to the Tyne 28, Capt. Geo. Hope, in South America – and next, as a Supernumerary, to the Dublin 50 and President 52, flag-ships on that station of Rear-Admirals Sir Graham Eden Hamond and Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross. He was presented with a second promotal commission 23 Nov. 1841; and, from 12 Dec. 1844 until advanced to his present rank 27 June, 1846, was employed on particular service in the Rattler steam-vessel.
Capt. Smith is married and has issue.
SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Henry Thomas Smith was born 7 March, 1810, at Greenwich, co. Kent. He is brother of Lieut. A. J. Smith, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 March, 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victory 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth. From Sept. 1825 until Jan. 1829, he served as Midshipman in the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, on the Channel, West India, Lisbon, and South American stations, and also in the Mediterranean; where, from March, 1829, until April, 1832, he was employed, the last two years as Mate, in the Melville 74 and Raleigh 18, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Abraham Mills Hawkins. He then joined the Donegal 78, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Fanshawe, in the Channel; and next – in Nov. 1832, the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, employed off Lisbon and on the coast of Holland – in March, 183-3, for about two months, the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Manley Dixon at Plymouth – in April, 1834, the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffnher, on the Lisbon station, where he remained until Jan. 1836 – in July, 1836, and June, 1839, the Firefly and Kite steamers, Lieut.-Commanders Joseph Pearse and Geo. Snell, in the Mediterranean and West Indies – in the course of 1840, the Pluto steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn, and Winchester 60, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, both on the coast of North America – and, in Feb. 1841 (five months after he had left the Winchester), the Mastiff surveying-vessel, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, stationed among the Orkney Islands. He attained his present rank (eleven years and a half after he had passed his examination) 23 Nov. 1841; was appointed, 15 Dec. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth; and, from 5 Jan. 1842 until he invalided in June, 1843, was employed in the Ferret brig, Capt. Josiah Oake, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Smith married, 22 Feb. 1844, Jane Hardy, of Thorngumbald, Holderness, co. York.
SMITH. (Retired Commander, 1832. f-p., 22; h-p., 43.)
James Smith died, 5 Jan. 1848, at Deal, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, in Jan. 1782, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Sir Rich. Bickerton and Thos. Hicks, stationed in the East Indies, whence he returned, in the capacity of Midshipman, about Oct. 1784. He was next, from Oct. 1785 until Sept. 1791, employed at Portsmouth in the Ardent 64, Capt. Francis John Hartwell, Goliath 74, Capt. Arch. Dickson, and Bellona 74, Capt. F. J. Hartwell. Rejoining the officer last mentioned in Jan. 1793, on board the Thetis frigate, he made a voyage with him to St. Helena; on his return whence he removed as Master’s Mate, in Oct. of the same year, to the Defence 74, Capt. Jas. Gambier. In that ship he fought in Lord Howe’s actions, 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. After serving for a few months in the Raisonnable 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker in the West Indies, he was promoted, 3 March, 1795, to the rank of Lieutenant. From the following Nov. until Feb. 1796, he served at Deptford in the Phoenix 36, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted; and from 31 Oct. 1803 until 14 April, 1814, he had charge of a Signal station near Blakeney. He was placed on the Junior list of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 20 Aug. 1832.
SMITH. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
John Smith entered the Navy, 22 Sept. 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Impregnable 98, Capts. Geo. Blagden Westcott, Sir Chas. Cotton, Andrew Mitchell, and John Thomas; under the first-named of whom he shared in Lord Howe’s victory 1 June, 1794. Removing as Midshipman, in Aug. 1796, to the Martin sloop, he was present in that vessel, under Capt. Sam. Sutton, at the capture, 14 Feb. 1797, of Le Buonaparte French privateer of 17 guns and 110 men, and, under Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. following. With Capt. Paget he served from Dec. 1798 until May, 1800, in the Penelope and Brilliant frigates, the latter stationed at Newfoundland; and from Nov. 1800 until officially promoted 14 Aug. 1801, he was employed in the Channel, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. His subsequent appointments were – 22 June, 1803, to the Ranger sloop, lying in the Downs – in July, 1804, to the Clyde 38, Capt. John Larmour, attached to the North Sea fleet – 16 Sept. following, to the Lucifer bomb, Capt. Robt. Elliot, in which vessel, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, he accompanied Sir John Duckworth past the Dardanells – in Dec. 1807 to the Glatton 50, Capts. Thos. Seccombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh, with whom he continued in the Mediterranean until Nov. 1809 – 8 Feb. 1810, to the Courageux 74, Capts. Robt. Plampin, Wm. Butterfield, and Philip Wilkinson, stationed in the Channel and Baltic – and 23 Nov. 1811 to the command of the Cheerly gun-brig. In the latter vessel he was employed in the Downs, Baltic, and North Sea, until Dec. 1814. He accepted his present rank 28 Jan, 1847.
SMITH. (Lieut., 1802. f.p., 16; h-p., 39.)
John Smith (d) died about the commencement of 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 June, 1792, as Servant, on board the Echo 16, Capts. Hon. Chas. Jones and Peter Halkett, employed at Newfoundland and in the Channel. In April, 1794, he rejoined Capt. Jones, as Midshipman, in the Sibyl 28, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he removed, in July, 1795, to the Garland frigate, Capt. John Erskine Douglas. He served next, from Oct. 1795 until Jan. 1801, in the Doris 36, Capts. Lord Viscount Ranelagh and John Halliday, on the coast of Ireland and in the Channel; he was then transferred, as a Supernumerary, to the Thames 32; and after he had been a second time employed, for three months as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Doris under Capt. Chas. Brisbane, he was received, in Dec. 1801, on board the Saturn 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Totty in the West Indies; where he was again, in Jan, and May, 1802, ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Fairy sloop and Aimable frigate, Capts. John Impey and Henry Raper. He was confirmed 10 July, 1802; returned to England in the following Sept.; and was afterwards, from April, 1803, until Oct. 1807, and from Oct. 1808 until April, 1810, employed, in the East Indies and North Sea and Baltic, in the Grampus (50, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Wm. Warden, and Jas. Haldane Tait, and Princess Caroline 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater. He did not afterwards go afloat.
SMITH. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 12; h-p., 39.)
John Smith (e) entered the Navy, 20 July, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker in the West Indies; where he was employed as Midshipman, from June, 1797, until Aug. 1800, in the Severn 44 and Aquilon 32, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Boys. In Nov. of the latter year, after having served for four months in
