by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 14, 2022
Hugh Pigot 1769-97. Born on 5 September 1769 in Patshull, Staffordshire, he was the younger son of Admiral Hugh Pigot and of his second wife, Frances Wrottesley. In May 1782 Pigot entered the Navy aboard the Jupiter 50, Captain Thomas Pasley, the flagship of his...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 7, 2021
William Pierrepont 1766 -1813. He was baptised on 4 March 1766 at Uffington, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, the third son of Charles Pierrepont and of his wife, Mary Hopkinson. Pierrepont joined the Navy in 1780 and was commissioned lieutenant on 2 December 1789,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 3, 2021
d’Arcy Preston 1765-1847. He was the son of the Rev. John Preston of Askham, Yorkshire. Preston joined the Navy on 10 May 1781 aboard the Portland 50, Captain Hon. James Luttrell, the flagship to Rear-Admiral John Elliott and to Vice-Admiral John Campbell, the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 8, 2020
Hon. William Paget 1769-94. Born on 22 December 1769, he was the second son of Henry Bayly Paget, the 1st Earl of Uxbridge, who died in 1812, and of his wife Jane nee Champagné. His brothers were Field-Marshal Henry Paget, the 1st Marquis of Anglesey, who was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 7, 2020
Charles Dudley Pater c1763-1818. He was the brother of Lieutenant-General Sir John Pater, who died in Madras in 1817. Pater was commissioned lieutenant on 8 October 1779, in which capacity he was serving aboard Vice-Admiral William Hotham’s flagship Britannia 100,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 16, 2020
Sir William Parker 1743-1802. He was born on 1 January 1743, the eldest son of Augustine Parker, a naval officer who commanded the royal yacht Queenborough, and who became mayor of the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, and of his wife, Elizabeth Beal. A...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 16, 2019
Sir Israel Pellew 1758-1832. He was born on 25 August 1758 at Dover, the younger brother of Sir Edward Pellew who became Admiral Viscount Exmouth, and the third of four sons of Samuel Pellew, a Cornishman and commander of a local packet who had fallen on hard times....
by Richard Hiscocks | May 17, 2019
William Peacock c1750- 82. He was of Irish descent.Peacock was commissioned lieutenant on 12 June 1776, and in 1777 was serving on the Leeward Islands station aboard the Beaver 14, Commander James Jones, being present at her capture of the American privateer Oliver...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 31, 2019
John Perkins c1745-1812. His early life is largely a mystery, but it has been estimated that he was born before 1750 at Kingston, Jamaica to a mother who was in slavery, was illegitimate and of mixed race. However, other sources suggest that his long service in the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 25, 2019
Sir George Parker 1767-1847. The son of George Parker of Wexford and of his wife, Katherine Gore, he was the nephew of Admiral Sir Peter Parker, cousin of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker, and a descendant of the Rev. Dr Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury who...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2019
Nathaniel Portlock c1748-1817. It is thought that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and that his brother was pressed into the Navy at the same time as him and later served in the Russian Navy where he commanded the Benefactor 130 and rose to the rank of commodore.It...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 4, 2019
Edward Pakenham Died 1798. He was the son of Edward Pakenham and Elizabeth Weller, and the brother of Vice-Admiral John Pakenham. His grandfather was Rear-Admiral John Weller. Pakenham was promoted lieutenant with seniority from 17 July 1777, and in 1778 commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Peter Puget 1765-1822. Of French Huguenot ancestry, he was baptised on 16 November 1765 in London, one of two sons and three daughters of John and Esther Puget. His father, a banker and merchant, died two years after his birth, and his mother appears to have...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 5, 2018
John Pilford 1769-1834. He was baptised on 20 January 1769, the second son of Charles Pilford, a farmer and landowner of Horsham, Sussex, and of his wife Bathia White. His elder brother, Charles, joined the Navy, but lacking patronage sought employment in the East...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 11, 2018
Thomas Peyton 1757-1801. He was the fifth and youngest son of Admiral Joseph Peyton and of his wife Katherine Strut. His brothers were Rear-Admiral Joseph Peyton and Rear-Admiral John Peyton, and he was the uncle of Commodore Sir John Strutt Peyton. Thomas Peyton was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2018
Hon. Thomas Pitt, 2nd Lord Camelford 1775-1804. He was born at Boconnoc, Cornwall on 19 February 1775, the only son of Thomas Pitt, the nephew of the Earl of Chatham, who became a politician and the 1st Lord Camelford, and of his wife Anne Wilkinson. He was a distant...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 20, 2018
Lord Henry Paulet 1767-1832. He was born on 31 March 1767, the second son of the courtier and former M.P George Paulet, 12th Marquis of Winchester, and of his wife, Martha Ingoldsby. Paulet joined the service during the latter stages of the American Revolutionary War...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 22, 2018
Philippe Pipon 1771-1829. He was born on 14 June 1771 on Jersey in the Channel Islands, the son of Thomas Pipon the attorney-general for the island, and of his wife, Jeanne Pipon, from St. Aubin.After an education in Reading Pipon first went to sea in 1787 aboard the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 19, 2018
Arthur Phillip 1738-1814. He was born on 11 October 1738 at All Hallows, Bread Street, in London, the son of an immigrant from Frankfurt, Jacob Phillip, who by various accounts was a language teacher, a merchant vessel owner, a merchant captain, or a common seaman....
