A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Money, Rowland
MONEY, C.B. (Captain, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 36.)
Rowland Money, born 28 April, 1782, is son of the late Wm. Money, Esq., of Horn House, co. Hereford, by Mary, daughter of Wm. Webster, Esq., of Stockton-on-Tees; and brother (with Geo. Money, Esq., late Master in Equity, Accountant-General, and Keeper of the Records in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta) of the Rev. Wm. Money Kyrle, the present possessor of Horn House. His eldest brother. Sir. Jas. Kyrle Money, Bart., was a Major-General in the army, and died 26 June, 1843; another, the Rev. Kyrle Ernie Money, M,A., was Prelector and Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral; and a third, John, a Commander in the Indian Navy, died 6 Aug. 1825.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 April, 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, attached to the force in the Channel; where, and on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations, we find him, from March, 1798, until Aug. 1802, serving, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in April, 1797) and Master’s Mate, in the St. Albans 64, Capt, Fras, Pender, Thetis 36, Capt, Hon. Alex, Cochrane, Naiad 38, Capt. Wm, Pierrepont, Ajax 74, Capt. Hon. A. Cochrane, and Maidstone and Narcissus frigates, both comanded by Capt. Ross Donnelly. Towards the close of 1804 he joined the Royal Sovereign yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, off Weymouth. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 12 Jan. 1805; and in the course of that and the following year was successively appointed to the Valorous, Capt. Geo. Nicholas Hardinge, Vestal 28, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, and Lively 38, Capt. Geo. McKinley. In March, 1806, Mr. Money, then in the Vestal, was the means, under very hazardous circumstances, of saving the crew of a merchant-brig, the Friendship, of Hull, which had grounded on the Gunfleet, near Harwich, in a heavy gale of wind. On the evening of 19 Nov. 1807, after having escorted the troops under Lord Cathcart to Copenhagen, and when in lat. 47° 10' N., long. 16° W., he again manifested the intrepid benevolence of his disposition by volunteering in the jolly-boat (although it was thought that no boat could live in the sea then running) to rescue the crew of a foundering merchantman to leeward. He made, notwithstanding, three successive trips to the distressed vessel, and had the happiness of saving every soul. On ultimately regaining the Lively, the jolly-boat, so tempestuous was the weather, was cut adrift, it being found impossible to preserve her. On leaving the Lively, Mr. Money, in Aug. 1809, rejoined the Royal Sovereign yacht, commanded at the time by Capt. Hen. Hume Spence, with whom he continued until presented, 9 Nov. following, with a second promotal commission. His next appointment was, 16 April, 1814, to the Traave 36, armée en flûte; in which ship he conveyed part of the 4th Regiment of infantry from the river Garonne to North America. In Aug. of the same year he had charge of a subdivision of boats at the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent.[1] He commanded, too, a party of seamen, and obtained the thanks of Rear-Admiral Geo. Cockburn for his exertions and steady gallantry, in the attacks upon Washington and Baltimore;[2] and for his conspicuous conduct in the operations against New Orleans, where he was similarly employed, and had both bones of the right leg broken by a musket-shot at the storming of a battery on the Mississippi 8 Jan. 1815, he was highly lauded by Colonel Thornton, commanding the 85th Regiment, and most strongly recommended by Sir Alex. Cochrane to the protection of the Admiralty, and intrusted by him with the conveyance of his despatches to England.[3] He was in consequence promoted to Post-rank by commission dated 29 March, 1815; nominated a C.B. 4 June following; and awarded, 16 Feb. 1816, a pension of 250l. His last appointment was to an Inspecting Command in the Water Guard in the Isle of Wight, where he remained from 1822 until 1825. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Money married, 13 Sept. 1805, Maria, fifth daughter of the late Wm. Money, Esq., of Walthamstow, co. Essex, one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, and a Director of the East India Company, and sister of the late Wm. Taylor Money, Esq., K.H., formerly H.M. Consul-General at Venice and Milan, and M.P. successively for Wotton Basset and St. Michael’s. By that lady, who died 6 Feb. 1847, he had issue four sons and five daughters. Of the latter, the eldest, Maria Rowlanda, married, in 1830, the Rev. Sam. Jas. Gambier, nephew of Admiral Lord Gambier, G.C.B.; the second, Amelia Mary, in 1841, the Hon. H. F. Pery, brother of the present Earl of Limerick; and the third, Angelica Mary, in 1844, Geo. Selby, Esq., of the Madras Artillery. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.