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Rh  in Virginia. He assisted, too, at the siege of Boston; and he afterwards, as Lieutenant of the 50, Capts. Rayner and Cornwallis, took part in a variety of other operations, including the capture of Forts Montgomery and Clinton, the reduction of Philadelphia, and the attack upon Mud Island. For his various successful and dashing services while commanding the cutter, he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and his vessel, in which he was continued, rated a sloop of war. After accompanying Admiral Darby to the relief of Gibraltar, and again distinguishing himself, he was advanced, 4 June, 1781, to Post-rank, in the 20; in which ship, and the  44, he was employed most zealously during the remainder of the war. In the he captured, 4 Sept. 178S, the  French frigate of 40 guns and 360 men. Between 1790 and the date of his promotion to Flag-rank, 1 Jan. 1801, he commanded 38, and the  28,  of 56 guns and 330 men. 50, 74,  yacht, and  80. He gained during that period an exalted reputation for zeal, valour, energy, and judgment, and, indeed, for all the qualities which constitute a naval commander of the first order of genius. In the he effected, 15 July, 1796, the defeat (after a fierce and memorably gallant engagement, productive of serious loss to the enemy, although not more than 2 were wounded on the part of the British) of a French squadron, consisting of 4 frigates and 2 ship-corvettes, assisted by a brig corvette, and an armed cutter, the whole of which were compelled to sheer off. The merchants of London and the Russia Company testified their admiration of this performance, by each presenting him with a piece of plate valued at 100 guineas; and the boroughs of Huntingdon and North Yarmouth, by presenting him with their freedom. For the resolution and address by which Capt. Trollope succeeded in preventing both his own ship and the 64 from joining the mutinous fleet at the Nore in 1797, he received the approbation of the Admiralty; and for his subsequent conduct, both in the action off, and before it, in keeping a watch over the enemy’s fleet, and enabling Admiral Duncan to fall in with it, he received from the King the honour of Knighthood. He became a Vice-Admiral 9 Nov. 1805, a full Admiral 12 Aug. 1812, a K.C.B. 20 May, 1820, and a G.C.B. 19 May, 1831. He died an Admiral of the Red, at Fresliford, near Bath, 2 Nov. 1839. and the late Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Trollope, who commanded the marines on board the 74, Lord Duncan’s flag-ship, in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797, and who retired from that corps in 1800, His father was grandson of Sir Thos. Trollope, Bart., of Casewick, co. Lincoln.

This officer entered the Navy, 5 May, 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad 38; in which frigate and the, both commanded by his half-brother, Capt. Henry Trollope, he was for one year and nine months employed in the Channel and Mediterranean, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. Joining next, in Aug. 1792, the 64, Capt. Sir Erasmus Gower, he accompanied Lord Macartney in that ship in his embassy to China. On his return thence he was transferred, in Oct. 1794, to the 44; and in the following Jan. he was placed on board the  74. In her he was present under his former Captain, Sir E. Gower, in ’ celebrated retreat 16 and 17 June, 1795; and was slightly wounded in the foot under Capt. Wm. Essington, in the battle fought off 11 Oct. 1797. Previously to the latter event he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 13 Dec. 1796. His succeeding appointments were, on the Home station – 24 April, 1798, to the 98, Capt. Sir E. Gower – 28 Jan. 1799, to the, Capt. Chas. White – in Jan. 1800, to the 80, Capt. Sir Jas. Saumarez – 27 Jan. 1801, to the 98, bearing the flag of Sir E. Gower – 15 Nov. 1802, for upwards of five months (the  had been paid off in the preceding April) to  frigate, Capt. Jahleel Brenton – and 28 Oct. 1803, as First, to the  22, Capt. Lord Cochrane. He was made Commander, 1 May, 1804, into the sloop, at Jamaica; he was compelled in the following Dec. to invalid, owing to a severe attack of yellow fever; and he was afterwards appointed – 22 Jan. 1806, to the, lying at Sheerness – 1 March following, to the  18, employed (until wrecked, 25 March, 1808, at the entrance of Port Augusta, between Syracuse and Messina) in the North Sea and Mediterranean – 22 Dec. 1808, for two months, to the  bomb at  – and 22 Oct. 1810 and 1 Feb. 1812, to the  sloop and  brig, on the Newfoundland and Downs stations. While commanding the Capt. Trollope had charge of the boats employed in bringing off the garrison of the fortress of Scylla, when evacuated by the British 17 Feb. 1808 – a service in the execution of which he was exposed to a smart fire from the enemy on the Calabrian shore. In the, whose force consisted of 14 24-pounder carronades and 2 sixes, he went in pursuit, 27 March, 1812, and drove on shore, under a very heavy fire from the batteries near St. Aubin, one of a numerous flotilla of brigs, each carrying 3 long 24-pounders and an 8-inch brass howitzer, with a complement of 50 men. He then proceeded to attack the remainder, nine in number, who were at the time anchoring close in-shore in the south-east. Running accordingly in-shore of one of them at anchor near the centre, he boarded and, in the most gallant manner, carried her. The cables of the prize were immediately cut and she was brought out in face of a heavy fire from the batteries and the eight other brigs. The herself, although her crew escaped injury, was too much disabled to renew the conflict. Capt. Trollope was advanced to Post-rank 7 June, 1814; and nominated a C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. Not having been since afloat he was induced, 1 Oct. 1846, to accept the Retirement.

He married, in 1813, Barbara, daughter of J. Goble, Esq., of Kinsale, and has issue. – J, Hinxman.

 TROLLOPE. 

entered the Navy 7 Aug. 1828; passed his examination 27 Aug, 1834; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, was serving at Chatham as Mate on board the steamer, Capt. John Russell, His appointments have since been – 3 Dec, 1841, to the  50, Capt, John Brett Purvis, fitting for the coast of Brazil – 21 May, 1842, to the  44, Capt, Sir John Marshall, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned in the early part of 1845 – and 6 June in the latter year, to the  22, Capt. Henry Kellett, equipping for the Pacific, where he continues employed on surveying service. – J. Hinxman.

 TROTTER. 

, born 19 Sept. 1802, is third son of the late Alex. Trotter, Esq., of Dreghorn, near Edinburgh, by Lillias, daughter of Sir John Stuart, Bart,, of Allanbank; and brother of the present Archibald Trotter, Esq,, of Dreghorn, a Magistrate for co, Mid-Lothian, who married Louisa Jane, youngest daughter of James Strange, Esq,, by Anne, daughter of Henry, first Viscount Melville.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 16 Nov, 1815; and embarked 7 Feb, 1818, as a Volunteer, on board the 42, Capt, Thos, Forrest, stationed at Leith, Removing in the following May, to the  26, Capt, Jas. Erskine Loch, he sailed in that ship for the East Indies, and, at the close of 1819, united in an expedition sent under the present Sir Fras. Augustus Collier to act against Ras-al-Khyma, the head-quarters and principal resort of the pirates of the Persian Gulf. Continuing on the East India station, he was received in March, 1821, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained 12 months previously) on board the 50, flagship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, and was in Feb. 1822 transferred to the  sloop, Capt. Robt. Graham Dunlop. Of the latter vessel he was 