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Harry Burrard Neale was born on 16 Sep 1765 and died in Brighton on 15 Feb 1840. He served in the Royal Navy.

Honors:

Baronet on 12 Apr 1791
Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB) on 2 Jan 1815
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (GCB) on 14 Sep 1822

Ranks:

Entered Navy (1778)
Lt (1787)
Cdr (1790)
Capt (1793)
RAdm B (1810)
RAdm W (1812)
RAdm R (1813)
VAdm B (1814)
VAdm W (1819)
VAdm R (1826)
Adm B (1830)
Adm W (1837)

Ship Ranks:

Captain on the Aimable from 1793
Captain on the San Fiorenzo from 1795

He appears as a character in the book "Master and Commander" (Patrick O'Brian).

Notes:

Son of Colonel William and Mary (née Pearce) Burrard. Uncle of Leonard Charles Rooke.

• Present on Roebuck (Captain Andrew Snape Hamond) at the reduction of Charlestown, South Carolina (Apr 1780).
• By royal license, he assumed the surname of Neale upon marriage to Grace Neale (1795).
• Commissioner of the Admiralty (17 Jan 1804–13 Sept 1804)
• Commissioner of the Admiralty (10 Feb 1806–6 Apr 1807)
• C-in-C Mediterranean (1823–1826)
• MP Lymington

Further Reading:

Dictionary of National Biography