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See also:HOTHAM, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM HOTHAM, 1ST See also:BARON (1736-1813) , See also:British See also:Admiral, son of See also:Sir See also:Beaumont Hotham (d. 1771), a lineal descendant of the above Sir See also:John Hotham, was educated at See also:Westminster School and at the Royal See also:Naval See also:Academy, See also:Portsmouth. He entered the See also:navy in 1751, and spent most of his See also:midshipman's See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:American See also:waters. In 1755 he became See also:lieutenant in Sir See also:Edward See also:Hawke's See also:flagship the " St See also:George," and he soon received a small command, which led gradually to higher posts. In the " Syren " (20) he fought a See also:sharp See also:action with the See also:French " Telemaque " of See also:superior force, and in the " See also:Fortune " See also:sloop he carried, by boarding, a 26-See also:gun See also:privateer. For this service he was rewarded with a more powerful See also:ship, and from 1757 onwards commanded various frigates. In 1759 his ship the " Melampe," with H.M.S. " See also:Southampton,".fought a spirited action with two hostile frigates of similar force, one of which became their See also:prize. The " Melampe " was attached to See also:Keppel's See also:squadron in 1761, but was in the See also:main employed in detached See also:duty and made many captures. In 1776, as a See also:commodore, Hotham served in See also:North American waters, and he had a See also:great See also:share in the brilliant action in the Cul de See also:Sac of St See also:Lucia (Dec. 15th, 1778). Here he continued till the See also:spring of 1781, when.he was sent See also:home in See also:charge of a large See also:convoy of inerchantmen Off Scilly Hotham See also:fell in with a powerful French squadron, against which he could effect nothing, and many of the See also:merchant-men went to See also:France as prizes. In 1782 Commodore Hotham was with See also:Howe at the See also:relief of See also:Gibraltar, and at the time of the See also:Spanish armament of 1790 he flew his See also:flag as See also:rear-admiral of the red. Some time later he was made See also:vice-admiral. As' See also:Hood's second-in-command in the Mediterranean he was engaged against the French Revolutionary navy, and when his See also:chief retired to See also:England the command devolved upon him. On See also:March 12th, 1794 he fought an indecisive See also:fleet action, in which the brunt of the fighting was See also:borne by See also:Captain Horatio See also:Nelson, and some months later, now a full admiral, he again engaged, this time under conditions which might have permitted a decisive victory;
of this affair Nelson wrote home that it was a " miserable action." A little later he returned to England, and in 1797 he was made a peer of See also:Ireland under the See also:title of Baron Hotham of See also:South See also:Dalton, near See also:Hull. He died in 1813. Hotham lacked the fiery See also:energy and See also:genius of a Nelson or a Jervis, but in subordinate positions he was a brave and capable officer.
As Hotham died unmarried his See also:barony passed to his See also:brother, Sir Beaumont Hotham (1737-1814), who became 2nd Baron Hotham in May 1813. Beaumont, who was a baron of the See also:exchequer for See also:thirty years, died on the 4th of March 1814, and was succeeded as 3rd baron by his See also:grandson Beaumont Hotham (1794-1870), who was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo, being afterwards a member of See also:parliament for See also:forty-eight years. He died unmarried in See also:December 187o and was succeeded by his See also:nephew, See also:Charles (1836-1872), and then by another nephew, John (1838-1907). In 1907 his See also:cousin See also:Frederick William (b. 1863) became the 6th baron.
Other distinguished members of this See also:family were the 2nd baron's son, Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Hotham (1777-1833), avice-admiral, who saw a great See also:deal of service during the See also:Napoleonic See also:wars; and Sir William Hotham (1772-1848), a nephew of the 1st baron, who served with See also:Duncan in 1797 off Camperdown and elsewhere.
See See also:Charnock, Biographic navalis, vi. 236.
End of Article: HOTHAM, WILLIAM HOTHAM, 1ST BARON (1736-1813)
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