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Rh  connected with the capture of Rovigno, on the coast of Istria, the island of Lesina, and the strong fortresses of Cattaro and Sagusa. His appointments, immediately suhsequent to his promotion, were – 4 Aug. 1814, to the 38, Capt. John Bastard, with whom he served off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean until Dec. 1815 – 10 Jan. 1817, to the  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin at St. Helena – and, 2 Aug. following, to the acting-command, on the same station, of the 14. From that sloop, to which he was confirmed 26 Nov. 1817, Capt. Rous removed, 25 Jan. 1818, to the. In the summer of 1819 he returned to England and was paid off. His next appointments were, 16 Nov. 1821 and 9 Feb. 1822, to the  18 and  20, on the Cork and Mediterranean stations; he attained Post-rank 25 April, 1823; and he afterwards, from 30 July, 1825, until 25 Aug. 1829, and from 17 Nov. 1834 until the close of 1835, commanded the  28 and  36. In the former of those ships he visited the East Indies, and discovered a river (to which he gave the name of Richmond) to the northward of Sydney, in New South Wales. The, while he was in her, ran ashore on the coast of Labrador, was got off with great difficulty, and crossed the Atlantic without a rudder.

In 1846 Capt. Rous filled a seat at the Board of Admiralty. He had previously represented Westminster in Parliament. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ROUSE. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1799, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, in which ship he was wrecked on a sunken rock near Belleisle 4 Nov. 1800. Between the following Jan. and the summer of 1806 he served in the Channel (the chief part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate), in the 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Collingwood,  and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Wallis, 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves, and 98, Capt. Fras. Fayerman. He then joined the 100, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, under whom he passed the Dardanells, and lost a leg in the attack upon Prota in Feb. 1807. He was promoted in consequence to the rank of Lieutenant 24 Aug. 1807, voted a grant from the Patriotic Fund, and awarded, 28 May, 1816, a pension of 91l. 5s. From 25 Aug. 1815 until paid off 15 April, 1818, he commanded the cutter on the coast of Scotland; and from 26 July, 1820, until admitted, 2 Nov. 1837, to Greenwich Hospital, he filled the appointment of First-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth.

The Lieutenant’s second daughter, Frances Seymour, is married to R. H. Forman, Esq., son of Colonel Forman, of Croom’s Hill, Greenwich.

 ROUTLEDGE. 

entered the Navy 28 Nov. 1807; obtained his commission 21 Jan. 1824; and, from 15 April, 1824, until 1826, was employed in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74 and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 ROWAN. 

entered the Navy, 28 May, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Sampson Edwards and Geo. Eyre, attached to the fleet in the Channel; where, and in the West Indies and Baltic, he served – from Feb. 1801 until the receipt of his Lieutenant’s commission, bearing date 19 Oct. 1807, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the- 110, Capt. Wm. Wolseley, 74, Capts. Thos. Sotheby, John Okes Hardy, and Thos. Bertie, 98, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, and 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland. Under the officer last mentioned he accompanied Admiral Gambier in the expedition against Copenhagen. His last appointments were, in Nov. 1807 and Aug. 1812, to the brig, Capts. John Rich. Lumley and Westby Percival, and 74, Capts. Rich. Balling Dunn and Thos. Elphinstone. In those ships he was continuously employed in the Mediterranean, among the Western Islands, and in the Channel, until Sept. 1814. He accepted his present rank 15 April, 1844.

Commander Rowan married, in 1841, at Carrickfergus, Elizabeth Maria, daughter of John Legg, Esq.

 ROWE. 

is youngest son of the late Rev. Henry Rowe, LL.B., of Padnal Hall and Toby Priory, co. Essex, Rector of Ringshall,. co. Suffolk, by Harriet, daughter of the Rev. Thos. Bland, of Tunstall House, Vicar of Sittingbourne, co. Kent. His grandfather was the only son of Nathaniel Rowe, Esq., of Eastworth House, Chertsey, who sailed round the world with Lord Anson, and who was himself the thirty-first child of John Rowe, Esq., of Plawsworth Hall, co. Durham. Capt. Rowe is a descendant of Sir Thos. Rowe, who was knighted on the field of battle during the crusades, and is of the family of Nicholas Rowe, the poet, whose remains are entombed in Westminster Abbey. His eldest brother, John, died of yellow fever in the West Indies while serving as Midshipman on board the 44, Capt. John Whitby.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 Feb. 1798, as L.M. (under the auspices of Isaac Hawkins Browne, Esq., M.P. for Bridgenorth), on board the, Capt. Thos. Parr, flag-ship at the Nore of Vice-Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge. He served subsequently in the North Sea in the sloop, Capt. Jeffery Baigersfeld, and, on becoming Midshipman of the, commanded at first by Capt. John Wright, and next by Capt. Raigersfeld, was employed in the expedition to the Texel. On his arrival, in 1801, in the West Indies in the frigate, Capt. Jas. Bradby, he was received as Master’s Mate on board schooner, commanded by the late Capt. Kenneth Mackenzie, under whom he succeeded in cutting out and in otherwise capturing many of the enemy’s privateers off the island of Guadeloupe, St. Martin’s, and Puerto Rico. For the services he thus performed he was ordered, in 1803, to act as Lieutenant of the 14, into which sloop he had followed Capt. Mackenzie. In the course of the same year, in consequence of a new Admiralty regulation, he found himself under the necessity of resigning his appointment and of returning to England for the purpose of passing his examination; and he took a passage accordingly in the 20, Commodore Hon. Robt. Stopford. After serving with the Channel fleet in the 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, he was nominated, 17 Jan. 1805, Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.- Commander Joseph Marrett, lying in the Blackwater river in Essex. Being advanced, 19 March following, to the full rank of Lieutenant in the 74, Capts. Christopher Laroche, Wm. Brown, John Pilfold, and Hon. Henry Blackwood, he was afforded an opportunity of participating in that ship in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, and of sharing in the glories of Trafalgar. On the occasion of her destruction by fire off the island of, , he was picked up by a boat and conveyed on board the 80. At the ensuing passage of the Dardanells he served as a volunteer on board the 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles. On his return to England he was appointed, in July, 1807, to the 74, Capt. Jas. Young, then