Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Henry HOTHAM. KCB, GCMG. Royal Navy. Born 1777 died suddenly at about 11 o’clock on Friday night the 19th April 1833.
Vice Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry HOTHAM, Knight Commander of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St.Michael and St.George, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Naval Forces in the Mediterranean, aged 56 years. The immediate cause of death was the rupture of a small blood vessel in his head. He was the youngest son of Beaumont Hotham, the second Baron Hotham, and was born on 19th February 1777. After attending the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth, he joined HMS Princess Royal in 1790. Further changes of ship included HMS Lizard in the Channel, then the HMS Lapwing, HMS Victory, HMS Aigle, and HMS Britannia in the Mediterranean. In 1794 he was promoted to Lieutenant and commanded the sloop La Fleche, which had been taken at Bastia, Corsica. Then in 1795 he was briefly on HMS Mignonne, before joining HMS Egmont in July of that year. By September he was with the 28-gun HMS Dido, and later with HMS Blanche, before returning to England in 1798.
1799 to 1801 saw him in command of the frigate HMS Immortalite, in the Bay of Biscay and off the coast of France, moving to HMS Imperieuse, after the war with France was renewed in 1803. In March the following year he was on board HMS Revolutionnaire, on the North American station. Returning in 1805 to England, he was employed in the Channel, as well as off the French and Spanish coasts for the next four years. On 24th February1809, in HMS Defiance, he assisted in the destruction of three French frigates in Les Sable d'Olonne area, and continued on HMS Defiance until August 1810 when he moved to HMS Northumberland. His many years’ experience along the French and Spanish coasts proved valuable in May 1812 when HMS Northumberland, drove on shore and destroyed, near the entrance of Lorient, two French 44-gun frigates Arienne and Andromaque, and the Mamelouck an 18 gun brig. The following year he joined the North American station as Captain of the Fleet to Admiral Sir John B. Warren, and was on HMS Superb. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from 1818 to 1822 and again from 1828 to 1830. Promotion to Vice Admiral came in May 1825 followed in January 1831 by the appointment of Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. His grand and impressive funeral took place on Wednesday 24th April 1833. He was awarded the KCB in 1815. Sir Henry married in 1816 the Lady Frances Anne Juliana Rous, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Stradbroke, by whom he had three children. His bust and memorial are in Upper Barracca Gardens, Valletta
Memorial erected by the Officers of his Fleet, at Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta, Malta MDCCCXXXIII (1833)
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