the public, as well as private, Spanish correspondence. In Oct. 1810, Mr. Hilton became First of the Africa 64, bearing the flag of the late Sir Herbert Sawyer on the Halifax station; where, from 14 Sept. 1813, until 7 June, 1814, he further served as Flag-Lieutenant to the same officer in the Trent 36. He was then invested with the command of the Nimrod 18, which he retained, on the North American and Cork stations, until paid off in Sept. 1815. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Hilton married, 23 April, 1816, Elizabeth, eldest sister of the present Commander John Harvey, R.N., and was left a widower 25 Feb. 1819. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HILTON, K.F.M. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
John Hilton entered the Navy, 12 July, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hecla sloop, Capt. Peter Turner Bover, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to the Helder. After further serving for a short time with the same officer as Midshipman in the Megaera fire-vessel, he joined Sir Andrew Mitchell, in Sept. 1800, on board the Windsor Castle 98, in which ship and in the Blenheim 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, he did duty, in the Channel and North Sea, until Nov. 1802. Between April, 1803, and Dec. 1805, we find him employed off the coast of Ireland, and again in the Channel, on board the Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Bedford, and Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Lord Gardner; and participating, during that period, in the capture, by the Thunderer and other vessels, of the French frigate La Franchise, of 36 guns. In Feb. 1806 he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Topaze frigate, Capts. Wm. Luke and Anselm John Griffiths, attached to the force on the coast of Ireland, where he remained until the period of his official promotion, which took place 15 Aug. following. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Oct. 1806, to the Glory 98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway, off Cadiz – 21 Oct. 1807 and 15 Feb. 1808, to the Sultan 74, and Chiffonne frigate, Capts. Edw. Griffith and John Wainwright, fitting at Woolwich and Portsmouth – and, 6 June, 1808, 16 Nov. 1811, and 7 June, 1813, to the Bustard 10, Ganymede 26, and Minstrel 20, Capts. John Duff Markland, John Brett Purvis, and Robt. Mitford, all on the Mediterranean station. On 24 July, 1809 [errata 1], he received four wounds while attempting to burn an armed felucca under Cape del Arme; and, on 23 Sept. 1811, he obtained the royal authority to accept and wear the insignia of a K.F.M., which his Sicilian Majesty had been pleased to confer on him “as a testimony of his royal approbation of the great courage and intrepidity displayed by him in various actions with the enemy’s vessels near Messina.” His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 15 June, 1814; since which period he has not been employed. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HILTON. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
Stephen Hilton, born 9 Aug. 1785, is brother of Commander Geo. Hilton, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1795, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Bristol, Lieut.-Commander Hutchison, lying at Chatham; and, from July, 1796, until Jan. 1798, was borne at Sheerness on the books of the Grana, Lieut.-Commander Dixon. Re-embarking, in Aug. 1799, on board the Pearl 32, Capt. Sam. Jas. Ballard, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, during a continuance of two years, he participated as Midshipman in various cutting-out affairs in the vicinity of Toulon, and attended the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. Between Feb. 1802 and March, 1805, he served on the Home station in the Acasta 40, Capts. Edw. Fellowes and Jas. Athol Wood, Revolutionnaire frigate, Capt. Walter Lock, and Queen 98, Capts. Thos. Jones and Manley Dixon. He then became Master’s Mate of the Minotaur 74, Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, and, after sharing in the glories of Trafalgar, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806. Being appointed, on 14 of the following June, to the Revenge 74, Capts. Sir John Gore, Hon. Chas. Paget, and Alex. Robt. Kerr, he witnessed, 25 Sept. in the same year, the capture of four heavy French frigates by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, off Rochefort, and was further present, in 1809, at the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and the siege of Flushing. On the latter occasion he was sent on shore with a party of 80 seamen, and while employed in a battery was slightly wounded by the explosion of a cartridge, which killed 3 of his men and seriously injured a Midshipman.[1] His subsequent appointments were, always as First-Lieutenant – in 1810-11, to the Primrose 18, Capts. Thos. Burton and Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, Sophie 18, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, and Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, on the Home station – 14 March, 1812, to the Leopard 50, armée en flûte, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, under whom he was actively employed in the Mediterranean and on the coast of Spain in the conveyance of troops and provisions for Lord Wellington’s army – 28 April, 1814, to the Desirée 36, Capt. Wm. Woolridge, in which frigate he made a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and was next stationed in the Downs and off the Scheldt – and, 19 Sept. 1815 and 11 March, 1816, to the Spencer 74, and Malta 80, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, guard-ships at Plymouth. He went on half-pay 28 Feb. 1817; and accepted the rank he now holds 7 Jan. 1839.
Commander Hilton married in 1818, and has issue nine children.
HINDE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Edwin Thomas Hinde entered the Navy 24 July, 1829; and in 1831, while Midshipman of the Dryad 42, Capt. John Hayes, was officially reported for the conduct he displayed in her tender, the Black Joke, at the capture, by boarding, of a slave-vessel of superior force. He passed his examination 6 July, 1836; was employed, from 1841 until the close of 1843, in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers; obtained his commission 10 June, 1844; and since 9 Sept. 1844, has been stationed in the East Indies on board the Cruizer 16, Capts. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, Wm. Maclean, and Edw. Peirse.
HINDMARSH, K.H. (Captain, 1831. f-p., 22; h-p., 32.)
John Hindmarsh entered the Navy, in May, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capts. Thos. Pasley, Wm. Hope, Lord Cranstoun, John Loring, and Henry D’Esterre Darby, in which ship he was employed for the long period of seven years, and was consequently present in Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, 1794, in Cornwallis’ retreat of 16 and 17 June, 1795, and at the battle of the Nile, besides sharing, as Midshipman, in most of Nelson’s boat-operations off Cadiz in 1797, and contributing, in 1799, to the capture of the forts at Naples and Gaeta. During the action off the Nile he was for some time the only person left on the Bellerophon’s quarter-deck, and being so at the moment her opponent, L’Orient, caught fire, he ordered the cable to be cut and the spritsail to be set, a measure which, in the opinion of Capt. Darby (who returned to the quarterdeck from the Surgeon’s hands immediately afterwards), saved the ship from destruction. For his conduct on that glorious day Mr. Hindmarsh had the honour of eliciting the public thanks of Lord Nelson, to whom, as subsequently to Earl St. Vincent, and to all the Nile Captains, he was personally presented by Capt. Darby. Although, on the occasion, he received so severe a contusion as ultimately to lose the sight of an eye (a misfortune for which he never obtained
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1327.
