by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 4, 2024
Sir Davidge Gould 1758-1847. He was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, to an influential family, the son of Richard Gould of Sharpham Park, near Wells, and of his wife, Susan Maundrell. Gould joined the navy in 1772 as a volunteer aboard the Alarm 32, Captain John Stott,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 27, 2023
Anselm John Griffiths c1769-1842. He was the son of the Rev. John Griffiths of Kingston-upon-Thames. In January 1781 Griffiths joined the Navy aboard the Juno 32, Captain James Montagu, serving in home waters, and on 22 November 1790 he was commissioned lieutenant of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 7, 2022
Hon. Francis Farrington Gardner 1773-1821. Born on 21 June 1773, he was the second of nine sons of Admiral Lord Gardner and of his wife, Susanna Hyde Gale. He was the brother of Admiral Lord Alan Hyde Gardner and Major-General Hon. William Henry Gardner. On 19 June...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 2, 2021
Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys c1768-1832. The son of Edward Griffith and his wife, Anne Colpoys, he was the nephew of Admiral Sir John Colpoys. The family appear to have originated from Cashel and Emly in the west of Ireland. Griffith entered the navy under the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 5, 2021
George Stewart, Viscount Garlies, 8th Earl of Galloway 1768-1834. He was born on 24 March 1768, the second but eldest surviving of eight sons of John, 7th Earl of Galloway, by his second wife Anne Dashwood, sister to the Duchess of Manchester. He was the nephew of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 27, 2020
Hon. Sir George Grey 1767-1828. He was born on 10 October 1767 at Fallodon, Northumberland, the third surviving son of General ‘no flint’ Charles Grey, of Southwick, County Durham, who was ennobled in January 1801 and became an earl in 1806, and of his wife, Elizabeth...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 19, 2020
George Gregory c1752- 1814. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War Gregory was taken prisoner, but on 27 April 1776 he engineered his escape from Northampton, Massachusetts, with the future Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope after the conditions of...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 21, 2020
Richard Graves 1758-1836. He was the youngest of four sons of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson. He was the nephew of Admiral Samuel Graves and the cousin once removed of Admiral Lord Thomas Graves. One...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 21, 2020
John Graves 1743-1811.He was the second of four sons of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson. He was the nephew of Admiral Samuel Graves and the cousin once removed of Admiral Lord Thomas Graves. His...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2019
Hon. Lord Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron 1770-1815. Born on 5 February 1770, he was the eldest of nine sons of Admiral Lord Gardner and of his wife Susannah Hyde Gale. He was the brother of Major-General Hon. William Henry Gardner and of Rear-Admiral Francis Farrington...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 9, 2018
John Giffard 1766-1855. He was baptised at St. Paul s Parish Church, Covent Garden, London. Giffard entered the service on 25 April 1780 aboard the Canada 74, Captain Sir George Collier, serving in the Channel Fleet and at the relief of Gibraltar on 12 April 1781. On...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 25, 2018
Sir John Gore 1772-1836. He was born on 9 February 1772 at Kilkenny, Ireland, the second son of Colonel John Gore of the 33rd Regiment, who from 1776 until his death in 1794 was the lieutenant-governor of the Tower of London, and of his wife, Bellamira Munbee. His...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 16, 2018
Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin 1765-1857. Born on 7 May 1765 at St. Peter Port, Guernsey, he was the second son of Colonel Joshua Gosselin of the North Regiment of Militia on that island, and of his wife, Martha Le Marchant, who was also from Guernsey. His brother was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 16, 2017
Samuel Graves 1741-1802. He was the eldest son of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson, and the elder brother of Admiral Sir Thomas Graves. Two other brothers, John and Richard, also became superannuated admirals. His uncle...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 6, 2017
Sir Thomas Graves 1747-1814. Born in October 1747, he was the third son of the Reverend John Graves of Castle Dawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of his wife Jane Hudson. He was the nephew of Admiral Samuel Graves, and the cousin once removed of Admiral Lord...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 27, 2017
