A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hore, Samuel Bradstreet
HORE. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 17; h-p., 30.)
Samuel Bradstreet Hore, born in April, 1791, is third son (by Eleanor Catherine, daughter and heiress of Sir Simon Bradstreet, Bart., and niece of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart.) of Wm. Hore, Esq., of Harperstown, High Sheriff in 1788, and a Magistrate for co. Wexford, who was killed during the rebellion of 1798 while serving with the militia on the bridge of Wexford. He is brother of Commander Jas. Stopford, and of Lieut. Henry Cavendish, Hore, both of the R.N.; also of Major Wm. Hore, of the 67th Foot, who died in 1830, and of Capt. Thos. Hore, of the R.E.; and uncle of Lieut. Cavendish Bradstreet Hore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1800, as Midshipman, on board the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Geo. Parker, on the North American station; became Midshipman, in March, 1801, of the Excellent 74, Capt, afterwords Rear-Admiral, Hon. Robt. Stopford; and (with the exception of a brief attachment, in 1803, to the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget) continued to serve with that officer, until July, 1807, in the Castor frigate, and Spencer 74. The latter ship, during the time he was in her, formed part of Lord Nelson’s force in his pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies, and of Sir John Duckworth’s in the action off St. Domingo. On being appointed Master’s Mate of the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Gambier, Mr. Hore accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, where he served with the flotilla, and was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Leyden 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland. He was confirmed, on 19 Oct. in the same year, in his old ship the Spencer, in which he continued with Rear-Admiral Stopford until Dec. 1808. On again joining his friend in the Caesar 80, we find him present at the destruction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Basque Roads. In the summer of 1809, he assumed command of a gun-boat, and shared in all the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition. Being subsequently appointed Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Stopford in the Scipion 74, Mr. Hore proceeded with him to the Cape of Good Hope; on his return from which station, after having participated in the reduction of the island of Java, he was promoted, 26 Jan. 1812, to the acting-command of the Harpy sloop. On the breaking out of war with the United States, he conveyed the despatches announcing that event to the Mauritius – encountering on his passage a very fearful hurricane, which rendered it necessary for his guns to be thrown overboard. Commander Hore, who left the Harpy in March, 1813, and was officially promoted on 13 of the following May, held an appointment in the Coast Guard from 1821 to 1825. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Hore has been 25 years a Magistrate for cos. Wicklow and Wexford. He married, 8 Sept. 1821, Jane Caroline, daughter of Rich. Solly, Esq., of Walthamstow, by Frances, only daughter of Sir Fred. Flood, Bart., LL.D., M.P.