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HOTHAM, BEAUMONT, 3RD BARON HOTHAM (I), eldest son of Beaumont Hotham (adm. 1777, qv); b. 9 Aug 1794; adm. 28 Jun 1806; left 1808; RMC Sandhurst; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 27 Jun 1810; Lieut. and Capt., 13 Jan 1814; Brevet Maj., 21 Jan 1819; half-pay 14 Oct 1819; restored to active list 10 Nov 1825; Lieut. -Col., half-pay, unattached 24 Dec 1825; Col., 28 Jun 1838; Maj. -Gen., 11 Nov 1851; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Aug 1858; Gen., 12 Jan 1865; served in Peninsular War, wounded at Salamanca; present at Waterloo; succeeded grandfather as 3rd Baron Hotham (I) 4 Mar 1814; MP (Tory/Conservative) Leominster 1820-31, 22 Dec 1831-41, Yorkshire East Riding 1841-68; d. unm. 12 Dec 1870. DNB.

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.

HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Col. Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. MP, Groom of the Bedchamber to George II, and Lady Gertrude Stanhope, eldest dau. of Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield (qv); b. Sep 1735; succ. father as 6th baronet 15 Jan 1737/8; adm. Oct 1745 (Morel's); left 1751; Grand Tour (France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Scandinavia) 1751-7; gave himself up to melancholy and to Methodism; in poor health from 1759; m. 31 Oct 1757 Caroline Anne, only surviving dau. of Thomas Clutterbuck (qv); d. at Stavelot, near Spa 13 Oct 1767, from the effects of a fall from his horse.

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.