Royal Naval Biography/Hope, Charles
CHARLES HOPE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
Second son of the Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session, in Scotland.
This officer served as midshipman on board the Alceste frigate. Captain (now Sir Murray) Maxwell, during Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, in the year 1816; obtained the rank of lieutenant, Oct. 20th, 1817; and was appointed to the Liffey 50, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, C.B., June 22d, 1818: his commission as commander bears date Oct. 15th, 1822; and his next appointment was, Feb. 28th, 1824, to the Brisk of 10 guns, in which sloop he captured a large smuggling lugger, with a cargo of considerable value, near Flamborough Head, in the month of Sept. following. He attained his present rank Jan. 26th, 1826; and married, Sept. 12th, in the same year, Ann, eldest daughter of Captain W. H. Webley Parry, R.N. C.B. &c.
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