A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ross, Charles William De Courcy
ROSS. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles William De Courcy Ross died early in 1848. He was only son of Vice-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 May, 1825; and embarked, 7 May, 1827, as a Volunteer, on board the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, stationed in the Mediterranean. In 1831 he joined the Trinculo 18, Capt. Sam. Price, attached to the force on the coast of Ireland; and after serving for about a year and a half on the Brazilian and West India stations as Mate in the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, and Vernon 50, flag-ship of his uncle Sir Geo. Cockburn, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Dec. 1833. He was subsequently emploved, also in the West Indies, on board the Arachne 18, Capt. Jas. Burney, Wasp 16, Capt. John Sam. Foreman, and Fly 18, Capt. Peter M‘Quhae; and from 3 Nov. 1837 until 1841 he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant, in the President 50, to his father, then Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific. His last promotion took place 7 May,, 1842.
Commander Ross married, 12 Dec. 1837, Mary Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Edw. Maxwell, Esq., R.N. by whom he has left issue.