Royal Naval Biography/Roberts, William Pender

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WILLIAM PENDER ROBERTS, Esq.
[Commander.]

Was made a lieutenant on the 5th Feb. 1806; appointed to the Ariel sloop, Captain Thomas White, in 1808; promoted to his present rank. Mar. 21st, 1812; and elected Mayor of Penryn, Cornwall, in Sept. 1822. He married, in 1819, Harriet, second daughter of Captain Rowland, of Penzance.