duction of the Cape of Good Hope. Attaining the rank of Commander 25 July, 1796, he joined in that capacity, in April, 1800, the Astrea troop-ship, in which he accompanied the expedition of 1801 to Egypt; where, on 8 March in that year, he served with the launches containing the field artillery under Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and assisted at the debarkation of the army in Aboukir Bay.[1] He also landed and acted in unison with the troops. He invalided in the following July; was promoted for his services to Post-rank 29 April, 1802; served afterwards in the Sea Fencibles at Margate and Dartmouth; and commanded, from 25 Feb. 1822 until April, 1825, the Semiramis 42, flag-ship of Lord Colville at Cork. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 10 Jan. 1837, and on the Active 17 Aug. 1840; and a Vice-Admiral 9 Nov. 1846. His wife died 29 July, 1845. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
RICE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Edward Bridges Rice entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 23 Nov. 1839; served as Mate on the Mediterranean, East India, and Home stations, in the Cyclops steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, Dido 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, Pelican 16, Capt. Philip Justice, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley; and obtained his commission 5 Aug. 1844. His appointments have since been – 5 Feb. 1845, for about 12 months, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, attached to an experimental squadron employed under the orders of Rear-Admirals Hyde Parker and Sir Sam. Pym – 14 Oct. 1846, to the Thetis 46, Capt. Henry John Codrington, fitting at Portsmouth – and, 30 Dec. following, to the Vanguard 80, Capts. Geo. Wickens Willes and Geo. Fred. Rich, now in the Mediterranean.
RICE. (Lieutenant, 1848.)
George William Rice passed his examination 8 May, 1847; became in the course of the same month. Mate of the Vindictive 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen in North America and the West Indies; and since 6 Oct. following has been serving on that station as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 19 June, 1848) in the Daring 12, Capt. Wm. Peel.
RICE. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 11; h-p., 34.)
Henry Rice was born 13 June, 1787.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1802, as A.B., on board the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, stationed off Weymouth. In Sept. 1803, after having been for eight months employed in a merchantman on a voyage to the Mediterranean, he re-embarked as Midshipman on board the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge; under whom he fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, and in Feb. 1807 passed the Dardanells. Being made Lieutenant, 9 Nov. 1808, into the Phoebe of 44 guns and 271 men, Capts. Hassard Stackpoole and Jas. Hillyar, he assisted in that ship at the reduction of the Isle of France in Dec. 1810. He was also, prior to joining in the expedition against Java, present, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the Astrea and Galatea, frigates nearly equal in force to the Phoebe, and 18-gun brig Racehorse), at the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde, and Néréide, and a loss to the Phoebe of 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Rénommée, and on 25 of the same month of the Néréide and the settlement of Tamatave. On his return from escorting convoy to Quebec Mr. Rice, in July, 1812, invalided. His last appointments were – 16 Jan. 1813, for six months, to the Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, in which ship he accompanied the trade to the West Indies – and, in May, 1815, to the Alban 12, Capt. Jas. Boyd, and his old ship the Phoebe, still commanded by Capt. Hillyar, with whom he served off the coast of France until paid off 28 Aug. ensuing. He accepted his present rank 13 April, 1846.
Commander Rice married, 30 Oct. 1839, Miss Ann Berry, of Chawton, near Alton, Hants.
RICH. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 16; h-p., 30.)
Charles Rich entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Nemesis 28, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, with whom he continued almost uninterruptedly employed as Midshipman in the Immortalité 36 and Clyde 38, until transferred, in Dec. 1808, to the Doterel sloop, Capt. Anthony Abdy. The very active nature of his services during that period will be seen by a reference to our Memoir of the gallant and distinguished officer under whose command he was. After he had again been for a short time attached to the Clyde on the Downs station, he there, in June, 1809, became Acting-Lieutenant of the Cherokee 10, Capt. Rich. Arthur. Returning at the end of three months to a Midshipman’s berth in the Clyde, he took part in Sir Rich. Strachan’s attack upon Flushing. On the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 June, 1810, Mr. Rich was nominated Flag-Lieutenant, in the Trident, to Rear-Admiral Chas. Boyles at Malta. His succeeding appointments were – in Jan. and Sept. 1811 and Oct. 1812, to the Success 32, Ville de Paris 110, and Unité 36, Capts. John Ayscough, Geo. Burlton, and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, all in the Mediterranean – 13 Dec. 1814 to the St. Lawrence 98, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen on the lakes of Canada and 24 March, 1815, to the command, for three months, of the gun-boats on the river St. Lawrence. Attaining the rank of Commander 27 Jan. 1816, he served in that capacity in the Harpy 10, at Jamaica, from 18 Jan. 1828 until superseded in Sept. 1829; and in the Coast Guard from 29 March, 1837, until posted 28 Jan. 1838. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
RICH. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
Edwin Ludlow Rich., is fifth son of the late Rev. Sir Chas. Bostock Rich, Bart., LL.D., of Shirley House, Hants, by Mary Frances, only daughter and heir of Lieut.-General Sir Robt. Rich, Bart., of Rose Hall, co. Suffolk, and niece of the first Earl of Ludlow. He is brother of Sir Geo. Rich, who was Chamberlain of the Household to the Viceregal Court of Ireland during the government of the Marquis of Wellesley; and uncle of Lieut. F. D. Rich, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monarch 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith, whom he followed into the Edgar 74. Removing, in Aug. 1805, to L’Egyptienne 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he was present in that ship, and in company with the Loire 38, at the capture, 24 Dec. in the same year, after an obstinate resistance, of La Libre French frigate of 40 guns and 280 men. In April, 1806, he became Midshipman of the Seahorse of 42 guns and 281 men Capt. John Stewart, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where, besides assisting at the reduction of the islands of Gianuti and Pianosa, he contributed, on the night of 5 July, 1808, to the defeat of the Turkish frigate Alis-Fezan of 26 guns and 230 men, and the capture, after a memorably furious engagement and a loss to the Seahorse (30 of whose crew were absent) of 5 killed and 10 wounded, of her consort the Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were killed and 200 wounded. Quitting the Seahorse in Jan. 1810, Mr. Rich, during the next two months, served on board the Excellent 74 Capt. Edw. Griffith. In the following Oct. he was received as Master’s Mate on board the Fio-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 486.
