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HALL—HALLETT—HALLIDAY—HALLOWES. 1847 he was elected a F.R.S. He married, 30 April, 1845, the Hon. Hilare Caroline Byng, third daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Viscount Torrington (under whose orders he first went to sea), and sister of the present Viscount Torrington, Governor-General of Ceylon, as likewise of Agents – Collier and Snee.

 HALL. 

entered the Navy 22 Sept. 1829; passed his examination 1 March, 1837; and was subsequently nominated Mate of the 72, Capt. Houston Stewart. For his services in that ship on the coast of Syria, where he commanded her launch at the attack made on the town of Tortosa 25 Sept. 1840, and further assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 July, 1841, and appointed, the same day, Additional of the 120, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir John Acworth Ommanney. From 17 Sept. in the latter year, until paid off in the early part of 1844, he was employed, on the same station, in the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling; and on 18 of the following Sept. he was appointed for a short time First of the 10, Capt. Edm. Wilson, fitting at Portsmouth. He has been serving, since 7 Jan. 1845, in the 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen on the North America and West India station. – Holmes and Folkard.

 HALLETT. 

entered the Navy 22 July, 1829; passed his examination 23 Jan. 1836; and was. for some time employed as Mate in the 16, Capt. Hon. Joseph Denman, on the coast of Africa. His appointments, since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 3 Sept. 1841, have been – 2 May, 1842, and 12 May, 1844, to the 72, and  50, Capts. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, both on the Mediterranean station – and 24 Aug. 1846, as First, to the 6, Capt. Granville Hamilton Wood, in which vessel he is again serving on the African coast.

 HALLETT. 

was born 20 May, 1808.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 1 Feb. 1821; and embarked in Feb. 1823, as Midshipman, on board the 42, Capt. Gardiner Henry Guion, employed in the Mediterranean. In 1827, after having served for some time in the East Indies in the 52, and  46, both commanded by Capt. John Wilson, he passed his examination; and between that period and the receipt of his first Admiralty commission, bearing date 16 Oct. 1830, he discharged the duties of Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, on the North America and West India station, in the  46, and  52, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, and 18, Capt. Thos. Gill. Mr. Hallett, who next, from 19 Dec. 1831, until paid off 28 July, 1834, served off Lisbon in the 84, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker – was lastly, on 14 April, 1836, appointed to the 80, Capts. Samuel Jackson and Chas. John Austen. Returning in the latter ship to the Mediterranean, he ultimately, in 1840, commanded her boats in the attacks on Gebail and Sidon; and he also fought at the siege of Acre. Having paid the off, as her First-Lieutenant, in, 1841, he was promoted, on 23 of the following Nov., to the rank he now holds. He has not since been afloat. – Hallett and Robinson.

 HALLIDAY. 

entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 24 June, 1830; passed his examination 7 Jan. 1835; was promoted, while serving on board the 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir John Acworth Ommanney, to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Nov. 1841; and afterwards joined – 3 Dec. 1841, as Additional, the  50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis – and 24 Oct. 1843, the  18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow. He returned home from the Pacific (where he had been employed ever since his appointment to the ) in the early part of 1846; and is now on half-pay.

 HALLIDAY. 

died about the commencement of 1846.

This officer entered the Navy 1 May, 1812; and obtained Ms commission 6 May, 1828. His last appointments afloat, were, 5 Aug. 1831, and 21 Dec. 1832, to the 28, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, and 18, Capt. Thos. Maitland, both stationed in the West Indies. He paid the latter vessel off, as First-Lieutenant, in the spring of 1833.

Lieut. Halliday married, in 1833, Sophia Noel, grand-daughter of the late Lord Wentworth.

 HALLOWES. 

entered the Navy, 16 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith, whom he followed as Midshipman, in Aug. 1805, into the  74. In Feb. 1806, after a short attachment to the 74, commanded at Portsmouth by Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he joined the 36, Capts. Jas. Oswald, Hassard Stackpoole, and Jas. Hillyar, with whom he successively served in the North Sea, Channel, Mediterranean, and Baltic. On his return home from the latter station in Nov. 1809, in the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Fitzgerald, he was received on board the  74, bearing the flag at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Wells. In the following summer he sailed for the Mauritius as Master’s-Mate in the 38, Capt. Peter Parker; from which ship, after assisting at the reduction of the above island, he was removed, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the  brig, Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, then on the point of returning to England with the intelligence of the event. Resuming, in March, 1811, his former duties in the, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where Sir Edw. Pellew, the Commander-in-Chief, appointed him Lieutenant, 25 June, 1812, of the 74. That ship being however ordered to England before he could join, Mr. Hallowes was obliged to serve for some time as a Supernumerary on board the 74, and  64, flag-ships at Lisbon of the present Sir Geo. Martin, who, on 26 May, 1813, gave him an order to act as Lieutenant of the brig, Capts. Rich. Foley and Nich. Chas. Dobree – an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed on 14 of the following June. He was transferred from the in May, 1815, to the  110, bearing the flag of Lord Keith at Plymouth, where he remained until the following Aug. He then went on half-pay, and has not since been afloat. – J. Woodhead.

 HALLOWES. 

is second son of the late Col. John Hallowes, of Glapwell Hall, co. Derby.

This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Chas. Coote. That vessel being unfortunately captured by the Rochefort squadron 17 July, 1805, he was sent a prisoner to Verdun, and there detained for a period of nearly five years and a half. On his release in Dec. 1810, he joined the 36, Capt. John Serrell, stationed in the Baltic, where, on 10 July, 1811, we find him serving in a boat with the present Lieut. Wm. Henry Dixon at the cutting<section end="Hallowes, John"/>