Certificates of service and letters of recommendation, 1785-1798; Letters written by Hoste to his family while serving at sea, 1794-1814; List of vessels captured by HMS MUTINE and HMS EURYDICE while under his command, 1799-1805; Orders received by Hoste and notes on events while in command of HMS AMPHION and then HMS BACCHANTE, 1805-1814; Accounts relating to HMS AMPHION, 1808-1810; List of vessels taken, destroyed or detained by HMS BACCHANTE, 1812-1813; Correspondence with other officers, including letters to Lady Harriet Hoste regarding a memorial to her husband, 1811-1830; Document conferring Freedom of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, 1828; Hoste family genealogical tree and correspondence concerning wills, marriage, and titles to estates; Printed report by J. Walker on the plan for making a ship navigation from the sea at Lowestoft to Norwich, made to the Corporation of Great Yarmouth, 19 January 1826.

Administrative / biographical background
Hoste was born at Ingoldisthorpe in Norfolk. His father was the Reverand Dixon Hoste, rector of Godwick and Tittleshall. He had a disinguished career in the Navy with famous successes in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. He first entered Navy records as a captain's servant on HMS EUROPA in 1785. After approaches made to Captain Nelson, Hoste was accepted as a captain's servant on board HMS AGAMEMNON in 1793. He served under Nelson for the next five years, following him during his periods of command of HMS CAPTAIN, HMS IRRESISTIBLE and then HMS THESEUS. Nelson was impressed with his gallantry and was an important mentor. Hoste became a midshipman in 1794, acting lieutenant after the Battle of Santa Cruz in 1797, and was confirmed as lieutenant in 1798. Hoste was on board HMS THESEUS under Captain Ralph W. Miller at the Battle of the Nile and after his gallant conduct was appointed to command of the brig HMS MUTINE, the only small vessel attached to Nelson’s squadron in the battle of the Nile. This appointment being confirmed by the Admiralty in December following, he continued to serve in her till the close of the war. His post commission bears date 7 January 1802. While in command of four frigates including HMS AMPHION, Hoste effected the defeat of a much larger Franco-Venetian squadron off Lissa in the Adriatic in 1811. When in command of HMS BACCHANTE in 1813, he led the naval force employed in the reduction of the French strongholds of Cattaro and Ragusa on the Dalmatian coast. For these services the Emperor of Austria conferred on him the insignia of a knight of the order of Maria Theresa (KMT) in 1814. After his exploits in the Adriatic, Hoste was invalided to England, where he was raised to the dignity of a baronet, obtained an honourable augmentation to the family coat-of-arms (including the words ‘Lissa’ and ‘Cattaro’), and was nominated a KCB. Hoste accepted the command of the guardship HMS ALBION at Portsmouth in 1822, and was appointed to the royal yacht HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN in 1825. He died of tuberculosis in London and was buried in St John's Wood Chapel in 1828.