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HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, BART., eldest son of Sir John Hort, Bart., Consul-General at Lisbon, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer, Bart.; b. 6 Jul 1791; adm. 14 Jan 1805; left 1807; succ. as 2nd baronet 23 Oct 1807; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 5 Jul 1809, matr. Lent 1810; MA 1812; DL JP co. Kildare, High Sheriff 1817; MP Co. Kildare 1831-2; m. 31 Mar 1823 Louisa Georgiana, second dau. of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; d. 24 Aug 1876.

HOSKYNS, JOHN, third son of John Hoskyns, Monnington-on-Wye, Llanwarne, Herefs., and Margery, dau. of Thomas Jones, Llanwarne, Herefs.; b. 1566; at school under Grant one year (Aubrey, Brief Lives, i, 417); went to Winchester Coll., adm. scholar 1579, founder’s kin; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1584/5, scholar 22 Jul 1584, Fellow 22 Jun 1586; BA 1588; MA 26 Feb 1591/2, when he served as “terrae filius” with such bitterness that he was forced to resign his fellowship and retired to Somerset, where he supported himself by teaching; adm. Middle Temple 13 Mar 1592/3, called to bar 22 May 1600, Bencher 1620; MP Hereford Mar 1603/4 – Feb 1610/1, 1614, and Feb 1627/8 – Mar 1628/9; committed to Tower of London for making reflections on James I’s Scottish favourites 7 Jul 1614, but released after a year’s imprisonment; Second Justice of Carmarthen from 3 Jul 1621; Serjeant-at-Law 26 Jun 1623; poet and wit; author of verses, epigrams and epitaphs; said to have revised Raleigh’s History of the World and the poems of Ben Jonson (qv); m. 1 Aug 1601 Benedicta, widow of Francis Bourne, Sutton St. Cleve, Somerset, and dau. of Robert Moyle, Buckwell, Kent; d. 27 Aug 1638. DNB.

HOSKYNS, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Sir John Bennet Hoskyns, Bart., barrister, Bencher Middle Temple, and his first wife Anne, dau. of Sir John Bingley, Kt, Templecombe, Somerset, Auditor of the Exchequer; grandson of John Hoskyns (qv); b. 23 Jul 1634; at school under Busby (British Library, Sloane MSS 4222, f. 208); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Dec 1650; adm. Middle Temple 7 Jul 1647, called to bar 25 Nov 1653, Bencher 10 Nov 1671; knighted 24 Jan 1675/6; a Master in Chancery from 1676; succ. father as 2nd baronet 10 Feb 1679/80; MP Herefordshire Mar 1684/5 – Jul 1687; FRS 20 May 1663 (an original Fellow), President 30 Nov 1682 – 30 Nov 1683; a friend of the antiquary John Aubrey, Lord Keeper Guilford and Sir Christopher Wren (qv); m. 29 Aug 1671 Jane, dau. of Sir Gabriel Lowe, Kt, Newark Park, Ozleworth, Gloucs.; d. 12 Sep 1705. DNB.

HOTHAM, BEAUMONT, 2ND BARON HOTHAM (I), brother of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1741, qv); b. 5 Aug 1737; adm. Apr 1745; became Head Town Boy before he was sixteen; an interesting interview which he had in that capacity with the Head Master is recorded in The Hothams, 1918, ii, 331-2; in school list 1752; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Feb 1753, matr. Easter 1754; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jan 1753, called to bar 26 May 1758; practised in Chancery; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1767-9); Auditor to estates of Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Portland; MP Wigan 1768 – May 1775; declined lucrative official appointments in India 1773, 1774; a Baron of the Exchequer 10 May 1775 – Hilary term 1805; knighted and made Serjeant-at-Law 17 May 1775; a Commissioner of the Great Seal 9 Apr – 23 Dec 1783; succeeded his brother William by special remainder as 2nd Baron Hotham (I) 2 May 1813; m. 6 Jun 1767 Susannah, widow of James Norman, East Molesey, Surrey, and second dau. of Sir Thomas Hankey, Kt, Alderman of London; d. 3 Mar 1814. DNB.

