and latterly in the Channel, until made Lieutenant, 13 Dec. 1797, into the Busy 18, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, stationed in the North Sea; and he was subsequently appointed – 19 Oct. 1798, to the Proselyte 32, Capt. Geo. Fowke, in which frigate (he did not join her until March, 1799) he cruized on the coast of Ireland and then accompanied the expedition to Holland, where he assisted in landing the troops under Sir Ralph Abercromby – 24 April and 27 Nov. 1800, to the Prince and Prince George 98’s, bearing each the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Channel – 27 May, 1802, to the Glatton 50, Capt. Jas. Colnett, employed at first in conveying convicts to New South Wales, and next as flag-ship, at Leith, to Admirals Rich. Rodney Bligh and Jas. Vashon – 18 Aug. 1804, to the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of his patron Sir C. Cotton in the Channel – 4 Aug. 1807, to the Monmouth 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, on the eve of her departure for the East Indies – 29 Oct. following, as First, to the Swiftsure 74, fitting for the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, wliom he accompanied to the coast of North America – and 12 Sept. 1808 and 4 May, 1810, to the Hibernia 120, and San Josef again, flag-ships of Sir C. Cotton on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 21 March, 1812; and placed on the list of Retired Captains 13 Sept. 1844.
TREEVE. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
John Treeve was born 12 March, 1785, at Penryn, co. Cornwall.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the San Josef 110, Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy, bearing the flag of his patron Lord Nelson, whom he followed, in the ensuing March, into the St. George 98. In that ship, which bore the flag next of Vice-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole, he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, and proceeded afterwards off Cadiz, where, until the peace of 1802, he continued actively employed on boat service against the enemy’s gun-vessels – part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. He then sailed with a squadron of observation for the West Indies; but returned home in July of the same year and was paid off. Being received, in March, 1803, on board the Tonnant 80, Capts. Sir Edw. Pellew, Wm. Henry Jervis, Chas. Tyler, Thos. Brown, and Rich. Turner Hancock, he was for four years and ten months employed in that ship on the coast of Spain, in the Mediterranean, off Cadiz, and in the Channel, and was present in her as Master’s Mate at the battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. On leaving the Tonnant, which ship had for some time borne the flags of Rear-Admirals Eliot Harvey and Hon. Michael De Courcy, he joined on promotion, in Jan. 1808, the Belleisle 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane in the West Indies; where he became, 2 Feb. following and 20 July, 1809, an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant of the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton. In her he assisted at the reduction of the islands of Marie-Galante, Martinique, the Saintes, and the Walcheren. In July, 1812, at which period the York was serving in the Mediterranean, an attack of dysentery and liver complaint obliged him to invalid and return to England. His last appointments were – 14 Feb. 1812 and 28 July, 1813, to the Magnificent 74, Capts. Sir Geo. Eyre and Willoughby Thos. Lake, and Rover sloop, commanded in succession by Capt. Justice Finley, by himself (as Acting-Commander), and by Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce. While officiating as Second-Lieutenant of the Magnificent he landed with a division of seamen and marines on the north coast of Spain, and was active in his co-operation with the patriots. He commanded the Rover in the unsuccessful attack upon Baltimore in Sept. 1814. In a few weeks afterwards ill health obliged him to seek half-pay. He accepted his present rank 4 April, 1848.
CommanderTreeve married Isabella, eldest daughter of Capt. Touchett Blayney Campbell, a Knight of Windsor, and late a Captain in the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion (a gentleman nearly allied to the noble houses of Breadalbane, Holland, Blayney, and Shrewsbury), by whom he has issue six children.
TREFUSIS. (Captain, 1824. f-p., 16; h-p., 25.)
The Honourable George Rolle Walpole Trefusis, born 8 April, 1793, is third son (by Albertina Marianne, daughter of John Abraham Rodolph Gaulis, a native of Switzerland, of distinction) of Robert George William, 15th Lord Clinton; and brother (with the present Lord) of Robert Cotton John, the 16th peer, who was a Colonel in the Army, Aide-de-Camp to the King, and one of the Lords of the Bedchamber.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Centaur 74, Commodore (afterwards Rear-Admiral) Sir Sam. Hood. On 25 Sept. following he was in company off Rochefort with the Mars and Monarch 74’s at the capture of four heavy French frigates; in 1807 he assisted at the siege of Copenhagen and witnessed the surrender of Madeira; and on 26 Aug. 1808 he aided, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, in taking, near Rogerswick, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur had 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded. From March, 1810, until Nov. 1813, Mr. Trefusis served with the present Lord Radstock in the Mediterranean on board the Thames 32 and Volontaire 38. In the boats of the former frigate, supported by those of the Pilot and Weazle sloops, he was present, 25 July, 1810, at the capture and destruction, under the batteries of Amantea, of a convoy of 31 vessels, laden for Murat’s army, together with seven large gun-boats and five scampavias;[1] and he was also in them at the demolition, 16 July, 1811, of 10 large armed feluccas on the beach close to Cetraro, in the Gulf of Polioastro. He was in the boats of the Volontaire under Lieut. Isaac Shaw, when they brought out from the harbour of Palamos, 26 Dec. 1811, a wellprotected privateer, La Décidé, mounting 2 long 6- pounders (pierced for 6) with a cargo of provisions, from Cette, bound to Barcelona; and again, 23 June, 1812, when they captured a felucca, La Colombe, of 1 long gun, 8 svrivels, and 45 men – an exploit which occasioned the British a loss of a Midshipman and 2 sailors wounded, and the enemy of 3 killed and 7 wounded. On 10 Dec. 1813, Mr. Trefusis, then a Midshipman on board the Royal William, was made a Lieutenant into the Ethalion 36, Capts. Edm. Heywood and Wm. Hugh Debbie, stationed on the coast of Ireland, where he served until Aug. 1815. In the ensuing Dec. he joined the Iris 36, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham off Greenwich; he was promoted, 2 March, 1816, to the rank of Commander; and he was next, 8 Nov. 1821 and 6 Feb. 1824, appointed to the Redwing 18 and, Jasper 10. In those vessels he was engaged in affording protection to the oyster fishery between Jersey and the coast of France – a service for which he was advanced to Post rank 24 June, 1824. His last appointments were, 18 May, 1831, and 25 Sept. and 9 Oct. 1832, to the North Star 28, Winchester 52 (flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys), and Sapphire 28, all on the North America and West India station, the Barbadoes division of which he was sent, in July, 1833, to take charge of by Sir Geo. Cockburn, the Commander-in-Chief, whose approbation of the whole of his proceedings was in June, 1834, communicated to him. The state of discipline in which Capt. Trefusis, without recourse to corporal punishment, maintained the Sapphire likewise elicited from Sir George an expression of his satisfaction. He paid the Sapphire off in Oct. 1834; and, not having been since employed, accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Trefusis married, 8 Jan. 1839, Margaret Frances, second daughter of John James, Esq., of Houghton Lodge, Hants, by whom he has issue.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1860.
