
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN THIS VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, KNIGHT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF COMMODORE WILLIAM LOCKER, LATE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR ROBERT KINGSMILL, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR HYDE PARKER, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS LORD GRAVES, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM GEORGE FAIRFAX, KNT. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN EDWARD RIOU
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, KNIGHT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN THIS VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, KNIGHT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF COMMODORE WILLIAM LOCKER, LATE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR ROBERT KINGSMILL, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR HYDE PARKER, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS LORD GRAVES, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM GEORGE FAIRFAX, KNT. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN EDWARD RIOU
- INDEX
Summary
“Let us be renowned when we may, and leave our fame behind us, like the last beams of the sun, when he hides his red face in the west.”
Ossian.The distinguished subject of these Sketches, is the second son and youngest child of the late worthy Sir John Hamilton, Bart. of Marlborough-house, Hampshire, a Captain in his Majesty's navy, and brother to Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. Captain of his Majesty's ship Melpomene, at present commanding on the coast of Africa. He was born on the 12th of March 1772, and may be truly called a son of Neptune, since at the age of seven (in the year 1779), he first went to sea, with his father, who then commanded his Majesty's ship Hector, of 74 guns, and served on board that ship in the West Indies till the year 1781, during which time he was in one general action with the French fleet, and experienced the dreadful hurricane of 1780. On the return of peace, our young mariner was sent to complete his classical education at the Royal Grammar School at Guildford, where he continued during three years. In 1787, he went again to sea to complete his time as a midshipman, and served until the year 1790, in the West Indies. In the Russian armament he served on board the Victory under the auspices of Lord Hood, appointed commander in chief of a squadron destined for the Baltic.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 1 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1801