reward for his general services; was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815; and advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, July 19, 1821[1].
Residence.– H 4, Albany, Piccadilly.
THOMAS HARVEY, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Blue; and a Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
This officer is the second son of the late Sir Henry Harvey, K.B. who commanded the Ramillies, of 74 guns, in Earl Howe’s action, June 1, 1794; captured, in conjunction with Sir Ralph Abercrombie, the Spanish island of Trinidad, in Feb. 1797; and died an Admiral of the White, Dec. 28, 1810. In 1796, we find him commanding in succession the Lacedemonian and Pelican sloops of war. The latter formed part of the squadron employed at the reduction of the above-named colony; immediately after which he was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, in the Prince of Wales, a second-
- ↑ Sir James A. Wood’s younger brother, Andrew, like himself, entered the naval service at a very early age, went to India after the peace of 1783, and served some time as chief officer of the Sir Edward Hughes, a vessel (originally intended for a 50-gun ship) belonging to the E.I.Company. At the time when a war was subsequently expected with Holland, he was sent, in the command of a small vessel, to the Straits of Sunda, for the purpose of informing thirty sail of Indiamen of that circumstance. Unfortunately, his vessel was wrecked at the entrance of the Straits, and it was with great difficulty that any of the crew reached the shore. Impressed, however, with a strong sense of the importance of his mission, he took an open boat, and, in defiance of the elements, and of the Malays, who murdered more than half of his men, he cruised in the Straits during three months, and succeeded in giving, the necessary intelligence to twenty-nine sail out of the thirty. Approving highly of his diligence and intrepidity, the different governments concurred in recommending him for promotion in his own line. Anxious to rejoin the Sir Edward Hughes, and all the ships of the season having left Bombay, he bought a small vessel, of less than five tons, had her decked, and, with three Lascars on board, embarked for the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived in safety after a passage of 63 days. Not finding any ship there that was proceeding to England, and conceiving the most perilous part of the voyage to be over, he again set out in his little bark, with three foreign seamen; but, to the deep regret of his family, he was never heard of more!
