A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rushbrooke, William Henry
RUSHBROOKE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Henry Rushbrooke is second son of the late Robt. Rushbrooke, Esq., of Rushbrooke Park, co. Suffolk, J.P., Deputy-Lieutenant, and M.P. for the western division of Suffolk, by Frances, daughter of Sir Chas. Davies, Bart.; brother (with Chas. Davies Rushbrooke, Esq., an officer in the Army, who was drowned accidentally, in 1841, in the dockyard at Portsmouth) of the present Robt. Fred. Brownlow Rushbrooke, Esq., of Rushbrooke Park, Captain in the Fusilier Guards; and brother-in-law of Lieut.-Colonel Eyres, of the Grenadier Guards, and of Thos. Duffleld, Esq., of Marcham Park, late M.P. for Abingdon (see the Berkshire part of Mr. R. H. O’Byrne’s ‘Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland’), and of Lieut.-Colonel Eden, of the 56th Regt.
This officer entered the Navy 8 March, 1829; passed his examination 24 March, 1835; and, while serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Nov. 1841. His appointments have since been – 13 Nov. 1841, to the Calcutta 84, Capts. Sir Sam. Roberts and Geo. Fred. Rich, on the station last named – 20 Dec. 1842, to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, lying at Plymouth – 22 May, 1843, and 14 May, 1846, to the Inconstant 36 and Orestes 18, Capts. Chas. Howe Fremantle and Edw. St. Leger Cannon, both in the Mediterranean – and, 8 Dec. 1846, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Chas. Napier, now engaged on particular service. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.