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	Richard Davison Pritchard aged 21 born in Newington near London, England. Ship: HMS Royal Sovereign Rank/Rating: Master's Mate
	Personal details
		Born	30 May 1788
		Died	4 January 1849
		Family	Married Mary Ann Davis (died 1842) of Binfield Lodge, Berkshire, England on 10 July 1810 Children: Richard Davis Pritchard (born 1811, Langley near Windsor, Berkshire, Surgeon, Royal Navy); Roseanne Mary Pritchard (born Bank House, Southampton in the parish of Holyhood, Hampshire 5 February 1821).
		Father	Samuel Perkins Pritchard, Master RN (died 3 September 1812)
		Mother	Ruth Ann
		Notes	Richard Davison Pritchard made an allotment from his wages on 5 April 1799, 1 January 1800, 6 August 1800, and 1 November 1802. In his officer's survey of 1817, TNA ADM 9/9 folio 2914, which is in poor condition and missing parts, Pritchard writes 'Dexterous on my passage to join the Terrible (to which ship Lord Collingwood had appointed me as a Lieutenant) I had command, and cut out two gun boats ball passed through my body, and another through my left arm, which has been useless ecer since. From these wounds my stay in the Terrible and Avenger…after leaving the Avenger was not able to go to sea again until November 13, at which time the Transport service, where I remained until the 27 August last 1819 they having at that time no further occasion for my services. During my [transport] service I have been twice to the Cape of Good Hope, also to the Isles of France and Ceylon, at Gorree, Senegal and Sierra Leone on the West Coast of [?] and Rio De Janiero, and once to the West Indies'.

	Service details
		HMS Prince Ship's pay book number: (Vol 1C, number 10) 10 August 1797 to 14 March 1798 Rank/rating: Volunteer 1st Class Comments: From Portsmouth Comments: On leave from HMS Prince 15-25 March 1798. Ship's pay book number: (Vol 1C, number 10) 26 March 1798 to 4 April 1799 Rank/rating: Volunteer 1st Class Ship's pay book number: (SB 1139) 5 April 1799 to 30 April 1799 Rank/rating: Able Seaman Ship's pay book number: (SB 1139) 1 May 1799 to 5 August 1800 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Prince George Ship's pay book number: (SB 609) 6 August 1800 to 28 April 1802 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Blenheim Ship's pay book number: (SB 36) 1 May 1802 to 1 March 1804 Rank/rating: Midshipman Comments: From 2 March 1804 to early April 1804 on a prize ship [Barbados?] Ship's pay book number: (SB 36) April 1804 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Royal Sovereign Ship's pay book number: (SB 848) 5 August 1805 to 27 December 1805 (Was at Trafalgar) Rank/rating: Master's Mate HMS Prince of Wales Ship's pay book number: (SB 837) 2 November 1806 to 26 January 1806 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Anson Ship's pay book number: (SB 222) 27 January 1806 to 11 March 1806 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Ocean Ship's pay book number: (SB 678) 15 March 1806 to 3 November 1806 Rank/rating: Midshipman HMS Dexterous Ship's pay book number: (SB 61) 3 December 1806 to 23 May 1807 Rank/rating: Sub-Lieutenant Comments: In Gibraltar hospital 24 May to 27 August 1807 (cured of wounds received in action on HMS Dexeterous). HMS San Juan Nepomuceno Ship's pay book number: (SLVO 461) 28 August 1807 to 27 October 1807 Rank/rating: Lieutenant HMS Minorca Ship's pay book number: (SLVO 146) 28 October 1807 to 6 November 1807 Rank/rating: Lieutenant HMS Terrible Ship's pay book number: (SB 783) 7 November 1807 to 29 April 1808 Rank/rating: Acting Lieutenant Comments: Discharged from HMS Terrible 'invalided and unserviceable'. HMS Avenger Ship's pay book number: (SB 204) 15 March 1809 to 11 June 1809 Rank/rating: Lieutenant Comments: Served on a gunboat 12 June to 20 July 1809. Ship's pay book number: (SB 204) 21 July 1809 to 29 November 1809 Rank/rating: Lieutenant Comments: Discharged from HMS Avenger 'invalided'. Comments: Served in Transport service November 1813 to August 1819. HMS Meteor 13 February 1838 to 14 March 1841 Rank/rating: Lieutenant Commander HMS Avon 14 March 1841 to 9 September 1841 Rank/rating: Lieutenant Commander

	Sources used
		Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15755 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/12226 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/12227 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/12228 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/12229 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/14056 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/14057 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/13893 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/13894 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/13895 Book reference: A naval biographical dictionary: comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty's Navy, from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant, inclusive by William R O'Byrne (London, J.Murray, 1849). Catalogue reference: PROB 11/2087 Catalogue reference: ADM 9/9 folio 2914 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15980 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/17308 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/17335 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/9 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/10 Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16571 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/328 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/575 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/576 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/1520 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/1521 Error! Catalogue reference: IR 26/1845 folio 44 Catalogue reference: ADM 9/49 number 3291 Catalogue reference: ADM 102/232 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/2821 Catalogue reference: ADM 37/1663