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HOTHAM, SIR WILLIAM, second son of George Hotham (adm. 1748, qv); b. 12 Feb 1772; adm. 4 Apr 1782; left 1785; entered Royal Navy as 1st cl. Volunteer, HMS Grampus 1786; Lieut., 27 Oct 1790; served as volunteer with brigade of seamen employed under Nelson at siege of Bastia May 1794; Cdr., 12 Aug 1794; Post Capt., 4 Oct 1794; commanded HMS Adamant at battle of Camperdown 11 Oct 1797, and at blockade of Mauritius 1799; Rear-Adm. 4 Dec 1813; Vice-Adm., 19 Jul 1821; Adm., 10 Jan 1837; KCB 2 Jan 1815; GCB 4 Jul 1840; “for several years a Gentleman in Waiting” (DNB) [but not in Sainty/Bucholz]; his diaries and written recollections formed the basis of A, M. W. Stirling, Pages and Portraits of the Past, 1919; m. 1st, 7 Jun 1804 Anne, dau. of Sir Edward Jeynes, Kt; m. 2nd, 25 Jun 1835 Jane Seymour, widow of Roger Pettiward, Great Finborough Hall, Suffolk, and dau. of Francis Colman, Hillersdown, Devon; d. 31 May 1848. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.