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Hotham may refer to: Places Australia *Hotham, Northern Territory, a locality * Division of Hotham, Australian electoral division * Mount Hotham, Australia *The original name of North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Elsewhere *Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England * Hotham, Ontario * Hotham Park, Bognor Regis, England People *Alan Geoffrey Hotham (1876–1965), Royal Navy officer and cricketer *Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794–1870), British soldier, peer, and Member of Parliament * Charles Hotham (1806–1855), Governor of Victoria, Australia * Sir Charles Frederick Hotham (1843–1925), British Royal Navy Admiral who was Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth *Henry Hotham (1777–1833), British naval officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars * John Hotham (1589–1645), Parliamentarian military leader of the English Civil War who sought an accommodation with the Royalist side *John Hotham the younger (1610–1645), son of the above, an English Member of Parliament during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotham, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Hotham is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about east of the territorial capital of Darwin. The locality consists of land bounded to the west by the Adelaide River and to the north by the coastline of Van Diemen Gulf which includes the headland, Cape Hotham. The locality was named after Cape Hotham which itself was named by Phillip Parker King in 1818 after the Royal Navy officer, Rear Admiral Sir Henry Hotham. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The locality includes part of the Djukbinj National Park. Hotham includes the site of the first attempt by the Government of South Australia to create a settlement in the Northern Territory in 1864, which was listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 12 January 2000 under the name of Escape Cliffs. The 2016 Australian census The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High Street, Portsmouth from the 1790s until the end of Sir Thomas Williams's tenure, his successor, Sir Philip Durham, being the first to move into Admiralty House at the Royal Navy Dockyard, where subsequent holders of the office were based until 1969. Prior to World War I the officer holder was sometimes referred to in official dispatches as the Commander-in-Chief, Spithead. The Command extended along the south coast from Newhaven in East Sussex to Portland in Dorset. In 1889 the Commander-in-Chief took as his flagship. History In the late 18th century port admirals began to reside ashore, rather than on board their flagships; the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth was provided with a large house at 111 High Street, which was renamed Admiralty House (and which had formerly been home to the Mayor of Portsmouth). In the 1830s Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham
Admiral William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham (1736–1813) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was the son of Sir Beaumont Hotham (died 1771), a lineal descendant of Sir John Hotham. Biography Hotham was educated at Westminster School and at the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth. He entered the navy in 1751, and spent most of his midshipman's time in American waters. In 1755 he became lieutenant in Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's flagship ''St George'' and he soon received a small command, which led gradually to higher posts. In ''Syren'' (20) he fought a sharp action with the French ''Telemaque'' of superior force, and in the sloop ''Fortune'' he carried, by boarding, a 26-gun privateer. For this service, he was rewarded with a more powerful ship, and from 1757 onwards commanded various frigates. In 1759 his ship ''Melampe'', with ''Southampton'', fought a spirited action with two hostile frigates of similar force, one of which became their prize. ''Melampe'' was attached to Augustus K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hotham
Thomas Hotham DD (also de Hotham, Hothum, Hodham, and Hothun) was an English medieval university chancellor. Hotham was a Doctor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. From 1326 to 1328, he was Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ... of the University. References Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Chancellors of the University of Oxford 13th-century English people 14th-century English people {{England-academic-administrator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hotham
Sir Richard Hotham (5 October 1722 – 13 March 1799) was an East India merchant, property developer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1784. He is especially noted for his development of the Sussex village of Bognor into a seaside resort. He was also sometimes called Hotham the Hatter, to mark his original trade. Early life Hotham was born the youngest of five children in York in October 1722, but otherwise very little is known about his childhood. Having moved to London to become a hatter's apprentice, in 1743, at the age of 21 he married Frances Atkinson, the daughter of his employer, in the chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. By 1746 he was trading as a hatter in his own right from premises in Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, a few years later moving to new premises in The Strand. Hotham's wife Frances died in 1760, and the next year, at the age of 39 he remarried, to Barbara Huddart. At this time he became involved with the East India Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De Hotham
