Midshipman, on board the Standard 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey, with whom he was for some months employed in the Majestic 74, on the Baltic station; where, in the course of 1810, he joined the Ruby and Dictator 64’s, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Williams. During the action of 6 July, 1812, with the Danish squadron, alluded to in our narrative of Lieut. Benj. Hooper, he is represented to have been on board the latter ship, whose loss on the occasion amounted to 4 persons killed and 24 (including himself[1]) wounded. The three years preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 Sept. 1815, were passed by Mr. Hooper on the North Sea, North American, West India, and Newfoundland stations, in the Sceptre and Marlborough 74’s, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Robt. Honyman, and Perseus 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court. He has since been on half-pay.
HOOPER. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 31.)
Richard Hooper entered the Navy, in 1800, as L.M., on board the Severn 44, Capts. John Whitby and Geo. Barker, employed in the West Indies; where, and in the Channel, he served, from Dec. 1803 until Aug. 1809, as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Port Mahon brig, Capt. Sam. Chambers. During the three first years of that period he assisted at the capture, re-capture, and destruction of at least 50 vessels; among which were El Galgo Spanish packet, the Aranzana letter-of-marque, and El Courier privateer. In 1808 the Port Mahon took two other privateers – Le Furet, of 16 guns and 47 men, and Le Général Paris, of 3 guns and 38 men. After an attachment of nearly 12 months to the San Josef 110, under the flags of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Hooper was made Lieutenant, 4 July, 1810, into the Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore in the Mediterranean. His last appointments were – 10 Sept. 1812, to the Insolent 14, Capts. Edw. Brazier and Wm. Kelly, with whom he served in the Channel and Baltic until compelled by illness to invalid in Sept. 1814 – and, 3 Feb. 1816, to the Dee 24, commanded by Capt. Sam. Chambers on the Halifax station. The latter vessel was paid off 8 Dec. 1818.
HOOPER. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 11; h-p., 25.)
William Hooper (b) entered the Navy, 3 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fisgard frigate, Capt. Fras. Mason; and on removing, after serving for some time in the Baltic, to the Niobe 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. Augustus Montagu, sailed for North America. In 1813 he became Midshipman of the President 38, Capts. F. Mason and Archibald Duff, in time, we believe, to witness the fall of St. Sebastian. Between Oct. 1815 and April, 1816, he was employed in the North Sea on board the Florida 20, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorp John Hawtayne. He then proceeded to the West Indies, where, for a period of two years and a half, he served under Capt. Elliott in the Scamander 36. In 1820 he returned to the same station in the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; on quitting which ship he successively joined, in 1822-3, the Phaeton 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, Gloucester 74, Commodore Sir Edw. Owen, and Tyne, Capt. Roberts. He obtained his commission 12 Jan. 1824, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hooper married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Thos. Gardiner Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, M.P. for co. Essex; and sister of the present Thos. Wm. Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, who married a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Elias Harvey, G.C.B., M.P. He was left a widower 6 Aug. 1839.
HOOPS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Richard Hoops entered the Navy 11 June, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840. His appointments have since been – 15 Dec. 1840, as Additional, to the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – 24 Jan. 1841, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the same station – and, 2 Feb. 1844, to the Tortoise 12, Capts. Wm. Finlaison, Arthur Morrell, and Fred. Hutton, store-ship at Ascension, where he is at present employed.
HOPE. (Captain, 1826. f-p., 20; h-p., 16.)
Charles Hope, born in 1798, is second son of the Right Hon. Chas. Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland, by Charlotte, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun; nephew of Lieut.-General Sir John Hope, G.C.H., and of Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Johnston Hope, G.C.B.;[2] brother of Wm. Hope, Esq., a Major in the Army and Captain in the 7th Foot; and first-cousin of the late Capts. Wm. James, Chas. Jas., and Geo. Jas., Hope, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Sarpedon 10, Capt. Jas. Green, on the Leith station, where he removed, in the following Nov., to the Adamant 44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway. In April 1812, he became Midshipman of the Semiramis 36, Capt. Chas. Richardson, bearing the flag afterwards of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. On his return home in Aug. 1814 he joined the Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, lying at Portsmouth, whence, towards the close of the same year, he sailed for North America in the Erne 20, commanded by the late Lord Napier. In the course of 1815 he was successively received on board the Endymion, Tagus, and Alceste frigates, Capts. Henry Hope, Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, and Murray Maxwell; under the latter of whom he accompanied Lord Amherst on his embassy to China, and was wrecked, while returning home with that nobleman, in the Straits of Gaspar, 18 Feb. 1817. Obtaining his first commission on 20 of the following Oct., he was next, 22 Feb. 1818, appointed Lieutenant of the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, in which ship he visited the Mediterranean and cruized for some time off Lisbon. After serving with Capt. Chas. Adam in the Royal Sovereign yacht he was invested, 15 Oct. 1822, with the rank of Commander, and on 28 Feb. 1824 nominated to the Brisk 10. In the month of Sept. following he captured, off Flamborough Head, a large smuggling lugger, with a cargo of considerable value. Capt. Hope, whose advancement to Post-rank took place 26 Jan. 1826, was subsequently appointed – 21 Oct. 1830, to the Tyne 28, a vessel in which he served on the South American station, and, prior to being paid off in Jan. 1834, passed over 82,000 miles, a greater distance than had been traversed by any vessel since the war – 24 Jan. 1835, to the Dublin 50, fitting at Plymouth, where he was superseded in the ensuing July – and, 28 Aug. 1841, to the Thalia 42. He was employed in the latter frigate on the East India and Pacific stations until the close of 1845, when she returned to England and was put out of commission. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Hope married, 12 Sept. 1826, Anne, eldest
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 1363.
- ↑ Sir W. J. Hope was born 16 Aug. 1766, and entered the Navy in 1776. He commanded the Bellerophon 74, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thomas Pasley, and obtained a gold medal for his services, in the actions of 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. He afterwards served on board the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Lord Duncan, during the expedition to Holland in 1799. With the despatches announcing the results of that enterprise he was sent to England; and he was in consequence presented with a purse of 500l. in Dec. 1800, being still in the Kent, he conveyed Sir Ralph Abercromby from Gibraltar to Egypt. He was nominated a Colonel of Marines in 1811; advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1812; appointed to the chief command at Leith in Nov. 1813; created a K.C.B. in 1815; re-appointed to Leith in 1816; made a Vice-Admiral in 1819; invested with the dignity of a G.C.B. in 1 825; and sworn a Privy Councillor about the close of 1830. Sir W. J. Hope, who was for a long time one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and sat for many years in Parliament tor Dumfries, died 2 May, 1831.
