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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Baugh, Henry William

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1633165A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Baugh, Henry WilliamWilliam Richard O'Byrne

BAUGH. (Lieutenant, 1841.)

Henry William Baugh died 31 Jan. 1846. He was eldest son of Rear-Admiral Thos. Folliott Baugh.

This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 15 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 23 Sept. 1834; served as Mate, in North America, the West Indies, and Mediterranean, in the Madagascar 44, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, and Impregnable 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest; and while employed on the former station in the Illustrious 72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam, was awarded a commission, dated 23 Nov. 1841. He continued to serve for some weeks in the same ship as Additional-Lieutenant; then removed, 23 Feb. 1842, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Edw. Iggulden Parrey; and from the following Dec. until 1845 appears to have been employed in the East Indies on board the Samarang surveying-vessel, Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.