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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brenan, Alexander

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​BRENAN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 16; h-p., 27.)
Alexander Brenan was born in Dec. 1790. This officer entered the Navy, 7 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, and, on 21 Oct. 1805, was a performer in the glorious scene enacted by that ship in the battle of Trafalgar. He left the Téméraire, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1806, and next, about March, 1807, joined the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of the Hon. Michael De Courcy, with whom he proceeded to the West Indies. He then removed to the St. George 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of his former Captain, Rear-Admiral E. Harvey; was much employed, on his subsequent transference to the Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, on boat-service in the Gulf of Livonia, where he assisted in capturing a large number of vessels; and while attached, between the years 1810 and 1814, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Wm. Bedford, Téméraire 98, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, and Royal George 100, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, frequently served on shore and in the boats in warm encounters with the batteries and troops at the defence of Cadiz and off Toulon. On 16 March in the latter year, having passed in 1811, and for some time acted as Lieutenant, he was confirmed in that rank in the Merope 16, Capts. John Chas. Gawen Roberts and Wm. Benj. Suckling, one of Napoleon Buonaparte’s escort during a portion of his passage to Elba; and, in June, 1815, he was appointed to the Albion 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, lying in the river Medway, which ship, however, he left in the following December. Lieut. Brenan was afterwards employed in the Coast Guard from 1821 until obliged, from the effects of his severe night duties, to retire under a medical certificate in 1827. While in that service he had the good fortune on different occasions to get off the shore ​two large ships which had been stranded on the coasts of Wicklow and Wexford; and, in acknowledgment of his exertions, was presented by the owners, for himself and his men, with two sums of 200l. each. He has since been unemployed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Branford, John

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​BRANFORD. (Commander, 1820. f-p., 13; h-p., 30.)
John Branford entered the Navy, 14 April, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Eagle 74, Capt. David Colby, bearing the flag in the North Sea, and afterwards in the West Indies, of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough; joined, in Nov. 1805, the Kent 74, Capts. Henry Garrett and Thos. Rogers, attached to the Channel fleet; served, from May, 1807, to Nov. 1809, again with Admiral Thombrough, in the Royal Sovereign 100, on the Mediterranean station; and, from the latter date, was employed in the Ville de Paris 110, and Rodney and Milford 74’s, flag-ships of Lord Collingwood and Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, until made Lieutenant into the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, 3 April, 1813. He soon, however, rejoined Rear-Admiral Fremantle, as his Flag-Lieutenant, in the Milford, and, after assisting in various operations in the Adriatic, including the reduction of Fiume, Rovigno, Piran, Capo d’Istra, and Trieste, came home with him, early in 1814, in the Eagle 74. From 5 May to 4 Sept. 1815, Mr. Branford a second time officiated as Flag-Lieutenant to the same officer in the Wye 24, on the Jersey station. He was next employed, from 23 July, 1816, till Feb. 1817, under Capts. Chas. Ogle and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, in the Rivoli 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth; and, on 26 Aug. 1818, was again selected by Sir T. F. Fremantle to be his Flag-Lieutenant in the Rochfort 74, fitting for the Mediterranean, whither he proceeded and remained until promoted, on the death of his patron, to his present rank, 1 March, 1820. He has not since been afloat.
Commander Branford is Senior of 1820.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Breedon, Harry Alexander

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​BREEDON. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Harry Alexander Breedon entered the Navy 23 March, 1809; served, as Midshipman, in the Glasgow 40, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816; passed his examination in the same year; and was promoted to the command of the Union schooner 3, on the Jamaica station, 4 Oct. 1825. He has been on half-pay since May, 1827.
Lieut. Breedon married, 25 June, 1832, Alice, youngest daughter of Major J. R. Nason, late 47th Regiment. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bray, Josias

