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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hugo, George

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​HUGO. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
George Hugo, born 13 Jan. 1789, at Newton, is sixth son of the late Rev. Thos. Hugo, Rector of Newton, Dunchidiock, and Shillingford, all in co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 April, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Foudroyant 80, Capt. Peter Spicer, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel, where, and in the Baltic and Mediterranean, he served – for two years in the Dispatch 18, Capt. Edw. Hawkins – for three years and eight months in the St. George 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Elias Harvey and Fras. Pickmore – and for two years and nine months in the San Josef 110, bearing the flags of Sir Chas. Cotton and Lord Keith. In March, 1813, Mr. Hugo, who had passed his examination in Feb. 1810, and had been for the last two months employed under Lord Keith on board the Queen Charlotte 100, at Plymouth, sailed with Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo in the Woolwich 44, Capt. Thos. Ball Sullivan, for the Lakes of Canada. In the following May he accompanied the ​unsuccessful expedition to Sackett’s Harbour; and in July of the same year we find him commanding one of several gun-boats in an action with the enemy at Goose Creek. On that occasion he receiyed a rifle-ball through the left elbow, which destroyed the joint and disabled two fingers. He was also present, 28 Sept. 1813, in a partial action fought with the Americans on Lake Ontario; and on 6 May, 1814, at the capture of Fort Oswego. During the remainder of the war he was employed, as Acting-Lieutenant of the Charwell, in conveying troops from one part of the lakes to another, and in serving on shore with them. When Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen superseded Sir J. L. Yeo, Mr. Hugo was sent to Quebec for the purpose of raising men to supply the places of those whose time had expired. On the breaking up of the establishment on the lakes in Oct. 1816, he was ordered to take command of the Diana, a merchant-ship laden with spars for the Dockyard at Portsmouth, and to return with a party of men to England. He was placed on half-pay in Feb. 1817, having been awarded a commission dated 20 Sept. 1815, and has not been since employed.
On his arrival in England, Lieut. Hugo was presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword, valued at 50l, in consideration of his wounds. He is married, and has issue two daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hunt, James

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​HUNT. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 13; h-p., 1.)
James Hunt was born 27 Oct. 1817, at Oxford. This officer entered the Navy, 23 July, 1833, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Wasp 18, Capts. Jas. Burney and John Sam. Foreman, stationed in the West Indies, whence, in April, 1836, he returned home as Midshipman of the President 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn. In the following Sept. he joined the Hercules 74, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and John Toup Nicolas, with whom he cruized experimentally, and served on the coasts of Spain and Portugal until transferred, in April, 1838, to the Nautilus 10, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Beaufoy, on the African station. Joining, in Aug. 1840, after an interval of four months, the Stromboli steamer, Capt. Woodford John Williams, Mr. Hunt shared in that vessel in the whole of the ensuing operations on the coast of Syria, including the storming of Sidon and the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. On the former occasion he evinced a degree of zeal, activity, cool determination, and courage, most animating to the men, and not to be surpassed. He was intrusted with the colours, and ran a complete race with an Austrian officer as to who should be the first to display his national flag on the walls of the Castle – an honourable rivalry in which he had the good fortune to come off successful. From April to June, 1841, Mr. Hunt served in the Mediterranean on board the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen; and on 12 of the following Aug., immediately after he had passed his examination, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His next appointment being, 2 Sept. 1841, to the Dido 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, he sailed in that sloop for China, where he beheld the capture of Woosung and Shanghae, and the other operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang. On 21 May, 1843, when off Point Datou, on the coast of Borneo, in command of a native-built boat armed with a brass 6-pounder and 2 swivels, and manned with 18 officers, seamen, and marines, he simultaneously effected the destruction of one, and the utter defeat of another, of two piratical proas, each carrying about 2 guns and 50 men, by whom he had been attacked. His spirited and zealous exertions in this affair drew forth letters of approbation both from the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Wm. Parker, and from the Board of Admiralty. He continued on the books of the Dido until he invalided in Feb. 1845; but appears, previously to that date, to have been allowed, from 1 Aug. to 1 Oct. 1843, to command the Starling surveying-vessel, and to have been lent, from 6 June, 1844, to 15 Oct. 1844, to the Driver steamer, Capt. Courtenay Osborn Hayes. He has been employed, since 12 Nov. 1845, on the south-east coast of America, as First of the Alecto steam-sloop, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen and Vincent Amcotts Massingberd.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hull, William Hollamby

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​HULL. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
William Hollamby Hull entered the Royal Naval College 23 May, 1804; and embarked, 3 June, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Niobe 40, Capt. John Wentworth Loring. After participating in an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant of the Diana, on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza under the fire of several formidable batteries in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg, he joined the Milford 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats off Cadiz – with the flotilla at the defence of which place he was for some time employed. In July, 1811, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 of the previous May, he removed in that capacity to the Comus 22, Capts. Matthew Smith and Fras. Geo. Dickins. He served in the latter vessel on the Mediterranean and Channel stations until May, 1814; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hunn, Frederick

