A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dobbs, Conway Richard
DOBBS. (Lieutenant, 1821. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Conway Richard Dobbs, born in 1798, is eldest son of the late Rich. Dobbs, Esq., of Castle Dobbs, co. Antrim, by Nicolini, eldest daughter of Michael Obyns, of Portsdown; and great grandson, maternally, of the first Viscount Gosford.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Sept. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Nymphe 36, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, under whom he was wrecked, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, 18 Dec. following. In Jan. 1811, he next joined the Abdent 64, Capt. Robt. Honyman, stationed in the Baltic, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 2 Aug. in the same year. On afterwards proceeding to the Mediterranean, as an officer of the Volontaire 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, he served in that frigate at the capture of Port d’Anzo in Oct. 1813, and was employed in the boats at the destruction of some of the enemy’s batteries, near Marseilles. He continued in the Mediterranean, on board the Resistance 38, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Philomel 10, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, until Dec. 1814, when he sailed for the East Indies, and there officiated for many months in the Cornwallis 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Burlton, and Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie. We subsequently find him enacting a part, in the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He rejoined Capt. Pellew, in Oct. 1818, on board the Revolutionnaire 38, of which frigate he appears to have been created a Lieutenant 16 Oct. 1821. He returned home from the Mediterranean in 1822, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Dobbs married, in Aug. 1826, Miss Charlotte Maria Sinclair; and has issue two sons and seven daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.