The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
Summary
He is a good one, and his worthiness
Does challenge much respect.
Shakespeare.We have sometimes occasion to regret the paucity of our biographical materials, and particularly in relation to the early part of the lives of those gallant men, with whose memoirs our work has from time to time been enriched. It is not a matter of curiosity only which leads us to desire to be acquainted with the manner in which an Officer who has distinguished himself in the service of his country spent his youth, with the Commanders under whom he served, and the actions in which he was engaged whilst he was a junior Officer. It is a source of instruction to trace the progress of an Officer's professional services from his first entrance into the Navy, to the mature period, when, full of years and honours, he retires from the concerns of active life. In the present instance we are sorry not to be able to give our readers an account of the early part of the professional career of an Officer, who has so highly distinguished himself as the noble subject of these Memoirs.
The first information we have concerning our hero is, that on the 17th of August 1757 he was promoted to the rank of Post Captain, on account of his meritorious conduct in the Fortune sloop, in which vessel he captured a French privateer of superior force.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 341 - 424Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1803