Robert Hagan (Royal Navy officer)
Rear Admiral Sir Robert Hagan (3 November 1794 – 25 April 1863) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy.
Robert was born in Magherafelt, the fifth son of John Hagan. He entered the Navy, 22 December 1807, serving on HMS Surveillante under Captain George Collier. He remained on this ship until December 1813 when he joined the crew of HMS Porcupine (1807).
In 1839, he was a corresponding member of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa.[1]
He subsequently settled in Cobh (Queenstown), Ireland, where he was appointed Inspecting Commander of the Cork District Coast guard in 1843. In this capacity he submitted evidence to the Transatlantic Packet Station Commission in 1851.[2]
He died suddenly in 1863 at 17 Pembroke Road, Dublin.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1840). Abridgment of Sir T. Fowell Buxton's Work Entitled "The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy". London: J. Murray.
- ^ "Irish trans-Atlantic packet station: report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire as to the proposal for an Irish packet station: with appendix and index". www.dippam.ac.uk. Royal Commission on the Proposal for an Irish Packet Station. 1851. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Deaths". The Belfast News Letter. 29 April 1863. p. 1.