Foley, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth; and for several months of 1831 he cruized in the Channel on board the Brisk 3, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Harris Butterfield. During the four following years he appears to have been again employed in the East Indies, for twelve months of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Melville 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore. Being at length promoted (from the Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Durham) to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 3 April, 1837, he was appointed, on 10 of that month, to the Larne 18, Capt. Patrick John Blake, and again ordered to the East Indies. He afterwards took part in the hostilities on the coast of China, where, in command of the Larne’s pinnace, he contributed, with much credit to himself, to the capture, 7 Jan. 1841, of the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee, and the destruction of 11 powerful junks, forming the flower of the Celestial Navy – a service for which he was recommended to the notice of the Admiralty.[1] Mr. Harrison’s next and last appointment was, 16 Oct. 1841, to the First-Lieutenancy of the Calliope 26, Capt. Augustus Leopold Kuper, in which vessel he shared in the operations of 1842 up the Yang-tse-Kiang. His advancement to the rank he now holds took place on 23 Dec. in the latter year. It was made the reward of his services in China.[2]
Commander Harrison married, first, in 1836, Jane, daughter of the late W. Hindmarch, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth; and, secondly, 19 July, 1843, a daughter of the late J. Pooke, Esq., of Fareham. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HARRISON. (Captain, 1832. f-p., 24; h-p., 24.)
Joseph Harrison is son of the late Lieut. Harrison, R.N., who died Agent for Transports at Plymouth in 1808.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 July, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spider, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Harrison, of which vessel, successively stationed in the Channel and Mediterranean, he became Midshipman 1 Jan. 1800. During several months of the short-lived peace we find him again employed in the Channel on board the Oiseau, Capt. John Philips. He afterwards, in March, 1803, joined the Aurora frigate, Capts. Micajah Malbon and John Wentworth Loring, with whom he served on the Newfoundland station until transferred, in Jan. 1805, to the Pallas 42, Capt. Lord Cochrane. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the Merlin sloop, Capt. John Parkinson, he was there, after a short attachment to the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, appointed Sub-Lieutenant, 11 Sept. 1806, of the Grouper gun-brig. Attaining the full rank of Lieutenant 10 May, 1807, he afterwards joined, in that capacity – 11 May, 1808, the Epervier brig, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, John Bowker, Thos. Tudor Tucker, Alex. Nesbitt, Thos. Barclay, and Jas. Pattison Stewart, also in the West Indies – 16 Nov. 1809, the Achille 74, Capts. Sir Rich. King, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, during an attachment of nearly six years to which ship, besides commanding a Spanish gun-vessel at the defence of Cadiz, he served off Toulon, on the coast of Sicily, in the Adriatic, off Cherbourg, and on the South American station – and, 22 Sept. 1815, and 23 Oct. 1817, to the Inconstant and Semiramis frigates, respectively employed off the coast of Africa and at Portsmouth, and both commanded by Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. On the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Commander 14 Sept. 1818, Capt. Harrison was invested, pro tem., with the charge of the Challenger 28. [errata 1] He afterwards obtained command, 6 May, 1829, of the Favorite sloop, fitting for the coast of Africa,
