by Richard Hiscocks | Sep 21, 2024
Sir Josias Rowley 1765-1842 After a slow start Josias Rowley (scion of an influential naval family) enjoyed a notably successful career. His 1809-10 campaign in the Indian Ocean was so spectacular that Patrick O’Brian used it as the basis for events in his Jack Aubrey...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 10, 2022
Edward Rotheram 1753-1830. Born on 27 December 1753 at Hexham, Northumberland, he was the second son of seven children of Dr John Rotheram and of his wife, Catherine Roberts. His brother was Professor John Rotheram, an esteemed natural philosopher. Rotheram was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 9, 2022
James Ross-Farquharson 1771-1809. He was the second son of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lockhart-Ross and of his wife, Elizabeth Dundas, the daughter of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, the Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland. Ross was commissioned lieutenant on...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 24, 2021
William Roberts c1769-1811. Roberts was commissioned lieutenant on 23 December 1793, and it appears likely that he fought at the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 aboard the Defence 74, Captain James Gambier. He was promoted commander of the sloop Snake 18...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 21, 2021
Richard Retalick c1759-1813. He came from an established Cornish family. His brother James was wounded aboard the Monarch 74 at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 when serving as her third lieutenant, and his injuries contributed to his early death at Padstow in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 8, 2021
Thomas Rogers 1764-1814. Born in Lymington, Hampshire, to a businessman, William Rogers, he was the younger brother of the highly esteemed Captain Josias Rogers, who died of yellow fever at Grenada in 1795, and the elder brother of Lieutenant James Rogers, 1769-94,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2020
Lewis Robertson Died 1794. Robertson was commissioned lieutenant on 22 June 1773 by Commodore Molyneux Shuldham, the commander-in-chief at Newfoundland, and in that rank he reportedly commanded the cutter Placentia on that station until July 1775 He was promoted...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 29, 2020
Bartholomew Samuel Rowley 1764-1811. He was born on 10 June 1764, the second son of Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley and his wife, Sarah Burton. He was the grandson of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Rowley, nephew of Major-General William Rowley, elder brother of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 11, 2019
Henry Roberts 1756-96. He was baptised in Shoreham, Sussex on 17 March 1757, the eldest of five sons of Henry Roberts and his wife, Susannah Stow. Roberts was initially placed for ten months on the books of the yacht Mary as a captain s servant during 1771-2. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019
Robert Carthew Reynolds 1745-1811. He was born in Lamorran, near Truro, Cornwall and baptised on 30 July 1745, being the son of John Reynolds, and of his wife Elizabeth Carthew. In 1759 Reynolds entered the navy aboard the Hero 74, commanded by his patron, Captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019
See Hon. William Carnegie, Earl Northesk
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018
See William Henry Ricketts Jervis
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2018
Edward Riou 1762-1801. Born on 20 November 1762 at Mount Ephraim near Faversham in Kent, he came from modest origins, being the second son of Captain Etienne, anglicised to Stephen, Riou of the Grenadier Guards, and of his wife Dorothy Dawson. Riou?s initial service...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 4, 2018
Thomas Macnamara Russell c1743-1824. He was the son of an Englishman who had migrated to Ireland and married the daughter and heiress of Sheedy Macnamara of Ballyalla, County Clare. At the age of five Russell inherited a substantial fortune on the death of his father,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 20, 2018
John Reynolds Died 1793. Reynolds was commissioned lieutenant on 9 May 1758, and he was promoted commander out of the Centaur 74, Captain Phillips Cosby, on 14 May 1778 to join the Ranger 8, seeing service in the Downs and retaining her on that station for the next...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 17, 2017
