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Sir Graham Hamond, 2nd Baronet
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 2nd Baronet, GCB, DL (30 December 1779 – 20 December 1862) was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action as a junior officer at the Glorious First of June and then at the Battle of Toulon, he commanded the fifth-rate HMS Blanche at the Battle of Copenhagen during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Sir Graham Hamond Bt, GCB | |
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![]() A very young Midshipman Graham Hamond, shown on the extreme right of this painting by Mather Brown holding a trumpet, during the action on the Glorious First of June | |
Born | (1779-12-30)30 December 1779 London, Great Britain |
Died | 20 December 1862(1862-12-20) (aged 82) Yarmouth, Isle of Wight |
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Years of service | 1785–1838 |
Rank | Admiral of the Fleet |
Commands | HMS Echo HMS Champion HMS Lion HMS Blanche HMS Plantagenet HMS Lively HMS Victorious HMS Rivoli HMS Wellesley South America Station |
Battles/wars | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Hamond became commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Plantagenet and captured the French ships Le Courier de Terre Neuve and L'Atalante in an action during the Napoleonic Wars. He took command of the fifth-rate HMS Lively and took part in the action of 5 October 1804, when three Spanish frigates laden with treasure were captured, and was then given command of the third-rate HMS Victorious and took part in the attack on Flushing during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign.
After a period of leave from the Navy, Hamond became commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Wellesley and conveyed the diplomat Lord Stuart de Rothesay to Brazil to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Emperor Pedro I. Hamond went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South American Station.