A Naval Biographical Dictionary/MacLeod, Robert Bruce Aeneas
MACLEOD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Robert Bruce Aeneas MacLeod is eldest son of Roderick Macleod, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of co. Cromarty, Deputy-Lieutenant of Rosshire, and late M.P. for co. Sutherland, by Isabella, daughter of Wm. Cunninghame, Esq., of Lainshaw, in Ayrshire; and grandson of the present Robt. Bruce Aeneas Macleod, Esq., of Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and of Invergorden Castle, in Rosshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1831; passed his examination 19 Aug. 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Aug. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Thunderer 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley. His appointments have since been – 26 Feb. 1842, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, on the Lisbon station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the summer of 1843 – 10 Jan. 1844, to the Resistance troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – and 3 Jan. 1846, after a few months of half-pay, to the Calypso 20, Capt. Henry John Worth, now in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.