by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2022
Thomas Larcom c1759-1804. He was the son of Thomas Larcom and of his wife, Charity Banton, and was the elder brother of Rear-Admiral Joseph Larcom. The boys and their sister were orphaned in the early 1770’s and became the responsibility of a maternal aunt, who was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2022
Sir George Burlton Died 1815. He was a younger son of Philip Burlton of Wickham Mills, Essex, and of St. James’ Street, London, who had served as the surgeon-general to the Army in Germany under the Marquis of Granby during the Seven Years War. Philip Burlton was well...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 19, 2021
Edward Kittoe 1768-1823. He was christened at St. Lawrence, Kent on 30 July 1768, the son of George Kittoe and of his wife, Margaret Read. His brother, George Kittoe, became the master-attendant of the dockyard in English Harbour, Antigua, where he was infamously...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 12, 2021
William Brown 1764 -1814. He was born on 8 May 1764 at Leesthorpe Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the son of John Suffield Brown, a landowner and deputy lord-lieutenant of that county, and of his wife, Anna Maria Elson. Brown joined the Navy in 1777, and was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 24, 2021
William Roberts c1769-1811. Roberts was commissioned lieutenant on 23 December 1793, and it appears likely that he fought at the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 aboard the Defence 74, Captain James Gambier. He was promoted commander of the sloop Snake 18...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 24, 2021
George Sayer (1) 1773-1831. Born on 15 November 1773, he was the eldest son of Benjamin Sawyer, a long-term Customs collector at Deal in Kent, and of his wife, Anne Matson. He was the cousin of Captain George Sayer (2). Sayer joined the service aboard the Phoenix 36,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 12, 2021
Sir Francis Laforey 1767-1835. He was born on 31 December 1767 in the colony of Virginia, North America, the son of Vice-Admiral Sir John Laforey and of his wife, Eleanor Farley. Laforey was educated at Freshford near Bath in the early 1780’s. Having been commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 26, 2021
Richard Creyke 1746 – 1826. He was born on 8 August 1746 in Burleigh-on-the-Hill, Rutland, the second son of John Creyke and Catherine Austen. Creyke was one of the picked members of crew who in 1764 joined the Dolphin 20, Captain Hon. John Byron, which in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 20, 2021
Sir Thomas Briggs 1780-1852. Born in Southampton in 1780, he was the son of Stephen Briggs, the chief surgeon at Madras, and of Magdalena Pasley, the youngest sister of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. His cousins included Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and Admiral Sir...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 6, 2021
John Broughton c1767- 1837. Broughton first went to sea in June 1780 aboard the Valiant 74, Captain Samuel Goodall, seeing service in the Channel, at the Relief of Gibraltar on 12 April 1781, and in Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt’s action with the Comte de Guichen on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 14, 2021
Jemmett Brown Mainwaring 1763-1800. He was the third surviving son of Benjamin Mainwaring of Whitmore in Staffordshire, and the brother of Lieutenant-General John Montagu Mainwaring. Through his grandmother, he was a distant relative of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye. On 24...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2021
Edward Leveson-Gower 1776-1853. He was born on 8 May 1776, the second son of Rear-Admiral Hon. John Leveson-Gower and of his wife Frances Boscawen, the daughter of the famous Admiral Hon. Edward Boscawen. He was the brother of Captain Augustus Leveson-Gower who died...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 30, 2021
Sir Peter Halkett 1765-1839. Born on 16 October 1765, he was the second son of Sir John Wedderburn Halkett, the 4th baronet of Pitfirrane in Fife, and of his second wife, Mary Hamilton. He was the elder brother of both General John Halkett, who served as the governor...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 12, 2021
Joseph Deane c1731-80. He was baptised on 22 December 1730 and appears to have originated from Whitehaven in Cumbria. His younger brother, Charles, served in the East India Company. On 29 April 1755 Deane was commissioned lieutenant, and on 23 February 1758 he was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 1, 2021
