April, 1830, was lastly, from 20 March, 1832, until 1836, employed in the Coast Guard. His advancement to Post-rank took place 23 Nov. 1841. We are informed that Capt. Hutcheson, in Oct. 1828, co-operated with the French Army in the reduction of the Morea Castle. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HUTCHINSON. (Commander, 1814. f-p. 17; h-p., 30.)
Charles Hutchinson entered the Navy, 16 Nov. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Trent 36, Capt. Sir Edw. Hamilton, stationed in the Channel; proceeded, towards the close of 1801, to Madeira, in the Arethusa 38, Capt. Thos. Wolley; and served, from Jan. 1802 until July, 1806, on the Jamaica station, chiefly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Aeolus frigate, Capts. John Wm. Spranger and Andrew Fitzherbert Evans, Vanguard 74, Capt. A. F. Evans, and Veteran 64, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He then came home with convoy in the Penguin sloop, Capt. Smith, and on 16 April, 1807, was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Valiant 74, Capts. Jas. Young, Alex. Robt. Kerr, John Bligh, John Nash, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, in which ship we find him assisting at the bombardment of Copenhagen, witnessing Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and attending the expedition to Flushing. From 3 May, 1811, until within three weeks of his promotion to the rank of Commander 21 July, 1814, Mr. Hutchinson further served on the Home station as Flag-Lieutenant to Admirals Wm. Young and to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence in the Christian VII. 80, Impregnable 98, and Magicienne 36. He was consequently on board the Impregnable when she brought the Allied Sovereigns to England, and likewise at the grand naval review held on the occasion at Spithead. His next and last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which he continued from 6 July, 1831, until 1834.
Commander Hutchinson is married and has issue.
HUTCHINSON. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 26; h-p., 39.)
Edward Hutchinson was born 16 March, 1771. This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1782, as a Servant, on board the Nin.iiLK, Lieut.-Commander Gabriel Bray, on the Home station, where, and in the East Indies, he continued to corve until March, 1793, chiefly as Midshipman and Mate, in the Cleopatra 32, Capt. Henry Harvey, Speedwell 14, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Willis, and Bdsy 14, Scout 16, and Swan and Atalanta 18’s, all commanded by Capt. John Elphinstone. He then joined the Berwick 74, Capts. Sir John Collins, Wm. Shield, Geo. Campbell, Geo. Henry Towry, Chas. Tyler, and Wm. Smyth, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, on which station, after a brief servitude in the Britannia 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Wm. Hotham, he was successively appointed Acting-Lieutenant, at the commencement of 1795, of the St. George 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker, and Inconstant 36, Capts. Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Geo. Oakes. On 13 March in the latter year, the day preceding Admiral Hotham’s first partial action with the French fleet, the Inconstant particularly distinguished herself by the gallant manner in which she attacked, raked, and harassed one of the enemy’s line-of-battle ships, the Ça Ira, of 80 guns. Mr. Hutchinson, who on the occasion performed the duties of Senior Lieutenant, did not obtain his first commission from the Admiralty until 30 Dec. 1796. He was, however, on 14 Oct. 1797, a few weeks after he had left the Inconstant,[1] promoted to the rank of Commander. He was lastly, from 1 June, 1803, until 5 Nov. 1814, and from 26 June, 1815, until 20 Feb. 1816, employed as Agent for Prisoners-of-War at Chatham and Plymouth. He accepted his present rank 10 Sept. 1840. Agent – J. Hinxman.
HUTCHINSON. (Lieut., 1833. f-p., 14; h-p., 9.)
Joshua Hutchinson is son of a veteran naval officer, now deceased, who had been wounded in the service of his country; and only brother of Wm. Hutchinson, Esq., R.N., who died while employed under Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen in the survey of the coast of Africa. One of his uncles. Commander Joshua Kneeshaw, R.N. (1814), lost his right arm in the service, received a gold medal for the capture of Glückstadt, and died 1 Nov. 1843, aged 70; and another, the late Lieut. Sam. Kneeshaw, R.N., died while Agent of a Transport on the African coast.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 June, 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince Regent 120, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley Parry, guard-ship at Chatham, and in the following year proceeded to the West Indies as Midshipman of the Bustard 10, Capt. Williams Sandom. After having there served for a short time with Capt. Hugh Patton on board the Isis 50, he returned home in Jan. 1827, and rejoined the Prince Regent, then commanded by Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom. He was next, for upwards of three years, employed in the Espoir 10, Capt. Henry Fras. Greville, at the Cape of Good Hope; and in Feb. 1831, having passed his examination on 20 of the previous Oct., he was appointed Mate of the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham. Removing, in Nov. of the same year, to the Philomel 10, Capt. Wm. Smith, Mr. Hutchinson, on 4 of the ensuing March, had the misfortune to be very severely wounded by two musket-balls passing through his left hand and arm while he was in the act of boarding, from a boat, a Spanish smuggler near Gibraltar. He continued in the Philomel until Nov. 1832; and, on 11 Feb. 1833, as a reward for the gallantry he had evinced in the above affair, he was presented with a Lieutenant’s commission. His subsequent appointments were – 6 June, 1834, to the Talbot 28, Capt. Follett Walrond Pennell, with whom he served on the South American and East India stations until June, 1837 – 26 Jan. 1839, as Senior, to the Zebra 16, Capt. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, on the Mediterranean station – and, 5 Oct. 1839, to the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen. During the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, Lieut. Hutchinson volunteered with another officer to guard a mountain pass of great importance, called the Dog River, a very arduous service, which imposed upon him the necessity of being on the alert from sun-set to sun-rise for the purpose of burning blue lights in the event of an attempt made by the Egyptian troops to pass the bridge. His zeal, attention, and abihty in this, and in every other instance throughout the campaign, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, gained him the warm plaudits of Capt. Austen, as did his seamanlike conduct on the occasion of the Bellerophon being caught, 2 Dec. 1840, in a dreadful tempest, on a lee shore and iron-bound coast. He was paid off in June, 1841, and has not since been employed.
Lieut. Hutchinson is Senior of 1833. He married, in Aug. 1837, Hannah, daughter of J. Lacy, Esq., of Upleatham, Yorkshire.
HUTCHINSON. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 24; h-p., 33.)
William Hutchinson (b) entered the Navy, in Aug. 1790, as A.B., on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Andrew Sutherland, from which ship, after serving in the Channel, he was discharged, as Midshipman, in Feb. 1791. Between the commencement of the French revolutionary war in 1793 and Aug. 1804, he appears to have been employed on the Home station, chiefly as Master’s Mate, Second Master, Pilot, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Bellerophon 74, Capt. (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Thos. Pasley
- ↑ The Inconstant took, 20 April, 1796, the corvette L’Unité, of 84 guns and S18 men. The enemy had made an attempt to set her on fire, but by the exertions of Lieut. Hutchinson it was soon extinguished. Vide Gaz, 1796, p. 528.
