by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 25, 2017
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by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 25, 2017
Sir Francis John Hartwell 1757-1831. He was born on 15 February 1757, the third son of Captain Broderick Hartwell who became the lieutenant-governor of Greenwich Hospital, and of his wife Rebecca Collins. Hartwell was commissioned lieutenant on 7 July 1775. Towards...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2017
Sir George Home 1740-1803. He was the only son of Sir James Home of Blackadder, 6th Baronet, and of his wife, Catherine Livingstone. On 28 March 1755 Home became the 7th Baronet Home of Blackadder, Berwickshire, following the death of his father. He was commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 29, 2017
John Holloway 1747-1826. He was born 25 January 1747 at Wells in Somerset, the son of Robert Holloway. In 1760 Holloway entered the service aboard the Antelope 50, Captain James Webb, going out to Newfoundland in the following year with Captain Thomas Graves, who had...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 15, 2017
John Harvey 1740-94. He was born on 9 July 1740 at Elmton, Kent, the third son of Richard Harvey and his wife Elizabeth Nicholls of Eastry, Kent. He was the brother of Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, and the father of Admiral Sir John Harvey and Admiral Sir Edward Harvey....
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 24, 2016
Roddam Home Died 1801. He was the son of Rev William Home of Fogo in Berwickshire, and of his wife, Mary Roddam. Home was commissioned lieutenant on 21 November 1772. During the summer of 1777 he commanded the schooner Egmont off the Newfoundland Banks, and after...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 30, 2016
Broderick Hartwell Died 1784. The son of the Reverend Barry Hartwell of County Cork, and of his wife, Mary Spierin, he was the father of Captain Sir Francis John Hartwell. Hartwell was commissioned lieutenant on 12 June 1741 and spent some time in 1746 aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 4, 2016
John Howorth c1728- 1801. Howorth was commissioned lieutenant on 4 January 1757, and during 1772-3 served in this rank aboard Vice-Admiral Thomas Pye?s flagship at Portsmouth, the Barfleur 98, Captain Edward Vernon. In 1776 he was serving as a lieutenant aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 29, 2016
Tyringham Howe Died 1783. He was the second of five sons of William Howe of Mislethorne, Essex, and of his wife Millicent Stephens. His older brother, Captain William Howe of the navy, died in 1760, and he was the nephew of the influential First Secretary to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 1, 2016
Charles Powell Hamilton 1747-1825. He was born on 26 December 1747, the third and youngest son of Lord Anne Hamilton, who was named after his godmother, Queen Anne, and of his wife, Anna Charlotta Maria Powell. He was the grandson of the 4th Duke of Hamilton, and the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 2, 2016
Sir Charles Hardy @1714-80. He was born at Portsmouth, the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy who died in 1744, and of his wife, Elizabeth Burchett, the daughter of an M.P. He was the elder brother of John Hardy who commanded the Torrington in 1745-6 and retired as...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 11, 2016
Sir Alexander Arthur Hood 1st Viscount Bridport 1726-1814. He was born on 2 December 1726 at Thorncombe, near Axminster in Somerset, the second son of the Reverend Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh, and of his wife, Mary Hoskins. He was the younger brother of Samuel,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 10, 2016
Sir Edward Hughes c1716-94. He was born at Hertford, the son of an alderman, Edward Hughes, and of his wife, Elizabeth Chichele. On 4 January 1735 Hughes entered the navy aboard the newly commissioned Dunkirk 60, flying the broad pennant of Commodore Digby Dent, in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 21, 2016
Sir John Hamilton 1726- 1784. Of Scottish descent, he was the third son of John Hamilton of Chilston Park near Maidstone in Kent, who was also the sheriff of that county, and of his wife, Mary Wright. He was the father of Admirals Sir Charles and Sir Edward Hamilton,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 1, 2016
James Hawker @1730-1786. He was the son of a Plymouth wine merchant and his wife, the daughter of a local alderman, and he became the father of Admiral Edward Hawker and the brother-in-law of Rear-Admiral Lucius O’Brien. Hawker entered the navy in 1743 aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 24, 2016
