Lieutenant, Feb. 18, 1805; Commander, April 9, 1808; Captain, July 16, 1810.
At the close of the war with France, in 1814, Captain Paterson commanded the Myrmidon of 20 guns: his subsequent appointments were – April 25, 1815, to the Eridanus frigate; and. Mar. 6, 1816, to the Minden 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Richard King, commander-in-chief on the East India station.
Previous to his proceeding thither. Captain Paterson accompanied Lord Exmouth to Algiers, where the Minden sustained a loss of 7 killed and 37 wounded, on the memorable 27th Aug. 1816[1]. For this service he was nominated a C.B. on the 21st of the following month.
The Minden returned home from India, Oct. 16, 1820; and was shortly afterwards put out of commission. Captain Paterson received his present civil appointment in April 1825.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
HENRY PRESCOTT, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Only surviving son of Admiral Isaac Prescott, by a daughter of the late Rev. Richard Walter, chaplain of the Centurion with Commodore Anson, during his celebrated expedition to the South Seas, and author of “Anson’s Voyage.”[2] This officer was born at Kew Green, co. Surrey, May 4, 1783; and he first embarked as a midshipman, on board the Formidable 98, commanded by the late Hon. Sir George C. Berkeley, in 1796. During the last four years of the French revolutionary war, we find him successively serving in the Queen Charlotte a first rate, Penelope frigate, and Foudroyant of 80 guns.
In the Penelope, Mr. Prescott assisted at the capture of le
- ↑ See Vol. I., Part I, p. 227. N.B. Sir Richard King had previously proceeded to his command in the Magicienne frigate. Captain J. B. Purvis.
- ↑ The following correction is to be made at p. 67, of Vol. I. Part I. line 5 from the bottom – for reputed author read author.
