Royal Naval Biography/Clowes, Thomas Ball
THOMAS BALL CLOWES, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1823.]
Is the son of a deceased medical gentleman, formerly resident at Sandwich. He served as midshipman under Commodore (now Sir Edward W. C. R.) Owen; passed his examination in April, 1809; obtained the rank of lieutenant, Dec. 26th, in the same year; and was appointed to the Hamadryad frigate. Captain Sir Thomas Staines, about June, 1810. His commission as commander bears date March 23d, 1812.
Captain Clowes’s subsequent appointments were, June 2d, 1812, to the Sparrowhawk brig, of 18 guns, employed in the Mediterranean; and, May 22d, 1821, to the Rose 18, about to be launched at Portsmouth, in which vessel he sailed for the above station, on the 20th August following. He obtained post rank May 16th, 1823.
Agent.– W. M‘Inerheny, Esq.