A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, John Fane Charles
HAMILTON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
John Fane Charles Hamilton is son, we believe, of Colonel John P. Hamilton, by Charlotte, daughter of John Fane, Esq., of Wormsley, LL.D., an eminent agriculturist, and many years M.P. for co. Oxford. His uncle, Rear-Admiral Fras. Wm. Fane, died 28 March, 1844.
This officer entered the Navy 28 Aug. 1835; and in 1841-2, while attached to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, was present, either in the boats or on shore, at the taking of Amoy, the storming of Chinghae, the attack on the Chinese entrenched camp on the heights of Segoan, the capture of Chapoo, and the engagement with the enemy’s batteries at Woosung.[1] He also, on 10 March, 1842, served in the boats under Capt. Geo. Goldsmith at the destruction of 10 fire-vessels with which the Chinese had attempted to annihilate the British shipping and transports at their anchorage off Chinghae.[2] Having passed his examination 10 Nov. 1841, and been further employed, as Mate, in the Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, on the Lisbon and Portsmouth stations, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 March, 1844, and subsequently appointed, 24 May and 1 Aug. 1844, to the America 50., and Racer 16, Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Archibald Reed, both on the South American station. He left the latter vessel in the summer of 1846. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.