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...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 14, 2017
John M’Laurin Died 1792. M?Laurin entered the navy after serving in the merchant marine. In 1762 he was employed on the Lisbon station as the master of the Hornet 10, Commander George Johnstone, and having been made prize-master of a captured French vessel he...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 17, 2017
Hon. George Murray 1741-97. He was born on 22 August 1741, the fourth and youngest son of Lord George Murray, who was a general serving Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1745 rebellion, and of his wife, Amelia Murray. His father escaped abroad in 1746 and never returned to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 28, 2017
John Macartney 1725-81. Macartney was commissioned lieutenant on 20 January 1756. On 22 September 1759 he was promoted commander and appointed to succeed Commander John Jervis aboard the Porcupine 16 at the newly conquered Quebec. He continued there under the orders...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 25, 2017
Robert Man c1748-1813. He was the son of Captain Robert Man, who was fatally wounded when commanding the Milford 28 in an action with the French privateer Gloire 16 on 7 March 1762. He was also the nephew of Admiral Robert Man, commander-in-chief in the Leeward...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 4, 2017
Thomas Mackenzie 1753-1813. He was the son of Vice-Admiral George Mackenzie, who flew his broad pennant as a commodore and commander-in-chief at Jamaica in the early 1770 s, and who commanded in the Downs in 1777. He died in 1780. Mackenzie entered the service aboard...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 26, 2016
Sir Andrew Mitchell 1757-1806. He was born in 1 October 1757, the second son of Charles Mitchell of Baldridge, near Dunfermline, who died when he was just two years old, and of his wife, Margaret Forbes. After being educated at the High School, Edinburgh, Mitchell...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 26, 2016
Benjamin Marlow 1715- 1795. Marlow was commissioned lieutenant on 25 July 1743. As a lieutenant he temporarily commanded the Dolphin 24 for Captain Carr Scrope in Vice-Admiral Hon. John Byng?s controversial Battle of Minorca on 20 May 1756, and he was posted captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 24, 2016
John MacBride c1735-1800. He was Scottish born, the son of Robert MacBride, a Presbyterian minister who moved shortly afterwards to Ballymoney, Country Antrim, and of his wife, a Miss Boyd. His uncle, David MacBride, was an esteemed author on medical matters. After...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 26, 2016
Mark?Milbanke 1724-1805. Baptised on 12 April 1724, he was the third of six sons of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 4th baronet of Halnaby in Yorkshire, and of his second wife, Ann Delaval.In February 1737 Milbanke entered the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth, and leaving three...
