1. Captain Sir William Hoste, 1st Baronet, KCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
15 Facts About William Hoste
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William Hoste was the second of eight children of Reverend Dixon Hoste and Margaret Stanforth.
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William Hoste was born at Ingoldisthorpe, and the family later moved to Godwick Hall, east of Tittleshall, which was leased from Thomas Coke, who later became the 1st Earl of Leicester, of Holkham Hall.
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William Hoste was educated for a time at King's Lynn and later at the Paston School in North Walsham, where Horatio Nelson himself had been to school some years previously.
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The ship joined the Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Hood, and it was in the Mediterranean and Adriatic that William Hoste saw most of his naval service.
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William Hoste, carrying news of the victory, first sailed to Gibraltar, before rejoining the fleet, under St Vincent, off Cadiz.
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William Hoste continued in command of the Mutine for the next three years, campaigning in Italy under Nelson, where in the autumn of 1799, he took part in the capture of Rome.
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William Hoste later served under Lord Keith, who knew little of him and his career appeared to have stalled until, possibly at Nelson's prompting, he was promoted post-captain by Lord St Vincent, First Lord of the Admiralty, in January 1802.
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However, signalling 'Remember Nelson' to rally his men, William Hoste used his superior seamanship and gunnery to overcome the larger Franco-Italian squadron, with the loss of 50 men killed and 132 wounded.
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William Hoste continued to demonstrate the same kind of initiative and aggression as before.
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William Hoste helped capture Spalato in November 1813 with the assistance from the 35th regiment of foot.
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William Hoste immediately repeated these tactics at Ragusa, which surrendered later on the 27th.
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William Hoste's health, compromised by his malaria and earlier lung infection, worsened and he was forced to return to England.
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William Hoste married Lady Harriet Walpole on 17 April 1817.
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William Hoste was the daughter of Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford and Sophia Churchill.