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​HUNN. (Captain, 1822. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
Frederick Hunn is son of the late Mr. Hunn, formerly of Exeter, by a lady nearly related to the Sheridan family, who had been twice before married – the first time to Geo. Canning, Esq., Barrister-at-law, the father of the future Prime Minister.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dolphin sloop, Capt. John Shortland, with whom he continued to serve in the Trompeuse and Squirrel, on the Irish, African, and North American stations until Nov. 1808. After cruizing for 12 months in the Channel as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Surveillante 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, he joined the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore off Cadiz, where, on 2 May and 1 June, 1810, he was successively appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Zealous and Achille 74’s, Capts. Thos. Boys and Sir Rich. King. In Jan. 1811 he removed in a similar capacity to the Lavinia frigate, Capt. Geo. Digby, stationed in the Mediterranean; and on 5 April, 1811, he was confirmed into his former ship, the Achille, then commanded by Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, under whom we find him employed for 18 months at the blockade, in Venice, of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea. His next appointment was, 10 April, 1813, to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Pickmore, also on the Mediterranean station. Obtaining a second promotal commission 27 Aug. 1814, Capt. Hunn, on 14 Aug. 1818, and 25 June, 1822, was awarded the command of the Redwing and Pandora sloops, of 18 guns each, on the St. Helena, Cork, and Newfoundland stations. He acquired Post-rank 26 Dec. 1822; and from 28 Nov. 1823, until May, 1827, had the further command of the Tweed 28, on the South American, Irish, and Jamaica stations; on which last he captured, in 1826, a fine schooner with 276 slaves on board. He accepted the retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Hunn married, in Oct. 1814, Emma, only daughter of Vice-Admiral Pickmore. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hungerford, John

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​HUNGERFORD. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
John Hungerford entered the Navy, 22 Jan. 1804, as Master’s Mate, on board the Sandwich, Lieut.-Commander Emanuel Hungerford, lying in the river Medway; where, and in the North Sea, Baltic, and Channel, he served, from Sept. 1805, until Nov. 1811, in the Virginie 38, Capt. Edw. Brace, Imogene sloop, Capt. Thos. Garth, Sandwich again, Procris 18, Capt. Fras. Beauman (in which vessel he attended the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen), Sandwich once more, Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman, and St. Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. John Strachan. Prior to the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 4 Feb. 1815, he was further employed on board the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, under whom, besides serving on the coast of Holland, he escorted convoy to and from the West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. With the exception of the command of the Hound Revenue-vessel, which he held from 20 March, 1829, until April, 1832, Lieut. Hungerford, since 1815, has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hungate, William

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​HUNGATE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
William Hungate was born 7 Sept. 1786. He was presented to William IV. by the Earl of Denbigh, as a Baronet, 27 April, 1831.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 July, 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Pique 36, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross. In the course of the same year he witnessed the evacuation of Aux Cayes, St. Domingo, the capture, with other vessels, of Le Goelan 18, and the surrender of three French frigates with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army from Cape François on board. He was also, in Jan. 1804, present in the unsuccessful attack on the island of Curaçoa; and in Dec. 1804 and Feb. 1805, we find him assisting at the capture of the Spanish ships of war Diligentia and Orquijo. On 26 March, 1806, he further contributed to the taking of the French corvettes Phaeton and Voltigeur of 16 guns and 115 men each; the former of which vessels offered so fierce a resistance that 9 of the British were killed, and 14 of them (including Mr. Hungate in the knee) wounded, while in the act of boarding. For their gallantry on the occasion the officers were each presented by the Patriotic Society with the sum of 100l. for the purchase of a sword, and the men with 20l. a-piece. In Aug. 1807, on his return with a large convoy to England, Mr. Hungate removed to the Elizabeth 74, Capts. Hon. H. Curzon, Thos. Searle, and Edw. Leveson Gower. In that ship, in which he served as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Second Master, until June, 1812, he witnessed the departure of the Royal Family of Portugal for the Brazils, aided in blockading the Russian Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s squadron in the Tagus, was employed in embarking the troops after the battle of Corunna, and was for some time stationed in South America. From June, 1812, until Feb. 1816, Mr. Hungate officiated as Second Master of the Minden 74, bearing the flag at first of Sir Samuel Hood, and afterwards commanded by Capt. Donald Hugh Mackay, on the East India station. He then, having passed his examination in Dec. 1809, took up a commission bearing date 2 March, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hungate married, 27 Aug. 1818, Jane, daughter of the late Lieut. Wm. Avery, R.N., and. by that lady, who died 21 June, 1845, has issue six sons and four daughters. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stevens, Frederick Hildebrand

