by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 6, 2020
Francis Cole 1760-98. Born on 10 March 1760, he was the third son of Humphrey Cole of Marizon in Cornwall, and of his wife Phillis Maugham, and was one of five brothers who served in the Navy or Army, either in combat or ecclesiastical roles. He was the elder brother...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2020
John Matthews Please note that the modern reader will undoubtedly find the opinions and beliefs of this officer with regard to the slave trade disagreeable, but in the interests of history I have attempted to report them accurately and authentically. Died 1798. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2020
George Lumsdaine Lumsdaine was commissioned lieutenant on 13 July 1776 at Newfoundland and placed in command of the armed boat Postillion 10, a former American privateer, in which he cruised off St. Pierre and Miquelon during the summer of 1777. In July 1778 the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2020
Sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773-1854. He was born on 25 July 1773 at Ashtead House, Surrey, the third surviving son of Captain Sir Henry Martin, who died in 1794 having been commissioner of Portsmouth dockyard from 1780-90, and the M.P. for Southampton and influential...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 15, 2019
Rowley Bulteel c1752-1820. Bulteel was commissioned lieutenant on 22 July 1778 and appears to have been employed in home waters during 1779 aboard the Hydra 24, Captain Thomas Lloyd, before later going out to Jamaica. Here the commander-in-chief and his apparent...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 10, 2019
Edward Sneyd Clay 1768-1846. He was a younger of four sons of William Clay, a Nottinghamshire attorney, and of his wife Jemima Pelham. An elder brother was Major-General William Waldegrave Pelham Clay, with one other brother entering the army and the other the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 10, 2019
Sir Harry Burrard Neale 1765-1840. He was born in Lymington on 16 September 1765, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Burrard (1712-80), the governor of Yarmouth Castle on the Isle of Wight, and his second wife, Mary Pearce, of Lymington. He was the first...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 10, 2019
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by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 2, 2019
John Cooke c1762 -1805. Baptised on 5 March 1762 at St. Mary s, Whitechapel, he was the son of Francis Cooke, cashier to the navy, and of his wife Margaret. Cooke entered the navy in 1773 aboard the cutter Greyhound, Lieutenant John Bazely, seeing service in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 16, 2019
Sir Israel Pellew 1758-1832. He was born on 25 August 1758 at Dover, the younger brother of Sir Edward Pellew who became Admiral Viscount Exmouth, and the third of four sons of Samuel Pellew, a Cornishman and commander of a local packet who had fallen on hard times....
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 24, 2019
Farmery Predam Epworth 1766-1828. He was born in Totnes, Devon on 30 November 1766, the eldest son of Captain Farmery Epworth who became a superannuated admiral, and of his wife, Jane Cuming, of that town. He was the brother-in-law of Vice-Admiral John DilkesEpworth...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 24, 2019
Sir William Hargood 1762-1839. He was born in Chatham on 6 May 1762, the youngest of nine children of Hezekiah Hargood, who had served as a purser in the navy and was at the time the clerk of the survey at Chatham. and of his wife, Mary Rosewell. His maternal uncle...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 4, 2019
Hon. Frederick Paul Irby 1779-1844. He was born on 18 April 1779, the second of six sons and a younger daughter of Frederick, the 2nd Lord Boston, and of his wife, Christian Metheun. He was the elder brother of Captain Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, who was posted captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 29, 2019
Sir Thomas Foley 1757 -1833. He was the second son of John Foley of Ridgeway, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, a country gentleman of modest means, and of his wife, Bridget Herbert. An uncle, Captain Thomas Foley, had sailed around the world with Captain George Anson’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 29, 2019
Sir Graham Eden Hamond 1779-1862. He was born on 30 December 1779 in Newman Street, London, the only son of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, and of his second wife, Anne Graeme. He was the cousin of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas.On 3 September 1785 Hamond entered...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2019
Hon. Lord Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron 1770-1815. Born on 5 February 1770, he was the eldest of nine sons of Admiral Lord Gardner and of his wife Susannah Hyde Gale. He was the brother of Major-General Hon. William Henry Gardner and of Rear-Admiral Francis Farrington...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2019
Patrick Sinclair 1747-94. Baptised on 26 June 1747, he was the eldest surviving son and successor of James Sinclair of Durran and of his wife Elizabeth Dunbar, the daughter of Sir Patrick Dunbar of Northfield. He was a descendant of King James V of Scotland, and was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 24, 2019
George Duff 1764-1805. He was born on or about 1 February 1764 in Banff, Scotland, the younger son of a solicitor, James Duff, who was related to the Earl of Fife. His mother, Helen Skene, died six weeks after his birth. He was a great nephew of Vice-Admiral Robert...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 24, 2019
Sir William Hotham 1772-1848. He was born on 12 February 1772, the second son of General George Hotham, who acted as governor to the young Prince of Wales and Duke of York, and of his wife Diana Pennyman-Warton. He was the nephew of Admiral Lord Hotham and the cousin...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 5, 2019
John Drew Died 1798. He came from Stockaton near Saltash, and his twin brother was Commander James Drew. Another brother who took holy orders became the mayor of Saltash, and he was the uncle of Lieutenant John Drew. Drew was commissioned lieutenant on 19 September...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 4, 2019
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by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 4, 2019
Richard Incledon Bury 1757-1825. He was born Richard Incledon to an established Devonshire family, the third son of a Barnstaple attorney, Chichester Incledon, and of his wife, Christian Mervyn. Incledon entered the Navy in 1772 and was commissioned lieutenant on 23...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 31, 2019
Joseph Ellison 1753-1816. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of a Joseph Ellison. Having lost his father when he was six months old, he was adopted by a childless aunt who lived near Portsmouth. He was related to General Cuthbert Ellison. The reporting in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 31, 2019
Sir Robert Barlow 1757-1843. The eldest son of William Barlow, a merchant from Bath, and of his wife Hilaire Butcher, he was born in Covent Garden, London on Christmas Day 1757, the elder brother of George Hilario Barlow who would serve as the acting governor-general...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 30, 2019
James Sanders c1766-1834. He was the nephew of Rear-Admiral Samuel Thompson and the cousin of Vice-Admiral Norborne Thompson. Sanders joined the service on 5 April 1780 aboard the America 64, commanded by his uncle, Captain Samuel Thompson, and he fought in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 30, 2019
Sir John Acworth Ommanney 1773-1855. Born on 17 October 1773 to a family settled in Devonshire, he was the eldest son of Rear-Admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney who died in 1801, and the brother of Sir Francis Molyneux Ommanney, the M.P. for Barnstaple, Vice-Admiral Henry...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 13, 2019
David Atkins Died 1811.Atkins? early career was spent as a prot?g? of Captain Erasmus Gower, being on board the Edgar 74 commanded by that officer during 1780-1when she was stationed at Gibraltar after arriving there with Admiral Sir George Rodney?s relieving fleet...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 26, 2019
Sir Philip Carteret (Silvester) 1777-1828. Born in 1777, he was the second son of Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret of Trinity Manor, Jersey, who discovered Pitcairn Island during his voyage of discovery from 1769-9, and of his wife Mary Rachel Silvester, sister to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 26, 2019
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by Richard Hiscocks | May 17, 2019
James Jones Died 1780.Jones was commissioned lieutenant on 14 March 1744 and saw service on the Dartmouth 50, Captains Essex Holcombe, John Bowdlier, John Crookshanks and James Hamilton, being employed in the Mediterranean and remaining with this vessel until the end...
