A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hooper, William (b)
HOOPER. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 11; h-p., 25.)
William Hooper (b) entered the Navy, 3 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fisgard frigate, Capt. Fras. Mason; and on removing, after serving for some time in the Baltic, to the Niobe 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. Augustus Montagu, sailed for North America. In 1813 he became Midshipman of the President 38, Capts. F. Mason and Archibald Duff, in time, we believe, to witness the fall of St. Sebastian. Between Oct. 1815 and April, 1816, he was employed in the North Sea on board the Florida 20, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorp John Hawtayne. He then proceeded to the West Indies, where, for a period of two years and a half, he served under Capt. Elliott in the Scamander 36. In 1820 he returned to the same station in the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; on quitting which ship he successively joined, in 1822-3, the Phaeton 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, Gloucester 74, Commodore Sir Edw. Owen, and Tyne, Capt. Roberts. He obtained his commission 12 Jan. 1824, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hooper married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Thos. Gardiner Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, M.P. for co. Essex; and sister of the present Thos. Wm. Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, who married a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Elias Harvey, G.C.B., M.P. He was left a widower 6 Aug. 1839.