A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Orlebar, Orlando
ORLEBAR. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 14; h-p., 33.)
Orlando Orlebar, born in 1786, is fourth son of the late Rich. Orlebar, Esq., of Hinwick House, co. Bedford, one of the clerks extraordinary of the Privy Council, by his second wife Charlotte, daughter of Robt. Willing, Esq., of London. He is brother of the late Henry Orlebar, Esq., R.N.; and uncle of Commander John Orlebar, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jamaica 26, commanded in the North Sea by Capt. John Mackellar; with whom, and with Capts. Walter Bathurst, Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Wm. Wells, Geo. Bell, Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Jas. Murray Gordon, we find him, from March, 1801, to Oct. 1808, serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Terpsichore 32, on the Cape of Good Hope and East India stations. In 1805 he was wounded while assisting in a boat which was sunk at the capture, after a desperate resistance, of the French corvette Tourterelle, under the batteries of St. Denis, Ile de Bourbon. He was present in the course of the same year in another boat which was sunk in effecting the destruction of a French brig off the Isle of France; and in Nov. 1806 he was engaged in the headmost boat at the annihilation, in Batavia Roads, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other vessels. On his arrival home in 1809 in the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, he rejoined Capt. Bathurst on board the Salsette 36, and, accompanying the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, was there intrusted with the command of a gun-boat. In Oct. 1809 he left the Salsette; and in Oct. 1810 he was received on board the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle in the Mediterranean; where he was nominated, 25 Jan. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington. His official promotion took place 14 March following. He invalided in Aug. of the same year, and was next, from Dec. 1811 until Aug. 1815, employed on the Channel, North American, and West India stations, in the Wolverene sloop, Capts. Chas. Kerr and Geo. Grey Burton. Since he left that vessel, in which it appears he was present in the attack upon Baltimore, he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Orlebar (who was left a widower 15 Nov. 1831) married, 24 April, 1824, Helen Maria, only daughter of the late Admiral Aplin, and sister of the present Capt. J. G. Aplin. His eldest daughter is the wife of Lieut. Augustus John Burton, R.N.