A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ackerley, Charles Henry
ACKERLEY. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 19; h-p., 18.)
Charles Henry Ackerley is second son of the late John Hawkesley Ackerley, Esq., barrister-at-law, by Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Chamberlayne, of Maugersbury House, co. Gloucester; younger brother of Joseph Chamberlayne Chamberlayne, Esq., of Maugersbury House, who assumed that name on inheriting the large estates of his maternal uncle, Edmund John Chamberlayne, Esq.; and cousin of Commander John Chamberlayne, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sheldrake 16, Capt. John Thicknesse. In Sept. following he became Midshipman of the Adamant 50, bearing the flag at Leith of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway, and in that ship and the Daphne 23, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Jas. Green, he continued to serve, until the conclusion of hostilities in 1814. During the first three years of the peace he appears to have been employed in the East Indies on board the Iphigenia 36, Capts. Andrew King and John Hancock; after which (with the exception of an attachment of three months as Acting-Lieutenant, during the year 1821, to the Drake sloop, Capt. Baker) he served, until March, 1823, on board the Sir Francis Drake, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Sir Chas. Hamilton. Having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 20 of the previous Nov. Mr. Ackerley afterwards joined – 21June, 1824, the Wellesley 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, employed on particular service – 23 Dec. 1825, the Spartiate 76, Capt. Fred. Warren – and, 23 March, 1827, the Ocean 80, Capt. Patrick Campbdl, guard-ship at Plymouth, but afterwards charged with the conveyance of the British forces to Portugal, and finally attached to the squadron in the Mediterranean. He was placed on half-pay in May, 1830, and has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Ackerley was presented, 2 June, 1828, with the large silver medal of the “Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,” for his safety rods for ships’ boats.