The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Basque Roads 1809, Java (T. C. P. Morton, Midshipman) edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Ex Glendining, October 1907

Thomas Constant Paggett Morton entered the Navy on 2 September 1802, as a Boy 2nd class aboard the Argo 44, employed in succession on the coast of Africa, and in the West Indies, Mediterranean, and North Sea. While in the West Indies in 1803, he co-operated in the reduction of the islands of Ste. Lucie and Tobago. Becoming Midshipman, in October 1804, of the Proselyte 28 he sailed in the early part of 1805 for the West Indies in escort of a large convoy. From the end of that year until October 1811 he served in the Illustrious 74, at first off Cadiz, and then in the East Indies, where, having assisted at the capture of Java, he removed to the Dasher sloop. On his return to England in March 1812, he became Master’s Mate of the Thisbe 28, bearing the flag of Sir Charles Hamilton at Deptford; and in the following June, in the same capacity, on board the Impéteux 74, flag-ship off Lisbon of the late Sir George Martin. He was confirmed a Lieutenant in October 1812 and served aboard the San Juan 74 at Gibraltar until the summer of 1814, when he returned home in the Shearwater 10. Placed on half-pay, he married, 23 April 1818, Eliza Thomson May Chappell, and subsequently emigrated to New South Wales, Australia.