A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hawkshaw, Hugh
HAWKSHAW. (Lieut., 1819. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Hugh Hawkshaw is son of the late Rev. Rich. Hawkshaw, Rector of Fahan, co. Londonderry.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fortunée 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, on the Home station, where he assisted at the capture, 11 Oct. 1811, of Le Vice-Amiral Martin, a notorious privateer, of 18 guns and 140 men, and where he afterwards followed the same Captain into the Clarence 74. While next attached, between Sept. 1813 and Feb. 1817, to the Pactolus 38, and Severn 50, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, we find him accompanying the Duke of Cambridge to Cuxhaven and his late Majesty to the Scheldt, serving for some time also on the North American station, and (besides attending an eminently successful expedition sent in the summer of 1815 to the Gironde in support of the French king) enacting a part in the memorable battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He was subsequently for nearly twelve months employed on the African and West India stations in the Semiramis 42, Capts. Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo and Joseph Harrison; after which he successively joined the Severn 50, Newcastle 60, and Leander 50, commanded on the Home and Bermuda stations by Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, Arthur Fanshawe, and Edw. Chetham. He was promoted, 12 July, 1819, to a Lieutenancy in the Newcastle, bearing the flag at the time of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, Commander-in-Chief at Halifax; but since the paying off of that ship in 1822 has not been afloat.
Lieut. Hawkshaw, who is an Inspector of the Carlow Constabulary Force, married Catherine Eliza, fourth daughter of Robt. Miller, Esq., of Blackheath Park, co. Kent.