put out of commission 19 Aug. 1834 – and, 20 Aug. 1839, of the Crane, another packet, also on the Falmouth station. On 11 of the following Sept., while fitting at Woolwich, Lieut. Hill had the honour, owing to the absence on leave of the Captain-Superintendent, of receiving their Majesties the Queen and Queen Dowager, the King and Queen of the Belgians, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and conveying them on board the Lightning steamer, on the occasion of the departure of the latter personage from this country. He had likewise, a few days .previously, received the King and Queen of the Belgians on their arrival in the Véloce French steamer. He has been on half-pay since May, 1842. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HILL. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 34; h-p., 17.)
John Hill (b), born 5 Oct. 1789, is a relative of John Hill, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N. (1808). This officer entered the Navy, in 1796, on board the Goliath 74, Capts. Sir Chas. Henry Knowles and Thos. Foley. After sharing in the action off Cape St. Vincent, and in the battle of the Nile, he accompanied Capt. Foley, in Dec. 1799, into the Elephant 74, in which ship, commanded latterly by Capt. Geo. Dundas, he fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801, and served, in the Channel and West Indies, until Jan. 1804. He then became Midshipman in succession of the Racoon and Diligence sloops, both under the orders of Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, with whom he continued on the West India station until appointed Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1805, of the Savage 16, Capt. Jas. Wilkes Maurice, attached to the force on the coast of Ireland. He next, towards the close of 1806, joined the Snake 18, Capt. Edw. Crofton, from which vessel, however, he was soon transferred to the Linnet 12, Lieut.-Commander John Tracey, part of the armament employed in 1809 in the expedition to the Walcheren. From Jan. 1810 until March, 1813, Mr. Hill officiated, on the Home station, as Midshipman, and alternately as Acting-Lieutenant and Master’s Mate, in the Tromp 12, Lieut.-Commander Michael M‘Carthy, Experiment 12, Capt. Jas. Slade, Fylla 20, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, Monmouth 64, bearing the flag of Admiral Foley, Phipps 14, Capt. Thos. Percival, Cadmus 10, Capt. Thos. Fife, Monmouth again, and Cordelia 10, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy. For five months of 1813, he was next employed with Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo on the Canadian Lakes. Between Jan. 1814 and Aug. 1815, we further find him employed on the Home and East India stations in the Experiment, Capt. Jas. Slade, once more in the Monmouth, and in the Termagant 20, Capt. Chas. Shaw.[1] He lastly served – in 1828, in the Coast Guard – from 2 March, 1830, to March 1833, in command of the Camelion and Badger Revenue-cruizers – and from 26 Aug. 1834 until 1845, again in the Coast Guard.
HILL. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Joseph Augustus Witham Hill entered the Navy 10 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 4 Oct. 1825; and from that date until June, 1827, was employed with Capt. Hugh Patton in the Iris frigate. His last appointments afloat were – 23 July, 1832, as First-Lieutenant, to the Rover 18, Capt. Sir Geo. Young – and, 2 Sept. 1833, to the Pelican 16, Capt. Joseph Gape, both on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned home and was paid off in March, 1834.
The Lieutenant, who has been for some time employed under the Commissioners of Public Works, married, 23 July, 1831, Mrs. Heslop, widow of Capt. Heslop, formerly of the 60th Regt., and daughter of Jacob Owen, Esq., of Landport.
HILL. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 6; h-p., 36.)
Samuel Hill entered the Navy, in Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Geo. Hart, bearing the flag in Yarmouth Roads of Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell. In Jan. 1806, he became Midshipman of the Stately 64, Capt. Geo. Parker, under whom, when in company with the Nassau 64, he assisted at the capture and destruction, after an obstinate running fight, and a loss to the Stately of 4 men killed and 28 wounded, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic off the coast of Zealand, 22 March, 1808. He was next, between May, 1809, and Aug. 1812, employed, at first with Capt. Parker, and then with Rear-Admiral Thos. Byam Martin, on board the Aboukir 74, on the Baltic and Channel stations. Until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Nov. 1812, Mr. Hill further served with the flotilla at the siege of Riga. He has since been on half-pay.
HILL. (Lieutenant, 1833.)
Thomas Sharp Hill died in 1845, on board the Inconstant.
This officer entered the Navy 22 May, 1822; passed his examination in 1828; and obtained his commission 21 Nov. 1833. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Feb. 1834, as First, to the Salamander steam-vessel, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, employed on Home service – 2 March, 1835, as a Supernumerary, to the Thalia 46, Capt. Robt. Wauchope, at the Cape of Good Hope – 11 Feb. 1836, as Senior, to the; Pylades 18, Capt. W. L. Castle, an active anti-slaver – 29 Oct. 1838, in a similar capacity, to the Rose 18, Capt. Peter Christie, employed on the Spanish and Brazilian stations – 21 Aug. 1841, to the Acting command of the Southampton 50, which ship, after having borne the flag at the Cape of Sir Edw. Durnford King, was paid off in Dec. 1842 – and 5 Oct. 1843, again as First, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where he died, as above. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
HILLDRUP. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
John Hilldrup entered the Navy, 23 June, 1807, as Ordinary, on board the Mediator 32, Capts. Wm. Furlong Wise and Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the Jamaica station; served from the following Dec. until March, 1809, in the Talbot sloop, Capt. Hon. Alex. Jones, off Oporto; and was employed during the next two years in the Baltic and off the coast of Africa as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Nemesis 28, Capt. Wm. Ferris. After a further attachment of 11 months to the Namur 74, flagship of Sir Thos. Williams at the Nore, he returned to the Baltic and there served, between Feb. 1812, and Sept. 1813, on board the Daphne 20, Capts. Philip Pipon and Jas. Green. He then sailed with Capt. Pipon to South America in the Tagus 36, in which ship, when subsequently cruizing among the Cape de Verde Islands, in company with the Niger 38, he assisted at the capture, 6 Jan. 1814, of the French 40-gun frigate Cérès. He obtained his commission 21 Sept. 1815, but has not been since afloat.
HILLIER. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 22; h-p., 35.)
Curry William Hillier, born 6 Jan. 1778, is the son of a superannuated Warrant-officer who died at Devonport, 13 March, 1829, aged 89.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as a Servant, on board the Alfred 74, Capts. Harvey and John Bazely, under the latter of whom he fought as Midshipman in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794. While next attached, during a period of three years, to the Blenheim 98, successively commanded by Capts. Bazely, Thos. Lennox Frederick, and Wm. Bowen, we find him participating in one of Hotham’s engagements in 1795, sharing also in the victory gained by Sir John Jervis off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797, and witnessing the ensuing bombardment of Cadiz by Sir Horatio Nelson. After further figuring in many boat encounters with the enemy’s flotilla at the latter place, he removed, in Sept. 1797, to the Emerald 36, Capts. Lord Proby and Thos. Moutray Waller, on the Mediterranean station, where he was for a long time employed at
- ↑ He then took up a commission, dated 7 Feb. 1815.