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​BRAY. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
Josias Bray died 11 March, 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Savage sloop, Capt. Grosvenor Winkworth, stationed in the North Sea; acquired the rating of Midshipman 10 Dec. 1795; and, after further serving for three years in the Inflexible and Stately 64’s, Capts. Solomon Ferris and Geo. Scott, was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 1 Nov. 1800, in the Vestal, armee en flûte, Capt. Valentine Collard, under whom he attended the Egyptian expedition of 1801. His next appointments were – 12 June, 1802, to the Athenienne 64, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, on the Mediterranean station – in July, 1803, to a command in the Essex district of Sea Fencibles – 3 July, 1804, to the Spy, Capt. Bushby, employed off Boulogne, from which vessel he invalided in Jan. 1805 – and, 5 April ensuing, to the Achille 74, Capt. Rich. King. Under the latter officer he served, and was wounded, at the battle of Trafalgar; in consequence whereof he obtained a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. We subsequently find him assuming command of the following vessels : – 13 Jan. 1808, of the Capelin schooner, which he had the misfortune to lose off Brest on 30 June; 18 Oct. 1808, of the Weasel schooner, employed at Plymouth; 4 July, 1811, of the Gleaner ketch, in which he was sent with despatches to America; 7 Dec. in the same year, of the Bloodhound gun-brig, also on the Plymouth station; 12 Feb. 1812, of the Active cutter, employed off Flushing; and, 13 Dec. 1813, after an interval of a year, of the Badger cutter, similarly stationed. He went on half-pay 16 May, 1814; and, on 27 May, 1825, was advanced to the rank of Commander, as a reward “for long and active services.” He did not afterwards go afloat. Agent – J. Woodhead.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Anderson (Heirs of George)

​ANDERSON (Heirs of GEORGE), printers in Glasgow, 1648, and in Edinburgh, 1649-53. On the death of George Anderson in 1647 the Town ​Council of Glasgow agreed to continue his pension to his widow and children so long as they continued to carry on the business; but in 1649 they had removed to Edinburgh, and in 1653 were succeeded by Andrew Anderson. [H. G. Aldis, List of books printed in Scotland before 1700.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Andrews (Henry)

​ANDREWS (HENRY), bookseller (?) in London, 1642. His name is found in the imprint to an eight-page pamphlet published in 1642, entitled, Newes from Black-Heath concerning the meeting of the Kentish Men, etc., etc. … London, Printed for Henrie Andrews, 1642, E. 144 (13). His address has not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Archer (Edward)

​ARCHER (EDWARD), bookseller in London; Adam and Eve in Little Britaine, 1656. Publisher of plays, of which he issued a catalogue in 1656, "more exactly Printed then ever before." This list he added to a comedy called the Old Law, the joint production of Massinger, Middleton, and Rowley. He may have been a descendant of the Thomas Archer, book-seller, who flourished between 1603 and 1634. [W. W. Greg, List of Masques, etc., App. II.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Anderson (George)

​ANDERSON (GEORGE), printer at Edinburgh, "in King James his college, 1637–38; at Glasgow in Hutshisons Hospitall in the Trongate," 1638–47. Commenced printing in Edinburgh in 1637, having acquired a considerable part of the printing materials of Robert Young, q.v. In 1638 Anderson removed to Glasgow, taking a press with him. He worked chiefly for the General Assembly, but in 1644 he printed the Rev. John Row's Hebrew Grammar and Vocabulary, probably one of the earliest books in that language, printed in Scotland. George Anderson is believed to have died in 1648. He left a son, Andrew Anderson, who ultimately succeeded to the business. [H. G. Aldis, List of books printed in Scotland before 1700.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Andrews (John)

​ANDREWS (JOHN), bookseller in London; White Lyon near Pye Corner 1654-63. Appears to have dealt chiefly in the ephemeral literature of his time, such as ballads, broadsides, and all kinds of pamphlets. His will was proved on March 12th, 166⅔: by this he divided the residue of his goods, books, quires, etc., between his wife Elizabeth and his three children, Elizabeth, Mary, and John. [P.C.C. 35 Laud.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Andrews (Elizabeth)

​ANDREWS (ELIZABETH), bookseller in London; White Lyon near Pye Corner, 1663–64. The widow of John Andrews, q.v.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Arding (William)

