by Richard Hiscocks | May 17, 2019
William Peacock c1750- 82. He was of Irish descent.Peacock was commissioned lieutenant on 12 June 1776, and in 1777 was serving on the Leeward Islands station aboard the Beaver 14, Commander James Jones, being present at her capture of the American privateer Oliver...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 6, 2019
Edmund Heywood Died 1822. He was the third of four sons of the Reverend William Heywood, and of his wife, Elizabeth Reynolds of Milford, Hampshire. His grandfather, William Reynolds, owned two estates with enslaved workers on Jamaica.In 1792 Heywood went out to China...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 5, 2019
Charles Dilkes 1779-1846. He was born on 25 April 1779 at Warden in Bedfordshire, the son of Major Thomas Dilkes of the 49th Regiment and the brother of General William Thomas Dilkes. He was the nephew of Admiral John Dilkes, one of his grandfathers was General...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 27, 2019
Lord William Stuart 1778-1814. Born on 18 November 1778, he was the fifth son of the diplomat and politician John Stuart, the Marquess of Bute, and of his wife, Hon. Charlotte Jane Hickman-Windsor. A younger brother was Rear-Admiral Lord George Stuart, and their...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 26, 2019
Frederick Warren 1775-1848. He was born in London during March 1775, the son of the physician to the King, Richard Warren, and his wife, Elizabeth Shaw. His brother, Pelham Warren, and his maternal grandfather were renowned physicians, and he was the nephew of John...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 23, 2019
Lord Mark Robert Kerr 1776-1840. He was born on 12 November 1776, the third son of General William Kerr, 5th Marquis of Lothian, and of his wife, Elizabeth Fortescue of Dromiskin, the daughter of the M.P. Chichester Fortescue. He was a first cousin of the Duke of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 18, 2019
John Thompson 1776-1864. He was the brother of Commander Charles Thompson and Major James Thompson of the Royal Marines. Another brother, William, died whilst serving as a purser in the West Indies in 1802.In December 1787 Thompson was entered onto the books of the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 13, 2019
Sir George Ralph Collier 1774-1824. He was the second son of Ralph Collier, the chief clerk to the Victaulling Board, and of his wife Henrietta Maria Jackson, the daughter of an Amsterdam merchant.After an education at the Chelsea Maritime Academy, Collier entered the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 7, 2019
Sir Alexander Forester Inglis Cochrane 1758-1832. Born on 23 April 1758, he was the sixth surviving son of Thomas, 8th Earl Dundonald, and of his second wife, Jane Stuart. He was the father of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, the godfather and uncle of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 31, 2019
Philip Beaver 1766-1813. He was born on 28 February 1766 at Lewknor, Oxfordshire, the third son of a local curate, Reverend James Beaver, and of his wife, Jane Skeeler, also the daughter of a vicar.Having lost his father in 1777 at the age of eleven, and with his...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 31, 2019
Solomon Ferris c1748- 1803.Ferris was commissioned lieutenant on 9 September 1778, being placed in command of the Lowestoffe?s Prize at Jamaica by Rear-Admiral Sir Peter Parker, which vessel he was still commanding in the following year.He was promoted commander on 22...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 31, 2019
John Perkins c1745-1812. His early life is largely a mystery, but it has been estimated that he was born before 1750 at Kingston, Jamaica to a mother who was in slavery, was illegitimate and of mixed race. However, other sources suggest that his long service in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 25, 2019
Sir George Parker 1767-1847. The son of George Parker of Wexford and of his wife, Katherine Gore, he was the nephew of Admiral Sir Peter Parker, cousin of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker, and a descendant of the Rev. Dr Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 18, 2019
Sir Richard John Strachan 1760-1828. He was born in Devon on 27 October 1760, the eldest son of Lieutenant Patrick Strachan, and of his wife Caroline Pitman. He was the grandson of Captain John Pitman, and the nephew of Captain Sir John Strachan, 5th baronet, who died...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 15, 2019
John Elphinstone 1756- 1801. Born in Peckham, London on 14 August 1756, he was one of six sons of Captain John Elphinstone and of his wife, Amelia Warburton. His brothers Thomas and Robert-Phillip both reached the rank of post-captain in the Navy, another brother...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 15, 2019
