Augustus Charles Hobart
Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (also Hobart Pasha, born April 1, 1822 in Walton on the Wolds , Leicestershire , † June 19, 1886 in Milan ) was a British - Ottoman admiral .
Hobart was the third son of Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden , 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire from his first marriage to Mary Williams.
In 1935 he joined the British Navy and was subsequently employed with the rank of midshipman in the fight against the slave trade off the coast of Brazil . During the Crimean War in 1855 he took part in the operations against the Russian Baltic ports . In 1863 he retired from the British Navy with the rank of captain .
He switched to merchant shipping and broke the blockade line of northern ships eighteen times during the American Civil War to deliver war material to the southern states and return cotton to Britain.
In 1867 Hobart was appointed to the service of the Ottoman Navy with the rank of Bahire Limassi ( Rear Admiral ) and rendered valuable services to the Ottoman Empire during the uprising in Crete . Hobart was then raised to Vice Admiral and Pasha in 1869 . In addition, he was entrusted with the reorganization of the Turkish fleet . In the autumn of 1874 he returned to the British Navy, where he rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral, but at the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 he was again Grand Admiral of the Turkish Navy. During this war he completely ruled the Black Sea and blocked the trading posts of southern Russia as well as the mouth of the Danube . In 1878 he was involved in the suppression of the Greek uprising on Pelion .
After the peace treaty, Hobart Pasha remained in Ottoman service as Admiral and Adjutant General of Sultan Abdülhamids II and was promoted to Mushir in 1881 .
He was also awarded the Osmanje Order (second class) and Mecidiye Order (second class), the Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and as commander of the Legion of Honor.
He married twice, in 1848 Mary Anne Grant († 1877) and in 1879 Edith Katherine Hore († 1883), but remained childless.
Works
- Sketches from my life . London 1887 ( published posthumously )
Web links
- Vice-Admiral Hon. Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden on thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The Greek Insurrection in: The Times , March 27, London 1878, issue 29213, p. 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hobart, Augustus Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Ottoman admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Walton on the Wolds , Leicestershire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1886 |
| Place of death | Milan |