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​STEVENS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Frederick Hildebrand Stevens entered the Navy 18 Sept. 1823; passed his examination 9 Nov. 1830; and, on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 July, 1841, was nominated Additional of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney in the Mediterranean; where he had been serving latterly, as Mate, on board the Medea steamer, Capt. Fred. Warden. His appointments have since been – in the course of the same year, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, fitting at Portsmouth – 26 March, 1842, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean – 18 Jan. and 8 April, 1843, and 12 Sept. 1844, to the Geyser steamer, Medea again, and Orestes 18, Capts. Edw. John Carpenter, F. Warren, and Edw. St. Leger Cannon, on the same station – 14 Nov. 1846, to the America 50., Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, employed on particular service – and, 30 Nov. 1847, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. John Shepherd, now on the S.E. coast of America. In the Powerful and Queen he was Additional, and in the Geyser, Orestes, and America First, Lieutenant. Of the Inconstant he is at present Second-Lieutenant. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stephens, John

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​STEPHENS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Stephens entered the Navy 15 Oct. 1829; passed his examination 20 July, 1836; and while serving in the Mediterranean as Mate on board the Inconstant 36, Capt. Danl. Pring, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 17 Aug. 1841. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Aug. 1841, as Additional, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Geo. Mansel, also in the Mediterranean – 23 Nov. following, for a short time, to the Implacable 72, Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the same station – 11 May, 1843, again as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Dublin 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich, Thomas in the Pacific – 2 Aug. 1844, to the Growler steam-sloop, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned in the spring of 1845 – 8 April, 1846, as First, to the Childers 12, Capt. John Chas. Pitman, on the East India station – and, 7 May, 1847, nine months after he had been superseded from the Childers, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Louis, Admiral Superintendent at Plymouth, ​where he remained until the early part of 1848. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stephens, Philip

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​STEPHENS, formerly Wilkinson. (Admiral of the Red, 1837. f-p., 22; h-p., 41.)
Philip Stephens died in 1846. He was only son of the late Capt. Thos. Wilkinson, R.N., by Millicent, eldest surviving daughter of Wm. Howe, Esq., of Mistley Thorne, co. Essex; and grand-nephew of the late Sir Philip Stephens, Bart., M.P. for Sandwich, many years Secretary, and afterwards one of the Lords Commissioners, of the Admiralty, whose surname he assumed on inheriting, at the death of Viscount Ranelagh in 1820, estates in which Sir Philip had bequeathed to that nobleman (his son-in-law) a life-interest.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Aug. 1783, as a Boy, on board the Latona frigate, Capts. Boston, Sandy, and Berkeley, stationed in the West Indies. He served next as Midshipman, from Dec. 1786 until May, 1789, on the coast of Africa in the Adventure 44, Capts. Davey and John Nicholson Inglefield, the latter of whom he then followed into the Medusa 50. After acting for about three months as Lieutenant in the Niger frigate off Brest, he was confirmed, we believe, to that rank, in Oct. 1790, in the Colossus 74, Capt. Henry Harvey. In the course of 1791-2-3 he joined the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Hood, Hebe and Penelope frigates, Capts. Alex. Hood and Bartholomew Rowley, and Europa 50, Commodore John Ford. Under the latter officer he shared in the attack upon St. Domingo. He was promoted, 30 March, 1794, to the command of L’Actif sloop, in the West Indies; was there made Post, 5 Sept. following, into the Hermione 32; and was subsequently appointed – in Feb. 1797, to the Success 32, employed in the Channel and off Cadiz – in May, 1799, to the Unicorn 32, attached to the Channel fleet – in July, 1800, for five months, to the Naiad 38, on the coast of France – in May, 1802, to the Hussar, 38, in which ship, during his passage home with despatches from Ferrol, he was wrecked, on the night of 8 Feb. 1804, on the southernmost part of the Saintes – and, in Nov. 1810, to the Courageux 74, in the Baltic, where he remained until May, 1813. He was not afterwards employed. He became a Rear-Admiral 4 Dec. 1813; a Vice-Admiral 10 July, 1821; and a full Admiral 10 Jan. 1837.
Admiral Stephens was Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Norfolk. He married, in 1804, Sophia, daughter of Wm. Worth, Esq., of Hayneford, near Norwich.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stephens, William Knighton

