Personnel Profile
William Hoste
Frigate officer
William Hoste served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during napoleonic wars. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with independent command in the adriatic theatre. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most famous combat commanders. William Hoste belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.