in the latter year until paid off in Nov. 1838, in South America, in the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey. He has not been since employed.
Lieut. Robilliard married, 17 Nov. 1842, Harriet, daughter of Lucas Le Cocq, Esq., Jurat of the Court of Alderney, by whom he has issue.
ROBILLIARD. (Commander, 1841.)
Nicholas Robilliard is a relative of Lieut. John Robilliard, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daphne 20, Capts. Philip Pipon and Jas. Green, employed in the Baltic and East Indies. Rejoining Capt. Pipon as Midshipman, in Sept. 1813, on board the Tagus 36, he was afforded an opportimity of assisting in that ship at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate Cérès, off the Cape de Verde Islands 6 Jan. 1814. From Oct. 1815 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 31 March, 1818, he served in the Downs, the latter part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Ganymede 20 and Severn 40, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. He was afterwards appointed – 3 Nov. 1824, to the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez and Lord Northesk at Plymouth, where he served for about five years – 24 June, 1833, for a short time, to the Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, employed on Channel service – and, 30 Jan. 1839, to the command, which he retained until July, 1845, of the Seaflower cutter, on the Home station. Since he left that vessel he has been on half-pay. His commission as Commander bears date 23 Nov. 1841.
He married at Twickenham, 12 Oct. 1825, Rebecca, daughter of Wm. Davies, Esq., of Surrey Square. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
ROBINS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Henry Jenkins Robins died in 1846 on the coast of Africa. He was brother of the present Commander Thos. Lowton Robins, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 14 June, 1823; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his commission 27 Oct. 1840; served from 31 of that month until paid off in 1843 in the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, on the coast of Africa; and from 13 Sept. 1844 until the period of his death was employed as First-Lieutenant in the Flying Fish 12, Capts. Robt. Harris and Peche Hart Dyke, on the Home station. Agent – J. Hinxman.
ROBINS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Gunn Robins entered the Navy 23 April, 1823; passed his examination 5 Dec. 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Nov. 1841, had been serving for some time in the Active revenue-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Wm. Tomlin. He was afterwards employed – from 1 Dec. 1841 until Feb. 1845, in the Apollo troop-ship, Capt. Wm. Maclean – and, from 14 of the latter month until 1847 (on the south-east coast of America), in the Firebrand steam-frigate of 410 horse-power, Capt. Jas. Hope.
ROBINS. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 21; h-p., 28.)
Thomas Lowton Robins (b) entered the Navy, in 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Teazer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Lowton Robins. Continuing in that vessel until paid off in April, 1802, he accompanied in 1799 the expedition to Holland; was present in an attack made in July, 1800, on four French frigates lying in Dunkerque Roads, one of which, La Désirée of 40 guns, was destroyed [errata 1]; and (besides sharing in an affair with the Boulogne flotilla) witnessed the victory gained by Lord Nelson at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. After serving for about 12 months in the Prévoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Wm. Brown, he joined, in Aug. 1803, the Victory 100, in which ship, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, he pursued the combined squadrons of France and Spain from the Mediterranean to the West Indies, and, on his return, fought as Master’s Mate at the battle of Trafalgar. For his conduct in that instance he was created a Lieutenant of the Victory by a commission bearing date 22 Oct. 1805. Joining next, in Feb. 1806, the Pallas 32, Capts. Lord Cochrane, Geo. Miller, Henry Manaton Ommanney, Geo. Fras. Seymour, Wm. Hugh Dobbie, and Hon. Geo. Cadogan, he was on board that ship, and was mentioned by Lord Cochrane for his conduct, at the destruction, in May following, of the semaphores along the French coast; and also when, in the course of the same month, she made a single-handed attack, under a heavy fire from the batteries on Ile d’Aix, on the French 40-gun frigate La Minerve, in company with three 18-gun brigs.[1] On the latter occasion the British vessel, while preparing to board, ran foul of her opponent, and by the shock was nearly reduced to a wreck. Under Capts. Seymour and Cadogan Mr. Robins was present, in 1809, at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads and in the operations connected with the expedition to the Scheldt. His appointments, after he left the Pallas, were, in the capacity of Senior Lieutenant – 20 Oct. 1809, to the Manilla 36, Capts. G. F. Seymour and John Joyce, under the latter of whom he was wrecked on the Haak Sand, near the Texel, 28 Jan. 1812 – 11 July, 1814, after two years and four months of captivity in France, to the Royalist 16, Capts. Thos. Parry Jones Parry, Thos. Wolrige, and Houston Stewart, on the Home and West India stations – and, 3 April, 1816, to the Salisbury 58, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas at Jamaica, whence he returned to England and was paid off in the spring of 1818. He attained his present rank 19 July, 1821; and was lastly, from May until Oct. 1827, employed in experimentally cruizing, as Second-Captain, in the Galatea 42, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy.
Commander Robins is Governor of Oxford Castle. He is married and has issue. Agent – J. Hinxman.
ROBINS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
William Stocker Robins was born 13 Nov. 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hyacinth 18, Capts. John Davie and John Carter; and during upwards of four years that he continued in that vessel assisted in blockading two French frigates in the Scheldt, and was for a long time employed in South America, particularly in the Rio de la Plata, where he was present when the Buenos Ayreans declared their independence of the mother country. On the Hyacinth being paid off in May, 1811, he became Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the Hannibal 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, previously to following whom into the Christian VII. 80 he served in the Baltic, and was stationed with five sail-of-the-line off the Texel for the purpose of intercepting the expected departure of a Dutch squadron. After he had for eight months performed the duties of Master’s Mate in the Cossack 22, Capt. Wm. King (in which vessel, it appears, he was wounded in the leg at the defence of Cadiz, where he remained until the siege was raised), he joined, in Nov. 1812, the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, lying at Plymouth, at which port he removed, as a Supernumerary, in Jan. 1813, to the Salvador del Mondo. Being again, in the ensuing March, placed under the orders of his former Captain, Carter, in the Thracian 18, he was at first employed in that vessel, with three others of a similar description, in blockading five brigs-of-war at Christiansand, on the coast of Norway. On 7 Feb. 1814 he contributed to the capture, off St. Valery, of the French privateer Emille of 14 guns and 42 men; and on subsequently proceeding to the West Indies he was actively employed in the boats, and was on one occasion slightly wounded in the head in endeavouring to suppress the trade of the United States. In Oct. 1815, at which period he had been acting for more
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1806, p. 684.
