James Everard Home Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Sir
James Everard Home
Birth Date:	25 October 1798
Birth Place:	Well Manor, Hampshire
Death Place:	Sydney, New South Wales
Placeofburial:	Camperdown Cemetery, Sydney
Placeofburial Label:	Buried
Branch Label:	Branch
Rank:	Captain
Rank Label:	Rank
Commands:	HMS Racehorse, 1834–37 HMS North Star, 1841–46 HMS Calliope, 1850–53
Battles:	First Opium War Woosung New Zealand Wars Flagstaff War Otuihu
Battles Label:	Campaigns
Awards:	Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath^[1] China War Medal (1842)^[2]
Memorials:	Memorial plaque, St James' Church, Sydney^[3]
Relations:	Everard Home (father) Anne Home (aunt) Robert Home (uncle)

Captain Sir James Everard Home, 2nd Baronet, (25 October 1798 – 1 November 1853), born at Well Manor, Hampshire, England, was an eminent nineteenth century Royal Navy officer.^{[4] [3]}

Career

From 1 February 1834 to 5 December 1837, he was 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^[2] On 21 July 1842, North Star blockaded the Woosung River, Shanghai.^{[5] [6]} Queen Victoria appointed Home to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath in December 1842.^[1]

On 23 March 1845, North Star arrived in New Zealand.^[7] 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.^[8]

From 28 November 1850, he was captain of the 28-gun sixth rate HMS Calliope until he died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 November 1853.^[9]

A memorial plaque to him is in St James' Church, Sydney.^[10]

Legacy

James Everard Home collected a number of Polynesian artefacts during HMS North Stars 1844 South Sea cruise:

• A Samoan Tiputa. Coat of "Tapa" cloth fibre, 224 cm x 87 cm. Catalogue no. EBC 42861, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[11]
• A Samoan wooden board and shells for extracting inner bark. Catalogue no. EBC 42887, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[11]
• A Pandanus frame used to print Tapa cloth. Catalogue no. EBC 42914, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

See also

• Everard Home
• William Richard . O'Byrne . Home, James Everard . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . 1849 . John Murray.

Publications

• Home . James Everard . II. Observations of the Beginning and End of the Solar Eclipse on the 8th July, 1842. In the Fort on the left bank of the Shanghaie River, near to the Town of Woosung, on the Coast of China . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 5 . 29, 10 March . Royal Astronomical Society . London . 261 . 1843 . 10.1093/mnras/5.29.261a . free .
• Home . James Everard . Fisher . George . Magnetical Observations Made in the West Indies, on the Coasts of Brazil and North America, in the Years 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837 . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 4 . 31 December . Royal Society of London . London . 3–4 . 1843 . 10.1098/rspl.1837.0002 .
• Home . James Everard . Notes Among the Islands of the Pacific.—Extracts from the Remarks of H.M.S. North Star: Capt. Sir E. Home, R.N. . The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1849 . Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. . London . 1849 . 449–456, 580–589, 631–637 .
• Home . James Everard . Notes Among the Islands of the Pacific.—Extracts from the Remarks of H.M.S. North Star: Capt. Sir E. Home, R.N. . The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1850 . Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. . London . 1850 . 35–38, 218–224, 259–263 .

References

1. News: Downing Street, December 24, 1842 . The London Gazette . 20181 . 27 December 1842 . 3864 .
2. Book: Allen, Joseph . The New Navy List and General Record of the Services of Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines . Parker, Furnxvall, and Parker . London . 1850 . 38, 60 .
3. Web site: Sir James Everard Home . Monument Australia . 6 November 2023.
4. Web site: James Everard Home R.N. . The Victorian Royal Navy . 6 November 2023.
5. News: List of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels, and those of the Indian Navy, in the Yang-tse-Keang on the 2lst day of July 1842 . The London Gazette . 20168 . 24 November 1842 . 3404 .
6. Web site: HMS Calliope (Anglo-Chinese war 1842) . 23 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130413012805/http://anglochinesewar42.com/index.php?p=1_25_HMS-CALLIOPE . 13 April 2013.
7. News: Narrative of Events at the Bay of Islands . The New Zealander . 1 . 1 . 7 June 1845 . 2 .
8. Web site: Angela . Ballara . Pomare II . 30 October 2012. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 29 May 2016.
9. http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=464 Career details of Captain James Everard Home
10. News: Death of Sir Everard Home . . 878 . New South Wales, Australia . 3 November 1853 . 26 November 2016 . 2.
11. Book: Nesbitt . Mark . Mills . Andrew . Curtis . Brittany . Lennard . Frances . Mills . Andy . 17. From Maker to Museum: Polynesian Barkcloth at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth. Collections. Communities . Sidestone Press . Leiden . 29 January 2024. 231–250 . 9789088909726.