by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 16, 2021
Lancelot Skynner 1766-99. He was the eldest son of John Skynner, the rector of Easton-on-the-Hill in Northamptonshire, and of his wife, Sara Lancaster. His uncle, Captain Lancelot Skynner, was mortally wounded when commanding the Biddeford 20 in a particularly gallant...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2021
Simon Miller c1750-1825. Miller was commissioned lieutenant on 18 March 1783 and placed in command of the armed schooner Gros Inlet by Admiral Hugh Pigot, the commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands station. He was promoted commander of the same vessel just four...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 7, 2021
George Vaughan Died 1796. Vaughan was commissioned lieutenant on 22 February 1788, and during the Spanish Armament was appointed the fifth lieutenant of the Vengeance 74, Captain Sir Thomas Rich, on 6 July 1790, although this commission was cancelled. Going out to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 7, 2021
William Pierrepont 1766 -1813. He was baptised on 4 March 1766 at Uffington, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, the third son of Charles Pierrepont and of his wife, Mary Hopkinson. Pierrepont joined the Navy in 1780 and was commissioned lieutenant on 2 December 1789,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 3, 2021
d’Arcy Preston 1765-1847. He was the son of the Rev. John Preston of Askham, Yorkshire. Preston joined the Navy on 10 May 1781 aboard the Portland 50, Captain Hon. James Luttrell, the flagship to Rear-Admiral John Elliott and to Vice-Admiral John Campbell, the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 19, 2021
James Carpenter 1760-1845. His origins and family remain obscure, other than that he had at least two brothers, Charles, and Samuel, a barrister. On 11 April 1776 Carpenter entered the navy aboard the Plymouth-based guard-ship Foudroyant 80, Captain John Jervis, which...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 19, 2021
John Markham 1761-1827. He was born on 13 June 1761 in the precincts of Westminster School, the second son of William Markham, the headmaster of Westminster School and later the Archbishop of York from 1776-1807, and of his wife, Sarah Goddard, the daughter of a...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 12, 2021
Robert Faulknor 1763-95. Born in Northampton, he was the eldest son of Captain Robert Faulknor, who whilst commanding the Bellona 74 in August 1761 captured the French Courageux 74 after a spirited action, and who died in Dijon, France, in 1769. His mother was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2021
Thomas Rogers 1764-1814. Born in Lymington, Hampshire, to a businessman, William Rogers, he was the younger brother of the highly esteemed Captain Josias Rogers, who died of yellow fever at Grenada in 1795, and the elder brother of Lieutenant James Rogers, 1769-94,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2021
John Cooke (2) 1750-1834. He was born in Kirkby Bedon, near Norwich, the son of Robert Cooke and his wife, Hannah, and was baptised on 19 March 1750. Cooke appears to have first gone to sea at an advanced age of twenty when joining the Raisonnable 64, Captain Maurice...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 31, 2020
Charles Sydney Davers c1770-1804. He was baptised on 20 April 1770, the eldest son of Sir Charles Davers of Rushbrooke Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, the M.P for Bury St Edmunds from 1774-1802. His father was regarded as neither a supporter of the government...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2020
Sandford Tatham 1755-1840. He was born at Hutton-in-the-Forest, Cumberland, the third of four sons of the impoverished vicar of St. Laurence, Appleby, the Rev. Sandford Tatham, and of his wife, Elizabeth Marsden. Five years after his birth his parents divorced on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2020
Matthew Henry Scott 1766-1836. The youngest of three sons of Hon. John Scott and of his wife, Lucretia Favell Gregory, he was born in July 1766 in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, where his family owned estates and slaves. Scott was commissioned lieutenant on 1...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2020
Lewis Robertson Died 1794. Robertson was commissioned lieutenant on 22 June 1773 by Commodore Molyneux Shuldham, the commander-in-chief at Newfoundland, and in that rank he reportedly commanded the cutter Placentia on that station until July 1775 He was promoted...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 27, 2020
Charles Sawyer Died 1798. He was the second son of Admiral Herbert Sawyer and of his wife Anne Majendie, and was the younger brother of Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer. Sawyer was commissioned lieutenant on 8 July 1785 and promoted commander on 1 November 1793 of the bomb...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 27, 2020
