by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 23, 2024
Sir Henry Hotham 1777-1833. He was born on 19 February 1777, the third and youngest surviving son of Beaumont Hotham, the second Baron Hotham of South Dalton, Yorkshire, a judge and M.P., and of his wife, Susanna Hankey. He was the nephew of Admiral Lord William...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 13, 2023
Robert Haswell c1724-1800. Haswell appears to have joined the Navy in May 1737, and he was commissioned lieutenant on 8 July 1744. On 26 March 1762 he was promoted commander of the bomb vessel Thunder 14 by Rear-Admiral George Rodney in the West Indies, serving at the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 30, 2021
Sir Peter Halkett 1765-1839. Born on 16 October 1765, he was the second son of Sir John Wedderburn Halkett, the 4th baronet of Pitfirrane in Fife, and of his second wife, Mary Hamilton. He was the elder brother of both General John Halkett, who served as the governor...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 17, 2021
Hon. Charles Herbert 1774-1808. Born on 5 July 1774, he was the second of five sons of the Whig politician, Henry Herbert, the 1st Earl of Caernarfon, and of his wife Lady Alicia Wyndham, the daughter of the 2nd Earl Egremont. His brothers Hon. Henry Herbert, who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 26, 2021
Thomas Hamilton 1754 -1815. He was a younger son of Dr William Hamilton of Dublin. Hamilton was commissioned lieutenant on 29 April 1778, and he was promoted commander of the Rattlesnake 18 on 29 November 1785 by Commodore Phillips Cosby on the Mediterranean station...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 14, 2020
John Hills 1746-94.He was born in Sandwich, Kent, a younger son of a shipbuilder, Andrew Hills, and of his wife, Mary Taylor. His elder brother, William, reached the rank of lieutenant in the Navy and died in 1777. He was the cousin of Captain William Cumming and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 15, 2020
Sir George Johnstone Hope 1767-1818. Born on 6 July 1767, he was the son of Hon. Charles Hope Vere of Craigiehall, Linlithgow, and of his third wife Helen Dunbar. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Hopetoun, cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, uncle...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 1, 2020
Joseph Hanwell 1759-1839. He was born in London on 10 December 1759, and was the elder brother of Rear-Admiral William Hanwell. Joseph Hanwell entered the Navy at Chatham in November 1773 as a midshipman aboard the Ramillies 74, Captain Thomas Evans, transferring in...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 26, 2020
Anthony Hunt (2) c1770-98. Having served as a midshipman aboard the Plymouth guardship Carnatic 74, Captain John Ford, Hunt was commissioned lieutenant on 26 August 1789 following the King’s Naval Review on 18 August, and during the Spanish Armament in 1790 he served...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 9, 2020
Sir Charles Hamilton 1767-1849. Born on 25 May 1767 of Scottish descent, he was the elder of the two sons of Captain Sir John Hamilton and of his wife, Cassandra Agnes Chamberlayne, the sister of Captain Charles Chamberlayne. His younger brother was Admiral Sir Edward...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 13, 2020
Charles Hare Died 1801. Having seen service in the American Revolutionary War, Hare was commissioned lieutenant on 19 April 1782. As first lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Lord Hood’s flagship Victory 100, Captain John Knight, he was present at the occupation of Toulon from...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 20, 2020
Sir William Johnstone Hope 1766-1831. He was born in Finchley on 16 August 1766, the third and youngest son of the writer and merchant John Hope of Cragiehall, Linlithgow, who served as the M.P for Linlithgowshire from 1768-70, and of his wife, Mary Breton. A year...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 24, 2019
Sir William Hargood 1762-1839. He was born in Chatham on 6 May 1762, the youngest of nine children of Hezekiah Hargood, who had served as a purser in the navy and was at the time the clerk of the survey at Chatham. and of his wife, Mary Rosewell. His maternal uncle...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 29, 2019
Sir Graham Eden Hamond 1779-1862. He was born on 30 December 1779 in Newman Street, London, the only son of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, and of his second wife, Anne Graeme. He was the cousin of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas.On 3 September 1785 Hamond entered...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 24, 2019
Sir William Hotham 1772-1848. He was born on 12 February 1772, the second son of General George Hotham, who acted as governor to the young Prince of Wales and Duke of York, and of his wife Diana Pennyman-Warton. He was the nephew of Admiral Lord Hotham and the cousin...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 6, 2019
Edmund Heywood Died 1822. He was the third of four sons of the Reverend William Heywood, and of his wife, Elizabeth Reynolds of Milford, Hampshire. His grandfather, William Reynolds, owned two estates with enslaved workers on Jamaica.In 1792 Heywood went out to China...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019
Sir Eliab Harvey 1758-1830. He was born on 5 December 1758 at Rolls Park near Chigwell, Essex, the fourth but second surviving son of William Harvey, the long-standing M.P. for Essex, and of his wife Emma Skynner. Harvey, who lost his father when he was five years...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2018
John Halsted 1768-1830. He was born at Gosport, Hampshire, the third son of Captain William Anthony Halsted, and of his wife Mary Frankland. He was the brother of Lieutenant Charles Halsted who died when the Blanche 32, Captain Samuel Uppleby, was lost with all hands...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 29, 2018
John Harper 1772-1855. Harper was born on 18 September 1772 at Chatham, Kent, the son of a lieutenant in the navy. His younger brother died whilst serving as a lieutenant of the Lutine 32, Captain Lancelot Skynner, which sunk off the Netherlands on 9 October 1799....
