It will be seen that the letters and papers here printed belonged, for the most part, to Sir Richard Haddock. His long life enabled him to embrace four adult generations in his correspondence. The collection of documents from which they have been selected was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1879, and now forms the Egerton MSS. 2520-2532.
It is to be regretted that the Correspondence is so comparatively scanty, for no doubt at one time the collection was a good deal larger. From Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes (vol. v. p. 376) we know that the Haddock papers were placed in the hands of Captain William Locker, the Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who contemplated a publication of naval biography which was carried out by Charnock in his Biographia Navalis from the same materials. There is also evidence among the papers themselves, in the form of a letter written by Charles Haddock in 1792, to show that they were placed in Locker’s hands. The fate of borrowed books and papers is a mournful one.
But, few as they are, a selection from the Haddock Papers has been thought worthy to appear in print. As specimens of the letter-writing of a seafaring family of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the letters have a value of their own, even apart from the personal interest which they inspire as the record of long and honourable service.
E. M. T.
24 March, 1881.
Richard Haddock, Captain in the Parliamentary Navy, = ... d. 22 May, 1660, æt. 79. | | +-----------------------+-----------------------+ | Anna ..., = William Haddock, Richard Haddock, = ... d. 6 Jan. | Captain in the R.N. | 1688, | Parliamentary Navy, | æt. 78. | d. 22 Sept. 1667, æt. 60. | | [William Haddock, | Captain R.N., | d. 1726.] | +---+----------------------+---------------+--------+ | | | | 1. Lydia = Sir Richard Joseph Haddock, William Andrew [Stevens]. | Haddock, R.N., and East Haddock, Haddock. 2. Elizabeth | Admiral, R.N., Indian Service. R.N. ..., d. 26 | d. 26 Jan. Feb. 1709, | 1715, æt. 85. æt. 59. | +---+--------------+--------+------+-----+----+ | | | | | | | William Haddock, | A dau. | A daughter, | d. 1697. | m. ... | unmarried, | | Lydell. | d. 24 Mar. 1. Martha ... d. = Richard | | | 1732. 1722. | Haddock, R.N., | A son. | 2. Elizabeth ... | Comptroller | | d. 1730. | of the Navy, | | 3. Mary, daughter | d. 1751 | Elizabeth = John Clarke, of Charles | | Haddock. | of Blake Compton, 4th | | | Hall, in son of George | | | Bobbingworth 4th Earl of | | +---------+-------+ Northampton. | | | | | | | Richard Elizabeth Fanny | | Clarke. Clarke. Clarke. | | +-----------------+ Nicholas Haddock, = Frances ... | Admiral, R.N., d. | d. 22 Nov. | 26 Sept. 1746, æt. 60. | 1735. | | | +---------+----------+--------+-----+---+ | | | | | | | Richard Fleetwood Nicholas Richard Charles | Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, | d. 1717. d. 1722. d. 1781. R.N. living in 1792. | +----+----------+------------+------------------+ | | | | Martha Richard Elizabeth = ... Mary, = George Calvert, Haddock, Haddock, Haddock, Harman. d. Lieutenant in d. 1722. d. 1756. d. 1754. 1818. the Guards, d. 1781.
[1] See [p. 19] in the Correspondence. Charnock in his Biographia Navalis, i. 334, has made him out to be the son of Andrew Haddock, his own nephew.
[2] The best account of the Haddock family is to be found in a paper written by Mr. H. W. King and printed in The Archæological Mine, a work relating to Kentish history by A. J. Dunkin, vol. ii., pp. 41-51. Charnock’s Biographia Navalis of course gives particulars of the services of the family; and a number of original naval commissions of its different members are still extant in Egerton MS. 2520. See also The History of Rochford Hundred by Philip Benton, 1872, pp. 35 sqq.