A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hugo, George
HUGO. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
George Hugo, born 13 Jan. 1789, at Newton, is sixth son of the late Rev. Thos. Hugo, Rector of Newton, Dunchidiock, and Shillingford, all in co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 April, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Foudroyant 80, Capt. Peter Spicer, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel, where, and in the Baltic and Mediterranean, he served – for two years in the Dispatch 18, Capt. Edw. Hawkins – for three years and eight months in the St. George 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Elias Harvey and Fras. Pickmore – and for two years and nine months in the San Josef 110, bearing the flags of Sir Chas. Cotton and Lord Keith. In March, 1813, Mr. Hugo, who had passed his examination in Feb. 1810, and had been for the last two months employed under Lord Keith on board the Queen Charlotte 100, at Plymouth, sailed with Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo in the Woolwich 44, Capt. Thos. Ball Sullivan, for the Lakes of Canada. In the following May he accompanied the unsuccessful expedition to Sackett’s Harbour; and in July of the same year we find him commanding one of several gun-boats in an action with the enemy at Goose Creek. On that occasion he receiyed a rifle-ball through the left elbow, which destroyed the joint and disabled two fingers. He was also present, 28 Sept. 1813, in a partial action fought with the Americans on Lake Ontario; and on 6 May, 1814, at the capture of Fort Oswego. During the remainder of the war he was employed, as Acting-Lieutenant of the Charwell, in conveying troops from one part of the lakes to another, and in serving on shore with them. When Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen superseded Sir J. L. Yeo, Mr. Hugo was sent to Quebec for the purpose of raising men to supply the places of those whose time had expired. On the breaking up of the establishment on the lakes in Oct. 1816, he was ordered to take command of the Diana, a merchant-ship laden with spars for the Dockyard at Portsmouth, and to return with a party of men to England. He was placed on half-pay in Feb. 1817, having been awarded a commission dated 20 Sept. 1815, and has not been since employed.
On his arrival in England, Lieut. Hugo was presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword, valued at 50l, in consideration of his wounds. He is married, and has issue two daughters.