Sir John Borlase Warren 1753-1822. He was born on 2 September 1753 at Stapleford in Nottinghamshire, the fourth son of a wealthy gentleman, John Borlase Warren, and of his wife, Bridget Rosell of Radcliffe-on-Trent. Warren received an education at Bicester and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 21, 2021
Richard Retalick c1759-1813. He came from an established Cornish family. His brother James was wounded aboard the Monarch 74 at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 when serving as her third lieutenant, and his injuries contributed to his early death at Padstow in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 18, 2021
John Faithful Fortescue 1755-1819. He came from a long-established Devonian family and was the eldest son of Faithful Fortescue of Hatherleigh, near Oakhampton, and of his wife Eleanor Pyne of Heavitree. Fortescue’s early career included stints on the Dispatch 10,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 16, 2021
James Macnamara 1768-1826. He was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1768, the son of Michael Macnamara of Cahir Tuagh and of his wife, Bridget Walters. In 1782 Macnamara entered the navy aboard the Gibraltar 80, Captain Thomas Hicks, which vessel sailed for the East...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 13, 2021
Elliot Salter c1741- 90. The son of Elliot Salter, it is believed that he was born in 1741 near Windsor, and that his family originally emanated from Shropshire. Salter was educated at Eton, and after joining the Navy he was commissioned lieutenant on 3 July 1765 at...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 26, 2021
Walter Serocold 1758-94. He was born on 24 January 1758 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, the only son of the Rev. Walter Serocold and of his wife, Mary Marshall. Serocold was commissioned lieutenant on 11 April 1779 and at the beginning of 1782 was serving aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 22, 2021
William Henry Webley (Parry) 1764-1837. He was born on 3 March 1764, the youngest of seven children, many of whom died early, of a leading lawyer, William Webley. Webley entered the Navy in 1779 aboard the Britannia 100, Captain Charles Morice Pole, the flagship of...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2021
see Thomas Davy Spry
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2021
Robert Barton c1752-1831. Barton was commissioned lieutenant on 6 June 1776 and promoted commander of the cutter Bustler 14 on 6 November 1782, which vessel he commissioned for service in the Irish Sea, operating out of Holyhead. Having arrived at Portsmouth on 26 May...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2021
Sir Charles Brisbane 1769-1829. Descended from a long-established Renfrewshire family living in Bishopton, south of the River Clyde, he was the fourth son of Admiral John Brisbane and his wife, Mary Young. His youngest brother was Commodore Sir James Brisbane, and of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 2, 2021
See Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 2, 2021
Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys c1768-1832. The son of Edward Griffith and his wife, Anne Colpoys, he was the nephew of Admiral Sir John Colpoys. The family appear to have originated from Cashel and Emly in the west of Ireland. Griffith entered the navy under the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 17, 2021
Hon. Charles Herbert 1774-1808. Born on 5 July 1774, he was the second of five sons of the Whig politician, Henry Herbert, the 1st Earl of Caernarfon, and of his wife Lady Alicia Wyndham, the daughter of the 2nd Earl Egremont. His brothers Hon. Henry Herbert, who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 5, 2021
George Stewart, Viscount Garlies, 8th Earl of Galloway 1768-1834. He was born on 24 March 1768, the second but eldest surviving of eight sons of John, 7th Earl of Galloway, by his second wife Anne Dashwood, sister to the Duchess of Manchester. He was the nephew of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2021
Thomas Hamilton 1754 -1815. He was a younger son of Dr William Hamilton of Dublin. Hamilton was commissioned lieutenant on 29 April 1778, and he was promoted commander of the Rattlesnake 18 on 29 November 1785 by Commodore Phillips Cosby on the Mediterranean station...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2021
Sir Charles Ogle 1775-1858. He was born on 24 May 1775 at Worthy Par, Martyr’s Worthy, near Winchester in Hampshire, the eldest son of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, and of his wife Hesther Thomas. He was the great-nephew of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle. After...
