Legacy
Hoste's actions at Cattaro and Ragusa were later immortalised in fiction, where they are attributed to Captain Jack Aubrey, the principal character in Patrick O'Brian's 20 novels of the Aubrey–Maturin series. A small island in the entrance to the bay of Vis town is named Hoste Island after him, while the Sir William Hoste Cricket Club in Vis was founded by the Croatian islanders after learning that he had organised the game there during the British occupation of the island. A noted pub and restaurant in Burnham Market is called the Hoste Arms, either in honour of him, or of his family, who were significant landholders in the area.
Once, while in conversation with Hoste's father, Nelson remarked:
| “ | His worth as a man and an officer exceeds all which the most sincere friend can say of him. I pray God to bless my dear William. | ” |
Lord Radstock once wrote:
| “ | I look at you (Hoste) as the truly worthy eleve of my incomparable and ever to be lamented friend the late Lord Nelson. | ” |
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)