George Tobin 1768-1838. He was born on 13 December 1768 at Salisbury, the second of six sons and three daughters of James Tobin, a plantation owner and merchant from the island of Nevis, and of his wife Elizabeth Webbe, a slave owner from the same island. He was the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2019
Nathaniel Portlock c1748-1817. It is thought that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and that his brother was pressed into the Navy at the same time as him and later served in the Russian Navy where he commanded the Benefactor 130 and rose to the rank of commodore.It...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2019
Sir William Essington c1753-1816. A younger son of Lieutenant Claphamson Essington and of his wife Anne Hill, his grandfather was John Essington, the M.P. for New Romney from 1727-8, who was unseated from Parliament by petition and died in Newgate Prison after being...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2019
Edward Pakenham Died 1798. He was the son of Edward Pakenham and Elizabeth Weller, and the brother of Vice-Admiral John Pakenham. His grandfather was Rear-Admiral John Weller. Pakenham was promoted lieutenant with seniority from 17 July 1777, and in 1778 commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 24, 2019
John Sykes 1774 – 1858. He was born on 25 May 1774, the son of James Sykes, a naval agent from the Strand in London. He was the cousin of Commander John Sykes and Commander Thomas Sykes.Sykes joined the Navy on Christmas Day 1783 as a captain?s servant aboard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 24, 2019
Volant Vashon Ballard 1774-1832. Baptised on 4 July 1774 at Ludlow in Shropshire, he was the second son of Humphrey Ballard and of his wife Sarah Vashon, and was the nephew of Admiral James Vashon. Ballard entered the service in April 1786 aboard Commodore Alan...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 24, 2019
Sir Robert Barrie 1774-1841. He was born in St. Augustine, Florida on 5 May 1774, the son of Dr Robert Barrie, a Scottish surgeon?s mate serving with the 31st Foot Regiment who died in Robert?s infancy on the voyage back to Britain, and Dorothea ?Dolly? Gardner, the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2019
Joseph Baker 1768-1817. He was the second son of James Baker and his wife Nancy, and was born in Bristol. His mother?s family came from Ludlow in Shropshire and was related to Admiral James Vashon, who also came from that town.Baker entered the service in December...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2019
Thomas Manby 1769-1834. He was born in Hilgay Norfolk on 1 January 1769 to a family originating from Manby, Lincolnshire, the son of Captain Matthew Pepper Manby, an aide-de-camp to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and of his wife, Mary Woodcock. He was the younger...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2019
Spelman Swaine 1769-1848. He was born on 1 July 1769 at Lynn Regis, Norfolk, the second son of Spelman Swaine of Leverington near Wisbech, and of his wife, Dorothy Robertson. Swaine joined the Navy in April 1782 aboard the Crocodile 24, Captain Albemarle Bertie,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Peter Puget 1765-1822. Of French Huguenot ancestry, he was baptised on 16 November 1765 in London, one of two sons and three daughters of John and Esther Puget. His father, a banker and merchant, died two years after his birth, and his mother appears to have...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Zachary Mudge 1770-1852. He was born on 22 January 1770 at Plymouth, the sixth surviving and youngest son of the physician, Dr. John Mudge, and the second child of his third wife Elizabeth Garrett. His elder half-brother was Major-General William Mudge. The family was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Henry Roberts 1756-96. He was baptised in Shoreham, Sussex on 17 March 1757, the eldest of five sons of Henry Roberts and his wife, Susannah Stow. Roberts was initially placed for ten months on the books of the yacht Mary as a captain s servant during 1771-2. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2019
William Robert?Broughton 1762-1821. He was born on 22 March 1762 to a Hamburg merchant, Charles Broughton, and his wife Anne-Elisabeth, the daughter of Baron William de Hertoghe of Hamburg.In May 1774 Broughton had his name entered on to the books of the yacht...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2019
Sir William Sidney Smith 1764-1840. He was born on 21 June 1764 in Park Lane, London, the second son of John Smith of Midgham, Berkshire, a captain in the guards, aide-de-camp to Lord George Germaine, and gentleman usher to Queen Charlotte, who had married Mary...
