HORE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Henry Cavendish Hore, born 31 March, 1790, is brother of Commanders S. B. and J. S. Hore, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy, in July, 1803, and, having gone through a distinguished course of studies, embarked, in March, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone. Removing, in the following month, to the Naiad 38, Capt. Thos. Dundas, he served in the boats of that frigate on two successful cutting-out affairs; after which, while under the late Sir Robt. Stopford in the Spencer, Caesar, and Scipion, ships-of-the-line, he attended the expedition to Copenhagen, witnessed the destruction of the French fleet in Aix Roads, served on shore during the operations against Flushing, and ultimately proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope; where, a few days after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 29 March, 1811, he removed to the Harpy sloop, Capt. Henderson Bain. In the proximate attack upon the island of Java we find him commanding a detachment, and receiving a slight wound in the left knee, at the storming and capture of Fort Cornelis. Between Jan. 1812 and March, 1814, he again served at the Cape as First of the Lion 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Stopford and Chas. Tyler. His next appointment was, in Oct. of the latter year, to the Crescent 38, Capt. John Quilliam, on the West India station, whence, after he had for some time officiated as Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir Jas. Leith, the military Commander-in-Chief, he came home and was paid off in Sept. 181.5. In 1821, Lieut. Hore entered the Water Guard Service, in which he continued three years, and particularly signalized himself by his efforts in the cause of the Revenue. His health at the expiration of that period being materially impaired from the effects of over-exertion, he resigned his appointment. He has not been since employed.
He married, 15 Sept. 1835, Clarissa Isabella, daughter of John Christopher Beauman, Esq., of Hyde Park, co. Wexford, and niece of Rear-Admiral Fras. Beauman, by whom he has issue three children.
HORE. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
James Stopford Hore, born in April, 1795, is brother of Commander S. B. and of Lieut. H. C. Hore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 Feb. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Melpomène 38, Capt., afterwards Sir Peter, Parker, and was present in a desperate action in the Belt, in which that frigate beat off a flotilla of 19 Danish gun-boats by whom she had been attacked. Among the numerous cuting-out affairs in which he bore a part, during his continuance in the Melpomène, was the brimant capture, 7 July, 1809, of the six Russian gun-vessels mentioned in our history of the services of Capt. Chas. Allen, Between Oct. in the latter year and May, 1810, he cruized on the Irish station in the Rota 38, Capt. Philip Somerville; and he was then re-employed for upwards of four years with Sir Peter Parker in the Menelaus 38. On proceeding in that ship to the Mediterranean, after having assisted in her at the reduction of the Isle of France, and been there employed in one of the blockading boats, Mr. Hore again contributed to the cutting-out of many of the enemy’s vessels, one of them a brig pierced for 14 guns, and conducted four prizes in safety into port. In May, 1812, he was on board the Menelaus when she pursued a frigate and brig close in with the batteries of Toulon, and then effected a masterly retreat from the French fleet, by passing through their line ahead of one 74, and astern of another. On being ordered to America, with the rating of Master’s Mate, he frequently went on shore with armed parties of seamen and marines for the purpose of dislodging the enemy and destroying their stores, and on every occasion he evinced the greatest zeal and gallantry – qualities which were in particular displayed on 30 Aug. 1814, when a detachment of the British, 134 in number, having landed at Bellair, near Baltimore, succeeded in gallantly routing an overwhelming number of the Americans, whose resistance, however, occasioned the former a loss of 14 killed, including Sir Peter Parker, and 27 wounded. About the close of 1814, Mr. Hore became Acting-Lieutenant of the Thais 20, Capt. Henry Weir, by whom he was soon afterwards, when off Madeira, sent home in charge of a French ship for adjudication, with discretionary power to liberate her or not, as might prove expedient from the state of hostilities at the time with France. On reaching Lisbon, deeming it unwise to risk a longer detention, he accordingly released the prize, and returned himself to England on board L’Aigle frigate. He was officially promoted on his arrival by commission dated 7 March, 1815, and was afterwards appointed – in April, 1818, to the Phaeton 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, whom he accompanied to the East Indies – 25 Dec. 1819, to the Tamar 26, Capts. Arthur Stow, Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, John Theed, and Thos. Herbert, on the Jamaica station, where he obtained the honourable official mention of the last-mentioned officer for his conduct in the ship’s boats in effecting the capture and destruction of four piratical vessels – and 2 Sept. 1824, to the Owen Glendower 42, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hood Hanway Christian at the Cape of Good Hope. He was promoted, on being paid off, to the rank of Commander 28 Aug. 1828; but has not been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
HORE. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 17; h-p., 30.)
Samuel Bradstreet Hore, born in April, 1791, is third son (by Eleanor Catherine, daughter and heiress of Sir Simon Bradstreet, Bart., and niece of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart.) of Wm. Hore, Esq., of Harperstown, High Sheriff in 1788, and a Magistrate for co. Wexford, who was killed during the rebellion of 1798 while serving with the militia on the bridge of Wexford. He is brother of Commander Jas. Stopford, and of Lieut. Henry Cavendish, Hore, both of the R.N.; also of Major Wm. Hore, of the 67th Foot, who died in 1830, and of Capt. Thos. Hore, of the R.E.; and uncle of Lieut. Cavendish Bradstreet Hore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1800, as Midshipman, on board the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Geo. Parker, on the North American station; became Midshipman, in March, 1801, of the Excellent 74, Capt, afterwords Rear-Admiral, Hon. Robt. Stopford; and (with the exception of a brief attachment, in 1803, to the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget) continued to serve with that officer, until July, 1807, in the Castor frigate, and Spencer 74. The latter ship, during the time he was in her, formed part of Lord Nelson’s force in his pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies, and of Sir John Duckworth’s in the action off St. Domingo. On being appointed Master’s Mate of the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Gambier, Mr. Hore accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, where he served with the flotilla, and was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Leyden 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland. He was confirmed, on 19 Oct. in the same year, in his old ship the Spencer, in which he continued with Rear-Admiral Stopford until Dec. 1808. On again joining his friend in the Caesar 80, we find him present at the destruction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Basque Roads. In the summer of 1809, he assumed command of a gun-boat, and shared in all the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition. Being subsequently appointed Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Stopford in the Scipion 74, Mr. Hore proceeded with him to the Cape of Good Hope; on his return from which station, after having participated in the reduction of the island of Java, he was promoted, 26 Jan. 1812, to the acting-command of the Harpy sloop.
