Captain Hugh Bonfoy

Bef 1715 - 1762  (> 47 years)

• Name	Hugh Bonfoy
  Title	Captain
  Born	Bef 21 Feb 1714/15
  Christened	21 Feb 1714/15	Radwell, Hertfordshire   [1]
  Royal Navy Service	6 Apr 1738	Passed Lieut. Exam   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	22 Oct 1738	Rank of Lieutenant   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	16 Jan 1743/44	Rank of Commander   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	16 Jan 1743/44–11 Apr 1745	Commanding Officer HMS Ferret (14)   [2]
  Military Service	12 Apr 1745	Rank of Captain   [3]
  Royal Navy Service	12 Apr 1745–02 Feb 1745/46	Commanding Officer HMS Greyhoud (20)   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	03 Feb 1745/46–08 Dec 1746	Commanding Officer HMS Southsea Castle (44)   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	05 Jun 1747–30 Aug 1748	Commanding Officer HMS Augusta (60)   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	01 Dec 1748–14 Nov 1752	Commanding Officer HMS Berwick (70)   [2]
  Occupation	1753–1754	Governor of Newfoundland   [2]
  Royal Navy Service	23 Jan 1753–11 Feb 1755	Commanding Officer HMS Penzance (44)   [2]
  Died	12 Mar 1762	Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland   [4]
  Royal Navy Service	25 Nov 1755–03 Dec 1762	Commander of HM Yacht Dorset   [2]
  Person ID	I00061	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Bonfoy,   d. Bef 17 Jun 1734
  Mother	Elizabeth Hale,   b. 14 Mar 1681/82,   d. 14 Mar 1763, Highgate, London  (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F00030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Anne Eliot,   b. 17 Nov 1729, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall ,   d. 13 Apr 1816, Grosvenor Street, Westminster, Middlesex  (Age 86 years)
  Married	29 Nov 1751	Godalming, Surrey, England   [5]
  EL/B/3/1/11 Letter, Mrs Hamilton, Suffolk Street, to Edward Eliot 23 Aug 1751 She complains that his letter took a long time to arrive. She is pleased that Nancy likes Mr Bonfoy, and that Ham [Mr Hamilton] says he is a 'Man of strict honour, just generous, and good natured'. He has been with them at Town, as well as Betsey and John. John and Kitty are travelling with her to Gosfield, and Mrs Booth is taking Betty with her for 'the remainder of the Holydays.'
  Children	1. Anne Bonfoy,   b. Bef 04 Oct 1752,   d. 14 Aug 1821, Grosvenor Street, Westminster, Middlesex  (Age > 68 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F00045	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- "Newcastle Courant" 20 Dec 1755, page 2: Captain Weller, of the Dublin Yacht, will be appointed Commander of the Assistance Man of War of 54 Guns, and be succeeded in the Command of the Yacht by Capt. Bonfoy, Brother to Mr. Bonfoy, second Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. --- "Ipswich Journal" 26 Aug 1758, page 6: DUBLIN, Aug. 19. On Tuesday last sailed his Majesty's Yacht the Dorset, Capt. Bonfoy, Commander, for Parkgate, with his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Cashel, the Right Hon. the Lord Fitzwilliam, the Rev. Dr. Lewis, Dean of Offory, and other Passengers. --- "Dublin Courier" 1 Mar 1762, page 2: Yesterday his majesty's yacht Dorset, Capt. Bonfoy, arrived from Parkgate with several passengers. --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" March 1762, page 191: List of Deaths for the Year 1762. [March] 12. Stephen's-green, Hugh Bonfoy, Esq; commander of the Dorset yacht. --- "The London Chronicle for 1762" Vol. 11, March 23-25, page 285: IRELAND. Dublin, March 16. A few days ago died Hugh Bonfoy, Esq; Commander of his Majesty's yacht, Dorset. --- "Biographia Navalis" by John Charnock, page 364 : BONFOY, Hugh, --- was a midshipman on board the Somerset in 1739, and made a lieutenant by Mr. Haddock. He was afterwards promoted in England to the command of the Ferret sloop, previous to his being, on April 12, 1745, appointed captain of the Greyhound frigate. The next subsequent account we have of him is, that in the very beginning of the year 1748, he commanded the Augusta, of sixty guns, one of the fleet ordered out on a cruise under rear-admiral sir Edward Hawke. In the month of July 1749, he was captain of the Berwick, a guardship of sixty-four guns, one of those put into commission immediately after the peace in 1748; and was one of the members composing the court-martial held, on board the Invincible, for the trial of the piratical mutineers who had attempted to carry off the Chesterfield, of forty guns, from the coast of Guinea. After his quitting this ship he went a voyage to Newfoundland captain of the Pensance, a fifth rate forty-four guns, and on his return was appointed to be captain of the Dorset, the yacht stationed to attend on the lord lieutenant of Ireland. He died in Ireland, holding this commission, on the 12th of March, 1762.* * He left a daughter, who married on the 14th of September 1775, the earl of Ely, of the kingdom of Ireland.

  
  

• Sources

  Scan of Original Baptism Record. [S1] www.threedecks.org. [S00040] "A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland" Vol. 1, by Robert Beatson, 1788, page 332. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,1882, page 1171. [S00020] Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Eliot of Port Eliot and Craggs of Wyserley, Copied from Documents in the possession of the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Germans, (Name: Name: Taylor and Company, London 1868;;).