The following obituary for Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse appeared in the Times newspaper.
Obituary in the Times newspaper | |
Date | Obituary |
27 May 1884 | It is announced that Admiral Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse, C.B., died at Billacombe, near Plymouth, on Sunday. The deceased was the only son of the late Rev. George Henry Glasse, rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, by marriage with Harriet, daughter and heiress of Mr. Thomas Wheeler, of Waterford, and was born in 1806. He entered the Navy in 1818, and passed his examination in 1825, Obtaining his first commission in the following year, he was afterwards appointed to the coast blockade as supernumerary lieutenant of the Hyperion, and subsequently to the St. Vincent and Caledonia, flagships at Plymouth. In 1833 he was appointed to the command, on the home, Lisbon, and African stations, of the Magpie and the Rolla. He obtained the rank of commander in 1838, became captain in 1846, rear-admiral in 1864, vice-admiral in 1871, and admiral in 1877. The gallant officer served in the Burmese war in 1825, in the China war in 1841-2, in Seinde in 1843, and in the Baltic during the Russian war in 1854-5. He was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1857. Admiral Glasse, who was a magistrate for Devonshire, married, in 1849, Ada Maria, daughter of Mr. Henry Richard Roe, of Gnaton-hall in that county. |