A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anthony, Mark
ANTHONY. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 29; h-p., 17.)
Mark Anthony is son of the late Joseph Anthony, Esq., by his second wife, Miss Lambert, of Camagh, co. Wexford; and grandson of Peter Anthony, Esq., of Carrig Castle, co. Waterford, who served as Captain in one of the Irish regiments under Louis XV., and fought at Fontenoy.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Hunter 18, Capts. Geo. Jones and Sam. Hood Inglefield, and served in the boats of that vessel when they sustained a loss of 15 men killed in an ineffectual attempt made, towards the close of 1803, to bring out several armed merchantmen fastened in a secure manner to the beach in a small harbour, on the west side of the island of Cuba. After the latter event he became Master’s Mate of the scp frigate, Capts. Cathcart and M‘Donald, and, in Sept. 1804, joined the Naiad 38, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Thos. Dundas, one of Lord Nelson’s repeaters in the action off Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, on which occasion he assisted in towing the Belleisle 74, from her perilous position near the shoals, and had the good fortune to rescue, in a boat, 56 of the officers and crew of the French ship Achille before she blew up. The Naiad, who had previously effected a very gallant escape from a powerful French squadron, appears to have been also much engaged with Spanish gun-boats and batteries. Shortly after his junction of the Theseus 74, Capt. John Poo Beresford, Mr. Anthony was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission, dated 22 April, 1808, and appointed to the Fury bomb, Capt. John Sanderson Gibson, on the Baltic station, where he received a severe injury in the thigh by the recoiling of a gun, which he was in the act of pointing at a Danish gun-boat. On removing with Capt. Gibson to the Sarpen 18, he accompanied, as First Lieutenant of that sloop, the expedition to the Walcheren, and did good service to several of the transports. On 12 April, 1811, he was appointed to the Stately 64, Capts. Robt. Campbell and Edw. Stirling Dickson, under whom he was actively employed, on boat duty and otherwise, at the defence of Cadiz and Tarifa, until 20 Nov. following, when he was compelled to invalid, owing to a fracture of the leg and dislocation of the ankle-joint. From Oct. 1814, until 1818, Mr. Anthony further served, in the Orestes 16, Capt, Wm. Robt. Smith, and in the Boyne and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Thrnbrough, on the Irish and Portsmouth stations. He was then appointed Harbour-Master of Dunmore East, of which situation, on its abolition in 1832, he was deprived without the slightest compensation, although he had originally obtained it under the idea of its being a life-appointment, and had been thereby prevented from otherwise working his promotion. He has not since been employed.