Royal Naval Biography/Godby, John Hardy
JOHN HARDY GODBY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Son of the late John Godby, Esq. Steward of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, by a daughter of Josiah Hardy, Esq. H.M. Consul at Cadiz, and formerly Governor of the Jerseys, North America[1].
He was made lieutenant in 1800; commander Sept. 25, 1806; appointed to the Prospero sloop, Nov. 18, 1809; and posted June 27, 1814. On the 17th Feb. 1811, he destroyed a Danish privateer cutter, of 2 guns and 25 men, near Christiansand, on the coast of Norway.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.