Richard Haddock

Richard Haddock

Sir Richard Haddock (* around 1629 in Leigh-on-Sea , † January 26 ^{. Jul} / February 6, 1715 ^greg. In London ) officer was the Royal Navy and politicians . He was a captain during the Anglo-Dutch naval wars and was promoted to admiral in August 1690 .

Family and early career

Haddock was born into a seafaring family. Already his grandfather, who also was named Richard, 1652 several of his command ships under Charles I was honored. In 1652 he had commanded the HMS Vanguard as Vice Admiral . Richard Haddock's father, William Haddock, was the captain of merchant ships before taking command of America in 1651 , which belonged to the Navy of the Commonwealth of England . He served in the First British-Dutch War . Several of his sons followed him into the Navy, including Richard.

Military career

Haddock's ship, the Royal James , was set on fire by the Dutch.

Richard Haddock commanded the Dragon from 1656 to 1660. After that, he was unemployed until he was able to take command of the Portland , a ship with 50 guns , in 1666 . In the meantime he was also involved in the so-called Holmes's Bonfire , an action to destroy Dutch cargo ships.

Before the outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) in 1672, Haddock was appointed captain of the 100-gun ship Royal James . With this ship he took part in the naval battle of Solebay on May 28, 1672. The Royal James was the flagship of Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich . The Royal James attacked Willem Joseph van Ghent's ship , but was in turn attacked by Dutch ships. Although Haddock managed to repel some of the attackers, the Royal James was set on fire. Haddock was wounded and tried to abandon the ship. Montagu refused, however. Haddock jumped overboard and was rescued while Montagu fell in that battle.

Haddock returned to London and was given an audience with King Charles II. As a token of his appreciation for his conduct in this battle, the king removed a satin hat from his head and put it on his guest. This hat has long been kept as an heirloom in the Haddock family, along with a note of its meaning:

“This satin cap was given by King Charles the second, in the year 1672, to Sir Richard Haddock, after the English battle with the Dutch, when he had been captain of the Royal James, under the command of the Earl of Sandwich, which ship was burnt, and Sir Richard had been wounded. Given him on his return to London. "

“This satin hat was presented to Sir Richard Haddock by King Charles II in 1672 after the battle with the Dutch when he was captain of the Royal James, under the command of the Earl of Sandwich, whose ship burned down and Sir Richard was wounded . Presented on his return to London "

Haddock took command of the Lion in the same year . He also commanded the Royal Charles , the flagship of Ruprecht von der Pfalz . He fought in the First Sea Battle of Schooneveld on June 7, 1673 and the Second Sea Battle of Schooneveld a week later. Immediately afterwards he took over command of the Royal Sovereign for a short time . But he gave it up after less than a month and was instead promoted to Commissioner of the Navy . On July 3, 1675, he was knighted. He then commanded another ship, the HMS Duke , but only for 18 days.

Political career

From 1683 Haddock was the first Commissioner of the Victualling Office , i.e. chief of the office that was responsible for the provisioning of British ships. He held this office until 1690. He had also entered politics in 1678 when he was elected to the House of Commons for Aldeburgh . From 1685 to 1689 he was once again a member of the British House of Commons, this time for New Shoreham . Shortly before the accession to the throne of Wilhelm III. he was promoted to Third Sea Lord , an office that he held until his death on January 26th ^. / February 6, 1715 ^greg. held. In 1690, at the end of his military career, Haddock took part with Henry Killigrew and John Ashby in the War of the Two Kings (also Wilhelminian-Jacobin War) in Northern Ireland .

Richard Haddock was buried in his birthplace Leigh-on-Sea .

family

Richard Haddock married Elizabeth "Lydia" Wilkinson on February 13, 1648. He had three children with her.

On July 24, 1671, he married again, this time Elizabeth Hurleston. He had seven children with her. The eldest son from this relationship, Richard Haddock (1673-1751) , followed his father and became Admiral in the Navy.

Father Richard's brother Joseph Haddock also made a career as a lieutenant in the Third Anglo-Dutch Sea War and took command of the HMS Swallow .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dunkin: The Archaeological mine , p. 43.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dunkin: The Archaeological mine , p. 44.
3. ^ The London Gazette . July 5, 1675. Retrieved May 20, 2014. Note: Click "Save" to see the view as a PDF if nothing is displayed
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dunkin: The Archaeological mine , p. 45.
5. ^ ^{A b} Haydn: The Book of Dignities , p. 196.
6. ^ JD Davies: Haddock, Sir Richard (c.1629-1715). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, 2008, doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 11849 .
7. ^ ^{A b} Cooper: Haddock Heritage, Third Edition 2004.
8. ^ Dunkin: The Archaeological mine , p. 48.

Note: HMS - sometimes also written with punctuation marks as HMS - is an acronym or abbreviation for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship and has been the official name prefix since 1789 , which is used by all warships in the service of the British Navy lead.

literature

• AJ Dunkin: The Haddocks of Wrotham . In: The Archaeological mine, antiquarian nuggets relating to Kent . John Russell Smith, London 1855, pp. 43-48.
• Destruction of Church Monuments in Essex . In: The Gentleman's Magazine . F. Jefferies, 1865.
• Joseph Haydn: Statesmen and State Officers . In: The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Together with the Sovereigns of Europe, from the Foundation of Their Respective States; the Peerage of England and Great Britain . Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
• John Charnock: Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement . R. Faulder, 1794.
• Cooper: Haddock Heritage, Third Edition 2004.
• Haddock, Sir Richard (c.1629-1715), of Mile End, Wapping, Mdx. In: BD Henning (Ed.): The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660–1690. Boydell & Brewer , 1983, online at historyofparliamentonline.org