by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 18, 2021
John Faithful Fortescue 1755-1819. He came from a long-established Devonian family and was the eldest son of Faithful Fortescue of Hatherleigh, near Oakhampton, and of his wife Eleanor Pyne of Heavitree. Fortescue’s early career included stints on the Dispatch 10,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 12, 2021
Robert Faulknor 1763-95. Born in Northampton, he was the eldest son of Captain Robert Faulknor, who whilst commanding the Bellona 74 in August 1761 captured the French Courageux 74 after a spirited action, and who died in Dijon, France, in 1769. His mother was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 18, 2020
Lord Augustus Fitzroy 1772-1801. Born on 3 June 1772, he was apparently the fourth son of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, the 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as the prime minister from October 1768 to January1770, however references to his parenthood are surprisingly scant...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 13, 2020
Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1765-1819. He was born on 20 November 1765, the third son of John Fremantle of Aston Abbots in Buckinghamshire, and of his wife, Frances Edwards. He was the elder brother of Sir William Fremantle, a prominent member of Lord Grenville’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 29, 2019
Sir Thomas Foley 1757 -1833. He was the second son of John Foley of Ridgeway, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, a country gentleman of modest means, and of his wife, Bridget Herbert. An uncle, Captain Thomas Foley, had sailed around the world with Captain George Anson’s...
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 | Oct 14, 2018
Hon. Robert Allaster Forbes c1766-95. He was the second of four sons of James, 16th Lord Forbes, and of his wife, Catherine Innes. His brother James, 17th Lord Forbes, achieved the rank of general in the Army, and his youngest brother, William, died as a lieutenant in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 20, 2018
Sir Edward James Foote 1767-1833. Born 20 April 1767, he was the fourth and youngest son of the Reverend Francis Hender Foote, rector of Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury, and of his wife, Catherine Mann. He was the nephew of Sir Horatio Mann, the King s minister in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 14, 2017
Sir William Charles Fahie 1763-1833. Of Irish descent, he was born on St. Kitts in the Leeward Islands, the fourth and youngest son of the Hon. John Davis Fahie, the judge of the vice-admiralty court at St Kitts, and of his wife, Sarah Georges. Having been entered to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2017
See Henry Cromwell (later Frankland)
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 30, 2017
John Ferguson 1731-1818. He was the elder son of Captain John Ferguson R.N. of Chigwell, Essex, and of his wife Lydia Cumber. His father was known as the ?Black Captain of the Forty-Five? in respect of his ruthless treatment of suspected rebels in the Jacobite...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 22, 2017
Hon. Seymour Finch 1758-1794. He was born on 11 June 1758, the seventh son of Heneage Finch, the 3rd Earl of Aylesford, and of his wife Lady Charlotte Seymour, the daughter of the Duke of Somerset. He was the younger brother of Captain Hon. William Clement Finch, and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 14, 2017
Hon. George Falconer c1722-80. He was the youngest of five sons of David, 5th Lord Falconer of Halkertoun, and his wife Lady Catherine Margaret Keith, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Kintore. The couple also had four daughters.Falconer was commissioned lieutenant...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 9, 2017
Jonathon Faulknor (2) Died 1809. He was the son of Admiral Jonathon Faulknor, and the cousin of both Captain Robert Faulknor and of Admiral Richard Curry, who served his early years in the service with him. Faulknor was commissioned lieutenant on 24 June 1777 and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 3, 2017
William Fox c1733-1810. Fox was commissioned lieutenant on 22 August 1759. Following the Moonlight Battle off Cape St. Vincent on 16 January 1780 and the arrival of Admiral Sir George Rodney s relieving fleet at Gibraltar Fox was posted captain on 15 February and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2017
