Royal Naval Biography/Hillier, George
GEORGE HILLIER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of a deceased warrant officer, and brother to Commander C. W. Hillier. He was made a lieutenant on the 16th Jan. 1798; and served with great credit, under Sir W. Sidney Smith, at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in March, April, and May, 1799. During the siege of that Syrian fortress, he was removed from the Alliance 44, armed en flûte, to the Tigre 80, bearing the broad pendant of that chivalrous officer, with whom we find him visiting the Holy City, in June, 1800: a journal of his excursion from Jaffa to Jerusalem, is given in the Naval Chronicle, vol. 23, p. 297, et seq. On the memorable 8th, 13th, and 21st of March, 1801, he was attached to the heroic army under Abercromby, and “conducted himself to the entire satisfaction” of Sir W. Sidney Smith, commanding the seamen on shore[1]. At the close of the Egyptian campaign, he was presented with the Turkish gold medal. His promotion to the rank of commander did not take place, however, until Jan. 21st, 1824.