flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean. His next appointments were – 25 Nov. 1833, and 20 Aug. 1836, to the Canopus 84, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, and Beacon surveying-vessel, Lieut. Commander Thos. Graves, hoth on the latter station, whence his health obliged him to return in June, 1838 – 10 April, 1839, to the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, from which ship also in the Mediterranean, he was again under the necessity of invaliding in June, 1840 – and 21 Aug. 1841, as First-Lieutenant, to the Warspite 50, Capt. Lord John Hay, fitting at Portsmouth. He obtained a second promotal commission 23 Nov. following; and on 9 Nov. 1846, having been in command from 7 Feb. 1845 until April of the former year, of the Styx sloop, on the coast of Africa, he was promoted to Post rank. He is at present on half-pay. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
HORNSBY. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
William Hornsby entered the Navy, in Sept. 1799, on board the Experiment 44, armée en flûte, Capts. John G. Saville and Geo. Chas. Mackenzie; to which ship (attending intermediately the expedition of 1801 to Egypt) he continued attached until the close of 1805. He afterwards joined the Megaera fire-vessel, Capt. Arch. Duff, and Rose 18, Capts. Lucius Curtis and Philip Pipon, in the Channel; served, from June, 1807, to July, 1810, in the Resolution and Rodney 74’s, each commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, under whom he was present, as Midshipman of the Resolution, at the bombardments of Copenhagen and Flushing; then became Acting-Lieutenant, for a short time, of the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir John Gore; and, after a further employment, off Havre and Lisbon, in the Cyane 22, and Abercromby 74, Capts. Fras. Augustus Collier and Wm. Chas. Fahie, was officially promoted, 26 Sept. 1811, into the Canopus 80, Capt. Chas. Inglis. His last appointments were – to the Rose 18, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and Ville de Paris 110, and Boyne 98, both under the orders of Capt. Burlton. He served in the Rose on the Baltic station; and was a participator, in the Boyne, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial actions of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814, with the Toulon fleet. He has been on half-pay since Sept. of the latter year.
HORTON. (Commander, 1844. f-p., 13; h-p., 2.)
Frederick Wilmot Horton is a relative of Sir Robt. J. W. Horton, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy 6 Nov. 1832; passed his examination in 1838; obtained his commission 9 May, 1839; and was successively appointed – on 22 of the same month, to the Jaseur 16, Capt. Fred. Moore Boultbee, stationed in the Mediterranean – and, 31 Oct. 1840, and 29 Aug. 1842, to the Endymion 44, and, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Dido 18, Capts. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey and Hon. Henry Keppel, both in the East Indies. For his spirited and zealous exertions in command of the boats of the latter vessel at the destruction of the forts and settlements belonging to the pirates in the Sarebus river, on the coast of Borneo, he obtained the expressed approbation of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Wm. Parker, and of the Board of Admiralty, and was promoted to the rank of Commander 6 Jan. 1844. He was appointed, 17 Feb. 1846, to the Cygnet 6, on the African station, where, since 24 of the following April, he has been serving in the Kingfisher 12. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HORTON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Horton is son (by Grace, daughter of _____ Treacher, Esq., and widow of Henry Whorwood, Esq., of Headington House, co. Oxford) of Joshua Sydney Horton, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the White (1830), who died 24 Nov. 1834, at Boulogne-sur-mer, aged 67. His grandfather’s first wife was a daughter of Geo. Clarke, Esq., Lieut.-Governor of New York; and his uncle, the late Thos. Horton, Esq., of Howroyde, co. York, married the Lady Mary Gordon, youngest daughter of George, third Earl of Aberdeen. The Lieutenant is nephew of Geo. Wm. Horton, Esq., a Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 13 Dec. 1839; and served, as Mate, on board the Talbot 26, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Robt. Fanshawe Stopford (under the former of whom he participated in the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre), and Queen 110, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington. He obtained his commission 7 March, 1842, but, rejoining the St. Vincent soon afterwards, continued in that ship until appointed, 6 Dec. following, to the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Chas. Hotham, on the South American station. On 25 Nov. 1844, after about 12 months of half-pay, he went back to the St. Vincent, then bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, with whom, however, he continued but a few months. Lieut. Horton, whose next appointment was, 25 July, 1846, to the Queen, Commodore Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, has been attached, since 14 Oct. in that year, to the Thetis 36, commanded by his former Captain, Codrington.
He married, 18 Feb. 1846, Agnes Jane, second daughter of the late J. Jeddere Fisher, Esq., of Great Culberden, Tunbridge Wells.
HOSEASON. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 8; h-p., 30.)
Andrew Hoseason died about the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1809, as A.B., on board the Strenuous gun-brig, Lieut.Commander John Nugent, employed on the Leith station. Removing, in the next Dec, to the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, he sailed in that ship with a convoy for the East Indies, where we find him, in Aug. 1811 and Jan. 1813 [errata 1] , assisting, as Master’s Mate, at the reduction of Java, and in a very desperate attack made upon the pirates of Sambas, in the island of Borneo. In the spring of 1816 he was for a short time transferred to the Philomel 10, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, but he then went back, in a similar capacity, to the Leda, and continued in her until confirmed by a commission dated on 30 Dec. in the same year.
HOSEASON. (Commander, 1844.)
John Cochrane Hoseason entered the Navy 20 July, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 10 Jan. 1837. His succeeding appointments were – 12 Jan. and 24 April, 1837, and 18 Jan. 1838, to the Dublin 50, flag-ship of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Eden, and Imogene 26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, all on the South American station, whence he returned to England, and was paid off at the close of 1839 – and, 3 Feb. 1840, to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, with whom he served for nearly two years, and was present in the operations on the coast of Syria, and at the blockade of Alexandria. He acquired the rank he now holds 6 Sept. 1844; and, since 10 June, 1846, has been in command of the Inflexible steam-sloop, on the East India station. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HOSEASON. (Commander, 1846.)
William Hoseason entered the Navy 24 May, 1811; passed his examination in 1818; and was made Lieutenant, 28 Dec. 1826, into the Bustard 10, Capt. Chas. Elliot, on the Jamaica station. He returned home in 1827, on board the Primrose 18, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt; and was afterwards appointed – 17 Feb. 1831, to the Nimrod 20, Capt. Sam. Radford, on the Cork station – 14 April, 1832, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 15 Oct. 1833, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, in the Mediterranean – and, 31 May and 4 Aug. 1837, 26 Oct. 1839, and 9 April, 1846, to the successive command of the Pigmy, Prospero, Alecto, and Torch
