by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 28, 2024
Robert Mostyn c1759- 1784. Mostyn was commissioned lieutenant on 23 September 1778 and was aboard the Crescent 28, Captain Hon. Thomas Pakenham, at the second relief of Gibraltar on 12 April 1781. Shortly afterwards, being in company with the Flora 36, Captain William...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jul 19, 2024
James Robert Mosse 1745- 1801. Baptised on 5 December 1745, he came from a naval family, being the son of John Mosse of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, and of his wife, Jane Bur. On 6 August 1757 Mosse entered the Navy aboard the Burford 68, Captain James Young,...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 28, 2024
John Maitland 1771-1836. Born in Scotland to a prominent military family, he was the youngest son of Colonel Hon. Richard Maitland, himself a younger son of the Earl of Lauderdale, and of his wife Mary McAdam, who had been born in New York. He was the nephew of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2024
Sir Pulteney Malcolm 1768-1838. He was born at Douglen, Dumfriesshire, on 20 February 1768, the third son of seventeen children of a farm manager, George Malcolm of Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, and of his wife, Margaret Pasley. Of his older brothers, John Malcolm was an...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 30, 2023
Sir David Milne 1763-1845. He was born on 25 May 1763 at Musselburgh near Edinburgh, the son of David Milne, a silk merchant, and of his wife, Susan Vernor. After an education in Edinburgh, Milne entered the Navy in May 1779 aboard the Canada 74, Captain Hugh...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 14, 2022
Sir Richard Hussey Moubray (Hussey) 1776-1842. He was born on 16 March 1776 at Stoke Damarel, Plymouth, the second and youngest son of Robert Moubray of Cockairney, Kinrosshire, Scotland, and of his wife, Arabella Hussey. He was the first cousin of Admiral Sir Richard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 29, 2022
John M’Kerlie 1774-1848. He was born on 7 June 1774 at Glenluce, Wigtownshire, to a Scottish family which worked a large farm owned by the Earl of Galloway. His father, John M’Kerlie, was a stonemason. After early service on a Baltic trader that made at least...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 24, 2022
John Monkton c1754-1826. Monkton first went to sea in 1766 and saw initial service aboard the Chatham 50, Captain John Falkingham, which sailed for the Leeward Islands in July of that year. He transferred with Falkingham in August to the Lark 32, which was paid off in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 14, 2021
Jemmett Brown Mainwaring 1763-1800. He was the third surviving son of Benjamin Mainwaring of Whitmore in Staffordshire, and the brother of Lieutenant-General John Montagu Mainwaring. Through his grandmother, he was a distant relative of Admiral Sir Thomas Pye. On 24...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 16, 2021
James Macnamara 1768-1826. He was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1768, the son of Michael Macnamara of Cahir Tuagh and of his wife, Bridget Walters. In 1782 Macnamara entered the navy aboard the Gibraltar 80, Captain Thomas Hicks, which vessel sailed for the East...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2021
Simon Miller c1750-1825. Miller was commissioned lieutenant on 18 March 1783 and placed in command of the armed schooner Gros Inlet by Admiral Hugh Pigot, the commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands station. He was promoted commander of the same vessel just four...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 19, 2021
John Markham 1761-1827. He was born on 13 June 1761 in the precincts of Westminster School, the second son of William Markham, the headmaster of Westminster School and later the Archbishop of York from 1776-1807, and of his wife, Sarah Goddard, the daughter of a...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 13, 2020
John Manley 1744-1816. Born at Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, he was the son of Orlando Manley and of his wife, Mary Kerley. Having passed his lieutenant’s examination in 1765 Manley was commissioned lieutenant on 9 October 1770, and he saw some service in the early 1770’s...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 13, 2020
Rt. Hon. Robert Gambier Middleton 1774-1837. He was born in Edinburgh in November 1774, the second son of George Middleton, the collector of the customs at Leith, and of his wife, Elizabeth Wilson. He was the nephew of Sir Charles Middleton, the future Admiral Lord...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 16, 2020
Ralph Willett Miller 1762-99. He was born in New York on 24 January 1762, the only son of a prominent loyalist who had lost a lot of property in the American Revolution, and who subsequently settled in England. Willett was the maiden name of his mother, Martha...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 5, 2020
