mander Alex. Hood, stationed in the West Indies; where, in 1781-2, he served with the late Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, as Midshipman, in the Terrible and Russell 74’s. He then joined the Flirt sloop in the North Sea; and was next, between 1783 and 1793, employed, on the American and Home stations, in the Mercury, Capt. H. E. Stanhope, Kite; and Cockatrice,Lieut.-Commanders Gunter and Hume, Barfleur 90 and Victory 100, flag-ships of Lord Hood, Juno 32, Capt. Sam. Hood, and Duke 90, bearing the flag of Admiral Roddam. On 26 Sept. 1793, having accompanied Lord Hood to the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate in his former ship the Victory, he was made Lieutenant, during the occupation of Toulon, into the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. Deducting a half-pay interval of about two years, which occurred between 1800 and 1802, he officiated, from 14 Oct. 1796 until promoted to the rank of Commander 22 Jan. ,1806, as First-Lieutenant in the Diamond 38, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan, Edw. Griffith, and Thos. Elphinstone, and saw much general service. Under Capt, Elphinstone he assisted at the capture, in Dec. 1804, of the Spanish corvette Infanta Carlos, with a valuable cargo and 120,000 dollars in specie, from the Havana bound to Corunna. His last appointment was, 17 March, 1808, to the Thisbe 28, successive flagship of Admirals Sir H. E. Stanhope, Wm. Albany Otway, and Sir Chas. Hamilton, in the river Thames, where he continued until 10 July, 1811. He accepted the rank of Captain on the Retired List 10 Sept. 1840.
ROGIER. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
Edward Rogier entered the Navy 27 March, 1808, passed his examination in 1816; and obtained his commission 30 Sept. 1826. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 18 March, 1834, Mary, daughter of the late Rich. Waring, Esq., of St. Mary Cray, Kent.
ROLLAND. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Rue Rolland entered the Navy 13 Jan. 1832; passed his examination 16 Feb. 1838; and for his services as Mate of the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, during the war in China (where he assisted, and was mentioned as “a young officer of much promise,” at the capture of Amoy, landed at the taking of Chinghae, and aided in towing several fire-vessels clear of H.M. shipping in the Ningpo river[1]), was presented with a commission bearing date 8 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 25 Sept. 1842, to the Pylades 18, Capt. Louis Symonds Tindal, in the East Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1843 – 9 Sept. 1844, to the Daring 12, Capt. Henry Jas. Matson, on the Home station – 9 Dec. 1845, to the Alarm 26, Capts. Chas. Colville Frankland and Granville Gower Loch, of which ship, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies, he became First-Lieutenant – and 22 March, 1848, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Sidon steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, now in the Mediterranean. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
ROLLESTON. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p, 11; h-p., 32.)
James Rolleston, born 1 May, 1791, at Southampton, is son of Sam. Rolleston, Esq., a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Hants.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Dictator 64, Capts. Chas. Tinling and Rich. Hawkins; joined, in the following Sept., the Impétueux 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin; and in Nov. 1805 was received on board the Pompée 74. While in that ship, which bore the flags successively of Admirals Sir Wm. Sidney Smith and Henry Edwin Stanhope, he was present, in 1806, at the defence of Gaeta, the capture of Capri, and the battle of Maida; and, in 1807, at the passage of the Dardanells, the destruction of the Turkish squadron at Point Pesquies, and the taking of Copenhagen. On the surrender of the Danish fleet he assisted in fitting out the Christian VII. of 60 guns. After serving for two years and eight months in the Mediterranean on board the Hyperion 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, and Centaur 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he was there nominated, 29 Nov. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant lof the Hibernia 120, also the flag-ship of Sir S. Hood. His appointment to the Hibernia being -confirmed by a commission dated 8 June, 1811, he continued attached to that ship under the flag of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats until June, 1815. He then invalided. His next appointment was to the Perseus 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court, in which vessel he served on the Mediterranean, Newfoundland, Halifax, and Home stations, from March, 1813, until Feb. 1816, the last five months of the time as Acting-Commander. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
ROMNEY. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
Francis Darby Romney was born in 1786. Five of his family were in the Naval and Military services.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1799, as L.M., on board the Osprey 18, Capts. John Watts, John Edgell, and Geo. Irwin, under whom he was for two years employed in the Downs and on the coast of Africa. Joining, then, the Bellerophon 74, Capts. Lord Viscount Garlies and John Loring, he was present under the latter officer, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Cape Francois, St. Domingo, and at the surrender, in the course of 1803, of the 74-gun ship Duquesne and schooner Oiseau, of La Mignonne corvette of 16 guns, of the 40-gun frigate La Créole, having on board the French General Morgan and 530 troops, and of a squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army from Cape Francois. In April, 1805, having returned to England, he removed with Capt. Loring to the Salvador del Mundo, lying at Plymouth. He joined next the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, part of the force employed in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action; and on 8 June, 1807, up to which time he had been serving on the Irish station, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Charger 12, Lieut.-Commander John Aitkin Blow. In that vessel he witnessed the siege of Stralsund, and assisted at the taking of Copenhagen. Falling, 3 Nov. in the same year, into the hands of the enemy, Mr. Romney was detained a prisoner of war until Jan. 1809. On 25 March following he was made Lieutenant into the Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman, lying at Sheerness; and he was subsequently appointed – 3 May, 8 July, and 21 Sept. in the same year, to the Venerable 74, flag-ship of Sir R. J. Strachan, Rolla 10, Capt. Sam. Clarke, and Gluckstadt 18, Capt. John Geo. Boss, stationed in the North Sea, Downs, and Baltic – 3 Feb. 1810, to the Dictator 64, Capts. Rich. Harrison Pearson and Robt. Williams, also in the Baltic – 11 April, 1811, to the Leveret 10, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, lying at North Yarmouth – in the spring of 1813, to the gun-boat service on the river Elbe, where he remained about 12 months and 4 Oct. 1814, for a few weeks, to the Icarus 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon, fitting at Portsmouth. In the Dictator’s boats he cut out two Danish privateers from under a battery on the island of Zealand; he commanded a boat belonging to the Leveret at the capture of L’Eole privateer of 6 guns and 31 men off Heligoland,[2] and at the destruction of another on the coast of Denmark; and while in the gun-boat service above alluded to, he was severely wounded in an attack upon a Danish flotilla at Busum, and was present at the reduction of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt.[3] Not having been afloat
