Hobart Pasha, the HON. AUGUSTUS CHARLES HOBART-HAMPDEN, third son of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, was born at Waltham-on-the-Wolds, in Leicestershire, on 1st April 1822, and in 1836 entered the British navy. He first served against the slavers in Brazilian waters, then in the Baltic during the Crimean war, and there materially assisted in the capture of Bomarsund, in the attack on Åbo, and in the bombardment of Sveåborg. Shortly after the conclusion of the war he retired on half-pay. On the outbreak of the civil war in America he, as 'Captain Roberts,' took command of a blockade-runner, and several times got through the naval cordon that the North had established along the coasts of the Southern States, his adventures being most exciting and his escapes marvellous.
Lastly, he entered the service of Turkey (1867), and for his great services in checking the Greek blockade-runners to Crete in that year was raised to the rank of pasha and made admiral of the Ottoman fleet. On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war (1878) he took command of the Turkish Black Sea fleet. After each of these last pieces of active service his name was struck off the British Admiralty list, but on each occasion subsequently restored. He died on 19th June 1886 at Milan. He wrote Sketches from My Life (edited by his widow, 1887), and a book entitled Never Caught (1867), giving an account of his exploits during the civil war in America.