A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hollinworth, John (a)
HOLLINWORTH. (Rear-Admiral,, 1846. f-p., 15; h-p., 37.)
John Hollinworth is son of M. Hollinworth, Esq., many years a clerk of the Admiralty; and brother of Thos. Hollinworth, Esq., formerly Naval Storekeeper at Devonport.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1795, as Midshipman, on board the Repulse 74, Capt. Wm. Geo. Fairfax, employed on the Home station, where he removed, in March, 1797, to the Daedalus 32, Capt. Hall. Towards the close of the same year he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in the Garland 28, Capts. John Clarke Searle and Jas. Athol Wood; under the latter of whom he had the misfortune to be wrecked, while in pursuit of an enemy’s vessel, off Madagascar, 26 July, 1798. On his return to England, in 1799, on board the Sphynx 20, Capt. Lord Augustus Fitzroy, he became attached in succession to the Téméraire, Barfleur, and Téméraire again, 98’s, in which ships we find him serving until May, 1800, in the Channel, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Hawkins Whitshed. Joining, then, the Endymion 40, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where – being appointed on his arrival Acting-Lieutenant of the Vestal armée en flûte, Capt. Valentine Collard – he accompanied the expedition to Egypt in 1801. On 10 June, 1802, he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Carrère, Capt. Maitland. Between Feb. 1803 and April, 1806 (on 22 Jan. in which latter year he was promoted to the rank of Commander), he presents himself to our notice as next serving, in the Channel and West Indies, on board the Venerable 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Mermaid 32, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, and Hercule 74, bearing the flags of Sir John Duckworth and Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. His succeeding and last appointments were, on the Mediterranean station – 25 March, 1807, to the Minstrel 18, in which sloop he captured, 16 July, 1808, the Italian schooner Ortenzia, pierced for 16 guns, but carrying only 2 long 24-pounders, 6 long 9-pounder and 2 3-pounder swivels, with a complement of 56 men, who effected their escape[1] – and, 22 Nov. 1809, and 7 April and 12 July, 1810, to the Acting-Captaincy of the Invincible 74, and Resistance and Salsette frigates. He returned to England soon after his official advancement to Post-rank, which took place 3 April, 1811; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he became a Rear-Admiral.
He married, in 1808, a daughter of John Jackson, Esq., Master-Attendant at Portsmouth; by whom he has, with other issue, a daughter, Marianne, who married, in 1844, a son of Colonel Shadforth. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1808, p. 1556.