Henry Whitby

Capt Henry Whitby, Royal Navy

Henry Whitby was a captain in the Royal Navy. He fought during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. He joined the navy in 1794 as a midshipman.^[1] He commanded HMS Leander and HMS Centaur. He married the second daughter of John Nicholson Inglefield.^[2]

References

1. Biographical Memoire. Henry Whitby. Naval Chronicle, Vol. 28, p. 265
2. Naval Chronicle, p. 38

• Trial of Captain Whitby.1812
• The Naval Chronicle: Volume 16, July–December 1806, Volume 16, p. 119
• Naval Court Marshall