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Rh Sept. 1831. He married, 30 Dec. 1806, Elizabeth, daughter of John Kimber, Esq., of Fowey, co. Cornwall, by whom he has had issue two sons (the present, and the late ) and three daughters, of whom the second is married to her first-cousin Lieut.-Col. Hon. Fras. Grosvenor Hood, of the Grenadier Guards. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 HAMOND. 

was born 3 March, 1814, at Fowey, co. Cornwall, and died 23 Jan. 1847, at Woolwich, while in command of the steam-sloop. He was second and youngest son of the present

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Feb. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, to whom, in the following Oct., after having for some time blockaded the port of Navarin, he officiated as Aide-de-Camp at the bombardment and storming of the Morea Castle. In the summer of 1829 he accompanied Sir Robt. Gordon as British Ambassador to Constantinople, where, during an audience with the Sultan, he was presented with a cloak by that potentate. He next visited the Black Sea, and in the spring of 1830 was employed in partially surveying and wholly sounding of the Bosporus, the Golden Horn of Constantinople, and many places in the Sea of Marmara. In Feb. 1831, shortly after he had escorted Sir John Malcolm from Alexandria to Malta, Mr. Hamond became Midshipman of the 46, also commanded by Capt. Lyons, in which ship he had an opportunity, in May, 1832, of witnessing Ibrahim Pacha’s bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. We subsequently find him, in the early part of 1833, attending King Otho and the Bavarian Regency from Trieste to Greece, and for several months in that year employed in the ’s barge as steersman to His Majesty. On the paying off of the latter frigate in Jan. 1835 Mr. Hamond (who, previously to passing his examination in Feb. 1834, had had charge of a watch for 12 months) sailed for South America in the 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, for the purpose of joining the flag-ship of his father, by whom be was transferred to the 10, Lieut.-Commander Fred. Patten. Being awarded the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 1 Feb. 1835, he was afterwards appointed in that capacity – 29 June, 1835, to the 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt, under whom he surveyed in part several harbours on the N.W. coast of North America – 23 July, 1836, to the  46, bearing the broad pendant in the Pacific of Commodore Fras. Mason – 4 July, 1837, to the 26, Capt. Hen. Wm. Bruce, employed among the South Sea Islands – 17 Jan. 1838, to the 18, Capt. Chas. Eden, in which sloop he returned to England in the following summer – 23 Feb. 1839, to the 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in May, 1840 – and, 13 Jan. 1842, to the 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Fras. Mason, on the same station. He attained the rank of Commander 5 June, 1843, and was lastly appointed, 5 Nov. 1846, to the steam-sloop. He died as above.

Commander Hamond married, 7 Dec. 1843, Lucia, only daughter of Luke Dodds, Esq., of Hythe House, Hythe, near Southampton, co. Hants, by whom he has left issue. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 HANCOCK. 

entered the Navy 3 March, 1834; passed his examination 12 Dec. 1840; and after an intermediate servitude as Mate, in the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the 50, and  gunnery-ship, Capts. Wm. Walpole and Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 July, 1844. He has been employed, since 5 of the following Nov., in the 50, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin, bearing the flag at first of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the S.E. coast of America, and now stationed in North America and the West Indies.

This officer obtained his commission as a reward for having passed the best examination at the Royal Naval College.

 HANCOCK. 

is son of.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 June, 1832; and embarked, in 1834, as a Volunteer, on board the 28, commanded in South America by Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt. Becoming Midshipman, in Nov. 1836, of the 26, Capts. Wm. Broughton and Jas. Scott, he eventually, after a continued servitude on the latter station, where he passed his examination in the summer of 1839, proceeded to China. He came home in Aug. 1841, but being again ordered to China towards the close of the same year in the troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome, arrived there in time to witness the final operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang. For a short time previous to the receipt of his commission, which bears date 20 Sept. 1843, and which was given to him in consequence of the recommendation of Capt. Kingcome, we find Mr. Hancock successively employed in the surveying-vessel, Capt. Hen. Kellett, and 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. He then Joined the, Capt. Michael Quin, Hospital-ship at Hong Kong, whence he returned to England in Jan. 1845 on board the 16, Capt. Philip Justice. He has been serving on the coast of Africa since 26 May, 1845, as First of the steam-sloop, Capt. Joseph West.

 HANCOCK. 

(a) entered the Navy, 8 April, 1795, as A.B., on board the 100, Capt. John Holloway, bearing the successive flags of Admirals Lord Hotham, Sir Hyde Parker, Chas. Thompson, and Sir Peter Parker; in which ship he participated in the actions of 13 July, 1795, and 14 Feb. 1797, off Capes Rioux and St. Vincent. In Feb. 1798 he removed to the 32, Capts. Edw. Fellowes and Robt. Rolles, on the West India station, where, during a continuance of three years, he appears to have been instrumental to the capture of a large number of the enemy’s vessels. He then became Master’s Mate of the 14, Capts. Rich. Hawkins and Michael Dodd, employed in the Channel and off Newfoundland, but, being discharged in Dec. 1802, he did not again go afloat until Jan. 1806, when he joined, in a similar capacity, the 64, commanded at first by Capt. Rolles, and afterwards by Capt. Hen. Heathcote, with whom he served in the East Indies until the early part of 1808. In April, 1809, after an intermediate attachment to the, Capt. Robt. Forbes, and, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Mr. Hancock was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 10, Capts. Geo. Moubray and John Geo. Boss. His appointment to that sloop being confirmed by commission dated 24 April, 1811, he continued to serve in her on the West India station – participating intermediately in the capture of two French privateers and of upwards of 20 American merchantmen – until wrecked, off Port Royal, Jamaica, in Feb. 1813. His subsequent appointments were – 15 Oct. 1813, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Henderson, also in the West Indies, whence he invalided in March, 1815 – and, 24 Feb. 1829, to the Coast Blockade, in which service, with his name on the books of the and  74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, he remained until 1830. He has since been on half-pay.

 HANCOCK. 

(b) entered the Navy 1 Feb. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and was promoted,