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 14, 2018
John Hutt 1746-94. Hutt was commissioned lieutenant on 10 April 1773, seeing service aboard the Hind 24 and the Scarborough 20, both commanded by Captain James Chads, the latter of which vessels was employed in North America. He was with the brig St. Lucia in North...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2018
Sir Lawrence William Halsted 1764-1841.The son of Captain William Anthony Halsted and his wife Mary Frankland, he was born at Gosport on 2 April 1764. He was the brother of Lieutenant Charles Halsted who died when the Blanche 32, Captain Samuel Uppleby, was lost in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 22, 2018
Peter Heywood 1773-1831. Born on 6 June 1773 at the Nunnery, near Douglas on the Isle of Man, he was the fourth son of eleven children of Peter Heywood, the deemster of the Isle of Man, and of his wife Elizabeth Spedding. He was the nephew of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 31, 2018
Sir Samuel Hood 1762-1814. He was born on 27 November 1762, the third son of Samuel Hood of Kingsland, Dorset, and of his wife Anne Bere of Westbury, Wiltshire. He was the younger brother of Captain Alexander Hood and a cousin of Admirals Viscount Hood and Viscount...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 4, 2018
Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew c1761-1834. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1761, the son of Benjamin Hallowell, a privateer captain who later became the Commissioner of the American Customs Board and died at York in Canada in 1799. His...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 15, 2018
Christopher Halliday Died 1790. Halliday was commissioned lieutenant on 23 January 1778. Serving in the East Indies, he was posted captain of the Isis 50 on 9 October 1782 in succession to Captain Hon. Thomas Charles Lumley who was killed at the Battle of Trincomale...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 2, 2017
Charles Hughes Hughes was commissioned lieutenant on 7 November 1774, and by the end of 1780 had become the first lieutenant of the Seahorse 24, Captain John Panton, serving in the East Indies. Early in the following year he brought her into Bombay after Panton had...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 29, 2017
Lord John Augustus Hervey 1757-1796. Born on 1 January 1757, he was the eldest son of Frederick 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, and of his wife Elizabeth Davers. Hervey initially went to sea under the patronage of his uncle, Commodore Lord John Augustus...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 29, 2017
Sir Richard Hughes c1729 -1812. He was the elder son of Captain Sir Richard Hughes and the grandson of Captain Richard Hughes, both of whom served as the commissioner of Portsmouth Dockyard. His mother was Joanne Collyer, and he was a distant cousin of the future...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2017
Alexander Hood 1758-98. He was born on 23 April 1758 and baptised at Netherbury in Dorset, the second son of Samuel Hood of Kingsland, Dorset, who had been a naval purser, and of his wife Anne Bere. He was the younger brother of Lieutenant Arthur Hood, who was lost in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 19, 2017
Edward Herbert c1758-1820. He was the natural child of John Nott of Braydon and Beata Price or Harbert, and the half brother of Captain John Neale Pleydell Nott who was fatally wounded whilst commanding the Centaur 74 at the Battle of Fort Royal on 29 April 1781....
