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HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Sir John Hotham, Bart. (qv); b. 24 May 1766; adm. 15 Jun 1778; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 13 Jul 1785; Lieut. and Capt., 30 Nov 1790; retd. 20 Feb 1794; succ. father as 10th baronet 3 Nov 1795; his diary of Fighting in Flanders 1793-4 was published in The Nineteenth Century and After, May and Nov 1916; m. 16 Nov 1804 Elizabeth, fourth dau. of Owen Meyrick-Meyrick, Carmarthenshire; d. 18 Jul 1811.

HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Hon. Frederick Hotham (qv); b. 14 Jan 1806; adm. 13 Apr 1814; left 30 Mar 1818; entered Royal Navy 6 Nov 1818; Capt., 28 Jun 1833; Commander-in-Chief, West Coast of Africa 1845-6; on special mission to Argentine Confederation, Paraguay-Uruguay, 17 Apr 1852; Lieut. -Governor, Victoria 6 Dec 1853, Governor from 1 Feb 1855; KCB 9 Mar 1846; m. 10 Dec 1853 Hon. Sarah Jane Hood, widow of Hugh Holbech, Farnborough, Warwicks., and dau. of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (I); d. at Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 31 Dec 1855.

HOTHAM, CHARLES, third son of George Hotham (adm. 1782, qv), and his first wife; b.; adm. 13 Mar 1809; left 2 Aug 1817; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1817, aged 18, scholar 1817; BA 1821; MA 1825 (incorp. Cambridge 1833); Fellow, Univ. Coll., 1825; ordained deacon 14 Jul 1822, priest 3 Aug 1823 (both York); Chaplain and Librarian, Lincoln’s Inn (occurs 1829); Rector of Roos, Yorks., from 1841; Prebendary of York from 15 Sep 1842; m. 5 Jan 1837 Lucy Elizabeth, widow of Hon. and Rev. Henry Duncombe, Rector of Kirby Misperton, Yorks., and eldest dau. of Rev. Christopher Sykes, Rector of Roos, Yorks.; d. 11 Feb 1866.

HOTHAM, DURAND, brother of Charles Hotham (b. 1615, qv); b. 15 Sep 1619; at school under Osbaldeston (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, i, 424); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 Nov 1632; BA 1636/7; MA 1640; adm. Middle Temple 25 Jan 1640/1; involved in his father’s disgrace in 1643, but discharged after being examined by Parliament; assisted his father at his trial in the Guildhall in Nov and Dec 1644; retired to Lockington, Yorks., where he occupied himself in scientific porsuits; translated his brother Charles’s Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam Manuductio, 1650, and wrote a Life of Jacob Boehme, 1654; m. 23 Aug 1645 Frances, dau. of Richard Remington, Lund, Yorks.; d. 1691. DNB.

HOTHAM, EDWIN, second son of Sir William Hotham (adm. 1782, qv), and his first wife; b. 13 Dec 1807; adm. 13 Jan 1820 (G); left Whitsun 1822; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Nov 1826; BA 1830; MA 1833; ordained deacon 1831, priest 1 Nov 1832 (both Rochester); Vicar of South Cave, Yorks., 1834; Rector of South Dalton, Yorks. 1844-54; Rector of Crowcombe, Somerset, from 1853; m. 13 Sep 1838 Harriet, youngest dau. of Sir John Geers Cotterell, Bart. MP; d. 8 Mar 1875.

HOTHAM, FREDERICK EARLE, fourth son of Sir William Hotham (adm. 1782, qv), and his first wife; b. 20 Mar 1812; adm. 16 Jan 1827 (G); Writer, EICS Bengal 1830; d. on his passage out to India on board the Moira 27 Sep 1831.

HOTHAM, HON. FREDERICK, second son of Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (qv); b. 16 Jan 1774; adm. 4 Apr 1782; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Jan 1791, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1791 – void 17 Nov 1794, on election as Fellow All Souls’; BA 1794; MA 1798; Fellow of All Souls Coll., Oxford 1794 (still 1800); ordained; Rector of Burnham Sutton, Norfolk, from 15 Oct 1802; Prebendary of Rochester from 26 Nov 1807; Rector of Dennington, Suffolk, from 1 Feb 1808; Proctor in Convocation; compiled a manuscript history of the Hotham family; m. 23 Nov 1802 Anne Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hallett Hodges, Hemstead Place, Kent; d. 10 Oct 1854.

HOTHAM, GEORGE, brother of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1741, qv); b. 7 Jan 1741; adm. Mar 1748; in school list 1754; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 14 May 1759; Lieut. and Capt., 10 Jul 1765; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 8 Aug 1775; retd. 13 Jun 1776; Brevet Col. and ADC to King George III 13 Feb 1782; Col., 14th Foot, 18 Nov 1789 – Feb 1803; Maj. -Gen., 28 Apr 1790; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Jan 1797; Gen., 29 Apr 1802; ADC to Lieut. -Gen. (afterwards Field Marshal) Conway during last three years of war in Germany 1761-3, and to Earl of Hertford as Lord Lieut. Ireland; tutor and Sub-Governor to Prince of Wales and his younger brothers Jun 1776-80; Treasurer and Secretary to Prince of Wales 1780 – 5 Jan 1787, when dismissed from Prince’s service; continued at George III’s request to manage the pecuniary affairs of the younger princes; m. 16 Dec 1769 Diana, youngest dau. of Sir Warton Pennyman Warton, Bart. (qv); d. 7 Feb 1806.

HOTHAM, GEORGE, eldest son of George Hotham (adm. 1748, qv); b. 18 Oct 1770; adm. 4 Apr 1782; Page of Honour to Queen Charlotte c. 1779-87; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 17 Oct 1787; Lieut. and Capt., 30 Nov 1792; retd. 10 Dec 1794; m. 1st, 1 Mar 1792 Caroline, dau. of Roger Gee, Burton Bishop, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1813 Rosamond, only dau. of Rev. Francis Best, Rector of South Dalton, Yorks.; d. 24 Apr 1823.

HOTHAM, HON. SIR HENRY, third son of Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (qv); b. 19 Feb 1777; adm. 3 Apr 1785; Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth 1788; entered Royal Navy on board HMS Princess Royal 1790; served in Mediterranean 1793-8; Lieut., 6 Jun 1794; Cdr.; Post Capt., 13 Jun 1795; commanded HMS Immortalité in Bay of Biscay 1799-1801; with Sir Richard Strachan 1805; in command of HMS Defiance when he drove three French frigates aground on Les Sables d’Olonne 1809, and of HMS Northumberland when he destroyed two frigates off L’Orient 1812; Rear Adm., 4 Jun 1814; while commanding squadron in Bay of Biscay prevented Napoleon’s escape to America Jul 1815; a Lord of the Admiralty 2 Apr 1818 – 23 Mar 1822, 19 Sep 1828 – 25 Nov 1830; Vice-Adm., 27 May 1825; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, from Jan 1831; KCB 2 Jan 1815; GCMG 4 Jul 1831; m. 6 Jul 1816 Lady Frances Anne Juliana Rous, dau. of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv); d. at Malta 19 Apr 1833. DNB.