A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hope, Charles
HOPE. (Captain, 1826. f-p., 20; h-p., 16.)
Charles Hope, born in 1798, is second son of the Right Hon. Chas. Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland, by Charlotte, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun; nephew of Lieut.-General Sir John Hope, G.C.H., and of Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Johnston Hope, G.C.B.;[1] brother of Wm. Hope, Esq., a Major in the Army and Captain in the 7th Foot; and first-cousin of the late Capts. Wm. James, Chas. Jas., and Geo. Jas., Hope, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Sarpedon 10, Capt. Jas. Green, on the Leith station, where he removed, in the following Nov., to the Adamant 44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway. In April 1812, he became Midshipman of the Semiramis 36, Capt. Chas. Richardson, bearing the flag afterwards of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. On his return home in Aug. 1814 he joined the Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, lying at Portsmouth, whence, towards the close of the same year, he sailed for North America in the Erne 20, commanded by the late Lord Napier. In the course of 1815 he was successively received on board the Endymion, Tagus, and Alceste frigates, Capts. Henry Hope, Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, and Murray Maxwell; under the latter of whom he accompanied Lord Amherst on his embassy to China, and was wrecked, while returning home with that nobleman, in the Straits of Gaspar, 18 Feb. 1817. Obtaining his first commission on 20 of the following Oct., he was next, 22 Feb. 1818, appointed Lieutenant of the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, in which ship he visited the Mediterranean and cruized for some time off Lisbon. After serving with Capt. Chas. Adam in the Royal Sovereign yacht he was invested, 15 Oct. 1822, with the rank of Commander, and on 28 Feb. 1824 nominated to the Brisk 10. In the month of Sept. following he captured, off Flamborough Head, a large smuggling lugger, with a cargo of considerable value. Capt. Hope, whose advancement to Post-rank took place 26 Jan. 1826, was subsequently appointed – 21 Oct. 1830, to the Tyne 28, a vessel in which he served on the South American station, and, prior to being paid off in Jan. 1834, passed over 82,000 miles, a greater distance than had been traversed by any vessel since the war – 24 Jan. 1835, to the Dublin 50, fitting at Plymouth, where he was superseded in the ensuing July – and, 28 Aug. 1841, to the Thalia 42. He was employed in the latter frigate on the East India and Pacific stations until the close of 1845, when she returned to England and was put out of commission. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Hope married, 12 Sept. 1826, Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Wm. Henry Webley Parry, C.B., by whom, who died 24 Dec. 1836, he has issue. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Sir W. J. Hope was born 16 Aug. 1766, and entered the Navy in 1776. He commanded the Bellerophon 74, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thomas Pasley, and obtained a gold medal for his services, in the actions of 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. He afterwards served on board the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Lord Duncan, during the expedition to Holland in 1799. With the despatches announcing the results of that enterprise he was sent to England; and he was in consequence presented with a purse of 500l. in Dec. 1800, being still in the Kent, he conveyed Sir Ralph Abercromby from Gibraltar to Egypt. He was nominated a Colonel of Marines in 1811; advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1812; appointed to the chief command at Leith in Nov. 1813; created a K.C.B. in 1815; re-appointed to Leith in 1816; made a Vice-Admiral in 1819; invested with the dignity of a G.C.B. in 1 825; and sworn a Privy Councillor about the close of 1830. Sir W. J. Hope, who was for a long time one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and sat for many years in Parliament tor Dumfries, died 2 May, 1831.