This officer entered the Navy, 13 April, 1811, as a Boy, on board the Niemen 38, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, employed in the Bay of Biscay, where, accompanying the same officer as Midshipman in May, 1812, into the Hannibal 74, he assisted, in March, 1814, at the capture, we believe, of the French 40-gun frigate Sultâne. Soon after that event he rejoined the Niemen, then commanded by Capt. Sam. Pym; and cruized until May, 1815, on the North American station. During the next six months we find him employed off the coast of Ireland in the Myrtle 20, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham. He then served for a period of three years with Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres of the Tiber 38, on the Channel and Newfoundland stations; after which he became in succession attached to the Northumberland 74, Capts. Sir Michael Seymour and Thos. Harvey, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, Northumberland again, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Thos. Jas. Maling, and Briton, Blonde, and Sybille 38’s, Capts. Murray Maxwell, Lord Byron, and Fras. Augustus Collier. The three latter ships were employed on the South American, Pacific, and African stations; the others on the Home. On 30 April, 1827, Mr. Hopkins, who had passed his examination in June, 1817, and had served for a considerable time in the capacities of Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate, was at length promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; but he did not leave the Sybille until the following Oct. His last appointment was, 23 April, 1830, to the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flags of Admirals Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir John Poo Beresford, and Wm. Parker. In that ship he served at the Nore, then took part in an experimental cruize under Sir Edw. Codrington, and eventually proceeded off Lisbon, whence he returned home and was paid off in Feb. 1832.
Lieut. Hopkins married, 18 Dec. 1832, Miss Sarah Ledsam, of Birmingham, co. Warwick.
HOPKINS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Edward Jervis Hopkins entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1809; passed his examination in 1815; was made Lieutenant, 10 July, 1826, into the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, on the Jamaica station, whence he invalided; and on 18 Sept. 1828, joined the Shannon 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, from which ship he was superseded at his own request.
He married, in 1838, Elizabeth, widow of the late Isaac Field, Esq. Agent – J. Chippendale.
HOPKINS. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 1.)
Robert Hopkins entered the Navy 12 Feb. 1829; passed his examination 20 Aug. 1835; and, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Oct. 1842, served as Mate on board the Castor 36, and North Star 28, both commanded by Lord John Hay, Savage 10, Lieut.-Commander John Harrison Bowker, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore, and Warspite 50, Capt. Lord John Hay. He was employed in the three former ships on the coast of Spain, during the operations connected with the civil war in 1835-40; and in the Warspite, he was attached to the force in North America and the West Indies. His appointments, subsequently to his promotion, were, on the last mentioned and the Mediterranean stations 29 April, 1843, and 24 July, 1844, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Illustrious 72, and Formidable 84, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Adam and Sir Edw. W. C. K. Owen – 1 Oct. 1845, as Senior, to the Siren 16, Capt. Harry Edm. Edgell – and 10 April, 1846, to the Tyne 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock. He was paid off from the latter vessel in the early part of 1847.
HOPKINSON. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 22; h-p., 34.)
Simon Hopkinson entered the Navy, in June, 1795, as A.B., on board the Magnificent 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, lying at Spithead, from which ship he was discharged in the following Sept. In June, 1795, he re-embarked on board the Lynx 20, Capt. Chas. Rowley, with whom, after serving, as Master’s Mate, in the Raison and Hussar, he sailed for the West Indies in the Unité 38. From that frigate, on the books of which his name was borne for four years, he removed, in Sept. 1800, with Capt. John Poo Beresford, who had latterly commanded her, to the Diana 38, also on the West India station, where, subsequently to the reduction of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin, &c., he joined the Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He was made Lieutenant, 18 July, 1801, into the Hawk sloop, Capt. Benj. Walker, and, leaving her in Sept. 1802, was afterwards appointed – 16 Aug. 1803, to the St. Albans 64, Capt. John Temple – 14 Sept. 1804, to the Ruby 64, Capts. Chas. Rowley, John Temple, Thos. Masterman Hardy, John Draper, and Robt. Hall, in which ship he served off the ports of Cadiz and Lisbon, attended the expedition to Copenhagen, and, until he invalided in April, 1810, was further employed in the Baltic, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon – 27 Aug. 1810, to the Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, attached to the force in the Channel – 28 Dec. 1810, to the command of the Tickler cutter, off Flushing, where he continued until Aug. 1815 – and 13 Aug. 1818, to the Pike. He retained the command of the latter vessel, on the Home station, until advanced to his present rank, 19 July, 1821; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Hopkinson has a daughter, Caroline, who married, 29 Aug. 1836, Lieut.-Colonel Bowyer, C.B. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HORE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Cavendish Bradstreet Hore is youngest son of Walter Hore, Esq., of Harperstown, Wexford (who is a magistrate for that county, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1828), by the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Thornton Ruthven, daughter of the late Lord Ruthven. Two of his brothers, William and Walter, are officers in the Royal and Indian armies; and his uncle, Samuel Bradstreet Hore, a Commander R.N.
This officer passed his examination 7 Feb. 1843; and after an intermediate servitude, on the North American, West India, and Channel stations, on board the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam, and Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Jan. 1846. Since 25 of the following month he has been employed in the Pacific on board the Carysfort 26, Capt. Geo. Henry Seymour.
HORE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Edward George Hore, born 17 Sept. 1823, is second son of Commander Herbert Wm. Hore, R.N. (1814), who died 10 Jan. 1823, by Eliza, daughter and co-heir of Geo. Curling, Esq., of West Hatch, co. Essex. He is brother of the present Herbert Fras. Hore, Esq., of Pole Hore, co. Wexford, and is the descendant of a very ancient family.
This officer (who was officially noticed for his services on the coast of Syria, where, as Midshipman of the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, he assisted in planting the Ottoman flag, and in destroying the guns on the ramparts of Caiffa[1]) passed his examination in Aug. 1842. Between that date and his promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 15 Jan. 1846, we find him employed as Mate, on the Mediterranean and North America and West India stations, in the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Devastation steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, and Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen. He continued in the Vindictive, in the capacity of Additional Lieutenant, until appointed, 13 Oct. 1846, to the Viper brigantine, which vessel he is now commanding on the station last-mentioned.
He married, 17 June, 1847, at Barbadoes, Maria second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Reid, Governor of the Windward Islands.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.
