DEATH OF CAPTAIN HENRY GARRETT
We have to record the death, on the 14th instant, of Commander Henry Garrett, an officer who served at Trafalgar. He was born at Hambledon, Hants, in 1786, and entered the navy in 1799 on board the Impregnable, 98, Captain Jonathan Faulknor, under whom, on the 19th of October following, he was wrecked as midshipman, between Langstone and Chichester. He then joined the Puissant, at Spithead, and, while afterwards attached, from January 1801 to January 1806, to the Belleisle, 74, Captains Wm. Domett, Charles Boyles, John Whitby, and William Hargood, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, and took part in the battle of Trafalgar. On subsequently joining the Culloden, 74, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Sir Edward Pellew, he was there appointed acting-lieutenant, 18th April, 1807, of La Bellone, 28, Captain John Bastard; in which capacity he followed the latter officer into the Dedaigneuse, 36, and next removed to the Psyche, 36, Captains John Edgecombe and Robert Worgan George Festing. Mr. Garrett, who accompanied the boats of the latter vessel at the attack on a fort and the destruction of several vessels at Rutterah, during a rebellion among the natives at Travancore, on the Malabar coast, was not, however, confirmed by the Admiralty until the 21st of August, 1809, at which period he had been fulfilling for eight months the duties of first lieutenant of a frigate. In 1810-11, being still senior of the Psyche, he assisted at the reduction of the Mauritius and of the island of Java. As supernumerary-lieutenant of the Rhin, 38, Captain Chas. Malcolm, he afterwards during the summer of 1812 served on shore in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and was wounded while in command of a battery at Santander. His next appointments, we find, were— 11th December, 1813, to the Medway, 74, flagship of Sir Charles Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope, and 17th of February, 1815, to the Harpy, 18, Captain George Tyler, with whom he returned home and was paid off in March, 1816. From the 8th of March, 1832, to the 8th of March, 1837, he appears to have had charge of the Semaphore station at Holder Hill, in the county of Sussex. Since the 10th of December, 1841, he has been similarly employed at Petersfield, in the county of Hants. Lieutenant Garrett married on the 10th of October, 1816, a daughter of the late Mr. Goldsmith, of Southampton.
See also 31-Dec-1847
Ancestry shows the Marriage Register for Henry Garrett & Mary Goldsmith at Hambledon on 10-Oct-1816
and believed his Baptism also at Hambledon on 16-Jan-1786 son of Edward & Mary Garrett