brigantine, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. O’Bryen Hoare and Beginald Thos. John Levinge. He was appointed, on being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Aug. 1845, Additional of the Vernon 50, bearing the flag on the station last named of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield; and, since 3 Aug. 1846, has been employed on the coast of Africa in the Devastation and Penelope steamers, Commodore Sir Chas. Hotham.
HATHORN. (Captain, 1840.)
George Hathorn, born 17 Nov. 1803, is son of Geo. Hathorn, Esq., of Brunswick Square, London, and is of the family of Hathorn, of Castle Wigg, co. Wigtoun, N.B. He is brother-in-law of Commander Matt. Dixon, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 Aug. 1817, on board the Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon; passed his examination in 1824; obtained his first commission 30 April, 1827; and was afterwards appointed, 22 Jan. 1829, and 25 Nov. 1833, to the Vanguard [errata 1] 76, Capts. Wm. Henry Shirreff, Sam. Burgess, and Chas. Talbot, and Canopus 84, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, on the South American and Mediterranean stations. Having officiated for a considerable time as First-Lieutenant of those ships, he was advanced, 10 Jan. 1837, to the rank of Commander; and, on 9 April, 1839, he was nominated Second-Captain of the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart; his services in which ship on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre procured him a Post-commission dated 4 Nov. 1840. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Hathorn married, 28 Sept. 1843, Mary Isabella, eldest daughter of the Rev. Wm. M‘Douall, Vicar of Luton and Canon of Peterborough, and grand-niece of the late Earl of Dumfries, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HATTON, M.P. (Captain, 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 37.)
Villiers Francis Hatton, born 20 Aug. 1787, at Dromana, co. Waterford, is eldest son of Geo. Hatton, Esq., formerly M.P. for Lisburne, co. Antrim, by Lady Isabella Rachel Seymour Conway, sixth daughter of Francis, first Marquess of Hertford. He is brother of Commander Henry John Hatton, R.N. (1815), a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber, who died 21 Dec. 1831; nephew of the late Major-General John Hatton; and cousin of the present Marquess of Londonderry. His uncle, the late Henry Hatton, Esq., of Clonard, co. Wexford, married the eldest daughter of the second Earl of Arran; which lady espoused, a second time, the first Marquess of Abercorn.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sans Pareil 80, Capt. Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, bearing the flag in the Channel and West Indies of his uncle, Lord Hugh Seymour. In 1801 he removed, as Midshipman, with Capt. Penrose to the Carnatic 74; and he next, between 1802 and 1805, served, on the Home and East India stations, in the St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. Joseph Bingham, and Trident 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier, by whom he was then appointed Lieutenant of the Grampus 50, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild. Returning home shortly after his official promotion, which took place 31 Jan. 1805, he joined, on 3 Oct. in that year, the Seagull, of 16 guns and 94 men, Capt. Robt. Cathcart, and proceeded to the North Sea station, where he displayed great zeal for the public service, and often cruized, for days at a time, in an open boat for the suppression of smuggling. On 19 June, 1808, being at the time First of the Seagull, Mr. Hatton participated, off the coast of Norway, in a desperate and heroic action of two hours and a half, which, after the British had sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 20 wounded, and had been actually reduced to a sinking state, terminated in the surrender of that vessel to the Danish sloop Lougen, of 20 guns and 160 men, and six gun-boats, each armed with 2 long-24-pounders, and manned with from 60 to 70 men. During the contest Mr. Hatton lost an arm, and received two other wounds, one of which, in the knee, nearly deprived him of the use of his right leg; yet, although he was so dangerously wounded, he continued to give his support and encouragement to the last.[1] So distinguished indeed was his conduct that it not only called forth the highest approbation of the court-martial which assembled to try the officers and crew of the Seagull for the loss of their ship, but procured for him a Commander’s commission dated back to the day of the action. From 3 March, 1810, until posted, 7 Feb. 1812, Capt. Hatton served in the Port Mahon brig, on the Portsmouth station and on the north coast of Spain. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Hatton, who is M.P. for co. Wexford, enjoys a pension of 300l. in consideration of his wounds. He married, 24 May, 1817, Harriet, second daughter of the Right Hon. David La Touche, M.P. for co. Carlow, by Lady Cecilia Leeson, daughter of the first Earl of Miltown; and by that lady has issue one son, in the Army, and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HAULTAIN, K.H. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Charles Haultain was born, in Dec. 1787, in Loudon, and died 4 June, 1845, at Fairford, co. Gloucester. He was eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Haultain, of the Commandry, in the city of Worcester, who served as Captain of the 37th Regt. at the battles of Minden, Warburg, Fillinghausen, &c., and saw much other service, both in Germany and North America. He was brother of Capt. Fras. Haultain, of the Royal Artillery; of Capt. Arthur Haultain, of the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service; and of Fred. Haultain, Esq., a Midshipman R.N., who died on board the Thetis frigate, in the West Indies, of yellow fever, in 1809.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Jan. 1800, as A.B., on board the Agincourt 64, Capts. John Bligh and Geo. Fred. Ryves, bearing the flag of his patron, the late Sir Chas. Morice Pole, in which ship, after serving for some time at Newfoundland, he proceeded to the North Sea, and ultimately conveyed the 25th Regt. to Egypt. In 1801-2, having previously attained the rating of Midshipman, he successively joined the Bonne Citoyenne and Vincejo sloops, both commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Jas. Prevost; after which, on removing to the Cerberus 32, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he assisted at the bombardment of Granville 14 Sept. 1803. On leaving the latter ship, Mr. Haultain became attached to the Speedwell schooner, Lieut.-Commander W. Robinson, Thisbe 28, armée en flûte, Capt. Lewis Shepheard, and Glory and Ocean 98’s, flag-ships of Sir John Orde, Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, and Lord Collingwood, under the second-named of whom he was present, in the Glory, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805. On 26 April, 1806, we find him promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Prince 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, off Cadiz, where, until 1809, he further served in the Queen 98, Capt. Fras. Pender Excellent 74, Capt. John West, and Queen again, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland. He then cruized for a short period on the Irish station as Senior of the Décade 36, Capt. John Stuart; and in the course of the same year, 1809, he proceeded to the Adriatic in the Active 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon. On 29 June, 1810, Mr. Haultain commanded the ship’s launch, and assisted at the capture and destruction of a convoy of 25 vessels near the town of Groa. He took part in many other boat operations, and was employed on so much harassing service that his health in the end became seriously affected, and he was in consequence obliged to invalid. His next appointments were, 3 Sept. 1811, and 23 May, 1812 to the San Josef 110 and Egmont 74, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton and the late Sir Geo. Hope; under the latter of whom he escorted a Russian fleet from the Baltic to England. Volunteering about June
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1808, p. 1285.
