of Post-Captain, Dec. 16th following; and some time after appointed to the Prince of Wales a second rate, bearing the flag of his uncle, the late Sir Henry Harvey, K.B.[1], with whom he proceeded to the West Indies, and served at the conquest of the island of Trinidad[2]. After this event, which took place in the month of Feb. 1797, he was sent to England with despatches; and subsequently obtained the command of the Southampton, of 32 guns, in which frigate he was again ordered to the Leeward island station, where he continued during the remainder of the war, and assisted at the reduction of the Virgin islands, by Sir John T. Duckworth, in 1801.
His next appointment appears to have been in the summer of 1804, to the Agamemnon, of 64 guns, which ship formed part of Sir Robert Calder’s fleet in the action with the combined squadrons of France and Spain, July 22, 1805[3], and on that occasion had several men wounded, besides being much cut up in her spars and rigging. About the month of September in the same year, Captain Harvey removed into the Canada, a 74-gun ship. He subsequently commanded the Leviathan of the same class in the Mediterranean; and in Aug., 1811, was appointed to the Royal Sovereign a first rate, in which he continued till the general promotion, Aug. 12, 1812, when he obtained the command of a royal yacht. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Dec. 4, 1813; and in 1815, he hoisted his flag on board the Antelope, of 50 guns, as Commander-in-Chief at the Leeward islands, where he remained during the customary period of three years.
Residence.– Walmer, Kent.
- ↑ See Rear-Admiral Thomas Harvey.
- ↑ See p. 112.
- ↑ See p. 40.
Spithead, he was conveyed on shore at Portsmouth, where, after bearing the most excruciating pain with christian resignation, he was released from this world, and lost to his country, on the 30th June.
The House of Commons, to perpetuate the memory of this heroic man, unanimously voted a monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey; had he survived, his name would have been included in the flag-promotion which took place on the 4th of the following month. It is a singular coincidence of events, that Captain Harvey, and Captain Hutt, of the Queen, were companions in a post-chaise from London, on joining their respective ships, previous to their last cruize; they both lost a limb in the action; died on the same day; and are both recorded on the same monument, raised by a grateful country to their memory.
