by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 1, 2020
Joseph Hanwell 1759-1839. He was born in London on 10 December 1759, and was the elder brother of Rear-Admiral William Hanwell. Joseph Hanwell entered the Navy at Chatham in November 1773 as a midshipman aboard the Ramillies 74, Captain Thomas Evans, transferring in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 25, 2020
Frank Sotheron 1765-1839. He was baptised on 24 May 1765, the third and youngest son of William Sotheron of Darrington Hall, Yorkshire and of his wife, Sarah Saville, the heiress and daughter of a co-heiress, Elizabeth Frank. He was the younger brother of William...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 10, 2020
George Henry Towry 1767-1809. He was born on 4 March 1767, the son of Lieutenant George Phillips Towry, a commissioner of the Victualling Office, and of his wife, Elizabeth More. Many of his ancestors served in the Navy. Following an education at Eton College and...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 26, 2020
Anthony Hunt (2) c1770-98. Having served as a midshipman aboard the Plymouth guardship Carnatic 74, Captain John Ford, Hunt was commissioned lieutenant on 26 August 1789 following the King’s Naval Review on 18 August, and during the Spanish Armament in 1790 he served...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 21, 2020
Richard Graves 1758-1836. He was the youngest of four sons of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson. He was the nephew of Admiral Samuel Graves and the cousin once removed of Admiral Lord Thomas Graves. One...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 21, 2020
John Graves 1743-1811.He was the second of four sons of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson. He was the nephew of Admiral Samuel Graves and the cousin once removed of Admiral Lord Thomas Graves. His...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 13, 2020
Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1765-1819. He was born on 20 November 1765, the third son of John Fremantle of Aston Abbots in Buckinghamshire, and of his wife, Frances Edwards. He was the elder brother of Sir William Fremantle, a prominent member of Lord Grenville’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 9, 2020
Sir Charles Hamilton 1767-1849. Born on 25 May 1767 of Scottish descent, he was the elder of the two sons of Captain Sir John Hamilton and of his wife, Cassandra Agnes Chamberlayne, the sister of Captain Charles Chamberlayne. His younger brother was Admiral Sir Edward...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 2, 2020
Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson 1766-1828. He was born on 28 February 1766 in Kent, the son of a Richard Boulden or Boulding by his wife Sarah Rigden, His maternal aunt was married to Commodore Edward Thompson, who adopted Thomas following the early death of his father,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 28, 2020
William Wolseley 1756-1842. He was born on 15 March 1756 at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, the second son of Captain William Wolseley of the 47th regiment, and of Anne Cosby of Stradbally Hall in the modern-day County Laois, Ireland, the sister of Admiral Phillips Cosby. In...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 23, 2020
Lord Amelius Beauclerk 1771-1846. He was born on 23 May 1771, the third son of Aubrey Beauclerk, the 5th Duke of St. Albans, by his wife, Lady Catherine Ponsonby, the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Besborough and a descendant of the Dukes of Devonshire. His younger...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 17, 2020
Sir John Sutton 1758-1825. He was born on 23 March 1758 at Moulsey, Surrey, the second son of Thomas Sutton, and of his wife, Jane Hankey. In May 1770 Sutton entered the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth where he remained for three years before joining the guardship...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 8, 2020
Hon. William Paget 1769-94. Born on 22 December 1769, he was the second son of Henry Bayly Paget, the 1st Earl of Uxbridge, who died in 1812, and of his wife Jane nee Champagné. His brothers were Field-Marshal Henry Paget, the 1st Marquis of Anglesey, who was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 8, 2020
John Woodley Died 1795. Woodley was commissioned lieutenant on 8 July 1785 and promoted commander on 12 November 1790 of the recommissioned schooner Helena 14, in which he returned to Portsmouth from Lisbon at the end of December before leaving her early in the new...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 8, 2020
Robert Winthrop 1764-1832. He was born on 7 December 1764 in New London, Connecticut, the youngest son of John Winthrop and of his wife, Elizabeth Sheriffe, the widow of Captain John Hay of the Army. His ancestors had long been leading members of the colonial...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 26, 2020
