C. Durham, at the reduction of Guadaloupe, in Aug. 1816[1]; and was paid off by Captain Henderson, May 16, 1816. It is here deserving of remark, that during the time she was in the West Indies, a period of two years and a half, she did not lose a single man from the effects of the climate; so zealously attentive were her commander and his officers to the comfort of her crew.
Captain Henderson’s post commission bears date Oct. 9, 1815. He married, in June, 1817, the second daughter of John Henderson, Esq. many years secretary to the late Admiral Lord Bridport, and sister to Captain George Henderson, R.N. He formerly had three brothers in the same service, viz. John, a Lieutenant, and commander of the Maria schooner, stationed at the Leeward Islands, which vessel foundered with all her crew, in a hurricane, about Oct. 16, 1807[2]: Benjamin W., admiralty midshipman of the Leven, who died on board that ship’s tender, in Delagoa bay, whilst employed in surveying the east coast of Africa, in March 1823 ; and Richard Willmott, who obtained the rank of Lieutenant, May 26, 1823, and is now serving as first of the Gloucester 74, in the Mediterranean[3].
JOHN HILL, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
This officer has been principally employed under the Transport and Victualling Boards. He was made commander, Oct. 8, 1798; promoted to post rank, Oct. 28, 1815, and appointed to superintend the victualling department at Deptford, in 1820.
FRANK GORE WILLOCK, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
Is a native of the West Indies, and was a midshipman on
- ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. pp. 454 and 868 et seq.
- ↑ See Suppl. Part II. p. 409.
- ↑ The Leven’s tender, out of a complement of 20 persons, lost 14 by deaths in the short space of three months.
