by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2019
Sir Henry Nicholls 1758-1830. He was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, the son of the agent to the politician Lord de Clifford of Kingsweston. Nicholls was described as displaying an honest bluntness that earned the respect of Lord de Clifford and saw him despatched at a...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019
George Blagdon Westcott c1753-98. The eldest of seven children of Benjamin Westcott, a Honiton baker, and of his wife Susanna Bampfield, he was baptised in the Devonshire town on 24 April 1753. Westcott entered the Navy in 1768 aboard the Solebay 28, Captain Lucius O...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019
Robert Carthew Reynolds 1745-1811. He was born in Lamorran, near Truro, Cornwall and baptised on 30 July 1745, being the son of John Reynolds, and of his wife Elizabeth Carthew. In 1759 Reynolds entered the navy aboard the Hero 74, commanded by his patron, Captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019
Sir Eliab Harvey 1758-1830. He was born on 5 December 1758 at Rolls Park near Chigwell, Essex, the fourth but second surviving son of William Harvey, the long-standing M.P. for Essex, and of his wife Emma Skynner. Harvey, who lost his father when he was five years...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
See Hon. William Carnegie, Earl Northesk
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
See Hon. William Carnegie, 7th Earl Northesk
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
William Locker 1731-1800. The second son of John Locker, a barrister and writer, and of his wife, Elizabeth Stillingfleet, he was born at a residence attached to the Leatherseller?s Hall in February 1731.Locker was educated at Merchant Taylor?s School, London before...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
Hon. William Carnegie. 7th Earl Northesk 1756-1831. Born in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh on 10 April 1756 of Scottish descent, he was the second son of George, Admiral the 6th Earl Northesk who died in 1792. His mother, Anne Melville, was the eldest daughter of the 5th Earl...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
John Doling Died 1795.Doling was commissioned lieutenant on 24 November 1778.During 1786 he was the first lieutenant aboard the Portsmouth guardship Hector 74, Captain Sir John Collins, and in the course of the Dutch Armament he commissioned the Victory 100 for...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2019
Charles Cobb Died 1809. He probably originated from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where families by the name of Cobb had long settled, and where he lived out the greater part of his life.Cobb was commissioned lieutenant on 23 February 1774, in which capacity he commanded...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2019
Hon. Henry Curzon 1765-1846. He was born on 24 May 1765, the fifth and youngest son of the Tory M.P. for Clitheroe and later for Derbyshire, Nathaniel Curzon, who became the 1st Lord Scarsdale in 1761, and of his wife Caroline Colyear, the daughter of the Earl of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2019
John Dilkes c1745-1827. He was the third son of General Michael O Brien Dilkes and of his wife Anne Cummin. His grandfather was Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Dilkes, and he was the uncle of Captain Charles Dilkes. Dilkes was commissioned lieutenant on 31 July 1762. During...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2019
Henry Warre 1753-1826. He was born on 13 September 1753 in Portugal, the son of a port merchant, William Warre of Oporto and Bradford, and of his wife Elizabeth Whitehead of Ashton-under-Lyme. Warre entered the service as a prot g of Commodore George Johnstone, being...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2019
Sir George Murray 1759-1819. Born in January 1759, he was the second son of Gideon Murray, an alderman of Chichester, and of his wife, Anne Stringer. Having been entered into the books of the Niger 32, Captain Francis Banks, in 1770, Murray went to sea two years later...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2019
James Cotes Died 1802. Cotes entered the Royal Naval College in September 1766 and was commissioned lieutenant on 10 July 1776. Based on the Jamaican station, and nominally the first lieutenant aboard the flagship of the commander-in-chief, Vice-Admiral Clark Gayton,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2018
Mathew Smith c1763-1840. He was the son of Colonel Matthew Smith F.R.S, F.S.A. of the Tower Hamlets Militia, and major of the Tower of London. Smith was commissioned lieutenant on 4 December 1779 and in that rank commanded the sloop Alderney 10 from November 1780,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2018
George Lindsay Died 1798.Lindsay was commissioned lieutenant on 20 August 1759.He was present at the inconclusive Battle of Porto Praya on 16 April 1781 and was promoted commander with seniority from 22 April upon his appointment by Commodore George Johnstone to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2018
Sir Charles Tyler 1760-1835. Born in County Cavan, Ireland, he was the third son of Peter Tyler, a captain of the 52nd Regiment who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and who had married Hon. Anne Maria Roper, the daughter of the 8th Lord Teynham. In 1771 Tyler...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
Robert Watson c1742-1819.Watson was commissioned lieutenant on 4 October 1780, and in May 1783 recommissioned the cutter Mutine 14, commanding her until she was paid off in 1787. He was promoted commander on 1 December 1787.In May 1790 he recommissioned the fireship...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
Velters Cornewall Berkeley 1754-1804. He was born on 1 October 1754, being one of six sons, two of whom died in infancy, of Lionel Spencer Berkeley, and of his wife, Margaret Whitfield of Twickenham, Middlesex. He was a distant relative of the Earl of Berkeley, and of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
William Henry Ricketts Jervis 1764-1805. He was born on 4 November 1764 in Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, the eldest son of William Henry Ricketts of the Canaan Estate, Jamaica,. His mother was Mary Jervis, the sister of the future Admiral the Earl of St....
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
See William Henry Ricketts Jervis
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 9, 2018
Thomas Revell Shivers 1751-1827Shivers was commissioned lieutenant on 9 May 1777 and in June was appointed to the recently purchased schooner Quebec on the Newfoundland station. Later in 1778 he commanded the schooner Penguin 10, which vessel was wrecked on 3 November...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 9, 2018
Sir George Campbell 1759-1821. He was born on 14 August 1759, the second of four sons and three daughters of the Scottish politician, Pryse Campbell M.P. of Cawdor Castle, Nairnshire, and of his wife Sarah, the daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt. His elder brother, John...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 9, 2018
Sir William Young 1751-1821. Born on 16 August 1751, he was the son of Admiral James Young and of his wife, Elizabeth Bolton, who died in his childhood having also had issue four daughters. His father later married Sophia Vasmer, with whom he had a daughter and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2018
Isaac Schomberg 1753-1813. He was born on 27 March 1753 at Great Yarmouth, the eldest surviving son of ten children of the German-born physician and writer Raphael Schomberg, and of his wife, Elizabeth Crowcher. He was the nephew of Captain Sir Alexander Schomberg,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2018
John Pilford 1769-1834. He was baptised on 20 January 1769, the second son of Charles Pilford, a farmer and landowner of Horsham, Sussex, and of his wife Bathia White. His elder brother, Charles, joined the Navy, but lacking patronage sought employment in the East...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2018
John Halsted 1768-1830. He was born at Gosport, Hampshire, the third son of Captain William Anthony Halsted, and of his wife Mary Frankland. He was the brother of Lieutenant Charles Halsted who died when the Blanche 32, Captain Samuel Uppleby, was lost with all hands...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 29, 2018
John Harper 1772-1855. Harper was born on 18 September 1772 at Chatham, Kent, the son of a lieutenant in the navy. His younger brother died whilst serving as a lieutenant of the Lutine 32, Captain Lancelot Skynner, which sunk off the Netherlands on 9 October 1799....
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 20, 2018
Richard Byron 1769-1837. Born on 30 July 1769, he was the son of the Rev. Hon. Richard Byron, rector of Haughton, Durham, and of his wife Mary Farmer. He was the nephew of Vice-Admiral Hon. John Byron, and the cousin of Captain George Anson Byron. Byron’s name was...
