Hastings Yelverton

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Sir

Hastings Yelverton
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Disraeli ministry but was also involved in ordering the small, cheap and thoroughly unsuccessful ironclad Ajax-class battleships
.

Early career

The first-rate HMS Queen which Yelverton commanded

Born the son of John Joseph Henry (of Straffan) and Lady Emily Elizabeth FitzGerald (daughter of William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster), Hastings Henry, as he then was, entered the Royal Navy as a first-class volunteer aboard the frigate HMS Sibylle in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1823.[2] He took part in a major action against pirates off Candia in June 1826 and subsequently served as a midshipman and mate in the brig HMS Columbine, the frigate HMS Undaunted and then the battleship HMS St Vincent in home waters.[2]

Promoted lieutenant on 18 December 1830, Henry was posted to the second-rate HMS Asia, flagship of Sir William Parker, in September 1831.[3] HMS Asia was then based at Lisbon, protecting British interests during the Portuguese Civil War.[4] He joined the sixth-rate HMS Rattlesnake on the East Indies Station in December 1834.[3] Promoted to commander on 28 June 1838, he joined the sloop HMS Styx at Sheerness in August 1841 and then took command of the sloop Devastation in the Mediterranean Fleet in September 1841.[3] He became acting captain of the first-rate HMS Queen in the Mediterranean Fleet in May 1842 and acting captain of the fifth-rate HMS Aigle also in the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1843.[3] He was promoted to captain on 5 September 1843 and, following his marriage to Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings (born Barbara Yelverton), assumed the surname of Yelverton on 3 January 1849.[5]

Crimean service

Yelverton was given command of the steam screw frigate

Companion of the Order of the Bath for his services on 5 July 1855.[8] In December 1856, he took command of the second-rate HMS Brunswick and a gunboat flotilla for further operations but the Crimean War ended before he saw any action.[2] He went on to be Captain of the first-rate HMS Conqueror in the Mediterranean Fleet in July 1856 and comptroller-general of the coastguard in July 1859.[3]

Higher command

HMS Lord Warden, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet
, which Yelverton commanded in the early 1870s

Promoted rear admiral on 30 January 1863,[9] Yelverton became second-in-command of the Mediterranean Station, hoisting his flag in the second-rate HMS Revenge in June 1863 and then, from May 1865, in the broadside ironclad HMS Caledonia.[3]

He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the

HMS Lord Warden, in October 1870.[3]

In July 1873, he took part in the suppression of the

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 29 May 1875[11] and promoted to full admiral on 30 July 1875.[12]

Yelverton, by now suffering from

Disraeli ministry but was also involved in ordering the small, cheap and thoroughly unsuccessful ironclad Ajax-class battleships.[2] Due to failing health, Yelverton resigned in November 1877 and died at the Grand Pump Hotel in Bath on 24 July 1878.[3]

Family

Yelverton married the widowed

Barbara Yelverton, 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn (d. 1858) on 9 April 1845; their only child was born shortly thereafter - Hon. Barbara Yelverton (12 January 1849 – 1 October 1924), who married the John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Boase, Frederic (1965). Modern English Biography. Frank Cass. p. 2132.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50203. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "William Loney RN". Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21348. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "No. 20934". The London Gazette. 9 January 1849. p. 73.
  6. ISBN 978-1402185199
    .
  7. ^ "History of War against Russia". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  8. ^ "No. 21743". The London Gazette. 10 July 1855. p. 2654.
  9. ^ "No. 22705". The London Gazette. 6 February 1863. p. 646.
  10. ^ "No. 23503". The London Gazette. 2 June 1869. p. 3179.
  11. ^ "No. 24213". The London Gazette. 29 May 1875. p. 2851.
  12. ^ "No. 24234". The London Gazette. 6 August 1875. p. 3914.
  13. ^ "thePeerage.com". Retrieved 29 December 2012.

Sources

Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron
1866–1867 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron
July 1870–October 1870 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet
1870–1874 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Alexander Milne
First Naval Lord

1876–1877 		Succeeded by
Sir George Wellesley
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