Royal Naval Biography/Best, Thomas
HON. THOMAS BEST.
[Captain of 1830.]
Son of Lord Wynford, better known us Mr. Serjeant Best. This officer was made a lieutenant into the Superb 78; bearing the broad pendant of Sir Thomas M. Hardy, on the South American station, Mar. 6th, 1822; appointed to the Ranger 28, Captain Peter Fisher, Dec. 18th in the same year; to the Aurora frigate. Captain John Maxwell, Feb. 25th, 1825; to the Diamond 40, Captain Lord Byron, May 30th following; and to the Alligator 28, Captain William Pitt Canning, Jan. 4th, 1827. He was made a commander April 30th, 1827; appointed to the Icarus sloop, fitting out for the Jamaica station, Mar. 1st, 1828; to be second captain of the William and Mary yacht, at Woolwich, Jan. 14th, 1830; and promoted to the rank of captain on the 22d July following.