James Everard Home

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.

Career
From 1 February 1834 to 5 December 1837, he was commander of the 18-gun sloop HMS Racehorse (1830), 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 On 21 July 1842, North Star blockaded the Woosung River, Shanghai. Queen Victoria appointed Home to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath in December 1842.

On 23 March 1845, North Star arrived in New Zealand. 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.

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.

A memorial plaque to him is in St James' Church, Sydney.

Legacy
James Everard Home collected a number of Polynesian artefacts during HMS North Star's 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
 * 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.