A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hare, Marcus Theodore
HARE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 22.)
Marcus Theodore Hare died in 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nymphe 36, commanded by his cousin, Capt. Conway Shipley, with whom he continued until the death of the latter in a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour to cut out an enemy’s vessel in the river Tagus in April, 1808. He then joined the Centaur 74, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Sam. Hood, and, after attending the expedition to the Walcheren, he successively followed that officer into the Hibernia 120, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74, and was employed with him, latterly as Midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations. In Nov. 1812 he removed to the Malacca 36, Capt. Donald Hugh Mackay, also in the East Indies, where, on accompanying the same Captain into the Minden 74, he received an order, 1 March, 1815, to act as Lieutenant of that ship. He was confirmed to her by commission dated on 20 of the following Sept., and, being paid off in the early part of 1816, was next appointed – 22 Dec. 1817, to the Erne 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, which vessel was wrecked off the Cape de Verde Islands 1 June, 1819 – 31 Oct. 1823, to the Pelorus 18, Capt. Wm. Hamley, stationed, until 1826, off the coast of Ireland – 7 June, 1828, to the Crocodile 28, Capt. John Wm. Montagu, in the East Indies – in Dec. 1830 (in consequence of his having been placed on the Lord High Admiral’s list for promotion), to the acting-command of the Southampton 52, flag-ship on the same station of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – and, 12 May, 1831, to the acting-command of the Satellite 18. He brought that sloop home and paid her off in May, 1832, but, a change of ministry having in the mean time taken place, he was, to his great mortification, allowed to remain unpromoted. He did not again go afloat.
Lieut. Hare married, 24 Sept. 1833, Lucy, daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley, and by that lady has left issue three children.