the Mars of 74 guns, April 26, 1798. We find no mention of him since the latter period.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
RICHARD RUNWA BOWYER, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
Was posted May 2, 1798; and died at Titchfield, Hants, Feb. 11, 1823.
GEORGE FREDERICK RYVES, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer is the representative of a very ancient and respectable family in Dorsetshire, descended from John Ryves, of Damory Court, near Blandford, Esq., one of whose grandsons, Bruno, was Chaplain to King Charles I. in 1628; and at the restoration became Chaplain in Ordinary to his son, by whom he was successively made Dean of Windsor, Secretary of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and Rector of Haseley, in Oxfordshire, as a compensation for the losses he had sustained during the great rebellion, at the commencement of which he had been deprived of the livings of Stairwell, co. Middlesex, and St. Martin’s in the Vintry, London; his house was plundered; and himself obliged to fly from place to place, for refuge from the fury of the Presbyterians[1]
- ↑ The above mentioned John Ryves, of Damory Court, had eight sons and three daughters. Three of the former received the honor of knighthood, viz. John, William, and Thomas. William was presented by his father with 24,000l. for his fortune, part of which he laid out near Oxford; he then married and settled in Ireland, where he purchased Rathsallow, Crunmore, and Cayamoie, in the county of Down; Ballyferinott, near Dublin; and the rectory of the Naas. He was one of the Judges in Ireland, Speaker to the House of Lords, and the King’s Attorney-General.
Thomas, eighth son of John Ryves, an eminent advocate in Doctors’ Commons and the Court of Admiralty, was elected a Fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1598; and made a D.C.L. in 1610. He was also one of the Masters in Chancery, and Judge of the Faculty and Prerogative Court in Ireland. He received the honor of knighthood from Charles I. who appointed him his Advocate, and assistant to the Warden of the Cinque Ports and Castle of Dover. When the rebellion broke out, Sir Thomas gave good evidence of his loyalty and valor; and, notwithstanding his advanced age, received several wounds in fights and skirmishes for his royal master’s cause, and suffered much in his estate on that account. He was the author of many books, among which were “Historta Navalis Antiqua,” lib. 4. Lond. 1633, 8vo.; and “Histeria Navalis Media,” Load. 1640, 8vo. He left the advowson of Abbot’s Stoke, 100l. a year, to New College, Oxford.
