A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Denyer, James Richard
DENYER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
James Richard Denyer entered the Navy, in July, 1807, as Ordinary, on board the Centaur 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore, afterwards Vice-Admiral, Sir Sam. Hood; under which gallant officer, until his death in Dec. 1814, he successively served in the Hibernia 110, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious and Minden 74’s, on the North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean, and East India stations. While in the Centaur, he attended the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807 – beheld, in Dec. of the same year, the surrender of Madeira – assisted, in company with the Implacable 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and perilous conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 men killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded – and, in Aug. 1809, accompanied the armament sent to the Scheldt. He returned home with Capt. Geo. Henderson in 1815, on board the Malacca 42; and, since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place on 20 Sept. in that year, has been unemployed.
Lieut. Denyer is married.