Hon. Sir George Grey 1767-1828. He was born on 10 October 1767 at Fallodon, Northumberland, the third surviving son of General ‘no flint’ Charles Grey, of Southwick, County Durham, who was ennobled in January 1801 and became an earl in 1806, and of his wife, Elizabeth...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 18, 2020
Lord Augustus Fitzroy 1772-1801. Born on 3 June 1772, he was apparently the fourth son of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, the 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as the prime minister from October 1768 to January1770, however references to his parenthood are surprisingly scant...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 13, 2020
John Manley 1744-1816. Born at Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, he was the son of Orlando Manley and of his wife, Mary Kerley. Having passed his lieutenant’s examination in 1765 Manley was commissioned lieutenant on 9 October 1770, and he saw some service in the early 1770’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 30, 2020
Sir Henry William Bayntun 1766-1840. He was born in Algiers, the second son of Edward Bayntun, the consul to Tripoli and consul general to Algiers, and of his wife, Annica Susan Werden, the daughter of Sir John Werden. Bayntun joined the navy in May 1775 on the books...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 30, 2020
Charles Otter 1766-1831. He was the third of five sons and eight children of the Reverend Edward Otter and his wife, Dorothy Wright. His father served terms as the vicar of Cuckney, Nottinghamshire, and of Scarcliffe and Upper Langwith, both parishes near Bolsover,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 14, 2020
John Temple Died 1808. Temple was commissioned lieutenant on 21 September 1790, and whilst serving in the Mediterranean was promoted commander of the Peterel 16 on 11 January 1796, being detached from the fleet on 23 April to serve under the orders of Captain Horatio...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 30, 2020
Sir Charles Lindsay Died 1799. He was the son of the Scottish-born General Sir David Lindsay and of his wife, Susannah-Charlotte Long, and was the nephew of Rear-Admiral Sir John Lindsay. Lindsay was commissioned lieutenant on 30 September 1793, and was the second...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 25, 2020
Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke 1768-1831. Born on 6 June 1768 at Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, he was the second son of the second marriage of Charles Yorke, the Lord Chancellor in William Pitt the Elder’s administration. He was the brother of the Rt. Hon. Charles...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 14, 2020
Thomas Wolley 1759-1826. He was the second son of the Rev. Godfrey Wolley, rector of Thurnscoe and of Warmsworth in the county of Yorkshire, and of his wife, Katherine Lamplugh. A younger brother was Captain Isaac Wolley. Thomas Wolley was commissioned lieutenant on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 14, 2020
John Hills 1746-94.He was born in Sandwich, Kent, a younger son of a shipbuilder, Andrew Hills, and of his wife, Mary Taylor. His elder brother, William, reached the rank of lieutenant in the Navy and died in 1777. He was the cousin of Captain William Cumming and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 29, 2020
Bartholomew Samuel Rowley 1764-1811. He was born on 10 June 1764, the second son of Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley and his wife, Sarah Burton. He was the grandson of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Rowley, nephew of Major-General William Rowley, elder brother of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 19, 2020
George Gregory c1752- 1814. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War Gregory was taken prisoner, but on 27 April 1776 he engineered his escape from Northampton, Massachusetts, with the future Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope after the conditions of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 15, 2020
William Taylor 1760-1842. He was born in Greenwich, the son of William Taylor, who held a medical appointment at Greenwich Hospital, and of his wife, Grace Fletcher. Taylor was a midshipman in Captain James Cook’s third voyage of discovery which saw the murder of the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 25, 2020
Sir Charles Cunningham 1755-1834. Born at Eye in Suffolk, he was the son of Charles Cunningham. Having been tempted to sea by the tale of Robinson Crusoe, Cunningham entered the Navy from the merchant service as a midshipman and found a berth aboard the crack frigate...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 15, 2020
Sir George Johnstone Hope 1767-1818. Born on 6 July 1767, he was the son of Hon. Charles Hope Vere of Craigiehall, Linlithgow, and of his third wife Helen Dunbar. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Hopetoun, cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, uncle...
