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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE NINETEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH ELLISON, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES HARDY, KNT. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL, &C
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN EDWARD BULLER, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN MACBRIDE, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JOHN HOLLOWAY, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON THAT STATION
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CHARLES LYDIARD, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES HARDY, KNT. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL, &C
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIX. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE NINETEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH ELLISON, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR CHARLES HARDY, KNT. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL, &C
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN EDWARD BULLER, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN MACBRIDE, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JOHN HOLLOWAY, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON THAT STATION
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CHARLES LYDIARD, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- INDEX
Summary
“———British virtue, theme of noblest song,
Strong in her fleets, and in her armies strong,
Like the firm cement of an ancient tow'r,
Defies the rage of time, and ev'ry hostile pow'r.”
AnonIt is not a little remarkable, that the late Sir Charles Hardy, his father, and his grandfather, were all in the navy; and that each of them had the honour of being knighted, for his respective services.
His grandfather, Sir Thomas Hardy, was a native of the island of Guernsey. He entered into the navy, under the patronage of Admiral Churchill, whom he had served in the capacity of clerk, and who procured for him a lieutenant's commission. He was made commander in the Charles fire-ship, on the 6th of January, 1693; and, in the, month of May following, he was removed into the Swallow prize, a small frigate, of 18 guns, which was stationed off Guernsey, to protect the trade of that island from the depredations of French privateers.—He is believed to have attained to the command of a ship of the line, very soon after his entrance into the service, and is thought to have been never unemployed; but the only mention which is made of him, during the reign of King William, is, that in October, 1696, when captain of the Pendennis, of 48 guns, he was employed to convoy the mast ships from Norway.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 89 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1808