by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2023
Lord John Colville 1768-1849. Born on 15 March 1768, he was the second son of the 8th Lord Colville of Culross and of his wife, Amelia Webber. He was the elder brother of General Sir Charles Colville. Colville entered the Navy on 12 December 1775 aboard the Isis 50,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 10, 2023
Sir George Cockburn 1772-1853. Born on 22 April 1772 in London of Scottish descent, he was the second son of Sir James Cockburn, Bt. of Langton, Berwickshire, the Tory M.P. for Peebles who later suffered financial ruin, and of Augusta Ayscough, a daughter of the Dean...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 3, 2022
Isaac Cotgrave 1747- 1814. He was born in Cheshire, the son of Jonathon Cotgrave, and of his wife, Mary Low. Cotgrave was commissioned lieutenant on 15 May 1780, and in 1791 he recommissioned the cutter Ranger 14 in that rank, largely operating out of Plymouth. This...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 19, 2022
George Countess 1743- 1811. He was of Irish extraction. Countess was commissioned lieutenant on 8 August 1774 and was one of a dozen officers promoted commander at the conclusion of the Dutch Armament on 1 December 1787, being appointed to the Atalanta 14 for purposes...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 31, 2022
William Edward Cracraft c1767-1810. He was described in contemporary newspapers as a ‘near relation’ of the 5th Earl of Berkeley, which possibly indicated that he was the peer’s natural son. By 1780 Cracraft was studying at the Royal Naval Academy, he was commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 26, 2021
Richard Creyke 1746 – 1826. He was born on 8 August 1746 in Burleigh-on-the-Hill, Rutland, the second son of John Creyke and Catherine Austen. Creyke was one of the picked members of crew who in 1764 joined the Dolphin 20, Captain Hon. John Byron, which in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 2, 2021
See Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 19, 2021
James Carpenter 1760-1845. His origins and family remain obscure, other than that he had at least two brothers, Charles, and Samuel, a barrister. On 11 April 1776 Carpenter entered the navy aboard the Plymouth-based guard-ship Foudroyant 80, Captain John Jervis, which...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2021
John Cooke (2) 1750-1834. He was born in Kirkby Bedon, near Norwich, the son of Robert Cooke and his wife, Hannah, and was baptised on 19 March 1750. Cooke appears to have first gone to sea at an advanced age of twenty when joining the Raisonnable 64, Captain Maurice...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 25, 2020
Sir Charles Cunningham 1755-1834. Born at Eye in Suffolk, he was the son of Charles Cunningham. Having been tempted to sea by the tale of Robinson Crusoe, Cunningham entered the Navy from the merchant service as a midshipman and found a berth aboard the crack frigate...
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 | 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 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...
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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 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 | Nov 20, 2018
Sir Christopher Cole 1770-1836. He was born on 10 June 1770 at Marazion, Cornwall, the sixth and youngest son of an attorney, Humphrey Cole, and of his wife, Phillis Maugham. He was the younger brother of Captain Francis Cole, who earned fame in the frigate...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 11, 2018
James Colnett 1753-1806. He was born in Devonport, Plymouth, the elder son of James Colnett who originally came from London, and of his wife, Sarah Lang. Colnett joined the navy as a seaman in June 1770 aboard the sloop Hazard, Commander James Orrok, later removing to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2018
Please see Hon. Thomas Pitt, 2nd Lord Camelford
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 4, 2018
James Cornwallis 1754-98. He was the third son of the Revered William Cornwallis, the rector of Chelmondiston, Suffolk, and of his wife, Sarah Cobbald. He was a distant cousin of Admiral Hon. Sir William Cornwallis. During 1774-6 he served off West Africa aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 31, 2018
Sir Isaac Coffin 1759-1839. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 May 1759, the fourth and youngest son of Nathaniel Coffin, paymaster of the customs, and of his wife Elizabeth Barnes, the daughter of a merchant from that city. He attended the Boston Latin School...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 8, 2018
Charles Chamberlayne 1750-1810. He was the youngest of six sons, and the second youngest of fourteen children of Edmund Chamberlayne from Maugersbury, Stow-in-the Wold, Gloucestershire, and of his wife, Elizabeth Atkyns. Through the marriage of his sister he became...