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​STEPHENS. (Captain, 1846.)
William Knighton Stephens entered the Navy 19 Jan. 1829; passed his examination in 1833; obtained his first commission 30 April, 1834; and was subsequently appointed – 18 March, 1836, to the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, fitting at Plymouth – 2 Nov. following, to the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, in the Mediterranean – and, 7 Nov. 1837 and 28 Dec. 1838, as Senior, to the Hazard 18 and Carysfort 26, Capts. Jas. Wilkinson and Henry Byam Martin, on the same station. For his services in the latter ship during the operations on the coast of Syria, where he commanded the boats in the attack upon Tortosa, and assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was promoted to the rank of Commander 4 Nov. 1840. From 14 Dec. 1844 until advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846, he officiated as Second-Captain of the Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, attached to the Channel squadron.
Capt. Stephens is married and has issue. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stephens, Robert Lee

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​STEPHENS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Robert Lee Stephens entered the Navy 12 Dec. 1812; and passed his examination in 1819. While serving with Capt. Thos. Bennett in the Cygnet 10, he had the good fortune, 10 July, 1822, with two boats belonging to that vessel, to save all but 4 of the crew of the Sarah free-trader of 900 tons, which was in the act of foundering during a furious north-wester in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. “I trust, Sir,” says Mr. James Norton, late commander of the Sarah, in a letter addressed to Capt. Bennett, “that you will permit me the gratification of impressing on your attention the admirable manner in which Mr. Stephens, the officer appointed by you to the dangerous duty, fulfilled your intentions and orders, at the risk of his own life and those of your boats’ crews. His humanity, presence of mind, and cool courage, were the cause of preservation to the many lives that were saved – those qualities were equally and eminently conspicuous during a scene the most appalling and afflicting that can be imagined.” Mr. Stephens was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 30 March, 1826. He has been in charge, since 7 June, 1831, of a station in the Coast Guard. He married, in Feb. 1830, Miss Ede, of Millbrook.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stephens, Thomas

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​STEPHENS. (Lieutenant, 1834.)
Thomas Stephens died 27 Dec. 1844 at Barnstaple.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 4 Sept. 1823; and embarked, 22 March, 1825, as a Volunteer, on board the Aurora 46, Capt. John Maxwell, stationed off Lisbon. In May, 1826, he removed as Midshipman to the Forte 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, fitting for South America; whence, we believe, he returned in 1829 with Sir John Gordon Sinclair in the Lord Wellington. After serving for a short time at Portsmouth in the Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliott, he was nominated Mate, in Sept. 1829 (immediately after he had passed his examination), of the Melville 74, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Christopher John Williams Nesham, on the Mediterranean station. He next, in Sept. 1830, joined the Favorite 18, Capt. Joseph Harrison, on the coast of Africa; where, in Jan. and May, 1833, he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of_ the Pluto steamer and Brisk brig. He was officially promoted 2 April, 1834; and was subsequently, 11 June and 10 Sept. 1836, appointed to the Melville 74, flag-ship of Sir Peter Halkett, and Champion 18, Capts. Robt. Fair and Geo. St. Vincent King, both on the North America and West India station. He was paid off from the Champion, of which vessel he had been the greater part of the time First-Lieutenant, in Nov. 1838; and did not afterwards go afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stevens, James Agnew

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​STEVENS. (Commander, 1842.)
James Agnew Stevens entered the Navy, 9 Aug. 1803, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Sulphur bomb, Capt. Danl. M‘Leod; and on 14 of the ensuing month was wounded in an attack upon the town of Granville. Removing with Capt. M‘Leod, in Oct. 1804, to the Cygnet sloop, commanded afterwards by Capt. Robt. Bell Campbell, he proceeded in that vessel to the West Indies; where, in June and Aug. 1806, he became Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, and Alligator, Capt. R. B. Campbell. In Dec. of the same year he joined the Seahorse of 42 guns and 281 men, Capt. John Stewart, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; and on the night of 5 July, 1808, he contributed to the capture, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the Seahorse (30 of whose crew were absent) of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, of the Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded. The Alis Fezan, of 26 guns and 230 men, a ship which had been also opposed to the Seahorse, was at the same time put to flight. While on his passage, 2 Oct. 1809, with despatches to Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin at Palermo, Mr. Stevens was again wounded and taken prisoner by the French. He was detained at Naples until 17 Feb. 1811; and being then exchanged he rejoined the Seahorse, in which ship, after serving for a short time with Sir Chas. Cotton in the San Josef 110, he returned in the following June to England an invalid. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 7 July, 1812. At the commencement of the peace he had command, under the authority of the Post-office and Admiralty, of the Pelham and Uxbridge Falmouth and Holyhead packets; and he was afterwards, from 18 May, 1837, until advanced to his present rank 4 May, 1842, employed in the Packet-service at Weymouth, with his name on the books of the Victory 104, bearing the flag of the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth; where, since 28 Jan. 1848, he has been officiating as Second-Captain of the Blenheim steam guard-ship, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin. Commander Stevens’ eldest daughter is the wife of Commander Jonas Archer Abbott, R.N.