A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ayscough, Hawkins Godolphin
AYSCOUGH. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Hawkins Godolphin Ayscough is son of Rear-Admiral John Ayscough.
This officer was educated at the Royal Naval College He served for some time on the West India station, under the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys; was employed in the North Sea during the revolution in the Netherlands; and, having passed his examination in 1834, was presented with a comission by Sir Geo. Cockburn, on that officer striking his flag as Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies, 14 June, 1836. On 28 Dec. following (after an attachment of a few months to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean, and Canopus 84, commanded by Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, on the coast of Spain, during the Carlist insurrection), Mr. Ayscough joined the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, in which ship he continued until 10 May, 1838. He has since been on half-pay.