Harry Harmood 1739-1809. He was a younger son of a wealthy merchant, Chane Harmood, and of his wife, Mary Dawes. His uncle was Commander James Harmood. Having graduated from the Naval Academy at Portsmouth, Harmood was commissioned lieutenant on 19 February 1759 and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 14, 2016
Benjamin Hill Died 1785. Following six years’ service in the East India company, Hill was commissioned lieutenant on 31 March 1760, and from April 1764 to May 1765 he served aboard the Achilles 60, Captain Lord William Campbell. He was promoted commander on 18 March...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 12, 2016
Sir Robert Harland 1st Baronet 1714-1784. He was baptised at St. Pancras Old Church, London, on 3 November 1714, the son of Captain Robert Harland, one of the most senior captains in the Navy, who died in 1751, and of his wife Frances Clyatt. On 10 February 1729...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 12, 2016
Thomas Hicks 1729-1801. He was baptised on 27 February 1729, the seventh son of thirteen children of John Hicks, a clergyman long associated with Exeter Cathedral, and of his wife, Mary Passmore. Having run away from home, Hicks obtained a berth in April 1742 aboard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 6, 2016
John Houlton c1728-91. The youngest and fourth surviving son of John Houlton of Bristol, and of his wife, Susannah Watts, his family was long-established in the parish of Grittleton, Wiltshire. Houlton was commissioned lieutenant on 28 June 1756 and served in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 4, 2016
Samuel Hood 1st Viscount 1724-1816. Born at Thorncombe, near Axminster on 12 December 1724, he was the eldest son of a humble clergyman, Samuel Hood of Butleigh in Somerset, and of his wife, Mary Hoskins. He was the elder brother of Admiral Alexander Hood, Viscount...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 13, 2016
John Hunter 1738-1821. He was born on 29 August 1737 at Leith, Scotland, one of nine children of William Hunter a captain in the merchant service, and of his wife Helen Drummond, the niece of the lord-provost of Edinburgh. His elder brother, Lieutenant William Hunter,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 12, 2016
John Henry 1731-1829. He was born at Holyhead, Anglesey, on 28 September 1731. Henry joined the service in 1744, but his early career suffered as a consequence of a break to his thigh in an accident involving a hawser. He was commissioned lieutenant on 27 April 1757,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Charles Hudson @1732-1803. His family originated from Haltcliffe Bridge in Cumbria, Hudson was commissioned lieutenant on 27 June 1757 and served in that rank aboard the sloop Porcupine, Captain John Ferguson Having been promoted commander on 24 August 1762 he saw...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Sir Andrew Snape Hamond 1738-1828. He was born on 17 December 1738 at Blackheath, the only son of Robert Hamond, a merchant and multiple ship-owner from Blackheath, and of his wife Susanna, daughter of Robert Snape. He was the father of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Graham...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
William Hotham 1st Baron in the Irish Peerage 1736-1813. Born of Yorkshire stock on 8 April 1736, he was the third son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, and of his wife Frances Thompson. He was the brother of the judge, Beaumont Hotham, and the uncle of Vice-Admiral Sir William...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2015
Anthony Hunt (1) c1734-96. Hunt was commissioned lieutenant on 2 April 1757. He was promoted commander of the slop Tamar 14 on 16 October 1767 at Plymouth in succession to the late Captain Henry l’Anson, who had died whilst bringing her around from the Downs under...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2015
Charles Hope Died 1808. He was the son of the Scottish politician Hon. Charles Hope Vere, and of his second wife Lady Anne Vane, the daughter of the 1st Earl of Darlington, and was the brother of Brigadier-General Henry Hope who died in 1789. His parents divorced in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 17, 2015
RICHARD HOWE 1ST EARL 4TH VISCOUNT 1726-99. He was born on 8 March 1726 in Albemarle Street, London, the second son of Emanuel Scrope, 2nd Viscount Howe of Langar, Nottinghamshire, in the Irish peerage, and Maria Sophia Charlotte, daughter of the Baron and Baroness...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 8, 2015
Sir Henry Harvey 1737-1810. He was born in July 1737 at Elmton, Kent, the second son of Richard Harvey of Eastry, Kent, and his wife, Elizabeth Nichols. He was the father of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, brother of Captain John Harvey, and uncle of Admiral...
