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Captain Sir Charles Hotham KCB (14 January 1806 – 31 December 1855) was Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 22 June 1854 to 10 November 1855.
Sir Charles Hotham (1806-1855), naval officer and governor, was born on 14 January 1806 in Dennington, Suffolk, England, the eldest son of Frederick Hotham (pronounced `Hutham'), prebendary of Rochester, and his wife Anne Elizabeth, née Hodges.
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Charles Hotham. By 1854, Britain was at war with Russia and Charles Hotham wanted to captain a ship. It was made clear to him that the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria was the only assignment available. He accepted with, in his words, ‘a sorrowful heart' but his welcome to the colony was an exuberant one.
Sir Charles Hotham was born on 14 January 1806, at Thornham, a small village in Norfolk, England. He was the son of Rev. Frederick Hotham and Ann Elizabeth Hodges. Sir Charles Hotham married Jane, who was the great-niece of Lord Nelson, on 10 December 1853 before they left Victoria.
Dec 27, 2019 · There’s a street named after him, a pub in Geelong and a mountain… but that’s about all I could have come up with before I read Shirley Roberts’ biography of Charles Hotham. In her opening pages, Shirley Roberts announces that “Hotham appears as a man who has been most unfairly denigrated”.
In 1845, Hotham led British ships, aided by the French navy, against a Spanish blockade at the Parana River. He was knighted the following year for his achievement. 3 In 1846, Hotham was assigned to the West Coast of Africa to stop slave ships travelling to the Americas.
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Frederick Hotham GCB, GCVO (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.