SirJames Nicoll Morris 1763-1830. He was the only issue of Captain John Morris, who was mortally wounded whilst commanding Commodore Sir Peter Parker’s flagship, the Bristol 50, at the unsuccessful attack on Charleston on 28 June 1776. Morris was entered to the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 16, 2020
Augustus Montgomery 1762-97. He was born Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp on 23 November 1762 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the illegitimate son of the politician and courtier Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, and of his mistress Kitty Hunter, with whom the earl had...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2020
John Matthews Please note that the modern reader will undoubtedly find the opinions and beliefs of this officer with regard to the slave trade disagreeable, but in the interests of history I have attempted to report them accurately and authentically. Died 1798. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2020
Sir Thomas Byam Martin 1773-1854. He was born on 25 July 1773 at Ashtead House, Surrey, the third surviving son of Captain Sir Henry Martin, who died in 1794 having been commissioner of Portsmouth dockyard from 1780-90, and the M.P. for Southampton and influential...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 19, 2019
Thomas Manby 1769-1834. He was born in Hilgay Norfolk on 1 January 1769 to a family originating from Manby, Lincolnshire, the son of Captain Matthew Pepper Manby, an aide-de-camp to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and of his wife, Mary Woodcock. He was the younger...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Zachary Mudge 1770-1852. He was born on 22 January 1770 at Plymouth, the sixth surviving and youngest son of the physician, Dr. John Mudge, and the second child of his third wife Elizabeth Garrett. His elder half-brother was Major-General William Mudge. The family was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 5, 2019
Sir George Murray 1759-1819. Born in January 1759, he was the second son of Gideon Murray, an alderman of Chichester, and of his wife, Anne Stringer. Having been entered into the books of the Niger 32, Captain Francis Banks, in 1770, Murray went to sea two years later...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 4, 2018
Sir Robert Moorsom 1760-1835. He was born on 8 June 1760, the second son of a ship-owner, Richard Moorsom, of Airy-Hill, near Whitby, Yorkshire, and of his wife, Mary Ward. Having been classically educated at Scorton near Richmond in Yorkshire, Moorsom entered the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 6, 2018
Paul Minchin 1757- 1810. Baptised on 31 January 1757, he was the third son and ninth born of eleven children of Humphrey Minchin and his wife, Clarinda Cuppaidge of Tipperary, Ireland. Minchin was commissioned lieutenant on 20 October 1779 and posted captain on 18...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 22, 2018
George Paris Monke Died 1828. He was the only son of a captain in the Horse Guards. Monke joined the navy in June 1775 aboard the Worcester 64, Captain Mark Robinson, going out to Cape Finisterre and Gibraltar in the following year. In March 1777 he was accepted...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 15, 2018
Robert M’Douall 1729-1816. Having been commissioned lieutenant on 7 September 1759 M Douall had to wait another twenty-one years before he was eventually promoted commander on 23 March 1780. In November he joined the sloop Shark 16 at Spithead where he remained...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2018
Robert Murray c1763-1834. He was the illegitimate son of Admiral Hon. Robert Digby. Murray went to sea at a very early age and fought at the Battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778 aboard the Ramillies 74 under the command of his father. Remaining with Digby on his...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 9, 2018
Sylverius Moriarty 1735-1809. He was born at Ballyferriter near Tralee, County Kerry, the son of Redmond Moriarty of Ballyneanig. Having enjoyed a humble and rural education Moriarty entered the navy and was commissioned lieutenant at the grand old age of 41 on 6 July...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 1, 2017
Hon. Dunbar MacLellan Died 1782. He was the third son of William MacLellan, who was known as Lord Kirkcudbright, and of his wife, Margaret Murray. MacLellan was commissioned lieutenant of the Lizard 28, Captain Thomas Mackenzie, in the St Lawrence on 11 May 1776....
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 17, 2017
Robert Montagu 1763-1830. He was the eldest of five children of the Earl of Sandwich, the high profile first lord of the Admiralty in 1763 and again from 1771-83, and of his mistress, a milliner s assistant by the name of Marta Ray, who was shot dead by a rejected...
