OBITUARY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 937, 26 June 1877, Page 3

OBITUARY.

ADMIIiAL ROUS, Admiral the Hon. Henry John Rous, second son of the late Earl of Sfradbroke, horn Jan. 25th, 1795, entered the navy in 1808, served as a midshipman in the Flushing expedition, and received a medal for his bravery in bout actions and land expeditions, in the Bacchante, under Sir W. Hoste. Having sailed in various vessels, he was made Captain in 1823, was appointed to the Rainbow in 1825, and served on the Indian and New Holland till 1829, when lie went on half-pay. In 1835 lie was placed in command of the Pique, which vessel lie brought home from Quebec after she had struck on a reef of rocks on the Labrador coast, in the straits of Belle Isle, on which she was jammed for eleven hours, and brought her across the Atlantic with a sprung foremast and without a keel, forefoot, or rudder; making 23in. leakage per hour, an unparalleled feat of seamanship, for which neither the officers nor ship's company received the slightest reward. Soon after this he completed his sea time, and retired from service. He was returned one of the members for Westminster in the Conservative interest in July, 1811, but was defeated in Feb., 1846, in which year the late Sir Robert Peel appointed him a Lord of the Admiralty. He was elected a steward of the Jockey Club in 1838, and has been re-elected since 1858 to the present time ; and in 1810 received the sole control of the Duke of Bedford's horses. Admiral Rous is the author of " Laws and Practice of Horse-rucing," termed "The Blackstone of the Turf." A magnificent testimonial was presented to him at a banquet in 1866.