by Richard Hiscocks | May 17, 2019
James Jones Died 1780.Jones was commissioned lieutenant on 14 March 1744 and saw service on the Dartmouth 50, Captains Essex Holcombe, John Bowdlier, John Crookshanks and James Hamilton, being employed in the Mediterranean and remaining with this vessel until the end...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
William Henry Ricketts Jervis 1764-1805. He was born on 4 November 1764 in Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, the eldest son of William Henry Ricketts of the Canaan Estate, Jamaica,. His mother was Mary Jervis, the sister of the future Admiral the Earl of St....
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 13, 2018
Theophilus Jones 1760-1835. He was born in Ireland during September 1760, the second son of the Rt. Hon. Theophilus Jones M.P. who supported the Union, and of his mother, Hon. Catherine Beresford, the daughter of the Earl of Tyrone. His elder brother, Walter Jones,...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 22, 2017
Gideon Johnstone 1739-88. He was the youngest of seven sons and fourteen children of the M.P. Sir James Johnstone Bt. of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire, and of his wife Barbara Murray, the daughter of the 4th Lord Elibank. He was the brother of Commodore George Johnstone,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 13, 2016
Maximilian Jacobs c1732-1802. He was described as being ‘of foreign extraction’ and as ‘a native of Denmark’. Jacobs was commissioned lieutenant on 22 November 1752 and promoted commander of the sloop Escort 14 for purposes of rank only on 13 June 1757. From 16 June...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 1, 2016
George Johnstone 1730-87. He was the fourth of seven sons and fourteen children of the M.P Sir James Johnstone Bt. of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire, and of his wife Barbara Murray, the daughter of the 4th Lord Elibank. He was the older brother of Captain Gideon Johnstone,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 24, 2015
John Jervis 1st Earl of St. Vincent 1735-1823. He was born on 9 January 1735 at Meaford Hall in Staffordshire, the second and younger son of a barrister-at-law, Swynfen Jervis. His mother, Elizabeth, was a distant cousin of Admiral Lord Anson and the sister of the...
