Hon. Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary, and, as First- Lieutenant, to the Racehorse 18, Capt. Henry Wm. Craufurd, both on the North America and West India station, whence he returned to England in April, 1839 – 2 Dec. 1839, to the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, in the Mediterranean – 23 July, 1842, as Senior (soon after the latter ship had been paid off), to the Wolf 18, Capts. Courtenay Osborn Hayes, Arthur Vyner, Geo. Evan Davis, and Jas. Alex. Gordon, with whom he served in the East Indies until superseded in Nov. 1845 – and, 15 Oct. 1846 and 9 June, 1847, in a similar capacity, to the Vengeance 84, Capt. Stephen Lushington, employed on particular service, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Chas. Napier. He attained his present rank 23 Dec. 1847.
ROGERS. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
James Rogers (b) entered the Navy, 1 May, 1801, as A.B., on board the Active 38, Capts. Chas. Sydney Davers and Rich. Hussey Moubray, stationed in the Mediterranean, and, in Feb. 1807, was present as Midshipman of that frigate at the passage of the Dardanells. Towards the close of the same year a prize, of which he had been placed in charge, foundered after encountering a series of gales. Having beforehand removed with his crew into a boat, he was picked up, carried into a French port, and there made prisoner. On being exchanged he joined, 6 Oct. 1808, the Unité 36, Capt. Pat. Campbell, also in the Mediterranean; where he continued employed as Acting-Lieutenant and Acting- Master in the Spider gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Sandford Oliver, and as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant in the Warrior 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, until April, 1811. In the course of that month he was received on board the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Robt. Rolles, lying in the river Thames. He returned, however, in a few weeks, to the Mediterranean in the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew; and, on 10 Dec. 1811, after he had again acted as Lieutenant in the Bombay 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, he was confirmed to that rank in the Repulse 74, Capt. R. H. Moubray. He served subsequently in the Minstrel 20, Capt. John Strutt Peyton, and Ganymede 26, Capt. John Brett Purvis, on the Mediterranean station. He invalided home from the Mediterranean in Sept. 1814 on board the Edinburgh; and has since been on half-pay.
ROGERS. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Richard Eales Rogers entered the Navy 11 Feb. 1810; and while serving on board the Castilian 18, Capt. David Braimer, contributed to the cutting out of a brig from under the batteries of Tréport – partook, 21 Sept. 1811, of an action with the Boulogne flotilla, in which the Castilian had her First-Lieutenant and 1 man severely wounded – and was in company with the Bermuda 10, Rinaldo 10, and Phipps 14, at the recapture, 4 May, 1812, of the (lately British) sloop-of-war Apelles under the fire of a battery near Boulogne. He passed his examination in 1816; for his services in the Aetna bomb at the reduction of Morea Castle, the last stronghold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus, and was made Lieutenant, 22 Oct. 1828, into the Wolf 18, Capt. Geo. Hayes. He continued in that vessel as First-Lieutenant until 1830; and has not been since employed.
ROGERS. (Captain, 1816. f-p., 17; h-p., 34.)
Robert Henley Rogers, born in Aug. 1783, at Blachford House, near Plymouth, is third son of the late Sir Fred. Leman Rogers, Bart., M.P. for, and Recorder of, Plymouth, by Miss Jane Lillicrap; and grandson of Sir Fred. Rogers, Bart., Capt. R.N., Commissioner of the Dockyard at Plymouth, and also Recorder of that borough, who married the widow of Vice-Admiral Durell, and died in 1772. He is brother of the present Sir John Leman Rogers, Bart., of Fred. Leman Rogers, Esq., Chief Inspector of the Audit Office, Somerset House, and of Colonel Wm. Cooper Rogers, late of the 2nd Dragoon Guards. His eldest sister, Mary, married the late Colonel Templer, of the 10th Dragoons; and his youngest, Harriet, widow of the Rev. Rich. Strode, of Newnham Park, co. Devon, married a second time Lleut.-General Sir Chas. Phillips, of Lyndhurst, co. Hants. His great-grandfather, and his granduncle, the second and third Baronets (the former of whom married a daughter of Sir Robt. Henley, of the Grange, co. Southampton), both represented Plymouth in Parliament.
This officer entered the Navy, in the spring of 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Concorde 36, Capt. Anthony Hunt, whom he followed, in Aug. of the same year, inta La Virginie 38. After cruizing on the Irish and Baltic stations, he sailed for the East Indies, where, from Sept. 1798 until his return to England in April, 1803, he served on board the Suffolk and Victorious 74’s, flag-ships of Vice- Admiral Peter Rainier, and Orpheus 32, commanded by the late Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. Of the latter ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for more than 13 months in that capacity, 4 Feb. 1803. His succeeding appointments were – 14 May, 1803, to the Impétueux 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, attached to the Channel fleet – 21 Feb. 1805, to the Drake 16, Capt. Drury, with whom he proceeded to the West Indies – 23 May and 2 Dec. following, to the Penguin sloop, Capt. Geo. Morris, and Hercule 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the same station – 18 June, 1806, to the Veteran 64, as Signal-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Dacres – 14 Sept. 1807, to the acting-command of the Hunter sloop – 4 March, 1808, as before, to the Veteran – and 17 June, 1809, as Senior (after 10 months of half-pay) to the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. For his active services in the last-mentioned ship in the Channel and on the north coast of Spain he was promoted, 1 Feb. 1812, to the rank of Commander. His last appointment was to the Dover troop-ship, the command of which he retained from 30 July, 1814, until 6 Aug. 1816. During that period, besides visiting the West Indies and Baltic, he accompanied the expedition against New Orleans, where he served on shore in the breaching batteries and in command of a division of seamen, and was particularly noticed for his exertions by the present Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge.[1] He attained the rank of Captain 2 Sept. 1816; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
ROGERS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
Thomas Rogers entered the Navy, 13 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Isis 50, Capt. John Laugharne, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower at Newfoundland, where he continued to serve as Midshipman in the Antelope 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral John Holloway, until Jan. 1810. He then joined the Illustrious 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, under whom we find him, in Dec. of the same year, co-operating in the reduction of the Isle of France, and, in Aug. and Sept. 1811, assisting at the capture of Java. In April, 1812, he was transferred to the Clorinde 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs; on his return to Europe he became, in Oct. 1814, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Berwick 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; and on the receipt, in Sept. 1815, of his commission, bearing date 6 of the preceding March, he removed to the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe. In that vessel he served in the Channel until sent sick, 3 Sept. 1816, to the hospital at Haslar. He has since been on half-pay.
ROGERS. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 25; h-p., 42.)
William Rogers died 29 Jan. 1848, at Lansdowne Crescent, Bath, aged 81.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 March, 1780, as a Volunteer, on board the Ranger, Lieut.-Com-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1815, p. 451.
