A native of Stonehouse, co. Devon; and nephew to the late Rear-Admiral Richard Raggett.
This officer entered the royal navy in Jan. 1797, as midshipman on board the Prince George 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral (afterwards Sir William) Parker, in Jan. 1797; and witnessed the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, on the 14th of the following month. We afterwards find him serving under Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Thompson, the present Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, and the late Sir George Campbell, in the Formidable 98, Queen Charlotte 110, and Temeraire 98, principally on the Channel station. In the early part of 1803, he belonged to the Victory, first rate, from which ship he was promoted, by the immortal Nelson, into the Termagant sloop, off Toulon, April 30th, 1804. In 1807, he was lieutenant of the Goshawk sloop. Captain Alexander Innes, and present at the siege of Copenhagen. He subsequently served as first of the Bombay, America, and York, 74’s, Caledonia 120, and Rochefort 80, commanded by Captains William Cuming, Josias Rowley, Alexander W. Schomberg, and Sir Archibald C. Dickson; from which latter ship, in consideration of his long service as senior lieutenant, and his meritorious conduct having been often represented, he was promoted to his present rank on the 7th Dec. 1818.