John de Hotham (or Hodum; died 1361) was an England, English medieval college head and university Chancellor (education), chancellor. John de Hotham was Provost (college), Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1350 to 1361. He was for two periods Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Chancellor of the University of Oxford between 1357 and 1360. He was buried at Chinnor in Oxfordshire, originally in the chancel of the church. References Year of birth unknown 1361 deaths Provosts of The Queen's College, Oxford Chancellors of the University of Oxford 14th-century English people 14th-century Roman Catholics {{England-academic-administrator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hotham (bishop)
John Hotham (died 1337) was a medieval Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Ely. He was also effective Governor of Ireland for a time. Hotham was the son of Alan and Matilda Hotham of Hotham and nephew of William Hotham, Archbishop of Dublin. His early career was spent in Ireland, where he became Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland until 1310. He was then appointed, on 13 December 1312, Chancellor of the Exchequer in England, a post he held until June 1316. Due to his knowledge of Irish affairs, he spent a good part of the Bruce Campaign in Ireland in that country, overseeing the Irish defences and exercising temporary powers of government. His firm action is generally credited with helping to bring about the failure of the Scots invasion. Hotham was elected to Ely on about 20 June 1316 and consecrated on 3 October 1316.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 244 Later that year he went to meet the pope in Avignon with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hotham The Younger
Sir John Hotham the younger (1610, Yorkshire – 2 January 1645, London), known as Captain Hotham, was an English Member of Parliament and military commander who fought for the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War. He was executed for treason in 1645. Early years Born around 1610, Hotham was the son of Sir John Hotham and his first wife, Katherine Rodes. As a young man, Hotham served in the army of the Prince of Orange during the Thirty Years War in the Netherlands from 1629 to 1631; he may have been present at the 1629 English siege of Bois-le-Duc. In 1640, Hotham became a member of parliament for Scarborough, North Yorkshire during the Long Parliament and the Short Parliament. bcw-project.org. Accessed 17 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet
Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet (circa July 1589 – 3 January 1645) of Scorborough Hall, near Driffield, Yorkshire, was an English Member of Parliament who was Governor of Hull in 1642 shortly before the start of the Civil War. He refused to allow King Charles I or any member of his entourage to enter the town, thereby depriving the king of access to the large arsenal contained within. Later in the Civil War he and his son John Hotham the younger were accused of treachery to the Parliamentarian cause, found guilty and executed on Tower Hill. Origins He was born in 1589 the second but only surviving son of John Hotham (1540–1609) of Scorborough, who in 1584 had been elected a Member of Parliament for Scarborough in Yorkshire. His mother has been variously given as Julian Stanhope, a daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford, Nottinghamshire or as Jane Legard, a daughter of Richard Legard of Rysome, Yorkshire. Career He fought on the continent of Europe during the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hotham
Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Henry Hotham (19 February 1777 – 19 April 1833) was officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812, was later a member of the Board of Admiralty, and ended his career as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Biography French Revolutionary Wars He was the youngest surviving son of Beaumont Hotham (2nd Baron Hotham from 1813) and Susanna, daughter of Sir Thomas Hankey. He joined the Navy in 1790 (aged 13) serving aboard , the flagship of his uncle Rear-Admiral William Hotham. He went on to serve aboard , , and , and finally once again with his uncle, now a Vice-Admiral, aboard in the Mediterranean. Hotham was present as a midshipman at the Siege of Bastia in April–May 1794. He was subsequently commissioned as a lieutenant on 6 June 1794 (aged just 17) and was given command of the prize sloop in November 1794. He was promoted to captain on 13 January 1795, in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Frederick Hotham
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Frederick Hotham (20 March 1843 – 22 March 1925) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he was a member of the naval brigade that fought the Māori people at the Battle of Rangiriri during the invasion of the Waikato and was also present at the Battle of Gate Pā during the Tauranga Campaign. He later took part in the bombardment of Alexandria during the Anglo-Egyptian War and then went ashore as Chief of Staff of the naval brigade, formed under Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, which was dispatched to restore the authority of Khedive Tewfik Pasha in the face of Ahmed ‘Urabi's nationalist uprising against the administration. Hotham went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station. He sought to intervene in the Chilean Civil War by arranging a peace agreement between the forces of President José Manuel Balmaceda and those of the National Congress of Chile who opposed the President. Unfortunately Hotham was shot at while going a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Hotham
The Division of Hotham is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Hotham covers an area of approximately 83 square kilometres from Oakleigh in the north to Dingley Village in the south. The division includes the suburbs of Bentleigh East, Clarinda, Clayton, Clayton South, Coatesville, Huntingdale, Mulgrave, Notting Hill, Oakleigh, Oakleigh East, Oakleigh South, Waverley Park, Westall, and Wheelers Hill in their entirety; as well as parts of Bentleigh, Chadstone, Glen Waverley, Heatherton, McKinnon, Mount Waverley, Ormond, Springvale, Springvale South and Syndal. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