​ARDING (WILLIAM), (?) bookseller in London, (?) 1642. This name occurs in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Propositions for Peace [E. 152 (1).] The printing is so bad that it might very possibly be a mis-reading ​of Harding, as there are one or two stationers of that name noted in the Registers of the Company of Stationers [Arber, ii. 238; iii. 687]. Again it might be the name of a Lincoln bookseller, as portions of the tract refer to that place.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Ash (Francis)

​ASH (FRANCIS), bookseller and bookbinder of the City of Worcester, 1644–51. The earliest mention of this bookseller is an entry in the Register of Apprenticeships, 1605–60, at Stationers' Hall, where, under date of December 7th, 1646, it is recorded that Francis Rea, the son of Ann Rea, of Churchill, co. Worcester, had put himself apprentice to Francis Ash for seven years, the indenture bearing date January 6th, 1644. Francis Ash is said to have been a Papist, and to have done a large trade in Popish books and pictures in the West of England. In a pamphlet entitled A second beacon fired by Scintilla written by a London bookseller, Michael Sparke, Sen., q.v., are some interesting particulars relating to Francis Ash, in which it is stated that he was largely employed in obtaining "pictures" for the English Bible, and that he went to France, and there commissioned Hollar to engrave them. In the Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Edinburgh editions of the Bible of 1633 are noted as containing these pictures in the New Testament. See Nos, 367, 368. Clement Barksdale's Nympha Libethris, 1651, 8°., has this imprint, "London, Printed for F, A. at Worcester," and in stanzas 56 and 67 the author refers to Ash's skill as a bookbinder. Ash is believed to have died either during, or soon after the siege of Worcester (September, 1651).
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Anderson (William)

​ANDERSON (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1660. His name occurs on the following ballad: "Admire not Noble Sir, that you should hear." [Bibl. Lind. Catal. of Eng. Ballads, No. 810.] His address has not been found.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Armstrong (William)

​ARMSTRONG (WILLIAM), (?) bookseller in Cambridge, 1647. A pamphlet entitled Animadversions upon a declaration of the proceedings against the xi. members, bears the imprint, Cambridge, Printed for Will. Armstrong. Anno. Dom. 1647. [E. 398 (4).]
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hire, Henry

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​HIRE. (Lieutenant, 1808.)
Henry Hire is brother of the late Lieut. Fred. Hire, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Prince George 98, Capt. John Tremayne Rodd, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton, with whom he continued until April, 1802. Re-embarking, in Feb. 1803, on board the Boadicea 38, Capt. John Maitland, he took part, in the following Aug., while on his return from Ferrol, in a self-sought and very gallant skirmish fought by that frigate with the French 74 Le Duguay Trouin. Towards the close of the same year he rejoined Sir C. Cotton in the San Josef 110, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Jas. Saumarez, in which he remained until June, 1807. He then removed to the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Lord Gambier, but in May, 1808, was again placed under the orders of Sir C. Cotton, on board the Hibernia 110, part of the force employed on the Lisbon station, where, on 16 of the following Oct., he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Primrose 18. He removed soon afterwards to the Audacious 74, Capts. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin and Donald Campbell, on the North Sea station. On leaving that ship he served with great activity, from March, 1810, to Aug. 1813, in the Nautilus 18, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Thos. Dench (whom see); and he then cruized for 15 months with Capts. Benj. Crispin and Jas. Arthur Murray in the Scout 18, also in the Mediterranean. We believe he has been in command, ever since Oct. 1823, of the Convict ship at Bermuda.
Lieut. Hire is married and has issue. One of his children, Henry William, is a Lieutenant, R.N.; and another, Unity Isabella, the wife of John Scott Tucker, Esq., third son of the late Joseph Tucker, Esq., Surveyor of the Navy. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hire, Henry William

