he co-operated in the reduction of Genoa and the siege of Gaeta. Following Capt. Brace, in July, 1816, into the Impregnable 104, he fought, on the 16th of the next month, at the battle of Algiers. He was placed on half-pay in Oct. of the same year; and has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Roddam married, in Sept. 1835, Charlotte, daughter of Henry Percy Pulleine, Esq., of Crake Hall, co. York, and by that lady, who died in July, 1837, has an only daughter. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
RODGER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
William Rodger entered the Navy, 19 Nov. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Ardent 64, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon. After a servitude of more than three years with that officer in the same ship and in the Thalia 36, on the Leith, Channel, and Jamaica stations, he was nominated, 19 Jan. 1811, Acting-Master of the Pelorus 18, Capts. Thos. Huskisson, Joshua Ricketts Rowley, and Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. Under Capt. Huskisson we find him assisting, 17 Oct. 1809, at the destruction of a battery near Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; and, in Feb. 1810, at the capture of that island. In Dec. 1812, being then in the Mediterranean, he removed to the Goshawk 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. John Napier. On that vessel being wrecked on the coast of Catalonia 21 Sept. 1813, he was received on board the Barfleur 98, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and John Maitland. In July, 1814, he was again placed under the orders of Capt. Napier, as Master’s Mate, in the Erne 20; and in July, 1815, after having served with him on the coast of North America and in the Channel, he took up a commission bearing date 27 of the preceding Feb. He has since been on half-pay.
In the session of 1817-18 Lieut. Rodger received from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., a Silver Medal for his “Plug for raising Empty Casks;” and, in that of 1818-19, a Gold one for his “Life Raft.” In 1829 he was presented by the same Society with the Gold Isis Medal for his “Syphon for Watering Ships,” and with a large Silver Medal for his “Make-Shift Anchor.” Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
RODNEY. (Captain on Retired Half-pay, 1780.)
The Honourable John Rodney was born 10 May, 1765, and died 9 April, 1847, at Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was the eldest son of the famous Admiral Lord Rodney, K.B., the hero of 12 April, 1782, whose brilliant services won for him a peerage, by his second wife, Henrietta, daughter of John Clies, Esq. His half-brother, Geo. Rodney, was lost at sea in command of the Ferret sloop-of-war in Aug. 1776; his own brother, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, R.N. (1806), died 12 Nov. 1828. He was half-brother of the second, and uncle of the third, fourth, and fifth peers of his name; uncle also of Capt. Hon. Robt. Rodney, R.N., who died in command of the Dryad frigate 20 July, 1826, and of Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, R.N.; and grand-uncle of Lieut. Mortimer Harley Rodney, R.N.
This officer was a Midshipman, Lieutenant, Commander, and Captain – all within the short space of five weeks. His first commission was dated 10 Sept. 1780; his two others on the same day, 14 Oct. 1780. He was afterwards tried by court-martial and broken. Although reinstated, he never obtained his flag.
Capt. Rodney filled for many years the appointment of Chief Secretary to the Government of Ceylon. He married, first, 4 July, 1784, Catherine, only daughter of Thomas, sixth Earl of Westmeath. That lady dying 26 Feb. 1794, he married, a second time, 19 Oct. 1799, Louisa Martha, eldest daughter of John, third Earl of Aldborough. Being again left a widower, he married a third time, in 1815, Antoinette, only daughter of Anthony Pierre Reyne, Esq. By his first wife he had issue three daughters (one married to Lord Blantyre); by his second, two sons (the youngest, Thos. Maitland, a Commander R.N.) and six daughters (the eldest married to Lord John Geo. Lennox); and by his third, a son, Geo. Brydges, First-Lieutenant R.M., and four daughters.
RODNEY. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Mortimer Harley Rodney, born 23 Feb. 1817, is eldest son of the Hon. Mortimer Rodney (brother of the present Lord Rodney), by Sarah, daughter of Robt. Withy, Esq.; and grand-nephew of the late Capt. Hon. John Rodney, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1836; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His Succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Talbot 26, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, on the Mediterranean station, where he remained until the spring of 1842 – 28 Feb. 1843, to the Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Brace and Sir John Chambers White at Sheerness – and 12 Sept. 1844 and 27 Oct. 1847, as First, to the Cruizer 16, and Nerbudda 12, Capts. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, Wm. Maclean, and Edw. Peirse, both in the East Indies, whence he returned in 1848. On 19 Aug. 1845 he commanded the Cruizer’s pinnace and served with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.[1]
RODNEY. (Commander, 1846.)
Thomas Maitland Rodney, born 14 Oct. 1810, is second and youngest son of the late Capt. Hon. John Rodney, R.N., by his second marriage.
This officer entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 31 Aug. 1832. He was afterwards appointed – 10 Jan. 1833, to the Spartiate 70, Capt. Robt. Tait, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned towards the close of 1835 – 9 Sept. 1836, as Senior, to the Conway 26, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, in which ship we find him (during a continuance in her of more than four years) employed at New South Wales and participating in the earlier operations of the China war – and, 15 Aug. 1843, in a similar capacity, to the Medusa 18, Capts. Thos. Baillie and Thos. Vernon Watkins, stationed in the Pacific, where he remained until advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
ROE. (Lieutenant, 1822. f-p., 14; h-p., 20.)
John Septimus Roe entered the Navy, 11 June, 1813, as Midshipman, on board the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christopher Cole, attached to the Channel fleet; and, on 21 Oct. following,was present at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate Le Weser. Between Aug. 1814 and Jan. 1817 he served on the Newfoundland, Home, and East India stations in the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon; he was next, from Feb. in the latter year until June, 1823, employed under Capt. Philip Parker King on surveying service in New South Wales, part of the time in the Bathurst sloop, of which vessel he was created a Lieutenant 25 April, 1822; and in Feb. 1824, he obtained an appointment to the Tamar 26, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer. In that ship, in which he continued until 1823, he assisted in establishing a colony on Melville Island, Australia, and, on proceeding to India, joined in the closing operations of the Burmese war. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Roe has for many years filled the appointment of Surveyor-General in Western Australia. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1845, p. 6536.
