by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 22, 2016
Hon. Robert Digby 1732-1815. Born on 20 December 1732, he was the third son of the Hon. Edward Digby, the Tory M.P for Warwickshire from 1726-46, and of his wife Charlotte Fox, the sister to the Earl of Ilchester and Lord Holland. He was the grandson of William, 5th...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 21, 2016
George Darby c1720-1790. He was the second son of Jonathon Darby of Leap Castle, King’s County in Ireland, and of his wife Anna Marie Frend. After being promoted lieutenant on 7 September 1742, Darby was posted captain of the Warwick 60 on 12 September 1747 at Jamaica...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 4, 2016
Lord Ducie Please go to Francis...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 21, 2016
Adam Duncan 1st Viscount 1731-1804. He was born on 1 July 1731 at Dundee, a younger son of Alexander Duncan of Lundie, Perthshire, who was a Hanoverian supporter in the 1745 rebellion and became the provost of Dundee, and of his wife Helen Haldane of Gleneagles. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2016
Sir Francis Samuel Drake 1st Baronet 1728-89. He was baptised on 14 September 1729, having been born a year before at the ancestral Drake home of Buckland Abbey in Buckland Monachorum, Devon. He was the fourth born but third surviving son of Sir Francis Henry Drake,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 7, 2016
William Dickson 1730- 1803.Born on 20 September 1730, he was the eldest son of Archibald Dickson of Pontefract, Yorkshire, a baker of Scottish descent, and of his wife, Ann Lambert. He was the brother of Admiral Archibald Dickson and Lieutenant-General John Dickson of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2016
Sir Digby Dent 1739-1817. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 16 November 1739, the son of Captain Cotton Dent who died in January 1761 when a captain of Greenwich Hospital, and of his wife Catherine Bowerbank. He was the nephew of Commodore Digby Dent, who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Sir John Thomas Duckworth 1748-1817. Of Lancastrian descent, he was born on 9 February 1748 at Leatherhead, one of five sons of the Rev. Henry Duckworth, who later became Canon of Windsor, and of his wife, Sarah Johnson of Ickenham, Middlesex. In 1759 Duckworth left...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
James Richard Dacres (1) 1749-1810. Born in February 1749 at Gibraltar, he was the eldest son of Richard Dacres, the secretary to the Gibraltar garrison, and of his wife Mary Bateman. He was the brother of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Dacres, father of Captain Barrington...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Sir Archibald Dickson 1738-1803. Born on 17 June 1738, he was a younger son of Archibald Dickson, a baker of Scottish descent living in Pontefract in Yorkshire, and of his wife Ann Lambert. He was the younger brother of Admiral William Dickson, older brother of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Henry Davis Died 1776. He was commissioned lieutenant on 24 September 1756 and promoted commander on 20 June 1765, later commanding the sloop Hunter out of Liverpool. He was further posted captain on 26 May 1768, and from 1772-4 he had the Seaford 20, serving off the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Henry Duncan 1739-1814. He was born in Dundee, Scotland on 24 January 1739, the son of the town clerk, Alexander Duncan, and of his wife, Isobel Crawford. Having seen early employment in the merchant service, Duncan entered the navy in May 1755 as an able seaman...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 8, 2015
Sir Charles Douglas 1727- 1789. The third of six sons of a physician, Charles Ayton Douglas of Kinglassie, Fifeshire, and of his wife, Christian Hepburn, he was descended from King James II of Scotland and William Douglas of Lochleven, the 6th Earl Morton.Douglas...
