Hon Augustus Charles Hobart R.N.
Hon Augustus Charles Hobart R.N.
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Hon Augustus Charles Hobart R.N. | Explanation |
Third son of Augustus Edward Hobart (from August 1878 Hobart-Hampden, sixth earl of Buckinghamshire, 1793-
1885) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
1 April 1822 | | Born (Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire) |
Married, firstly, Mary Anne (d. 13 Apr 1877), second daughter of Dr Colquhoun Grant |
5 May 1879 | | Married, secondly, Edith Katherine (d. 1923), daughter of Herbert Francis Hore of Pole Hore, Co. Wexford |
18 June 1886 | | Died (Milan, where he had gone to recover his health) |
1887 | | 'Sketches from my life' (containing many proved inaccuracies) published posthumously |
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Date | Rank |
1835 | Entered Navy |
25 September 1845 | Lieutenant |
29 September 1855 | Commander |
25 March 1863 | Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
11 November 1845 | | Lieutenant in Rattler, commanded by Henry Smith [b]. Mediterranean |
11 March 1847 | | Additopnal Lieutenant in Hibernia, commanded by Charles Wise, flagship of Vice-Admiral William Parker, Mediterranean |
1847 | | Lieutenant in Bulldog, commanded by Astley Cooper Key, Mediterranean |
30 January 1854 | | Lieutenant in Bulldog, commanded by William King Hall, the Baltic during the Russian War |
1855 | | Lieutenant in Duke of Wellington, commanded by Henry Caldwell, flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, the Baltic during the Russian War |
1855 | 1858 | , Coast Guard, Dingle, Co. Kerry |
29 November 1858 | 5 August 1861 | Commander in Hibernia, flagship of Admiral Superintendent Malta, Rear-Admiral Henry John Codrington |
15 August 1861 | | Commander in Foxhound, Mediterranean |
1863 | | Retired from the navy and took command of a Confederate blockade-runner during the American Civil War |
1867 | | Entered the Ottoman service as naval adviser to the sultan (in succession to Admiral Sir Adolphus Slade) with the rank of rear-Admiral, suppressing the Cretan rebellion by intercepting supplies from Greece, and later dominating the Black Sea during the Russo-Tuekish war of 1877-1878 |
1869 | | Raised to the rank of Admiral in the Ottoman navy, with the title of pasha |
1881 | | Appointed mushir or marshal of the Ottoman empire |