Peter Rainier 1741-1808. He was born on 24 November 1741, the second of four sons of a merchant, Peter Rainier of Sandwich, and his wife, Sarah Spratt. His grandfather, Daniel Regnier, was of French Huguenot extraction. Educated initially at Tonbridge in Kent, Rainier...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 15, 2017
Ambrose Reddall Died 1791. Reddall was commissioned lieutenant on 8 July 1762, and he was the first lieutenant of the Experiment 50, Captain Alexander Scott, at the unsuccessful attack on Charleston on 28 June 1776. His conduct on that occasion, when he fought the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 15, 2017
Henry Reynolds Died 1782. Reynolds was commissioned lieutenant on 7 May 1776 and promoted commander on 16 January 1781, being ordered to commission a newly purchased merchantman in India as the fireship Combustion 14. He served ashore with a naval brigade in support...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 30, 2017
George Robertson 1742-91. He was the son of Dr William Robertson of Richmond, Surrey, and of his wife, Mary Seton. Robertson was commissioned lieutenant on 5 March 1762 and promoted commander on 4 November 1778. He commissioned the newly purchased fireship Incendiary...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 28, 2017
Sir Thomas Rich c1733- 1803. He was the eldest son of Sir William Rich, 4th Baronet of Sonning, and of his wife, Elizabeth Royall of Minstead, Hampshire.Of his early service little is known, but Rich was commissioned lieutenant on 25 March 1758 and became the 5th...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 3, 2017
Hon. John Rodney 1765-1847. Born on 10 May 1765, he was the third son of Admiral Lord Rodney, but the elder son from his second marriage, to Henrietta Clines. Rodney joined the Royal Academy at Portsmouth on 18 May 1778 but was discharged on 28 October of the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 3, 2017
See Hon. William Waldegrave
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 20, 2016
George Brydges Rodney 1st Baron 1718-92. He was born in London and baptised on 13 February 1718, the second son of Henry Rodney, a captain of marines from Walton-on-Thames, and of his wife Mary Newton, the daughter and co-heiress of the diplomat, Sir Henry Newton. He...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 2, 2016
Josias Rogers 1755-95. Born in Lymington, Hampshire, where his father, William Rogers, was a businessman, he was the elder brother Rear-Admiral Thomas Rogers, and of Lieutenant James Rogers, 1769-94 who died of yellow fever in the Caribbean. After an education in...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 19, 2016
Sir John Lockhart-Ross 1721-90. He was born at Lockhart Hall, Lanarkshire, on 11 November 1721, the fifth son of Sir James Lockhart Bt of Carstairs, and of his wife, Grizel Ross. He was known by the name of Lockhart until 1760, and thereafter by the name of...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 19, 2016
Sir Joshua Rowley 1734-90. He was born in Dublin on 1 May 1734, a son of Sir William Rowley, Admiral of the Fleet, who died on 1 January 1768, and of his wife, Arabella Dawson. He was the father of Admiral Sir Charles Rowley and Admiral Bartholomew Rowley, and the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 6, 2016
Robert Roddam 1719-1808. He was born at Roddam Hall, near Alnwick in Northumberland, the second of three sons of Edward Roddam of Roddam, and of his wife Jane Skelly. In 1735 Roddam entered the navy aboard the Lowestoft 20, Captain Charles Drummond, seeing service in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Feb 23, 2016
Hugh Robinson 1735-1802. He was born on 15 July 1735 at Appleby, Westmoreland, a younger son of the successful tradesman Charles Robinson, and of his wife Hannah Deane, the sister of Captain Joseph Deane. His brother, John Robinson, served as the M.P for Westmoreland...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 12, 2016
Francis Reynolds-Moreton 3rd Lord Ducie 1739-1808. He was born on 28 March 1739 at Strangeways, Manchester, the second son of Francis Reynolds, heir to a South Sea Company director, and of Hon. Elizabeth Moreton, the eldest daughter of the 1st Lord Ducie. He was the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 1, 2016
Mark Robinson (1) 1722-1799. He was born on 25 April 1722. He was the father of Admiral Mark Robinson, and of Charles Robinson, who was promoted commander in 1794, and was the senior surviving officer in that rank at the time of his death in 1853.Having entered the...
