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1016 Fellowes – and, 22 Aug. 1840, after a few months of half-pay, to the 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 30 Aug. 1841; and has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 RUST. 

died 21 Oct. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 May, 1806, as A.B., on board the 38, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, with whom he continued, employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the same ship and in the 36 and  74, off the coast of France and in the North Sea, until made Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1813, into the  110, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. King on the Mediterranean station, where, from May to Dec. 1814, he served in the 26, Capt. Jas. Wemyss. While attached to the he was frequently employed in mortar and rocket boats off Boulogne, and in 1809 accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. After he left the he did not go afloat.

 RUTHERFORD. 

entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1829; passed his examination in 1836; and obtained his commission 3 June, 1840. His appointments have since been – 6 Aug. 1841, to the 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in 1845 – and 13 March, 1846, and 14 Feb. 1847, as First-Lieutenant, to the steam-sloop of 400-horse power, Capt. Edw. Crouch, and steam-frigate of 650 horse-power, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Chas. Hotham, both on the coast of Africa. He was nominated Acting-Commander of the 26 April, 1848. – Hallett and Robinson.

 RYDER. 

, born 27 Nov. 1820, is seventh son of Hon. Henry Ryder, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, who died in 1836, by Sophia, daughter of the late Thos. March Phillipps, Esq., of Garendon Park, co. Leicester; nephew of the first Earl of Harrowby; and brother-in-law of the Right. Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., Secretary of State for the Home Department.

This officer entered the Navy 6 May, 1833; passed his examination 24 July, 1839; studied afterwards at the Royal Naval College, obtained his first commission 2 July, 1841; served from 22 Sept. following until paid off in 1845 in the 42, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, on the Mediterranean station; acquired the rank of Commander 15 Jan. 1846; and from 26 May, 1847, until advanced to his present rank, 2 May, 1848, was employed in North America and the West Indies in the steam-sloop of 280-horse power.

 RYDER, M.P.

, born in Nov. 1799, is second son of the first Earl of Harrowby, by Susan, daughter of Granville, first Marquess of Stafford; brother-in-law of Earl Fortescue, and of ; and first-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 16 April, 1813, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell; with whom, from the spring of 1815 until Nov. 1817, he served in the Channel and at Cork as Midshipman in the 80. After he had been again, for about 18 months, employed in the Mediterranean in the 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, he joined with that officer, in Aug. 1819, the 42. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 Sept. following; he was removed, on his arrival in South America, to the 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; and from Jan. 1820 until 1822 he again served in the. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Ryder was returned to Parliament tor Hertfordshire in 1841. He married, 30 May, 1825, Georgiana Augusta, third daughter of Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort; by whom he has a large family.

 RYDER. 

entered the Navy, 2 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. Chas. Malcolm and Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer. In April, 1809, he served on shore at the capture of the Saintes; and in 1810 he was actively employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain; where he landed with a detachment of seamen and marines under Capt. Aylmer and had several skirmishes with the enemy’s troops in the neighbourhood of Santona. He was also for some time engaged on the coast of Labrador and off Greenland in affording protection to the fur-trade and the whale fisheries. In March, 1812, he removed to the, Capt. Jas. Nash, lying at Plymouth; he again, in July of the same year, joined the, then commanded by Capt. John Rich. Lumley; and from the following Sept. until the receipt of his commission, bearing date 16 Sept. 1816, he served on the Cork, Lisbon, Baltic, Channel, North American, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton,  44, Capts. Wm. Fothergill and Thos. Browne, 38, Capts. Hon. F. W. Aylmer and Wm. Hugh Dobbie, and 40, Capt. Aylmer. In 1813 he was much employed in the in escorting convoys through the Belts, and came often in her boats into contact with the Danish gun-vessels. While Master’s Mate, in 1814-15, of the, he served in a rocket-boat at the bombardment of Stonington, took part in other operations on the coast of North America, and accompanied a highly successful expedition sent to the Gironde for the support of the French King. For his conduct in the Severn at the battle of Algiers he was promoted, as above, to the rank of Lieutenant. Between 1825 and 1831 he held command of different stations in the Coast Guard; and from the latter date until 1834, when his health obliged him to resign, he was employed as an on board the  transport in conveying stores and troops to the North Seas, the coast of Portugal, and the Mediterranean.

 RYE. 

entered the Navy, in May, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. John Temple, stationed in the North Sea; and in the following year was present as Midshipman of the  64, Capt. Thos. Bertie, in the expedition to Holland. After participating in the, Capt. Martin Hinton, in the operations of 1801 in Egypt, he returned home from the Mediterranean in the spring of 1802 on board the , Capt. Jos. Edmonds. From April, 1803, until the early part of 1809 he served on the North Sea, Newfoundland, Lisbon, and Downs stations, in the, Lieut.-Commander Johnson, , Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart,, Lieut.-Commander Whitaker, , Capt. Jas. Murray Northey,, Lieut.-Commander M‘Donald, 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon, and , Capt. Chas. Pickford. On 8 March, 1809, he was made Lieutenant into the 10, Capt. Sam. Clarke, lying in the Downs; and between the following Nov. and Dec. 1810 he was employed in Quiberon Bay, off Flushing, and in the Tagus, in the 10, Capt. Thos. Fife, 74, Capt. Donald Campbell, and  frigate, commanded by the present Earl of Leven and Melville. In Nov. 1823 he obtained an appointment in the