John Gell 1740-1806. He was born into a long-established Derbyshire family, the second son of John Eyre-Gell of Hopton Hall, and of his wife, Isabella Jessop.Having spent some time in the Mediterranean from 1757 aboard the Prince 90, Captain Clark Gayton, carrying the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2017
William Garnier Died 1787. Garnier was commissioned lieutenant on 28 September 1757. He was promoted commander of the Lynx 10 on 1 February 1763, which vessel he retained until she was paid off in August of the following year. Continuing in employment, he joined the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2017
Thomas Gaborian ?1736- c1795. The son of John Gaborian and of his wife, Jane Davies, he was born in Saltash, Cornwall, and baptised on 24 July 1736. His elder brother, James Gaborian, entered the navy and retired as a superannuated commander in 1801.Gaborian was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 5, 2017
George Gayton 1724-1797. He was christened in July 1724, the fifth and youngest son of John Gayton and his wife, Eleanor Clark, and the much younger brother of Admiral Clark Gayton. A sister married Captain Michael Everitt and he was thus the uncle of Captain Michael...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 5, 2017
Clark Gayton 1712-87. He was baptised on 18 April 1712 at St. Thomas?s, Portsmouth, the oldest of five sons of John Gayton and of his wife, Eleanor Clark. He was the elder brother of Vice-Admiral George Gayton. His sister married Captain Michael Everitt and he was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 25, 2017
Bonovier Glover Died 1780. He was one of two sons of the renowned poet and politician, Richard Glover, who sat as the M.P for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1761-8, and of his wife, Hannah Nunn. His parents subsequently divorced in 1756. Glover was serving aboard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 21, 2017
Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814. Born on 3 December 1742 at Cilgerran, Wales, he was the eldest of ten sons and nine daughters of Abel Gower of Glandofen, Pembrokeshire, and of his wife, Letitia Lewes. Gower entered the navy in 1755 aboard the hired ship Brilliant under...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 15, 2017
Sir Francis Geary 1709-96. He was born to Francis Geary and his wife, Judith Barber, his father being the descendent of a family from Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, who had relocated to Shropshire, and then to Buckinghamshire. In 1727 Geary entered the navy on the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 11, 2017
Sir Rupert George 1749- 1823. He was born on 16 January 1749 at St. Stephen s Green, Dublin, the third son of Dennis George of Clopook, near Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland, and of his wife, Sarah Young. George was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 13 September...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2016
David Graves 1746- 1822. He was one of three illegitimate children of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves, who by the age of 58 had been twice widowed, and a Jane Hervey, who was possibly a member of staff at his seat, Thanckes. He was the half-brother of Admiral Lord Graves,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 1, 2016
Samuel Granston Goodall Died 1801. Little is known of Goodall’s origins and early career, other than that he entered the Navy in the 1750’s, and having been commissioned lieutenant on 1 September 1756, he was promoted commander of the sloop Hazard 8 on 2 June 1760,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 11, 2016
James Gambier 1st Baron 1756-1833. He was born on 13 October 1756 at New Providence in the Bahamas, the younger son of John Gambier, the lieutenant governor of those islands, and of his wife, Deborah Stiles, a Bermudian. He was the nephew of both Vice-Admiral James...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 21, 2016
Thomas Graves 1st Baron 1725-1802. Born on 23 October 1725, he was the second son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves of Thanckes, Cornwall, and of his second wife, Elizabeth Budgell. He was the half-brother of Rear-Admiral David Graves, the cousin of Admiral Samuel Graves,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2016
Alan Gardner 1st Baron 1742-1809. Born on 12 April 1742 at Uttoxeter, he was the third surviving son and the eighth of eleven children of Lieutenant-Colonel William Gardner of the 11th regiment of the Dragoon Guards, and of his wife Elizabeth Farrington, who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 29, 2016
James Gambier 1723-1789. He was born in 1723, the fourth son of James Gambier, who was the son of a Huguenot refugee and became the warden of the Fleet Prison, and of his wife Mary Mead. He was the uncle of Admiral Lord Gambier and became related by the marriage of...