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​HIRE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry William Hire is son of Lieut. Henry Hire, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 9 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 6 April, 1836; and, during the latter portion of his servitude as Mate, was employed in North America and the West Indies on board the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay. Being made Lieutenant, 15 Sept. 1841, into the Racehorse 18, Capt. John Coghlan Fitzgerald, attached to the force on the same station, he there continued to serve, both in the last-mentioned vessel and in the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Christ. Wyvill, until the spring of 1842. His next appointments, it appears, were, in the Mediterranean – 20 June, 1842, as Additional, to the Queen 110, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen – and, 21 Jan. 1843 and 25 Oct. and 16 Nov. 1844, as First, to the Snake 16, Bonetta surveying-vessel, and Hecla steam-sloop, Capts. Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux, Thos. Saumarez Brock, John Duffill, and Chas. Starmer. He has been employed, since 13 March, 1847, in the Rattler steam-sloop, Capt. Rich. Moorman, on Particular Service.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hoare, Richard

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​HOARE. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Richard Hoare, born 1 Sept. 1793, is third son of the late Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, Bart., F.S.A., F.B.S., of Stourhead, co. Wilts, by Maria Palmer, daughter of Arthur Acland, Esq., of Fairfield, co. Somerset. He is brother of the present Sir Hugh Rich. Hoare, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, with whom he served in the Channel and North Sea until compelled by sickness to be sent on shore in Jan. 1806. Re-embarking, 25 July, 1807, on board the Powerful 74, bearing the flag of the late Lord Gambier, he ​accompanied that officer in the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; on his return whence, he was for four years employed with Capt. Edw. Fellowes in the Apollo 38, and Conqueror 74, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. Between Feb. 1812, and July, 1813, he served in the Channel on board the San Josef 110, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Lord Keith, by whom he was then appointed Lieutenant of the Sparrow sloop, Capt. John Campbell. While employed, soon afterwards, in rowing guard in a 6-oared cutter off St. Jean de Luz, Mr. Hoare, in spite of all the resistance he could offer, was captured by four French gun-boats and taken to Bayonne. On his exchange and return to England, he was at once, by a commission dated 13 Nov. 1813, officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, and on 30 of the same month nominated to the Dragon 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie, under whom he enacted a prominent part in the after-scenes of the American war. His succeeding appointments were – 30 Aug. and 27 Oct. 1815, to the Madagascar and Phaeton frigates, commanded by Capt. Fras. Stanfell, at Sheerness and at the Cape of Good Hope – 7 June, 1818, as First-Lieutenant, to the Blossom 26, Capts. Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon, in South America – and 9 Feb. 1821, in a similar capacity, to the Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, fitting for service at Halifax. He was promoted, on the latter station, to the command, 19 July, 1822, of the Doterel 18, which sloop he brought home and paid off in 1825. He acquired his present rank 7 July, 1827, but has not been since afloat.
Capt. Hoare married, first, 15 March, 1823, Mary Offley, youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Chas. Fahie, K.C.B., by whom (who died 27 Sept. 1826) he had issue; and secondly, in 1834, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Wm. Praed, Esq., of Tyringham, Bucks, and of Trewithon, Cornwall.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hoare, William O’Bryen

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​HOARE. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 12; h-p., 14.)
William O’Bryen Hoare, born 23 March, 1807, is second son of Sir Joseph Wallis Hoare, Bart., of Annabelle, co. Cork, by Lady Harriet O’Bryen, sister of the present Marquess of Thomond, Vice-Admiral of the Red, G.C.H. He is brother of John Willoughby Hoare, Esq., of the 13th Bombay Native Infantry; nephew of Capt. Edw. Wallis Hoare, R.N.; and brother-in-law of Commander Matthew Chas. Foster, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 23 Feb. 1821; passed his examination in 1827; obtained his first commission 30 Aug. 1828; and was afterwards appointed – 6 Nov. 1829, to the Druid 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, in South America – 14 April, 1831, to the Stag 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, employed on particular service, which vessel he left in January, 1832 – and 25 May, 1843, to the command of the Dolphin brigantine, on the Brazilian station, where he continued until superseded in Feb. 1845. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Hoare married, 2 May, 1834, Caroline, daughter of John Hornby, Esq., of the Hook, Hampshire, by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hirtzel, George John

