by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 16, 2024
William Lechmere 1752- 1815. Born in Powick, Worcestershire, he was the son of an elderly father, Richard Lechmere, and of his wife, Elizabeth Corfield, and was also the nephew of the Whig politician, Lord Nicholas Lechmere, and of Captain Edward Lechmere, both of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 18, 2024
Adam Littlejohn Died 1795. Littlejohn was commissioned lieutenant on 31 March 1780. A protégé of Vice-Admiral William Hotham, he served with that officer aboard the Princess Royal 98, Captain John Holloway, from 29 December 1790 until 9 September 1791, at which time...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 21, 2023
Sir Robert Laurie 1764-1848. He was born on 25 May 1764, the only son of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Laurie, 5th baronet, the M.P. for Dumfriesshire from 1774 to 1804, and of his wife, Elizabeth Mary, the daughter of the 6th Lord Ruthven. Laurie joined the Navy on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 13, 2022
John Mason Lewis c1770-1835. He was the son of Major-General Robert Mason Lewis, who from 1794 until his death in 1800 was the lieutenant-governor of Carisbrook Castle. Lewis was commissioned lieutenant on 2 November 1790 at the end of the Spanish Armament, and he...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 2, 2022
Hon. Sir Arthur Kaye Legge 1766-1835. Born on 25 October 1766, he was the sixth son of the statesman, William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, and of his wife, Frances Catherine Nicoll. He had seven brothers, one of whom became the Bishop of Oxford, whilst his...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 4, 2022
Henry Lloyd Died 1792. Lloyd was commissioned lieutenant on 13 October 1757, and he was promoted commander of the bomb vessel Infernal 8 on 26 May 1768, being one of many officers advanced on that date. On 26 July 1769 he was appointed to the French-built sloop Hawk...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2022
Thomas Larcom c1759-1804. He was the son of Thomas Larcom and of his wife, Charity Banton, and was the elder brother of Rear-Admiral Joseph Larcom. The boys and their sister were orphaned in the early 1770’s and became the responsibility of a maternal aunt, who was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 12, 2021
Sir Francis Laforey 1767-1835. He was born on 31 December 1767 in the colony of Virginia, North America, the son of Vice-Admiral Sir John Laforey and of his wife, Eleanor Farley. Laforey was educated at Freshford near Bath in the early 1780’s. Having been commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 6, 2021
Edward Leveson-Gower 1776-1853. He was born on 8 May 1776, the second son of Rear-Admiral Hon. John Leveson-Gower and of his wife Frances Boscawen, the daughter of the famous Admiral Hon. Edward Boscawen. He was the brother of Captain Augustus Leveson-Gower who died...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 30, 2020
Sir Charles Lindsay Died 1799. He was the son of the Scottish-born General Sir David Lindsay and of his wife, Susannah-Charlotte Long, and was the nephew of Rear-Admiral Sir John Lindsay. Lindsay was commissioned lieutenant on 30 September 1793, and was the second...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2020
George Lumsdaine Lumsdaine was commissioned lieutenant on 13 July 1776 at Newfoundland and placed in command of the armed boat Postillion 10, a former American privateer, in which he cruised off St. Pierre and Miquelon during the summer of 1777. In July 1778 the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
William Locker 1731-1800. The second son of John Locker, a barrister and writer, and of his wife, Elizabeth Stillingfleet, he was born at a residence attached to the Leatherseller?s Hall in February 1731.Locker was educated at Merchant Taylor?s School, London before...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2018
George Lindsay Died 1798.Lindsay was commissioned lieutenant on 20 August 1759.He was present at the inconclusive Battle of Porto Praya on 16 April 1781 and was promoted commander with seniority from 22 April upon his appointment by Commodore George Johnstone to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 9, 2017
Richard Lucas Died 1798. Lucas was commissioned lieutenant on 19 November 1778. He commanded the fireship Salamander 8 at the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782, having been promoted commander and appointed to her the month previously. Following the battle he was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 18, 2017
Hon. Thomas Charles Lumley-Saunderson 1758-82. Born on 3 May 1758, he was the third of seven sons of Richard Lumley-Saunderson, the 4th Earl of Scarborough, and of his wife, Barbara Savile. Lumley was commissioned lieutenant on 3 July 1778 and promoted commander on 25...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 9, 2017
Patrick Leslie Died 1783. Leslie was commissioned lieutenant on 23 June 1755, and from April 1763 through to 1765 had the cutter Morning Star 4, serving in the North Sea and initially operating out of Hull. From 1769-71 he had another cutter, the Meredith 6, in which...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2017
Sir Thomas Louis 1st Baronet 1758-1807. Born in Exeter and baptised on 11 May 1758, he was apparently descended from the French royal family, being the son of John Louis, a teacher and dancing master who traced his ancestry back to an illegitimate son of King Louis...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2017
Hon. John Luttrell-Olmius 3rd Earl of Carhampton 1740-1828. He was the third of four sons of Simon Luttrell, the 1st Earl of Carhampton in the Irish Peerage, who was ennobled after his widowed daughter, Anne Horton, married King George III?s brother, the Duke of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 24, 2016
Thomas Lloyd (1) Died 1780. Lloyd was commissioned lieutenant on 17 September 1764. Serving on the Jamaican station, he was promoted commander on 10 July 1776 by Vice-Admiral Clark Gayton and appointed to the sloop Atalanta 14. On 29 November he sailed for Pensacola...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 19, 2016
See Sir John Lockhart-Ross
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 20, 2016
Sir John Lindsay 1737-88. He was the younger son of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick, Perthshire, and his wife Amelia Murray, daughter of the 5th Viscount Stormont. His uncle was William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, who served as the Lord Chief Justice from 1756-88,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 14, 2016
Sir John Laforey 1729-96. The second son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Laforey, the governor of Pendennis Castle in Falmouth, and of his wife, Mary Clayton, his ancestors were Huguenot refugees who had settled in England during the reign of William III. He was the father...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 4, 2016
Lord Longford Please got to Hon. Edward...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 8, 2016
Thomas Lloyd (2) Died 1801. He originated from Cilgwyn, Cardiganshire. Lloyd was commissioned lieutenant on 26 May 1768 and promoted commander of the fireship Vulcan 8 on 17 April 1778, this being an American prize which he commissioned for the first time. Attached to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 18, 2016
John Linzee 1743-98. He was born on 25 March 1743, the son of Captain John Linzee and his wife, Rose Guisage of Kingston, Portsea, Hampshire. He was the cousin of Admiral Robert Linzee and of Susannah Linzee, who married the future Admiral Lord Hood in 1749. He was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2016
Hon. John Leveson-Gower 1740-92. He was born on 11 July 1740, the second son of John Leveson-Gower, the 1st Earl Gower, who served as the privy seal from 1742-3 and again from 1744-55, by his third wife Mary Tufton, the daughter of the 6th Earl Thanet and the widow of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2015
Skeffington Lutwidge 1737-1814. He was born on 13 March 1737, the son of Thomas Lutwidge of Whitehaven, Cumbria, and of his wife, Lucy Hoghton. On 15 August 1759 Lutwidge was commissioned lieutenant of the Echo 24, Captain John Laforey, and he commanded the cutter...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 8, 2015
Robert Linzee 1739-1804. He was the youngest of ten children of Edward Linzee, who served several terms as the lord mayor of Portsmouth, and of his wife Anne Newnham. He became the brother-in-law of Admiral Lord Hood through the marriage in 1749 of his sister Susanna,...
