grand-uncle, Capt. Hugh Baikie, were all in the naval service.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leopard 50, Capt. Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, bearing the flag of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley at Halifax; and on 22 June, 1807, was present when that ship compelled the U S. frigate Chesapeake to surrender, in consequence of a refusal on the part of the latter to allow the British to search her for deserters. Between April, 1808, and Feb. 1815, he served as Midshipman on the Home, Lisbon, North American, and West India stations in the Triumph 74 and Barfleur 98, both commanded by Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy (the latter the flag-ship of Hon. G. C. Berkeley), Venus 32, and Hussar 38, each under the orders of Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford, Barfleur again, Macedonian of 48 guns and 254 men, Capt. John Surman Garden, Diomede troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Montagu Fabian, Ramillies 74, Capt. Sir T. M. Hardy, Terpsichore 32, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, and Araxes 38, Capt. Geo. Miller Bligh. While attached to the Barfleur he commanded a gun-boat up the Tagus; and when in the Macedonian he was captured, 25 Oct. 1812, by the American ship United States of 56 guns and 474 men, after a desperate action of two hours and ten minutes, in which the British sustained a loss of 36 killed and 68 wounded, and the enemy of about 12 killed and wounded. During the next seven months he was a prisoner-of-war. In the Diomede he saw service in the Chesapeake; and in the Ramillies he was employed at the blockade of New London. On 16 Feb. 1815, being then in the West Indies, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Emulous sloop, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter. In the following June he found that he had been promoted at home by a commission bearing date 24 of the same month, Feb. 1815. He returned to England in the Asia 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, in Feb. 1816, and has not been since afloat.
He married 25 Sept. 1828, and has issue three children.
RHODES. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 34.)
John Henry Rhodes, born 28 May, 1788, is eldest surviving son of the late Geo. Rhodes, Esq., of Exeter College, Oxford, Vicar of Colyton Shute and Monckton, co. Devon, by Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Sleech, Archdeacon of Cornwall; and brother of Capt. Chas. Sleech Rhodes, of the Royal Engineers, who was killed at the storming of St. Sebastian 31 Aug. 1813. Paternally and maternally he descends from the Earls of Devon and the Plantagenets. His grandfather, Geo. Rhodes, Esq., married a daughter of the Rev. Archdeacon Baker, Vicar of Modbury, and sister of Sir Geo. Baker, Bart., Physician to George III. The Commander succeeded his brother, Geo. Ambrose Rhodes, Esq., in the estates of Bellair and Shapwick, both in co. Devon, 21 Sept. 1842.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1800, as a Boy, on board the Princess Augusta yacht, lying in the river Thames, where he remained until June, 1802. Re-embarking, 26 May, 1803, on board La Chiffonne 36, he served in that frigate and the Resistance 38, as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, under the present Sir Chas. Adam, until made Lieutenant, 11 Feb. 1808, into the Trident 64. When in company, in La Chiffonne, with the Falcon sloop. Clinker gun-brig, and Frances armed cutter, he assisted, after a chase of nine hours (during which the British suffered some loss from the incessant fire of the forts alongshore, and he himself was struck by a splinter), in driving under the batteries of Fécamp a division of the French flotilla, consisting of 2 corvettes and 15 gun-vessels, carrying in all 51 guns, 4 8-inch mortars, and 3 field-pieces, accompanied by 14 transports. This took place in the summer of 1805. While attached to the Resistance Mr. Rhodes witnessed the capture of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. He also aided in bringing a considerable quantity of freight home from Vera Cruz, and was present at the capture ot L’Aigle privateer of 14 guns and 66 men. After serving for about 12 months at Malta in the Trident, part of the time as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Alex. John Ball, he removed, 28 Feb. 1809, to the Herald 18, Capt. Geo. Jackson. In that vessel he was often in action with the enemy’s gun-boats and batteries in the Faro of Messina while engaged in protecting Sicily against the invasion threatened by Murat. From 30 March, 1812, until promoted to the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814, Mr. Rhodes served on the Home station in the Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Admirals Wm. Young and H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, under the latter of whom he assisted, as First-Lieutenant, in escorting the Allied Sovereigns to England. Since his promotion he has been on half-pay.
He married, 23 Sept. 1817, Barbara, only child of Chas. Clay, Esq., of Rhyllow House, near St. Asaph.
RIALL. (Lieutenant, 1827. f-p., 11; h-p., 16.)
William Henry Riall was born in 1805.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1820, on board the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where he took part as Midshipman in a variety of particular services and was otherwise actively employed. On 31 Jan. 1825 he assisted in the boats of the Cambrian and Seringapatam under the orders of Lieut. Henry Shovell Marsham, in boarding and carrying in the Negropont Channel, notwithstanding a desperate resistance, two piratical vessels of 1 gun and about 30 men each. He contributed to the success of many affairs of a similar character; and, on 24 Oct. 1827, as a reward for his conduct at the battle of Navarin, was created a Lieutenant of the Cambrian. That ship being wrecked during an attack on a nest of pirates at Carabusa 31 Jan. 1828, he was next, 6 Nov. 1829, appointed to the Druid 46, also commanded by Capt. Hamilton, with whom he served in South America until the close of 1832. He has since been on half-pay. In 1825 he was lent from the Cambrian to the Hind 20, Capts. Hon. Henry John Rous and Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill.
Lieut. Riall, who is J.P. for co. Tipperary, was appointed Mayor of Clonmel in 1836, but was displaced by the New Corporation Act in 1842. He married, 29 Dec. 1831, Elizabeth Frances, eldest daughter of John Parkinson, Esq., British Consul at Bahia.
RIBOULEAU. (Vice-Admiral, of the White, 1846. f-p., 19;[1] h-p., 48.)
Peter Ribouleau died 16 Dec. 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Prince William, Capt. Stair Douglas, with whom, after sharing in Hood’s action with the Comte de Grasse off St. Kitts in 1781, he removed in succession, on the West India and Home stations, to the Triumph 74, Grafton 50, and Cambridge 74. During the peace he served on the coast of North America, again in the West Indies, and at Home, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Assistance, Commodore Sir Chas. Douglas, Goliath, Capt. A. Dickson, Actaeon, Capt. J. Hanwell, Goliath and Alcide, both commanded by Sir A. Douglas, and Duke flag-ship of Lord Hood. On accompanying the officer last mentioned to theMediterranean in the Victory 100, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant 31 Aug. 1793, he witnessed the occupation of Toulon. In April, 1794, after having served for a short time on board L’Aréthuse French frigate, he joined the Glory 98, Capt. John Elphinstone, part of the force engaged under Lord Howe in the action of the 1st of June. His next appointments were – to the Barfleur 98 and Monarch 74, each bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Keith Elphinstone. In the latter ship he co-operated in 1795 in the re-
- ↑ Not including his Sea Fencible time.
