A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hawtayne, Charles Sibthorpe John
HAWTAYNE. (Rear Admiral, of the White, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 36.)
Charles Sibthorpe John Hawtayne is second son of the Rev. Wm. Hawtayne, 34 years Rector of Elstree, co. Hertford, in the early part of his life an Ensign in the 3rd Regt. of Foot Guards; and brother of the Rev. John Hawtayne, D.D., Archdeacon of Bombay.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 July, 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Defence 74, Capt. Jas. Gambier, of which ship his father was then Chaplain. In Oct. 1794, after having shared in the action of 1 June, he accompanied Capt. Gambier into the Prince George 98, commanded subsequently by Capt. Sir John Orde, in the river Medway. With the exception of an attachment of a few months in 1798-9 to the Zealand 64, flag-ship at the Nore, he next, from April, 1795, until Aug. 1799, served with Capt. Wm. Grenville Lobb, on the Home and West India stations, in the Martin and Babel sloops, and Aimable and Crescent frigates. Being made Lieutenant, on 24 of the latter month, into the Espiégle sloop, Capts. Jas. Boorder and Jas. Slade, Mr. Hawtayne attended the ensuing expedition to Holland. He was afterwards appointed – 11 July, 1800, to the Greyhound 32, Capts. Chas. Ogle and Wm. Hoste, on the Mediterranean station, where his services under the former officer on the coast of Egypt procured him the Turkish gold medal – and 18 May, 1803, and 26 May, 1804, to the Isis 50, and Culloden 74, flagships at Newfoundland and in the East Indies of Vice-Admiral Gambier and Sir Edw. Pellew. In the early part of 1805, we find him successively nominated Acting-Captain of the Duncan frigate, and Governor, pro tempore, of the Royal Naval Hospital at Madras; the latter of which posts he resigned about Sept. in the same year. On 31 Jan. 1806, Mr. Hawtayne was promoted to the rank of Commander, and in that capacity he was next appointed, 6 May, 1807, to the Cephalus 18, in which sloop he conveyed Mr. Gambier, as Consul-General, to Lisbon, and then proceeded to the Mediterranean. He was posted, at the request of Lord Gambier, on 13 of the following Oct., but he does not appear to have again gone afloat until March, 1810, when he succeeded in obtaining an appointment to the Quebec 32, on the North Sea station, where he captured the privateers L’Imperatrice of 14 guns and 60 men, Le Renard of 6 guns and 24 men (taken in company with the Kite sloop), and L’Olympia, of 10 guns and 78 men. The Quebec being paid off in Feb. 1812, Capt. Hawtayne next joined, 15 Jan. 1816, the Scamander 42, fitting for the West India station. He exchanged, however, in the ensuing April, into the Florida 24, and until placed out of commission in 3>ec. 1818, was chiefly employed in superintending the Revenue-cruisers in the North Sea. This was his last service afloat. He attained Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral married, first, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Geo. Griffin Stonestreet, Esq., of Clapham, High Sheriff for co. Surrey, in 1800; and secondly, in Feb. 1820, Anne, sister of the present Rear-Admiral Henry Hope, C.B. He was again left a widower in 1825.