by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 18, 2024
Samuel James Ballard (1765-1829) As a boy and a junior officer Ballard saw action in a number of major battles, yet lacking influence, his experience as a captain was limited, with only a couple of permanent appointments in command of a ship. Although personal glory...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 27, 2024
Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle (1770-1844) Boyle’s aristocratic origins gained him almost constant employment, even during the years of peace after the American Revolutionary War. Most of his service was in European waters where he earned substantial sums of prize...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 3, 2024
George Bowen (2) c1762-1800. He was the third son of George Bowen of Lwyngwair, Pembrokeshire, and of his wife, Esther Thomas. One of his cousins was a namesake, Admiral George Bowen. Bowen was commissioned lieutenant on 23 October 1783, and from September 1793 he...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 9, 2024
Richard Bagot Died 1798. Little is known of his early career, but during the Spanish Armament Bagot was commissioned lieutenant on 28 October 1790 of the Director 64, Captain Edward Dod, remaining with this ship until the following March when he removed to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 2, 2024
William Browell 1759-1831. He was the son of William Browell, a midshipman who had served under Admiral of the Fleet Lord George Anson. His brother, Captain Herbert Browell, died of yellow fever in the West Indies in 1796. In late 1770, Browell entered the navy aboard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 26, 2024
Loftus Otway Bland 1771-1810. Descended from an old Yorkshire family, he was born in Ireland, the son of Captain Neville Bland of Dublin, and of his wife, Charlotte Smith. Bland was commissioned lieutenant on 6 September 1794 whilst serving aboard the Lively 32,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 24, 2023
George Miller Bligh 1780-1834. He was born on 4 May 1780 at Alverstoke, Hampshire, the only surviving son of Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh and of his first wife, Ann Worsley of Gatcomb Park, Isle of Wight. Having entered the Navy in 1794, Bligh served with his...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 5, 2023
Herbert Browell Died 1796. He was the son of William Browell, a midshipman who had served under Admiral of the Fleet Lord George Anson. His brother was Captain William Browell. Browell was commissioned lieutenant on 8 October 1779, and in April 1783 he was briefly...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2023
Jahleel Brenton (1) 1729-1802. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island on 22 October 1729, the fourth son and one of a dozen children of Jahleel Brenton, who died in 1766, and of his wife, Frances Cranston. He was the father of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 8, 2023
Sir James Brisbane 1774-1826. He was the fifth son of Admiral John Brisbane, and of his wife, Mary Young. His elder brother was Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Brisbane, and of his other brothers, Captain John Brisbane drowned in 1782, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Brisbane was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 11, 2022
James Bowen 1751-1835. He was born in Ilfracombe, Devon, the eldest son of Richard Bowen, a merchant captain who traded in Africa and the West Indies. He was the brother of Captain Richard Bowen who was killed in action in 1797, and of Captain George Bowen, who died...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 23, 2022
William Bedford 1764-1827. He was born in March 1764 and was probably a younger son of William Bedford and of his wife, Dorothea Kempe. Bedford was given a lieutenant’s commission on 12 September 1781, and from April 1783 until April 1786 served aboard the Plymouth...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2022
Sir George Burlton Died 1815. He was a younger son of Philip Burlton of Wickham Mills, Essex, and of St. James’ Street, London, who had served as the surgeon-general to the Army in Germany under the Marquis of Granby during the Seven Years War. Philip Burlton was well...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 12, 2021
William Brown 1764 -1814. He was born on 8 May 1764 at Leesthorpe Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the son of John Suffield Brown, a landowner and deputy lord-lieutenant of that county, and of his wife, Anna Maria Elson. Brown joined the Navy in 1777, and was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 20, 2021
Sir Thomas Briggs 1780-1852. Born in Southampton in 1780, he was the son of Stephen Briggs, the chief surgeon at Madras, and of Magdalena Pasley, the youngest sister of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. His cousins included Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and Admiral Sir...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 6, 2021
John Broughton c1767- 1837. Broughton first went to sea in June 1780 aboard the Valiant 74, Captain Samuel Goodall, seeing service in the Channel, at the Relief of Gibraltar on 12 April 1781, and in Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt’s action with the Comte de Guichen on...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2021
Robert Barton c1752-1831. Barton was commissioned lieutenant on 6 June 1776 and promoted commander of the cutter Bustler 14 on 6 November 1782, which vessel he commissioned for service in the Irish Sea, operating out of Holyhead. Having arrived at Portsmouth on 26 May...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2021
Sir Charles Brisbane 1769-1829. Descended from a long-established Renfrewshire family living in Bishopton, south of the River Clyde, he was the fourth son of Admiral John Brisbane and his wife, Mary Young. His youngest brother was Commodore Sir James Brisbane, and of...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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
See Sir Harry Burrard Neale
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
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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
