C.B., and niece of Commander Nicholas Alexander, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HERRICK. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 15; h-p., 34.)
William Henry Herrick, born 13 Feb. 1784, is eldest son of the late Thos. Bousfield Herrick, Esq., of Shippool, near Innishannon, co. Cork, by Anne, only daughter of Henry Moore, Esq., of Frankfort House, co. Cork; brother (with the present Lieut. Edw. Herrick, R.N.) of Capt. Henry Moore Herrick, of the 45th Regt., who was killed at the storming of Badajos; and brother-in-law of the late Capt. Rich. Plummer Davies, R.N. His grand-uncle, Edw. Herrick, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., himself a nephew of the first Sir Riggs Falkiner, Bart., of Anne Mount, co. Cork, was killed on board the Dorsetshire in Sir Edw. Hawkes’ action 20 Sept. 1759.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 May, 1798, as A.B., on board the Dryad 36, Capt. Lord Amelias Beauclerk, under whom he very soon attained the rating of Midshipman. With the exception of a few months during the peace of Amiens, he was next, until the autumn of 1805, employed in the Doris, Fortunée, and Aigle frigates, Capts. Lord Viscount Ranelagh, Lord A. Beauclerk, and Geo. Wolfe, Majestic 74, Capt. Lord A. Beauclerk, and Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman. Mr. Herrick, who had hitherto served on the Irish and Channel stations, and had been frequently engaged with the boats in destroying the enemy’s convoys on the coast of France, was then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Diadem 64, Commodore Sir Home Popham, to which ship, after assisting on shore at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, he was confirmed by commission dated 5 Feb. 1806. In the course of the same and of the following year he presents himself to our notice, while attached to the Diadem and to the Raisonnable, another 64, Capt. Josias Rowley, as further employed with the land forces in the operations against Buenos Ayres, Maldonado, and Monte Video. At the period, however, of the re-capture of the former place by the Spaniards in Aug. 1806, he was in the temporary command of the Dolores, an armed schooner, and obtained the favourable notice of Sir Home Popham for the very creditable manner in which he worked out of the harbour, and thereby escaped capture.[1] Mr. Herrick, whose conduct, indeed, during the whole term of his sojourn in South America appears to have been much above the average, attracted the attention also of Rear-Admiral Geo. Murray, by the infinite service he rendered in piloting the squadron, immediately prior to the unfortunate attempt made by Lieut.-General Whitelocke to regain possession of Buenos Ayres in June, 1807.[2] His appointments, on leaving the Raisonnable, were, on the East India station – 23 Feb. 1808, to the Procris sloop, Capt. Jas. Murray Gordon, of which vessel he acted as Commander for nearly eight months – 25 Jan. and 28 Feb. 1809, to the Modeste 36, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, and Russell 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury – 1 March, 1810, to the acting-command, for upwards of two months, of the Blanche 28 – then again, we presume, to the Russell – 28 Feb. 1812, to the Hecate sloop, Capt. Henry John Peachy – and, 4 Aug. 1812, to the acting-command of the Arrogant guard-ship at Bombay, whence he invalided home in Jan. 1813. He was advanced to his present rank on 17 Aug. in the latter year, and has not been since afloat.
Commander Herrick is in the Commission of the Peace for co. Cork. He married, 8 Sept. 1814, Mary, only daughter of Robt. de la Cour, Esq., of Bear Forest, by whom he has issue four sons and five daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HERRINGHAM. (Capt. 1837. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
William Allan Herringham entered the Navy, Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, on accompanying whom, after having served off Dungeness and Boulogne, into the Colossus 74, he fought, as Midshipman, and was wounded, at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805.[3] Joining then the Adamant 50, Capts. John Stiles, John Fyffe, and Micajah Malbon, he escorted in that ship a valuable fleet of Indiamen to the Cape of Good Hope, accompanied another home from St. Helena, and was subsequently, until the autumn of 1808, employed on the African and Jamaica stations. The time which intervened between the date last mentioned and that of his official promotion, 2 Nov. 1810, was passed by Mr. Herringham in the Mediterranean and Channel, latterly in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Thames 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Admirals Lord Gambier, Fras. Pickmore, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale. On 30 Sept. 1811, he joined the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, with whom he served, again in the Mediterranean and on the North Sea station, until next appointed, 17 Aug. 1812, to the Java, of 46 guns and 377 men; as Second-Lieutenant of which frigate he had the misfortune, on 29 of the following Dec, to be captured, while on his passage to India, by the American ship Constitution, of 55 guns and 480 men, after a close and fierce action sustained by the British for a period of 3 hours and 40 minutes, and until they had had 22 of their men killed and 102, including their Captain, Henry Lambert, mortally, wounded. On his restoration to liberty Mr. Herringham (whose able exertions during the conflict had obtained for him the highest commendation of his commanding officer)[4] was appointed, 8 Oct. 1813, to the Tigris 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson, under whom he served for four years on the Irish, West India, and Channel stations. Attaining the rank of Commander 16 Jan. 1818, he was subsequently, on 8 Sept. 1831, and 12 June, 1833, nominated to the Second Captaincy of the Talavera 74, commanded on particular service by Capts. David Colby and Thos. Brown, and of the Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, employed on the North America and West India station. He left the former ship, for the recovery of his health, in Dec. 1832, and was paid off from the Forte a few weeks after his advancement, 10 Jan. 1837, to Post-rank. He has not since been afloat.
Capt. Herringham, in consideration of his wound, was presented, after the battle of Trafalgar, with a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. In 1817 he had the honour of steering H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester when on a visit to the flag-ship at Plymouth.
HESELTINE. (Commander, 1846.)
Albert Heseltine passed his examination in 1832; obtained his first commission 28 Sept. 1837; and on 14 of the following Nov. joined the Electra 18, Capt. Wm. Preston, fitting for the South American station, where he became, 3 April, 1839, First Lieutenant of the Grecian 16, Capt. Wm. Smyth. He was afterwards appointed, in the latter capacity, on the Brazilian and the Cape of Good Hope station – 19 July, 1840, to the Stag 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan – 22 March, 1843, after nearly two years of half-pay, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope – and, 12 March, 1844, to the Conway 26, Capt. Wm. Kelly. He was advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, and has since been unemployed.
Commander Heseltine, in the earlier part of his career, served in the Andromeda frigate, in the East Indies, and was frequently engaged in her boats against the pirates of Malacca. He married, 28 Sept. 1840, Georgina, only daughter of Lieut. J. O’Reilly, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HETHERINGTON. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
Richard Hetherington entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Montagu 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway. During five years of
