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HARROP—HARROW—HARSTON—HART. whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1833 – having been elevated to Post-rank on 9 of the previous Oct. He has not been since afloat.

Capt. Harrison married, 15 ApriJ, 1820, Catherine, daughter of Mr. Mottley, of Portsmouth.

 HARROP. 

entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean; and in Aug. 1809 became Midshipman of the 98, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In Dec. 1811, after having served for some time on the Baltic and North Sea stations, in the latter ship and in the 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Wm. Young, he joined the 36, Capt. John Joyce, in which frigate he had the misfortune, on 28 of the following January, to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until the peace of 1814, when, on his return to England, he was received on board the 104, flag-ship at the time of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, but subsequently commanded off Lisbon by Capt. John Wentworth Loring. Mr. Harrop was next transferred in succession to the 40, armée en flûte, Capt. Henry Collins Deacon, and  50, and  74, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith on the Halifax station; where, being created a Lieutenant of the last-mentioned ship, by commission dated 1 May, 1815, he continued to serve until paid off in Aug. of the same year. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1818, to the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Bernard Yeoman, under whom, in 1821, he escorted George IV. to Ireland – early in 1822, to the 10, Capt. Wm. Robt. Dawkins, in which vessel he sailed for the West Indies – and, 4 Feb. 1824, to the 26, Capt. Jas. Murray. Since the paying off of the latter vessel, on her return from Jamaica to England, Mr. Harrop has been unemployed. – Goode and Lawrence.

 HARROW. 

entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capts. John Stiles, John Fyffe, and Micajah Malbon, of which vessel, successively employed on the African and West India stations, he soon became Midshipman. From Dec. 1807 until Oct. 1813, we find him serving, chiefly in the West Indies, Baltic, and Channel, on board the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Benj. Clement, 18, Capt. Justice Finley,  frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, and  98, and  110, bearing each the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. During his attachment to the, a period of nearly two years, he appears to have been very arduously employed, and to have passed through scenes of great mortality. On one occasion, we believe, he assisted by his indefatigable exertions in subduing an alarming fire which had broken out at Falmouth, on the north side of the island of Jamaica; and he was afterwards, while returning with convoy to England, present in a desperate hurricane, in which the same vessel lost her topmasts and sustained considerable injury. On leaving the, as above, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the brig, commanded on the north coast of Spain by Capt. Wm. Ramsden, but he went back to the former ship in Feb. 1814, and continued to serve in her until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June following. Mr. Harrow, who was subsequently employed for 10 months in the West Indies and Channel on board the 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, has been on half-pay since Aug. 1815.

He married, in April, 1834, Ann, youngest daughter of the late E. D. Bridger, Esq., of Barton Farm.

 HARSTON. 

entered the Navy 16 Aug. 1826; passed his examination in 1832; and, on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Oct. 1840, was appointed to the steamer, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, employed on an expedition up the river Niger. Quitting the latter vessel towards the close of 1841, he was subsequently appointed First, 15 April, 1842, and 25 Jan. 1845, of the surveying-vessel, and  steam-sloop, commanded on the Brazilian and African stations by Capts. Bartholomew Jas. Sulivan and Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt. Having the good fortune to survive the ravages of the fearful disease which, in Sept. 1845, swept away the Captain and nearly the whole of the crew belonging to the, Mr. Harston, on his arrival home, was promoted to his present rank by commission bearing date 6 Dec. in the same year. He has since been on half-pay.

 HART. 

entered the Navy, 9 Jan. 1807, as Clerk, on board the sloop, Capt. John Lamborn, employed on the Jamaica station, whence he returned in Nov. 1808. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1809, of the 74, Capt. John Barrett, he continued to serve under that officer, on the Baltic station, until 22 Dec. 1810, when he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the Haak Sands, near the Texel, and taken prisoner. On his release from captivity in May, 1814, he joined the 74, Capts. Adam Drummond and Thos. Briggs, in which ship we find him employed, off Lisbon and Cork and in the Mediterranean, until Nov. 1815. He then took up a commission, dated on 6 of the previous March, and has since been on half-pay.

 HART. 

died in March, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. -Augustus Montagu, in which frigate he served on the coasts of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and France, also in the West Indies, and off Greenland and the Western Islands, until Dec. 1813; participating during that period, as Midshipman, in an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the, upon the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries near Cherbourg, as likewise in the subsequent destruction of one of the same ships, near Barfleur, 25 March, 1811. Joining, next, the 110, bearing the successive flags of Rear-Admirals Edw. Jas. Foote and Sir Rich. King, he witnessed, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, the two partial actions with the Toulon fleet of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. Towards the close of the latter year he sailed for the East Indies in the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, from which ship, commanded latterly by Capt. Robt. O’Brien, he removed, 9 April, 1816, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the 36, Commodore Geo. Sayer. He was officially promoted 20 Jan. 1818, and subsequently appointed – 6 Oct. and 3 Dec. following, to the 74, flagship of Sir Rich. King, and 26, Capt. Edw. Barnard, also in the East Indies – 3 Dec. 1821, to the frigate, bearing the flag at Cork of Lord Colville – 22 Sept. 1825, to the  28, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Michael Seymour, on the South American station – and, 22 Aug. 1829, to the 28, Capt. Chas. Philip Yorke, in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 26 Nov. 1830, but was not afterwards employed. – Goode and Lawrence.

 HART. 

is son of the late Gen. G. V. Hart, M.P. for co. Donegal, and Military Governor of Londonderry and Culmore forts. This officer entered the Navy, in 1820, as Midshipman, on board the 80, Capt. Chas.