HOTHAM, CHARLES, third son of Sir John Hotham, Bart. , Governor of Hull, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Ralph Rokeby, Secretary, Council of the North; b. 12 May 1615; adm. ; KS 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1631, matr. 1631; migrated to Christ’s Coll. , adm. pens. 7 May 1632; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; ordained; Vicar of Withernsea, Yorks. , 1640-4; Vicar of Hollyn in Holderness, Yorks. , 5 Nov 1640-4; returned to Cambridge; Fellow of Peterhouse 11 Jun 1644-51, Bursar 1646-8; University Preacher and Proctor 1646; preached against the Engagement Dec 1650; quarrelled with the Master of his college and petitioned against his “usurpations”; his publication of a pamphlet entitled Corporations Vindicated led to his expulsion from his fellowship in 1651; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks. , 22 Jul 1652; Rector of Wigan, Lancs. , 1653-62, when he was ejected for nonconformity after a prolonged resistance; emigrated to West Indies, where he became one of the ministers in the Somers Islands (Bermuda), so appointed 28 Feb 1668/9; a man of some scientific attainments, particularly interested in chemistry and astronomy; FRS 9 Jan 1667/8; translated Boehme, Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions, 1654; author, Ad Philosophiam Teutonicam Manuductio, 1648; m. 15 Sep 1656 Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Thompson, Hambleton, Yorks. ; d. in Somers Islands 3 Mar 1671/2. DNB.
