HITCHINS. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 16; h-p., 34.)
Joseph Hitchins entered the Navy, in Aug. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the Royal George 100, Capt. John Draper, bearing the flag off Cadiz of Sir John Orde. In June, 1799, he joined La Loire frigate, Capt. Jas. Newman Newman; and after a servitude of nearly two years and a half with that officer in the Channel he removed, in Nov. 1801, to the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, and sailed for the West Indies, where, on 4 Nov. 1803, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Aeolus frigate, Capt. Andrew Fitzherbert Evans. His subsequent appointments were – 3 July, 1804, to the Veteran 64, Capts. J. N. Newman and A. F. Evans, also in the West Indies – 29 July, 1806, and 6 Feb. 1807, to the Blonde 38 and Leyden 64, Capts. Volant Vashon Ballard and Wm. Cumberland, on the Home station – 21 March, 1807, to the Surveillante 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, with whom he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen and then made a voyage to the Brazils – in Oct. 1809 and May, 1810, to the Echo 18, Capt. Robt. Keen, and Fylla 20, Capts. Hon. Edw. Rodney and Henry Prescott, both in the Channel – and, 29 Sept. 1812, to the Duncan 74, Capts. Robt. Lambert, Smith, and Thos. Ussher. He left the latter ship on her return home from the Mediterranean in Aug. 1814; and on 4 May, 1836, accepted the rank of Retired Commander. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HOAR. (Lieutenant, 1803. f-p., 15; h-p., 36.)
Balch Nun Hoar entered the Navy, in Oct. 1796, as A.B., on board the Prince 98, Capt. Thos. Larcom. In that ship, which afterwards bore the flag of Sir Roger Curtis, he continued to serve as Midshipman on the Channel, North Sea, and Irish stations, until 1798, when he removed to the Incendiary 14, Capt. Geo. Barker, and sailed for the Mediterranean. In 1799 he rejoined Sir Roger Curtis at the Cape of Good Hope on board the Lancaster 64, from which vessel he was promoted, 6 Jan. 1803, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Tremendous 74, Capt. John Osborn – an appointment officially sanctioned on 15 of the following April. On 21 April, 1806, while on her passage with a homeward-bound convoy from India, where she had been employed for upwards of three years, the latter ship pursued and fought a close action of an hour and a quarter with the French 40-gun frigate Cannonière, who in the end effected her escape, with a loss, besides being greatly damaged, of 7 men killed and 25 wounded. Mr. Hoar’s appointments, after he left the Tremendous, were – 9 Aug. 1806, to the Illustrious 74, Capt. Wm. Shield and Wm. Robt. Broughton, in the Mediterranean – 8 Aug. 1808, to the Pelorus sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King – 7 April, 1809, to the Diomede 50, Capt. Hugh Cook, for passage to the East Indies – 11 July, 1809, to the Lion 64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, at St. Helena – 18 May, 1810, to the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, under whom he witnessed the earlier operations connected with the reduction of Java – and lastly, 17 May, 1813, after one-and-twenty months of half-pay, to the Grasshopper sloop, Capt. Henry Robt. Battersby, again on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided in Jan. 1814.
For many years prior to 1838 Lieut. Hoar was one of the Naval Knights of Windsor. Since 28 June in that year he has been on the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital.
HOARE. (Captain, 1810. f-p., 21; h-p., 36.)
Edward Wallis Hoare, born 4 May, 1779, in the city of Cork, is son of the late Sir Edw. Hoare, Bart., of Annabelle, M.P. for Carlow, and a Captain of Dragoons, by Clotilda, second daughter and coheir of Wm. Wallis, Esq., of Ballycrenan Castle. He is brother of the present Sir Joseph Wallis Hoare, Bart., and uncle of Commander Wm. O’B. Hoare, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol. (under the auspices of Sir John Colpoys), on board the Squirrel 24, Capt. Wm. O’Brien Drury, employed at first on the Irish station, and then off the coast of Africa, where, in 1793 or 4, he took part, as Midshipman, in an engagement with a Portuguese fort on the island of Pines. In May of the latter year he removed to the Ruby 64, Capt. Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton; and on next joining Sir John Colpoys in the London 98 (of which ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 4 Aug. 1796), he shared, 23 June, 1795, in Lord Bridport’s action with the French fleet off the Ile de Groix. During the famous mutiny at Spithead in 1797, Mr. Hoare, who was at the time Signal-Lieutenant of the London, was condemned to death by the delegates. In Dec. of the same year, a few months after he had been transferred to the Nymphe 36, Capt. Percy Eraser, he had the misfortune to be wounded and taken captive by the enemy, in an attempt to obtain possession of a cutter on the coast of France. While filling next, from April, 1798, to Sept. 1802, the post of Senior Lieutenant on board the Northumberland 74, Capt. Geo. Martin, he served at the reduction of Malta – was present, during its blockade, at the surrender of the French 74-gun ship Le Généreux and frigate La Diane – and attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt, where he assisted at the landing of the troops. In June, 1803, Mr. Hoare rejoined Capt. Martin as his First-Lieutenant in the Colossus 74; and on 25 Oct. 1804, while officiating in a similar capacity on board the Glory 98, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, he was at length advanced to the rank of Commander. His succeeding appointments appear to have been, 29 July, 1806, 19 May, 1807, and 18 Aug. 1809, to the Goshawk 16, Amsterdam 20, and Hesper 18; in which vessels we find him continuously employed on the African, Irish, and East India stations, until nominated, 5 March, 1810, Acting-Captain of the Blanche frigate. In the following summer he was further invested with the acting-command of the Cornwallis 50, and Russel 74; which latter ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral W. O’B. Drury, was employed in the earlier portion of the operations that preceded the fall of the Isle of France. Capt. Hoare, whose promotion to Post-rank was confirmed 16 Oct. 1810, next, on 31 Jan. 1811, joined the Minden 74. In the ensuing spring he was despatched from Madras to the coast of Java, with two companies of troops on board, in order to await the arrival of the expedition then fitting out at the different ports of £idia for the attack of that island. After performing much arduous service in the Strait of Sunda, he landed on the 5th of June, and, with not more than 200 seamen and soldiers, succeeded in utterly routing a chosen body of the enemy’s troops, 500 strong, whose close and desperate mode of fighting occasioned the gallant British a loss of 2 men killed and 23 wounded. The enemy had upwards of 50 killed and 100 wounded.[1] Capt. Hoare has been on half-pay since 13 Aug. 1812.
He married, in June, 1803, Mary, third daughter of Col. Robt. Uniacke Fitzgerald, M.P. for co. Cork, by whom he has issue two daughters, one of whom is married to Lieut. Thos. Burton Maynard, B.N., and the other to Capt. J. B. L. Hay, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HOARE. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Richard Hoare, born 1 Sept. 1793, is third son of the late Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, Bart., F.S.A., F.B.S., of Stourhead, co. Wilts, by Maria Palmer, daughter of Arthur Acland, Esq., of Fairfield, co. Somerset. He is brother of the present Sir Hugh Rich. Hoare, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, with whom he served in the Channel and North Sea until compelled by sickness to be sent on shore in Jan. 1806. Re-embarking, 25 July, 1807, on board the Powerful 74, bearing the flag of the late Lord Gambier, he ac-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1811, p. 2406.
