joining the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Sam. Hood, Mr. Hownam was present, 25 Sept. 1806, at the capture, by that ship and the Mars and Monarch 74’s, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion the British Commodore lost his arm. He also attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen, and in Dec. of the same year was at the surrender of Madeira. After an attachment of more than 12 months to the Barfleur 98, flag-ship off Lisbon of Rear-Admirals Wm. Albany Otway and Chas. Tyler, and Lavinia 40, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, he was made Lieutenant, 4 May, 1809, into the Resistance 38, Capts. Chas. Adam, Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, and Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, from 22 July, 1813, until he invalided in Jan. 1814, he Was further employed, as Senior, in the Undaunted 38, Capt. Thos. Ussher. On 9 Nov. 1813 Mr. Hownam commanded a detachment of seamen and marines, and distinguished himself by the gallant manner in which he effected the capture of a vigorously defended tower, 30 feet high, together with several batteries in the harbour of Port Nouvelle, where lay seven French vessels, whose destruction was at the same time accomplished.[1] Since he left the Undaunted he has been on half-pay.
HUBBARD. (Commander, 1838.)
William Hubbard entered the Navy, 24 April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in which ship, and as Midshipman, in the Barfleur 98, he served with the same officer, on the American and Lisbon stations, until March, 1811. Being then appointed Master’s Mate of the Manilla 36, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and John Joyce, he was in that frigate wrecked, on the Haak sand, near the Texel, 28 Jan. 1812; from which period until the peace of 1814, it was his misfortune to be detained a prisoner of war. After again serving for a few months with Sir T. M. Hardy in the Ramillies 74, Mr. Hubbard took up a commission dated 4 March, 1815. His succeeding appointments were – in July, 1816, and Feb. 1817, to the Perseus 22, and Tamar 28, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, on the Newfoundland station – about April, 1822, to the Ariadne 26, Capts. Constantine Rich. Moorsom and Isham Fleming Chapman, at the Cape of Good Hope – 25 Feb. 1826, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom at the Nore, where he was paid off in July, 1827 – 9 Oct. 1829, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Volage 28, Capt. Lord Colchester, under whom he escorted the ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil to Cherbourg in April, 1831, and was employed during the winter of 1832 in enforcing the Dutch embargo – and 28 Jan. 1837 (after four years of half-pay), in a similar capacity, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, off Lisbon. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838 – a few months after the latter ship had been put out of Commission – but has not been since afloat.
HUBBARD. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
William Hubbard (b) entered the Navy 1 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in. 1817; and was made Lieutenant, 13 Nov. 1828, into the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided in Feb. 1829. His next and last appointments were – 18 Nov. 1834, to the charge of the Semaphore station on Putney Heath – and, 23 Nov. 1835, to the Directorship of Police at Chatham Dockyard. He has been on half-pay since Sept. 1841.
Lieut. Hubbard was granted, 10 April, 1829, a pension of 103l. 5s. for wounds.
HUDSON. (Commander, 1831. f-p., 23; h-p., 13.)
John Hudson is second son of the Rev. J. Hudson, late Vicar of Stanwie.
This officer entered the Navy in Aug. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the America 74, Capt. Josias Rowley. He soon removed to the Alfred 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, employed at the time at the siege of Cadiz, where he was transferred to the Druid 32, Capts. Thos. Searle and Fras. Stanfell. While in that frigate, besides actively co-operating in a flat-bottomed boat in the defence of Tarifa, he visited Egypt, and thence escorted the Prince of Morocco to Tangier. Following Capt. Stanfell, as Midshipman, in Dec. 1812, into the Cossack 22, he sailed with convoy for Jamaica, and was employed for many months off that island in cruizing against the American enemy. In June, 1814, having returned to the Mediterranean, he was for a short period appointed to the Indus 74, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage; after which we find him serving for 12 months in the Channel on board the Sheldrake 16, Capt. Geo. Brine; and again with the same officer from Sept. 1815 to Nov. 1818, as Master’s Mate, in the Mosquito 18, on the African and South American stations. During the latter period he cruized with much success against the slave trade, part of the time in command of a tender; and he was for nine months stationed off St. Helena for the security of Buonaparte. In Nov. 1820, Mr. Hudson, who had passed his examination in 1817, again proceeded to the coast of Africa, where, as Master’s Mate of the Tartar 42, Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, he assisted in the boats in effecting the capture of numerous vessels up the different rivers. Volunteering, on the return home of the Tartar in June, 1821, to continue on the same station, he joined the Pheasant 18, Capt. Benedictus Marwood Kelly, with whom he remained until appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 4 Dec. following, of the Myrmidon 20, Capt. Henry John Leeke. In Feb. 1822, on the arrival from England of Commodore Sir Robt. Mends in the Iphigenia 42, he was superseded and nominated Admiralty Midshipman of the latter frigate. During a cruize of six weeks in the Bights of Biafra and Benin, he contributed to the taking of many more slave-vessels; and on one occasion, when in the river Bonny, he distinguished himself in the boats of the Iphigenia and Myrmidon, under Lieut. G. W. St. J. Mildmay, at the capture, after a desperate resistance, of five vessels, having on board upwards of 1800 negroes. For this service he was promoted by the Commodore to a Lieutenancy, 14 June, 1822, in the Bann 20 – an act which the Admiralty confirmed by a commission signed on 26 of the next Aug. Invaliding home in May, 1823, Lieut. Hudson was subsequently appointed – 20 April, 1826, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – and 16 June, 1829, and 26 Jan. 1831, to the Philomel 10, and Rattlesnake 28, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Graham on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned to England, and was paid off in April, 1831. He attained his present rank on 5 Dec. in the same year; and was afterwards, from 6 June, 1833, until 1836, and again from 13 July, 1838, until 1843, employed on the Coast Guard.
Commander Hudson, since 1843, has been Governor of the Queen’s Bench Prison. He married, 12 April, 1832, Emily, only child of the late Rev. Partrick Keith, Rector of Ruckinge and Stalisfield, co. Kent, by whom, who died 9 Oct. 1844, he has issue six children.
HUDSON. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
John Hudson entered the Navy, 6 April, 1803, as A.B., on board the Dryad 36, Capts. Wm. Domett, John Giffard, and Adam Drummond, stationed off the coast of Ireland. In July, 1805, he removed to the Orion 74, Capts. Edw. Codrington and Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, in which ship he fought at Trafalgar, assisted at the capture of Copenhagen, and was altogether for more than seven years employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Mediterranean and Baltic stations. He next, in Oct. 1812, joined the Barfleur 98, Capt. Sir Edw. Berry; and on 31 March, 1813, having returned to the Mediterranean, he was there made Lieutenant
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 124.
