A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Budd, Hopewell Hayward
BUDD. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 12; h-p., 39.)
Hopewell Hayward Budd entered the Navy, 5 March, 1796, as A.B., on board La Juste 80, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham, employed on the Home station; attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. following; removed, as Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1797, to the Volcano, Capt. Cotgrave, lying at Plymouth; and, from 4 Sept. 1798, until paid off, 23 Sept. 1802, served, with Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Robt. Jackson, and Rich. Curry, in the Tigre 74, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant. While under the orders of Sir W. S. Smith, he assisted at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in March, 1799, and was afterwards very actively employed in Egypt until the final surrender of Alexandria in Sept. 1801. On 12 March, 1803, Mr. Budd rejoined the last-mentioned officer in the Antelope 50, in the North Sea, on which station he commanded, from 13 March to 10 April, 1804, the Lord Nelson tender, and was immediately afterwards transferred, still as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Cruiser 18, Capt. John Hancock, under whom he was present, on 17 of the following May, in a gallant attack on a powerful division of the enemy’s flotilla, of 59 sail, passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend; whose fire, during an engagement of six hours and a half, occasioned the Cruiser a loss of 1 man killed and 4 wounded.[1] He subsequently received from the Admiralty a commission dated back to the 1st of the latter month; and, in Aug. of the same year, he invalided from extreme ill health. On 11 Aug. 1805, he was next appointed to the Pompeé 74, bearing the flag of his old friend Sir Sidney Smith on the Mediterranean station, where, among various other services, he participated, in 1806, in the reduction of the island of Capri and the attack on Fort Licosa, attended, in Feb. 1807, the expedition to the Dardanells, and then visited the shores of Egypt. On Vice-Admiral Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope hoisting his flag shortly afterwards on board the Pompée, we find Lieut. Budd further accompanying the force despatched under Lord Gambier to seize the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. His ensuing and last appointments were, on 24 May and 14 Dec. 1808, to the London 98, commanded in South America by Capt. Thos. Western, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship on that station of Sir W. S. Smith. He returned home in Aug. 1809, and accepted his present rank 10 Oct. 1836.
Commander Budd was granted, on 5 Nov. 1813, a pension of 91l. 5s. in consequence of several severe contusions which he had received in the leg and breast as far back as 1806. He also obtained a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1804, p. 641.