Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden

Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden Pasha (1 April 182219 June 1886), also known as Hobart Pasha, was a British Captain, blockade runner and later Ottoman Mushir. In 1855 he took part, as captain of in the Baltic Expedition, and was actively engaged at Bomarsund and Åbo.

In 1862 he retired from the navy with the rank of Captain. Blockade runner During the American Civil War, to take the command of a blockade runner. He had the good fortune to run the blockade eighteen times, conveying war material to Charleston and returning with a cargo of cotton. He was immediately nominated to the command of that fleet, with the rank of "Bahriye Livasi" (rear-admiral). In this capacity he performed splendid service in helping to suppress the insurrection in Crete, and was rewarded by the Sultan with the title of Pasha (1869). In 1874 Hobart, whose name had, on representations made by Greece, been removed from the British Navy Directory, was reinstated; his restoration did not, however, last long, for on the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war he again entered Ottoman service.

In 1887, ‘Sketches.’ Hobart's ‘Sketches of My Life’ was posthumously published and edited by his wife Edith.

On 19 June 1886 Hobart-Hampden died in Milan, aged 64. Repatriated to Constantinople, Hobart-Hampden's was buried at Haydarpaşa Cemetery.