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​HIRTZEL. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 22; h-p., 13.)
George John Hirtzel, born at Exeter, is son of the late Geo. Hirtzel, Esq., of that place.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Andromeda 24, Capt. Rich. Arthur, with whom he served on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, for some time as Midshipman, until Dec. 1815. Until Jan. 1821 he was next employed in the Comus 22, Capt. Thos. Tudor Tucker, also in the Berwick 74 and Impregnable 104, both flag-ships at Plymouth, and in the Spartan 46, commanded on Particular Service by Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. While under the latter officer he passed his examination, 4 June, 1819; and on leaviiig him he was for upwards of ten years continuously employed in North America and the West Indies on board the Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, Jupiter 50, Capts. David Dunn, Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, and Wm. Webb, Hussar 46, and Winchester 52, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys (under the latter of whom he officiated as Acting-Signal-Lieutenant from May to Oct. 1830), and Grasshopper 18, Capt. John Elphinstoue Erskine. After he had also acted for nine months as Lieutenant of the latter sloop, Mr. Hirtzel was at length officially promoted by commission dated 7 June, 1831. His subsequent appointments were – 8 July, 1836, to the Dublin 50, bearing the flag at the Brazils of Sir Graham Eden Hamond – 28 Dec. 1836, as Senior, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, of which vessel, stationed until 1839 in the Pacific, he acted for some time as Commander – and, 1 Dec. 1841, as First, to the Alfred 50, fitting for the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis. He was promoted to his present rank in honour of Her Majesty’s visit to Portsmouth, 7 March, 1842 but has not been since afloat.
When a Mate in North America, Commander Hirtzel appears to have had frequent charge of small vessels. He is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hoar, Balch Nun

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​HOAR. (Lieutenant, 1803. f-p., 15; h-p., 36.)
Balch Nun Hoar entered the Navy, in Oct. 1796, as A.B., on board the Prince 98, Capt. Thos. Larcom. In that ship, which afterwards bore the flag of Sir Roger Curtis, he continued to serve as Midshipman on the Channel, North Sea, and Irish stations, until 1798, when he removed to the Incendiary 14, Capt. Geo. Barker, and sailed for the Mediterranean. In 1799 he rejoined Sir Roger Curtis at the Cape of Good Hope on board the Lancaster 64, from which vessel he was promoted, 6 Jan. 1803, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Tremendous 74, Capt. John Osborn – an appointment officially sanctioned on 15 of the following April. On 21 April, 1806, while on her passage with a homeward-bound convoy from India, where she had been employed for upwards of three years, the latter ship pursued and fought a close action of an hour and a quarter with the French 40-gun frigate Cannonière, who in the end effected her escape, with a loss, besides being greatly damaged, of 7 men killed and 25 wounded. Mr. Hoar’s appointments, after he left the Tremendous, were – 9 Aug. 1806, to the Illustrious 74, Capt. Wm. Shield and Wm. Robt. Broughton, in the Mediterranean – 8 Aug. 1808, to the Pelorus sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King – 7 April, 1809, to the Diomede 50, Capt. Hugh Cook, for passage to the East Indies – 11 July, 1809, to the Lion 64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, at St. Helena – 18 May, 1810, to the Leda 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, under whom he witnessed the earlier operations connected with the reduction of Java – and lastly, 17 May, 1813, after one-and-twenty months of half-pay, to the Grasshopper sloop, Capt. Henry Robt. Battersby, again on the Mediterranean station, whence he invalided in Jan. 1814.
For many years prior to 1838 Lieut. Hoar was one of the Naval Knights of Windsor. Since 28 June in that year he has been on the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hire, George Augustus

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​HIRE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
George Augustus Hire passed his examination 4 Jan. 1831; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 4 Dec. 1839; and continued in that service until advanced to his present rank, 1 July, 1846. He has since been on half-pay.