​HARDY. (Lieutenant, 1821. f-p., 17; h-p., 23.)

Thomas Hardy entered the Navy, in May, 1807, as L.M., on board the Conqueror 74, Capts. Israel Pellew and Edw. Fellowes, successively employed in the Channel and in blockading the Russian Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s squadron in the Tagus. In Aug. 1808, two months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Plantagenet 74, Capts. Wm. Bradly and Thos. Eyles, with whom he actively served on the Lisbon and Baltic stations until 1811; in the course of which year he joined the Stromboli, commanded in the Downs by Capts. Thos. Cuthbert Hichens and Sam. Grove, and Arethusa 38, Capt. Fras. Holmes Coffin. On his return in June, 1813, from the West Indies, where he had been serving two years, and had been twice engaged in boat-actions with the enemy’s privateers, Mr. Hardy became attached to the Kangaroo 16, Capt. Wm. Sumner Hall, and in that sloop he was continuously employed in the protection of convoys in the Baltic and Channel until Aug. 1815. The next six years were passed by this officer on the East India, Plymouth, West India, and Irish stations, as Admiralty-Midshipman, Acting-Lieutenant, and Chief Mate, in the Bacchus 16, Capts. Wm. Hill and John Pengelly Parkin, Favorite 20, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, Spencer 74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, Raleigh 18, Capt. Wm. Augustus Baumgardt, and Castle Coote Revenue-cruizer, Lieut.-Commander John Elwin. During a servitude of more than a year and a half in the latter vessel he contributed to the capture of two smuggling schooners; and on 20 Sept. 1820, while pursuing in the boats a Dutch lugger of 12 guns and 42 men, he had the misfortune to have his eyes severely injured by the flash from a blunderbuss fired by one of his men close to him. He received in consequence the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief at Cork, and of the Collector of Customs for Londonderry. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 19 July, 1821, he was next appointed, 18 Dec. 1824 and 18 March, 1836, to the Genoa 74, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Walter Bathurst, and, as First, to the Cornwallis 74, Capt. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing. He was superseded from the former ship at his own request in Oct. 1826; and he left the Cornwallis, in consequence of the impaired state of his sight from the injury above alluded to, in the Oct. following his appointment to her. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Hardy married, 31 July, 1821, Miss Eliza Phillips, of Kinsale, in Ireland.

HARE. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 15; h-p., 31.)

Charles Hare is son of Capt. Rich. Hare, R.N., who commanded the Vulcan fire-vessel, with distinction, at the destruction of the French shipping at Toulon in 1793, and died in 1801 while commanding the Madras. He is brother-in-law of the late Admiral Alexander; and cousin of the present General of that name, a very gallant officer, who served as Aide-de-Camp to the late Lord Lynedoch. Mr. Hare, who has lost two brothers of his own rank in the Navy, is also cousin of Lieut. Rich. Hare, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Madras, commanded by his father, Capt. Chas. Hare, whom he attended in the ensuing expedition to Egypt. In Feb. 1803, after having served for some time in the Minotaur 74, and Amphion 32, Capts. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, Alex. Frazer, and Thos. Masterman Hardy, he joined La Minerve, of 48 guns, Capt. Jahleel Brenton; and, on 2 July, 1803, he was on board that frigate when she took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, in spite of a desperate and sanguinary resistance, to strike her colours. Being in consequence taken prisoner, he remained in captivity until 1809, when, contriving to escape, he was received on board the ​Royal Oak 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk. During the early part of 1810, we next find him (with his name successively on the books of the Circe, Atlas, Ville de Paris, and San Josef) employed at the siege of Cadiz. On 8 June in the same year, having for a few weeks acted as Lieutenant of the Cyane 20, Capt. Thos. Forrest, he was confirmed to that rank in the Porcupine 24, Capt. Robt. Elliot, stationed in the River Plate. He removed, in Nov. 1811, to the Barbadoes 28, Capts. Edw. Rushworth and Thos. Huskisson, stationed in the Channel and West Indies; and was lastly, from Oct. 12 until Sept. 1815, employed in command of the Bream and Manly schooners, and Picton brig. In those vessels he appears to have cruized with great activity in the Bay of Fundy, where he effected the capture of several privateers of superior force. On 9 June, 1811, in particular, when off Cape Forchu, in the Bream, he fell in with the American private armed sloop Wasp, mounting 2 6-pounder carriage-guns, with a crew of 33 men, which did not surrender until after a chase of seven hours and a half and a smart running action.^[1] Agents – Coplands and Burnett.

HARE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 22.)

Marcus Theodore Hare died in 1846.

