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 June 6, 1809, had five sons and one daughter. His eldest son, the Rev. Houlton Hartwell, Vicar of Loders and Bradpole, in Dorsetshire, and an active magistrate of that county, died February 24, 1819, aged 36 years.

Sir Francis Hartwell married, second, in 1812, Miss Aldridge, sister of John Aldridge, of New Lodge, co. Sussex, Esq.

Residence.– Laleham, Middlesex. 

 officer attained the rank of Lieutenant about the year 1768; and served as such in the Courageux and the Robust 74’s, commanded by the brothers Captains Samuel and Alexander Hood, both of whom were afterwards advanced to the peerage. He was made a Post-Captain October 11, 1780; and soon after appointed to the command of the Barfleur, a second rate, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, whom he accompanied to the West Indies, with a reinforcement for the squadron in that quarter, under the orders of Sir George B. Rodney.

On the 29th April, 1781, Sir Samuel Hood having been detached with eighteen sail of the line to cruise off Martinique, fell in and had a partial action with the French fleet under the Count de Grasse, consisting of twenty-four ships of the line and two of 50 guns. In this affair the Barfleur had 5 men killed. The total loss sustained by the British was 41 slain and 130 wounded. Amongst the former were Captain Nott, of the Centaur, and Mr. Plowden, his first Lieutenant, two brave and excellent officers. The next day, the enemy’s van and centre being at some distance from their rear, Sir Samuel Hood, by a bold manoeuvre, notwithstanding his inferiority, attempted to cut them off; but having failed in this resolute enterprise, he was obliged, from the bad condition of many of his ships, to bear away for Antigua. On the 31st July following, he assumed the chief command of the fleet, Sir George B. Rodney having sailed for England.

In the ensuing month Captain Inglefield, who had been removed into the Centaur on the death of her late commander, accompanied Sir Samuel Hood to the coast of America, in pursuit of M. de Grasse. He returned to Barbadoes with the