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Rh steamers. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and is now on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HOSKEN. 

entered the Navy 23 Feb. 1808; passed his examination in 1816; and, between that period and 1824, was employed on the West India and Home stations, in the 36, Capts. Fanshawe, John M‘Kellar, and Jas. Haldane Tait, sloop, Capt. Bernard Yeoman, and  74, Capt. Dundas. On 9 Aug. 1828, as a reward for four years of very active servitude, as Mate of the Revenue-outter, Lieut.-Commanders Cook and Fitzmaurice, he was promoted to his present rank. He was then, until paid off in May, 1830, employed on the Mediterranean station in the bomb, Capt. Stephen Lushington; and he afterwards, until put out of commission in Oct. 1832, had charge of the  and  packets, in the West Indies and South America. He has since been on half-pay.

On leaving the, Lieut. Hosken took command of a merchant-ship; and, in July, 1836, he assumed that of the celebrated steamer the Great Western, in which he made 33 voyages, or 66 passages to and from New York. In Jan. 1844 he was appointed to that leviathan of the deep the Great Britain steam-ship.

 HOSKINS. 

entered the Navy, 10 July, 1803, as A.B., on board the 38, Capt. Wm. Parker. Continuing to serve with that officer for a period of nearly seven years, he in consequence commanded a boat at the cutting-out of a brig from under the batteries of Palma – accompanied Lord Nelson in his celebrated pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies – assisted, on 13 March, 1806, in company with the 98, at the capture, after a long running fight, and a loss to the  of 3 men killed and 6 wounded, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Hear- Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule – and co-operated with the patriots on the coast of Gallicia, where many of the enemy’s batteries were destroyed. On 4 April, 1810, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the 38, Capt. Philip Somerville; in the boats belonging to which frigate he appears to have been wounded at the capture of a privateer, off the island of Ushant, in 1812. He was advanced – after having officiated for 18 months, on board the 74, as Flag-Lieutenant at Gibraltar to Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Linzee – to the rank of Commander 4 July, 1814; but he has not been since afloat.

Commander Hoskins married, in 1820, Mary Anne, youngest daughter of the late Commander Folliott, R.N. (1790), and by that lady has issue.

 HOSTE, Bart. 

, born 19 March, 1818, is son of that distinguished officer, the late Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, Bart., K.C.B., by Harriet, third daughter of Horatio, second Earl of Orford; and nephew of Sir Geo. Chas. Hoste, C.B., Colonel of the Royal Engineers.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1830, as a Volunteer, on board the 46, Capt. John Duff Markland, employed on the Home station; became Midshipman, in Feb. 1833, of the  104, Capt. Edw. Rich. Williams, guard-ship at Portsmouth; and proceeded soon afterwards to South America, in the 28, Capt. Henry Eden. Between March, 1834, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June, 1838, we find him employed in the Mediterranean, the last 15 months as Mate, on board the 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, and 104, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford. Being then, however, reappointed to the latter ship, he continued attached to her, on the same station, until Nov. 1839. He subsequently, from 12 April, 1841, until paid off in Dec. 1842, served in the 50, under the flag of Sir Edw. Durnford King, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope and Brazils, and assisted during that period in taking possession of Port Natal. Being next, on 1 July, 1843, appointed to the yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, Sir Wm. Hoste was present in the ensuing Sept. at the meeting which took place at Treport between the Sovereigns of France and England. He was advanced to his present rank, at the request of H.R.H. Prince Albert, 5 Nov. 1843; and, since 17 Dec. 1845, has been in successive command of the and  steam-sloops, on the East India station.

Sir Wm. Hoste received in 1845 the appointment of Gentleman Usher to the Queen Dowager.

 HOTCHKIS. 

was born 28 Aug. 1766. One of his brothers, Adam, was killed in India, in the Medical Service of the Company, in 1780; another, Alexander, a Lieutenant of Marines, perished in the same year on board the 64, on the coast of America; and a third, David, lost his left leg while serving as a Lieutenant of the  50, in the action off the Dogger Bank in 1781.

This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1778, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 28, Capt. Chas. Hope, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman of the 32, and  38, on the Home and Newfoundland stations, until the peace of 1783. Re-embarking, in 1793, as Master’s Mate, on board the 80, Capts. Thos. Mackenzie and John Pakenham, he had an opportunity, under the former officer, of witnessing Lord Howe’s action of 1 June, 1794, on which occasion he was sent into port as Acting-Master of the 74, one of the prizes taken by the British. On proceeding to the Mediterranean Mr. Hotchkis was there promoted, 17 June, 1795, to a Lieutenancy in the 80, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater. He remained in that ship until burnt out, in consequence of her having accidentally caught fire, in San Fiorenza Bay, 11 April, 1796; after which we find him employed, from 26 Sept. in the same year until May, 1797, on board the 64, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, in the North Sea. He then invalided, from badness of sight, and did not again go afloat. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 21 Dec. 1833.

Commander Hotohlds married, first, 9 Nov. 1800, Mary, daughter of Rich. Pearce, Esq., co. Westmeath. That lady dying in 1830, he espoused, secondly, in 1832, a daughter of Thos. Hart, Esq., a Major in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service, by whom he has issue one son.

 HOTHAM, K.C.B.

, born in 1806, is eldest son of the Rev. Fras. Hotham, Prebendary of Rochester