frigate, formerly la Venus[1], which ship he put out of commission in May, 1811. His promotion to post-rank took place Aug. 1st following.
On the 23d June, 1813, Captain Henderson was appointed to the Acorn of 20 guns; from which ship he removed, April 20, 1814, to the Minden 74, bearing the flag of his valuable friend Sir Samuel Hood, then commander-in-chief on the East India station[2]. Shortly after the demise of that great officer and most excellent man, he exchanged with Captain Donald Hugh Mackay, into the Malacca 42, which frigate he paid off in June, 1815.
Captain Henderson married, Nov. 26, 1817, Frances, eldest daughter of Edmund Walcott, of Winkton, near Christchurch, Hants, Esq. and sister to Captain John Edward Walcott, R.N. by whom he has three sons and one daughter. One of his sisters is married to Captain William Henderson, R.N.
THOMAS TUDOR TUCKER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]
Third son of Henry Tucker, Esq. many years president of the council, treasurer, and secretary at the Bermudas, where he also held the reins of government at various periods, by Frances, eldest daughter of his Excellency George Bruere, the governor of those islands.
Mr. T. Tudor Tucker was born at the official residence of his maternal grandfather, but at what period it is not in our power to state. He entered the navy towards the close of 1793, previous to which he had made one voyage to China, and another to Bombay, as a midshipman in the service of the Hon. East India Company. The first king’s ship in which he embarked was the Argo 44, Captain William Clarke, then about to sail from the Nore for the purpose of affording protection to the homeward-bound Baltic trade. He after-
- ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 630.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood died at Madras, Dec. 24, 1814. In him it may truly be said, that the British nation lost one of its most experienced and gallant defenders, a long-tried friend and companion of the immortal Nelson.