Thomas Affleck 1762-1805. He was born on 21 August 1762, the second of four sons of the Reverend James Affleck, and of his wife Mary Proctor. His elder brother was Lieutenant-General Sir James Affleck, and he was the nephew of Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Affleck and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 21, 2020
Joseph Bullen 1761-1857. He was born on 14 April 1761, the second son of Rev. John Bullen, rector of Kennet in Cambridgeshire and Rushmoor-cum-Newburn in Suffolk. Bullen joined the service in November 1774 aboard the Pallas 36, Captain Hon. William Cornwallis, serving...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 20, 2020
William Edge 1750-1842. He was the son of Philip Edge and of his wife, Anne Truelove. Edge was commissioned lieutenant on 26 May 1776. He was present at the Occupation of Toulon from August 1793 aboard Vice-Admiral Lord Hood’s flagship Victory 100, Captain John...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 13, 2020
Charles Hare Died 1801. Having seen service in the American Revolutionary War, Hare was commissioned lieutenant on 19 April 1782. As first lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Lord Hood’s flagship Victory 100, Captain John Knight, he was present at the occupation of Toulon from...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 13, 2020
Rt. Hon. Robert Gambier Middleton 1774-1837. He was born in Edinburgh in November 1774, the second son of George Middleton, the collector of the customs at Leith, and of his wife, Elizabeth Wilson. He was the nephew of Sir Charles Middleton, the future Admiral Lord...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 7, 2020
Charles Dudley Pater c1763-1818. He was the brother of Lieutenant-General Sir John Pater, who died in Madras in 1817. Pater was commissioned lieutenant on 8 October 1779, in which capacity he was serving aboard Vice-Admiral William Hotham’s flagship Britannia 100,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 16, 2020
Ralph Willett Miller 1762-99. He was born in New York on 24 January 1762, the only son of a prominent loyalist who had lost a lot of property in the American Revolution, and who subsequently settled in England. Willett was the maiden name of his mother, Martha...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 16, 2020
Edward Cooke 1772-99. Born on 14 April 1772, he was a son of Colonel George John Cooke of Harefield Park, Middlesex, and of his wife Penelope Bowyer, the sister of Admiral Sir George Bowyer. One of his brothers was Major-General Sir George Cooke, who lost an arm at...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 5, 2020
SirJames Nicoll Morris 1763-1830. He was the only issue of Captain John Morris, who was mortally wounded whilst commanding Commodore Sir Peter Parker’s flagship, the Bristol 50, at the unsuccessful attack on Charleston on 28 June 1776. Morris was entered to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 30, 2020
Alexander Robert Kerr c1770-1831. He was the son of Lieutenant Robert Kerr, who died as the lieutenant of Greenwich Hospital on 15 March 1804, being at 80 years the oldest lieutenant in the Navy, and having held that rank for 57 years. Kerr joined the service in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 26, 2020
George William Augustus Courtenay 1763-93. Born in Bath, he was a younger son of a dozen children of William Courtenay of Ireland, and of his wife, Lady Jane Stuart. Through his mother he was a nephew of the 2nd Earl of Bute, and was the first cousin to the 3rd Earl...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 20, 2020
Sir William Johnstone Hope 1766-1831. He was born in Finchley on 16 August 1766, the third and youngest son of the writer and merchant John Hope of Cragiehall, Linlithgow, who served as the M.P for Linlithgowshire from 1768-70, and of his wife, Mary Breton. A year...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 16, 2020
Augustus Montgomery 1762-97. He was born Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp on 23 November 1762 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the illegitimate son of the politician and courtier Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, and of his mistress Kitty Hunter, with whom the earl had...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 16, 2020
Sir William Parker 1743-1802. He was born on 1 January 1743, the eldest son of Augustine Parker, a naval officer who commanded the royal yacht Queenborough, and who became mayor of the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, and of his wife, Elizabeth Beal. A...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 11, 2020
Hon. Charles Carpenter 1757-1803. He was born on 3 January 1757, the second son of George Carpenter, the 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, and of his wife, Frances Clifton. Carpenter was commissioned lieutenant on 10 May 1776 and was present at the Battle of Porto Praya on 16...
