In his final appearance, this character's wife is given a sapphire, while this man is made a chevalier for giving a carriage to a man who appears to be a lunatic.
In his final appearance, this character's wife is given a sapphire, while this man is made a chevalier for giving a carriage to a man who appears to be a lunatic. In another appearance, this character frequents the "Long Rooms" and earns a living playing whist. This character's two children, Maria and a namesake son, die of smallpox at the conclusion of a novel in which he takes three Sinhalese pearl fishers to Marmarice Bay. Before he recaptures a cutter named Witch of Endor in Flying Colours, this character and his coxswain Brown escape from a false trial and stay at the chateau of the Comte de Gracay. This man develops affection for Lady Barbara in the first novel to feature him, The Happy Return, in which he sinks the Natividad while captaining the HMS Lydia. Admiral Nelson inspired, for 10 points, what British naval officer created by C. S. Forester?
In his final appearance, this character's wife is given a sapphire, while this man is made a chevalier for giving a carriage to a man who appears to be a lunatic.
Horatio Hornblower [accept either underlined answer]