Lieut. Heyland married, 19 April, 1819, Miss Mary Matilda Barrett, and by that lady has issue a son and daughter. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
HEYSHAM. (Lieut., 1827. h-p., 17; h-p., 18.)
James Heysham entered the Navy 17 May, 1812, and was for 15 years employed as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Mate, on board the Prince of Wales 98, Bombay and Berwick 74’s, and other ships, on the North Sea, Mediterranean, Western Island, West India, English Channel, South American, and African stations. Having passed his examination in 1818, he was at length, on 4 May, 1827, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointments were – 21 April, 1831, to the Pearl 20, Capts. Wm. Broughton and Robt. Gordon, at first employed in protecting the British interests in the Western Islands, during the disputes between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, and then attached to the force in the West Indies – and, 29 Oct. 1832, to the Winchester 52, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, on the latter station. He invalided home 15 March, 1833.
HIATT. (Retired Commander, 1834. f-p., 19; h-p., 33.)
John Hiatt was born 3 April, 1784, at Portsea.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 March, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Namur 98, Capts. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, Thos. Sotheby, and Wm. Luke. After serving as Midshipman in the action off Cape St. Vincent, and for some time at the blockade of Cadiz, he rejoined his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral Whitshed, in July, 1799, on board the Barfleur 98, and in the course of the same year followed him into the Téméraire 98, flag-ship subsequently of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell, with whom he served on the Channel and Irish stations until March, 1802. On 29 of the following month, in consideration of his having been thrown down the fore cockpit during a mutiny, and as a reward for his general services, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh. Soon after the commencement of hostilities, being then in the West Indies, Mr. Hiatt, in command of the boats of the latter ship and of the Tartar 32, cut out .from the port of Jeremie, St. Domingo, with but little loss to the British, not fewer than three ships, two brigs, and 11 schooners – a service for which the thanks in general orders of the Commander-in-Chief were on the quarter-deck communicated to him. He also assisted at the capture of Le Duquesne 74, and of La Créole, of 44 guns, with the French General, Morgan, and 530 troops on board; was present at the reduction of Port Dauphin, where two forts, and a 28-gun-ship, La Sa^iesse, were taken from the enemy; witnessed the capture of a French squadron with the remains of General Ilochambeau’s army from Cape Francois; and took part in the unsuccessful attack upon Curaçoa. Mr. Hiatt’s subsequent appointments, we find, were – 8 April, 1804, to the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, during his continuance in which vessel he made frequent descents upon the island of Curaçoa, and succeeded in the boats in capturing several privateers – 16 June, 1805, to the Reindeer of 18 guns (16 32-pounder carronades and 2 long sixes), Capt. John Fyffe, under whom, on 24 March, 1806, he participated, off Puerto Rico, in a single-handed and very gallant action of many hours with the French corvettes Phaeton and Voltigeur, of 16 long 6-pounders and 115 men each – next, to the command of the Ladrone 4, fitted as a tender, which vessel, while in the conveyance of despatches from Curaçoa to Jamaica, was boarded and taken, 28 Oct. 1806, by a large French privateer, after a conflict of four hours and a half, and carried into Santiago de Cuba, where she sank a few hours subsequently to her arrival – 8 March, 1808, to the Sea Fencibles at Poole, in Dorset – 18 June, 1810, to the Experiment 44, Capt. Jas. Slade, on the Falmouth station – and in July, 1811, to the command of a Signal-station near Mount Edgecumbe, which he retained until the end of the war. He accepted the rank he now holds 25 Jan. 1834.
Commander Hiatt married, first, Ann, eldest daughter of Hugh Fishley, Esq., Master-Builder of H.M. Dockyard, Jamaica, by whom he had issue; and, secondly, 11 March, 1843, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Avery, Esq., of the Customs, Southampton, and sister of the Rev. John Symons Avery, of Efford House, Cornwall.
HIBBS. (Lieutenant, 1796. f-p., 25; h-p., 34.)
Robert John Hibbs entered the Navy, 22 Nov. 1788, as a Volunteer, on board the Porcupine 24, Capts. Brabazon, Geo. Martin, and Edw. Buller. With the exception of an attachment of three months, towards the close of 1790, to the Nassau 64, Capt. Andw. Sutherland, he continued to serve, in the above vessel, on the Channel and Irish stations, until 1793, when, accompanying Capt. Buller into the Adventure 44, he proceeded with him to Quebec and Halifax, and was afterwards nearly captured by a French squadron while in escort home of a valuable fleet of merchantmen. On his ultimate arrival with the same officer at the Cape of Good Hope as Acting-Lieutenant of the Crescent 35, Mr. Hibbs there joined in succession the Monarch 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Keith Elphinstone (under whom he witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay), Moselle sloop, Capt. Chas. Brisbane, and Stately 64, Capts. Billy Douglas, Patrick Campbell, and John Osborne – of which latter ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 29 Dec. 1796. He continued to serve on the Cape station, in L’Oiseau 36, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, and Jupiter 50, Capt. Geo. Losack, until the end of the French revolutionary war. He then returned home in the Diomede 50, and, after serving for some time in that ship on the Jersey and Guernsey station under the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, was further employed, between 1803 and 1809, in the Malta 84, Capt. Edw. Buller, Ajax 74, Capt. Lord Viscount Garlies, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton, La Flêche sloop, Capt. Thos. White, and Defiance and Bulwark 74’s, Capts. Chas. Ekins and Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming – off Cadiz and Ferrol, in the Channel, off Cherbourg ond Madeira, and in the Mediterranean. Until Dec. 1813, Lieut. Hibbs next held an Admiralty appointment at Greenock. He has since been on half-pay.
This officer, who is the Senior of his rank in the Navy, was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 11 Feb. 1830. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
HICKES. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Augustus Thomas Hickes entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Defiance 74, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham and Hon. Henry Hotham. During a continuance of nearly six years in that ship, he served, in 1805, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and the battle of Trafalgar, and, on 24 Feb. 1809, at the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, on which occasion the Defiance, besides being much cut up in her masts and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. He was also much employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. After a further attachment of some months with Capt. Hotham to the Northumberland 74, and a short servitude in the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag at Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, he was promoted, 8 March, 181 1, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, for passage home, to the Formidable 98, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris. He next, from 8 of the following Oct. until April, 1815, served in the Bay of Biscay and at the Cape of Good Hope on board the Dannemark 74, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Henry Edw. Reginald Baker; and he was lastly appointed, 17 April, 1818, to the Falmouth sloop, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, successively stationed in the North Sea and