This officer entered the Navy, 27 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nymphe 36, commanded by his cousin, Capt. Conway Shipley, with whom he continued until the death of the latter in a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour to cut out an enemy’s vessel in the river Tagus in April, 1808. He then joined the Centaur 74, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Sir Sam. Hood, and, after attending the expedition to the Walcheren, he successively followed that officer into the Hibernia 120, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74, and was employed with him, latterly as Midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations. In Nov. 1812 he removed to the Malacca 36, Capt. Donald Hugh Mackay, also in the East Indies, where, on accompanying the same Captain into the Minden 74, he received an order, 1 March, 1815, to act as Lieutenant of that ship. He was confirmed to her by commission dated on 20 of the following Sept., and, being paid off in the early part of 1816, was next appointed – 22 Dec. 1817, to the Erne 20, Capt. Timothy Scriven, which vessel was wrecked off the Cape de Verde Islands 1 June, 1819 – 31 Oct. 1823, to the Pelorus 18, Capt. Wm. Hamley, stationed, until 1826, off the coast of Ireland – 7 June, 1828, to the Crocodile 28, Capt. John Wm. Montagu, in the East Indies – in Dec. 1830 (in consequence of his having been placed on the Lord High Admiral’s list for promotion), to the acting-command of the Southampton 52, flag-ship on the same station of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – and, 12 May, 1831, to the acting-command of the Satellite 18. He brought that sloop home and paid her off in May, 1832, but, a change of ministry having in the mean time taken place, he was, to his great mortification, allowed to remain unpromoted. He did not again go afloat.

Lieut. Hare married, 24 Sept. 1833, Lucy, daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley, and by that lady has left issue three children.

HARE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)

Richard Hare, born 20 Nov. 1793, in the parish of St. Pancras, co. Middlesex, is son of Rich. Hare, Esq., of the same place; and first-cousin of Lieut. Chas. Hare, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Medusa 32, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and removed soon afterwards to La Chiffonne 36, Capt. John Wainwright, in which frigate he was occasionally in action with the Spanish batteries and gun-boats in the Mediterranean, and, on proceeding to the East Indies, accompanied an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where he assisted, as Midshipman, at the destruction of the strong town of Ras-al-Khyma, and of more than 80 vessels In Nov. 1810 he was transferred to the Belliqueux 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, then at China; and, on his subsequent return to England in La Chiffonne, he further joined, in Aug. 1811 and Dec. 1813, the Bulwark and Venerable 74’s, flag-ships of the late Sir Philip Durham in the Channel and West Indies. On his passage to the latter station, Mr. Hare contributed, in company with the Cyane ^{[errata 1]} sloop, to the capture, not without opposition, of the French 44-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814. On 28 of the following month he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Spider 12, Capt. Robt. Jas. Gordon, employed off Antigua;, and, on 16 Sept. in the same year he was confirmed into the Orontes 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, also in the West Indies. He has been on half-pay since March, 1815.

Lieut. Hare married, 18 June, 1835, Mary Combe, daughter of John Maddison, Esq., of Bath, formerly of Little Grimsby, co. Lincoln, by whom he has issue two sons and a daughter. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.

HARE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 25.)

Thomas Hare entered the Navy, 25 Jan. 1805, as A.B., on board the Fervent 12, Lieut.-Commander John Edw. Hare, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean. He there removed, as Midshipman, in Nov. 1806, to the Morgiana sloop, Capt. Thos. Landless; and he next, from Aug. 1807 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815, served uninterruptedly on the Home station in the Snake, Capt. Thos. Young, Namur, Capt. Rich. Jones, Starling, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Fred. Napier, Exertion, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Murray, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, and Impregnable, flag-ship for some time of Admirals Wm. Young, and of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and afterwards commanded by Capts. John Wentworth Loring, Robt. Hall, and Jas. Nash. On 2 Aug. 1811, while Sub-Lieutenant of the Exertion, Mr. Hare assisted in the boats of a squadron, 10 in number, and carrying 116 men, under the command of Lieut. Sam. Blyth, at the cutting-out, from within the island of Mordeney, near the Texel, of four Danish gun-vessels, each armed with 1 long-12, and 2 long 6 or 8 pounders, and 25 men, including 5 soldiers, and commanded by a Lieutenant-de-Vaisseau of the French Navy; an exploit that was not accomplished until the enemy had sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 12 wounded, and the British, after an exposure to a fire of grape and canister, and a hard struggle, of 2 killed and 9 wounded, independently of 19 persons who were killed and wounded in the early part of the contest by an accidental explosion on board one of the gun-boats. Mr. Hare subsequently, when in the Impregnable under the Duke of Clarence, escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England. He was lastly employed in command, from 26 Oct. 1836 until 1844, of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Hinxman.

HARGOOD. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 16; h-p., 18.)

William Hargood, born 22 June, 1801, is nephew of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Hargood, G.C.B., G.C.H.,^[2]