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wounded while serving as midshipman on board the Monarch 74, Captain (now Sir Richard) Lee, in action with a squadron of French frigates, Sept. 25th, 1806. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place on the 29th May, 1807. The following is taken from the Naval Chronicle, vol. 24, p. 434:

We next find Lieutenant Geary serving under Captain Robert Henderson, in the Tigris frigate, on the Irish station, and at the Leeward Islands. In April 1818, he was appointed first of the Phaeton 46, Captain William Henry Dillon, fitting out for a voyage to the East Indies; and on his return home, in Oct. 1819, he was dismissed from that ship and severely reprimanded, by the sentence of a court-martial, for having concealed two deserters from the band of H.M. 18th regiment, whilst under sailing orders at Portsmouth. He appears to have subsequently commanded an East Indiaman. His advancement to the rank he now holds took place on the 17th Feb. 1831. 



his examination, at Plymouth, in July 1812; was made a lieutenant into the San Juan, sheer-hulk and receiving ship at Gibraltar, Jan. 1st, 1813; and advanced to his present rank on the 22d Feb. 1831.