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 4, 2018
Hon. James Charles Pitt 1761-80. He was born on 24 April 1761, the third son and youngest child of William Pitt, the 1st Earl of Chatham, and his wife, Hester Grenville. His elder brothers were General Hon. John Pitt, the 2nd Earl of Chatham, and William Pitt, the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 18, 2018
Sir Henry Prescott 1783-1874. He was born at Kew on 4 May 1783, the younger son of Admiral Isaac Prescott and of Jane Walter. His parents separated in November 1782 and were divorced in 1785 as a consequence of his father?s cruel, barbaric and inhumane treatment of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 31, 2018
John Willett Payne 1752-1803. He was born at St. Kitts in the Leeward Islands on 23 April 1752, the youngest of three sons of Ralph Payne, the lieutenant-governor of that island by his second wife, Margaret Gallwey, also of that island. An elder step-brother became...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 12, 2017
Hugh Pigot (1) 1722-1792. Born on 28 May 1722, he was the third son of Richard Pigot of Westminster, and his wife, Frances Goode. He was the younger brother of Lord George Pigot, twice the governor and commander-in-chief of Madras, and of Major-General Sir Robert...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 1, 2017
Thomas Parr Died 1800. Parr entered the navy at a young age, and after much service sailed for India in November 1773 aboard the Salisbury 50, Captain George Walters, flying the broad pennant of Commodore Edward Hughes. He was commissioned lieutenant of the Seahorse...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 1, 2017
Thomas Piercy c1731-93 Piercy was commissioned lieutenant on 14 February 1757 and promoted commander on 18 April 1778. Commanding the hired ship Countess of Scarborough 20, he was present when the Medea 28, Captain James Montagu, captured the Dunkirk-based cutter...
by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 29, 2017
George Palmer 1755-1834. Palmer was commissioned lieutenant on 23 April 1778 and promoted commander on 1 December 1780. Following the unsuccessful Battle of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781 his command, the fireship Vulcan, was marooned in the York River, and so he...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 12, 2017
James Pigott Died 1822. Pigott was commissioned lieutenant on 28 March 1771, and after being promoted commander on 25 August 1773 he joined the sloop Swallow and served in the East Indies for the next three years. He was posted captain on 22 February 1776 in order to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 12, 2017
Sir Thomas Pasley 1734-1808. He was born on 2 March 1734, the fifth son of James Pasley of Craig, Dumfriesshire, and of his wife, Magdalen Elliott. He was the uncle of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, and Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs....
by Richard Hiscocks | May 27, 2017
John Child Purvis 1747-1825. He was born at Stepney on 13 March 1747, the second son of George Purvis, the secretary to the Sick and Wounded Board, and of his wife Mary Oadham. He was the grandson of Captain George Purvis, the M.P. for Aldeburgh and comptroller of the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 26, 2017
Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham 1757-1836. He was born on 29 September 1757, the fourth and youngest son of Thomas, the first Lord Longford, and of his wife, Elizabeth Cuffe. He was the younger brother of Captain Lord Longford who commanded the America 74 at the Battle of...