William Fooks 1738-98. He was the third son of John Fooks and Judith Legas of Marston Magna, Somerset. Fooks was commissioned lieutenant on 20 June 1765. He was in temporary command of the brig Hunter 10 for Commander Thomas Mackenzie when this vessel was captured by...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2017
Richard Fisher Fisher was commissioned lieutenant on 24 October 1778. His brig Savannah 14, which he commanded as a lieutenant, was sunk to block the bar at Savannah, Georgia, during the siege of September-October 1779. In the meantime he had been promoted commander...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 24, 2016
George Farmer 1732-79. He was the son of John Farmer, an Englishman living at Youghal in Ireland, and was related to the Earl off Pomfret. Farmer?s early career was spent in the merchant service before he joined the Dreadnought 60, Captain Maurice Suckling, in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 6, 2016
Thomas Farnham 1743- 1793. He was born on 30 October 1743, the sixth born son of Edward Farnham of Querndon, Leicestershire, and of his wife Esther. Four of his brothers predeceased him whilst one of his sisters became the Countess of Denbigh. Farnham was commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 17, 2016
John Ford c1738-96. He was baptised in Shropshire. On 7 April 1761 Ford was commissioned lieutenant of the sloop Swallow 10, Commander James Cranston, seeing employment off the French coast. After further service in home waters under Commanders Robert Brice and James...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 23, 2016
Alexander Fraser 1747-1829. An ancestor of Lord Lovat on his father’s side, and of the Marquis of Hamilton on his mother’s side, he was born in Lerwick in the Shetland Isles, the son of Hugh Fraser, a surveyor of customs, and of his wife, Jane Linning. Fraser first...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 27, 2016
Hon. William Clement Finch 1753-1794. He was born on 25 May 1753, the third of eight sons and four daughters of Heneage Finch, the 3rd Earl of Aylesford, and of his wife Lady Charlotte Seymour, the daughter of the Duke of Somerset. He was the older brother of Captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2016
Lord Charles Fitzgerald 1st Lord Lecale 1756-1810. Born on 30 June 1756, he was one of nineteen siblings, being the third born but second surviving son of James, 1st Duke of Leinster who died in 1773, and of his wife Lady Emilia Mary Lennox, the daughter of Charles,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2016
Sir William George Fairfax 1739-1813. Born on 8 March 1739 at Bagshot, Surrey, he was the son of Joseph Fairfax, an officer in the Horse Guards from a family long settled in Yorkshire, and of his wife Mary Anne. He was descended from the parliamentary...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 8, 2016
Thomas Lenox Frederick 1750-1799. He was born in London on 25 March 1750, the second son of Sir Charles Frederick, who served as the M.P for Queenborough from 1754-84 and was the surveyor-general of the Ordnance from 1750-82. His mother, Hon. Lucy Boscawen, was the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2016
Thomas Fitzherbert Died 1794. 1727-94. Having passed his examination on 25 March 1752, Fitzherbert was commissioned lieutenant on 20 February 1755 and promoted commander of the sloop Speedwell 8 on 14 March 1760. Dispatched on a cruise, he enjoyed an early success...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 1, 2016
Jonathon Faulknor (1) Died 1795. He was one of ten sons of Captain Samuel Faulknor who was in command of the Victory 100, flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen, at the time she was lost near Alderney on 5 October 1744 with the loss of over a thousand lives. He was the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2015
Patrick Fotheringham c1739-c1781.Fotheringham was initially employed in the merchant marine from 1757 before he was commissioned lieutenant on 13 December 1760.He was promoted commander of the sloop Martin 14 in the Leeward Islands on 1 April 1765, and paid her off in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Charles Fielding 1738-1783. He was born on 2 July 1738, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Charles Fielding, and his wife, Anne Palmer, the widow of Sir Brook Bridges. He was the younger brother of Colonel William Fielding, grandson of the 4th Earl of Denbigh...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Robert Fanshawe 1740-1823. He was born on 4 January 1740, the second son of Rear-Admiral Charles Fanshawe and his wife, Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of a leading politician, Sir John Rogers of Blackford, Devon. He joined the service in 1753, going out to India in the...
