son, under the former of whom he fought at Trafalgar. In Feb. 1807, after having been for some time employed at the blockade of Toulon, he became Midshipman of the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Hon. Michael de Courcy; in which ship we find him, in 1808, accompanying Sir John Duckworth to the West Indies in pursuit of a French squadron from Rochefort; and, in Jan. 1809, assisting at the embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna. Until Nov. 1812 he next presents himself to our notice as serving with Rear-Admiral De Courcy on the Brazilian station in the Foudroyant 80. He was made Lieutenant, 5 Feb. 1813, into the Stromboli bomb, Capts. John Stoddart and Rich. Croker, with whom he cruized in the Mediterranean until the autumn of 1814; and he was lastly, from April to Oct. 1815, employed in the Channel on board the Euphrates 36, Capt. Robt. Preston. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HOLE. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 37.)
Lewis Hole, born 16 Jan. 1779, at Strodeley, in Devonshire, is son of the late Rev. W. Hole, of Kuscott Hill, Surrogate of Barnstaple, by a lady descended from Sir John Berry, Knt., who was a Captain in the R.N. in 1665 He is brother of Capt. Henry Hole, R.N. (1812), who died in 1838; and of Commander Chas. Hole, R.N. (1812), a very excellent officer, who died 8 Sept. 1844, in his 64th year. One of his nephews, Wm. Hole, is a Lieutenant R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, at the commencement of 1793, as A.B., on board the Sampson 64, Capt. Geo. Montagu; and was soon afterwards ordered to Quebec in the Severn 44, Capt. Paul Minchin. Being next, on his return, appointed Midshipman of the Belliqueux 64, Capt. Jas. Brine, he assisted in that ship at the capture of Port-au-Prince, 4 June, 1794; after which event, and until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 6 July, 1798, he served on the Home station in the Sandwich, Capt. Moss, Camilla 20, Capts. Dacres, Rotheram, and Poyntz, Astraea frigate, Capt. R. Dacres, and Kent 74, Capt. Wm. Johnstone Hope. He was then employed for two years on board the Explosion bomb, in the Channel; and at the expiration of that time he joined the Ramillies 74, Capts. Rich. Grindall, John Wm. Taylor Dixon, Sam. Osborn, and Henry Nicholls, bearing the flag for some time of Sir Chas. Morice Pole. Continuing in the latter ship until 1802, he accompanied the expedition sent in 1801 to act against the Northern Confederacy. Previously to the attack made upon the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, he had the fortune to be placed in command of a dvision of boats attached to Lord Nelson’s squadron; and on the memorable 2 April he served as a volunteer on board the Polyphemus 64. Mr. Hole’s next appointments were, 9 March, 1804, and 18 April, 1805, to the Trusty, 50, and Revenge 74, Capts. Geo. Argles and Robt. Moorsom. In the former ship he cruized off Boulogne; and in the Revenge he was fiercely engaged, as First-Lieutenant, at Trafalgar; for his conduct on which occasion he was promoted to the rank of Commander 24 Dec. 1805. The ships he last joined were – 2 Dec. 1807, the Hindostan 50, lying at Plymouth – 10 March, 1 808, the Egeria, in which sloop he served on the Channel and Leith stations until Aug. 1812 – and 21 April, 1813, the Bacchus 16, on the coast of Ireland. While in the Egeria, he captured the Naesois privateer, of 10 guns and 26 men, the Aalborg cutter, of 6 guns and 25 men, and the Alvor privateer, of 14 guns and 38 men. He became a Post-Captain 4 Dec. 1813; left the Bacchus in the following Feb.; and assumed his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Hole married a daughter of the late Wm. Finch, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Master of the Grocers Company, by whom he has issue.
HOLE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 30; h-p., 12.)
William Hole, born 10 Nov. 1793, is only son of the late W. B. Hole, Esq., of the island of Jamaica; and nepliew of Rear-Admiral Lewis Hole.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Star sloop, Capt. John Simpson; on accompanying whom, after an active servitude on the Lisbon, Channel, and Newfoundland stations, into the Wolverene 18, he co-operated as Midshipman in the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809. While next attached, between March in the latter year and June, 1811, to the Bacchus schooner, Lieut. Commander Chas. Dayman Jermy, he commanded one of the boats of a squadron at the cutting-out, 12 Dec. 1809, of 'Le Nisus', a French 16-gun brig-corvette, lying, vigorously defended, under the protection of a fort in the harbour of Hayes, Guadeloupe – shared, also, in a gallant action, in which the Bacchus, with a loss of 5 men badly wounded, beat off two French schooner-privateers – and contributed, in Feb. 1810, to the reduction of the island of Guadeloupe. He was likewise twice engaged with French row-boats who had designedly approached the Bacchus; and was on more than one occasion invested with the navigation of prizes into port. In June, 1811, Mr, Hole, who had been for nearly two years in discharge of the duties of Acting-Master, was transferred, as Master’s Mate, to the Ganymede 26, Capts. Robt. Preston and John Brett Purvis. During the two following years we find him employed both in the West Indies and Mediterranean; at the expiration of which period he assumed the charge of a watch on board the Bacchus sloop, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Lewis Hole, on the Cork station. Being subsequently, in April, 1814, appointed to the Trave armée en flûte, Capts. Rowland Money and John Codd, he proceeded in that vessel to North America, where, after having commanded a boat at the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, he landed and served with the army in the attack upon Baltimore. On 14 Dec. 1814 he next commanded one of the boats of a squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, which did not surrender until the British, after a stern conflict, had endured a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. Joining then in the hostilities against New Orleans, he again had charge of a boat, an 8-oared cutter, on the river Mississippi, and bore an active part in all the scenes which were there enacted, including the storming and capture of a heavy battery. During six whole weeks he was in consequence exposed, in his unsheltered boat, to the inclemency of the season which then prevailed, undergoing the greatest hardships, and being often, with his men, severely frost-bitten. Having passed his examination in Sept. 1812, Mr. Hole was at length, on 3 Feb. 1815, rewarded with a Lieutenant’s commission. Since 3 March, 1827, he has been continuously employed in the Coast Guard – a service in which his exertions have been of a very signal nature, as testified by numerous high testimonials from his superior officers, as well as by various letters of thanks addressed to him by Lloyd’s for salvage of property in cases of shipwreck. He has been instrumental, we understand, in the conviction of an extraordinary number of smugglers.
Lieut. Hole married, 28 Oct. 1816, Eliza, daughter of the late Rich. Mallard Herbert, Esq., of co. Somerset, by whom he has issue a son and a daughter.
HOLLAND. (Commander, 1840.)
Edward Holland entered the Navy 31 Jan. 1814; passed his examination in 1820; and from 26 July, 1826, the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, until he invalided in Dec. 1830, was in successive command, on the West India station of the Monkey schooner. Nimble cutter, and Union, Minx, and Firefly schooners. He became Flag-Lieutenant, 31 March, 1836, to Hon. Chas. Elphin-