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, SIR CHARLES, BART. , eldest son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, Bart. , Commissioner of Customs, and his cousin Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. Stephen Thompson, Vicar of Welton, Yorks. ; first cousin of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1745, qv); b. 18 Jun 1729; adm. Oct 1741 (Morel's); left 1745; adm. Middle Temple 22 Dec 1742; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 24 Sep 1746; Lieut. and Capt. , 6 Feb 1750; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. , 5 May 1758; Col. in the Army 19 Feb 1762; Lieut. -Col. , 63rd Foot 10 Jul 1765; Col. , 63rd Foot, 13 Sep 1765 – Sep 1768, 15th Foot from 21 Sep 1768; Maj. -Gen. , 25 May 1772; Lieut. -Gen. , 29 Aug 1777; Gen. , 12 Oct 1793; served in Flanders towards end of War of Austrian Succession, on expedition to St. Malo 1758, and in Germany during Seven years War; MP St. Ives 1761-8; a Groom of the Bedchamber to George III 5 May 1763 – 20 Jan 1788; a favourite at Court; succ. father as 8th baronet 29 Aug 1771; assumed surname of Thompson in lieu of Hotham 25 Dec 1772, on succeeding to the Thompson family’s estates at Hambleton and Ebberston, Yorks. , but resumed surname of Hotham 2 Jul 1787, after these estates had been resettled; many interesting particulars of his school life and school fellows are given in The Hothams, 1918, ii, 1-18; m. 21 Oct 1752 Lady Dorothy Hobart, only dau. of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; d. 25 Jan 1794.

HOWARD, HON. FULKE GREVILLE, second son of Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown (I), and Elizabeth, dau. of Shuckburgh Boughton, Poston Court, Herefs.; b. 3 Apr 1773; adm. 13 Jun 1786; KS 1787; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1791, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Jun 1791; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Apr 1793; Lieut. and Capt., 15 Oct 1794; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 16 Apr 1804; Lieut. -Col., 7th West India Regt. 21 May 1807; 9th Garrison Battn., half-pay 16 Jul 1807; Brevet Col., 4 Jun 1813; retd. 1825; served in Netherlands; ADC to Duke of York; MP Castle Rising 29 Jan 1808-32; assumed surname of Howard in lieu of Upton 6 Aug 1807; his marriage eventually brought him the estates of Richard Howard (qv); m. 7 Jul 1807 Mary, only surviving child of Richard Howard (qv); d. 4 Mar 1846.

HOWARD, SIR GEORGE, son of Lieut. -Gen. Thomas Howard, and Mary, sister of Richard Moreton (qv); bapt. 20 Jun 1718; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1728/9; Min. Can. 1732; left 1735; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1735; DCL 7 Jul 1773; Ensign, 24th Foot 28 Feb 1725/6; Lieut., 28 Jan 1736; Capt., 3rd Foot 1 Sep 1739; Lieut. -Col., 2 Apr 1744; Col. in the Army 21 Aug 1749; Col., 3rd Foot 21 Aug 1749 – May 1763; commanded his regiment at Fontenoy, Falkirk, Culloden, the battle of the Val, and on expedition to Rochefort; Maj. -Gen., 16 Jan 1758; Lieut. -Gen., 22 Feb 1760; commanded a brigade under Lord Granby in Germany 1760-2; signed Convention of Brucker Muhl with the French general Guerchy Sep 1762; Col., 7th Dragoons 13 May 1763 – Apr 1779; Governor of Minorca 1766-8; Governor of Chelsea Hospital from 13 Feb 1768; Gen., 6 Sep 1777; Col., 1st Dragoon Guards, from 1 Apr 1779; Governor of Jersey 1790; Field Marshal from 12 Oct 1793; MP Lostwithiel 1761 – Mar 1766, Stamford from 1768; KB 3 Aug 1774; Privy Councillor 29 Jul 1795; m. 1st, 16 Feb 1747 Lady Lucy Wentworth, dau. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford; m. 2nd, 21 May 1776 Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and sister of William Beckford (adm. 1718/9, qv); d. 16 Jul 1796. DNB.

HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 3RD VISCOUNT HOWE (I), second son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (I) MP, and Mary Sophia Charlotte, Lady of Bedchamber to Augusta, Princess of Wales, dau. of Charlotte, Countess of Darlington; b.; aged (8) Nov 1732; left 1735 (but said to have been at Eton Coll. c. 1734); succeeded father as 3rd Viscount Howe (I) 29 Mar 1735; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 9 Mar 1745; Lieut. and Capt., 9 May 1746; served in Flanders as ADC to Duke of Cumberland 1747; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1749; Col. commandant 60th Foot (Royal American Regt. ) 25 Feb 1757 – Sep 1757, 55th Foot from 28 Sep 1757; Brig. -Gen. in North America 29 Dec 1757; second in command of Abercromby’s ill-fated expedition 1758; MP Nottingham from 1747; killed in skirmish with French at Trout Brook, near Ticonderoga, unm. 6 Jul 1758. Monument in North-West Tower, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

HOWE, RICHARD, 1ST EARL HOWE, brother of George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (I) (qv); b. 8 Mar 1725/6; adm. Nov 1732; left 1733; went to Eton Coll.; entered Royal Navy on board HMS Pearl 16 Jul 1739; sailed in HMS Severn as far as Cape Horn with Anson 1740; present at attack on La Guaira 18 Feb 1742/3; Lieut., 8 Aug 1745; severely wounded in action with French frigates off west coast of Scotland 1 May 1746; Post Capt., 10 Apr 1746; his capture of the French ship Alcide off the mouth of the St. Lawrence river on 8 Jun 1755 was the beginning of the Seven Years’ War with France; commanded attack on Cherbourg 5 May 1759; distinguished himself at battle of Quiberon Bay 20 Nov 1759; Rear Adm., 18 Nov 1770; Vice-Adm., 7 Dec 1775; Commander-in-Chief, North American Station Feb 1776; co-operated with his brother Sir William Howe against the American colonists, but resigned command 1778 and remained out of employment until fall of North ministry in early 1782; Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet 2 Apr 1782; Adm., 8 Apr 1782; relieved Gibraltar against French and Spanish fleets Oct 1784 (check); Vice-Admiral of England May 1792 – Mar 1796; won brilliant victory of 1 Jun 1794 in command Channel Fleet, capturing seven French ships; Admiral of the Fleet and General of the Marines 12 Mar 1796; presided over court martial of Vice-Adm. Cornwallis Apr 1796; pacified mutineers at Portsmouth May 1797; MP Dartmouth 23 May 1757 – 20 Apr 1782; succeeded brother as 4th Viscount Howe (I) 6 Jul 1758; a Lord of the Admiralty Apr 1763 – Aug 1765; Privy Councillor 26 Jul 1765; Treasurer of the Navy 9 Aug 1765 – Mar 1770; created Viscount Howe (GB) 2 [check] Apr 1782; First Lord of Admiralty Jan – Apr 1783, Dec 1783 – Jul 1788; attacked in parliament and in print for his reductions and reforms; created Earl Howe 19 Aug 1788; received freedom of City of London 6 May 1796; KG 2 Jun 1797; the signalling code was perfected and refined by him; DL Nottinghamshire 1762, Derbyshire 1763; m. 10 Mar 1758 Mary, dau. of Chiverton Hartop, Welby, Leics.; d. 5 Aug 1799. Monument by Flaxman in St. Paul’s cathedral. DNB.