A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Connor, Ross
CONNOR. (Lieutenant, 1807.)
Ross Connor entered the Navy, about the commencement of the present century, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Arrow sloop, Capts. Wm. Bolton and Rich. Budd Vincent, on the Home station; where, on removing to the Immortality 36, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, he assisted at the bombardment, in 1803, of Dieppe and St. Valery-en-Caux. He then rejoined Capt. Bolton in the Aimable 32; and, while afterwards serving with that officer in the West Indies on board the Fisgard 38, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 23 Feb. 1807. Until placed on half-pay in Nov. 1815, Mr. Connor was next appointed – 19 April, 1808, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. D. Wynter May, 1809, to the Gibraltar 80, Capts. Henry Lidgbird Ball and Robt. Plampin – 28 July, 1810, to the Foxhound brig, Capt. John Parish – and, 4 Feb. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the Pheasant 16, Capt. Edm. Waller, all employed on home service. He subsequently obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard, 30 June, 1826; was on half-pay from 1831 until 26 Aug. 1834; and then returned to the Coast Guard, in which he has ever since continued, with the exception of a few months in 1840-1, when he held command of the Skylark Revenue vessel.
Lieut. Connor, who is married, is father-in-law of Lieut. Chas. Bamber Warren, R.N., and of Lieut. Phineas Priest, R.M.