James Everard Home

Captain Sir James Everard Home, 2nd Baronet, (25 October 1798 – 1 November 1853) was a Royal Navy officer.

He returned to sea again from 1 February 1834 to 5 December 1837 as commander of the 18-gun sloop serving in the West Indies.

From 30 August 1841 to 8 September 1846 he was captain of the corvette HMS North Star.

During the period 1841–42 she served at Canton with Sir William Parker's ships in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–42), popularly known as the First Opium War. Home was present at the taking of Woosung and Shanghai in mid June 1842, and operations on the Yangtze Queen Victoria appointed Home to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath in December 1842. North Star operated in the Bay of Islands during the Flagstaff War between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846. On 30 April 1845 Pōmare was taken on board North Star and, following the burning of his pā, to Auckland. He was released after Tāmati Wāka Nene's intervention.

In 1846 Home took part in the trial of Captain John Gordon, HMS America, on charges of leaving the South American station in America without permission and contrary to the orders of the Commander in Chief, Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour, as well as bringing home a quantity of specie intended to have been shipped for England in the steamer Salamander or HMS Daphne.

The Court was composed of: Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Commander in Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels at Portsmouth, President; Rear Admiral Hyde Parker; Captain John Pasco, HMS Victory; Captain Henry Ducie Chads, HMS Excellent; Captain Sir James Everard Home, HMS North Star; and Captain Jon Robb, HMS Gladiator.

A memorial plaque to him is in St James' Church, Sydney. A Samoan wooden board and shells for extracting inner bark. Catalogue no. EBC 42887, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew A Pandanus frame used to print Tapa cloth. Catalogue no. EBC 42914, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

He collected plant species and corresponded with Sir William Hooker and Robert Brown. Plant species named after James Everard Home include: Alpinia homeana K. Schum. – from Fiji Geranium homeanum Turcz. – A Geranium from New Zealand Podonephelium homei (Seem.) Radlk. – A New Caledonian shrub