A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ross, Charles Wilsone
ROSS. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 33; h-p., 5.)
Charles Wilsone Ross entered the Navy, 4 Jan, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, in which ship and in the Royal Sovereign 100, commanded by the same officer and by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the West India and Home stations until removed, in Feb. 1814, to the Spencer 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett, attached to the force on the coast of North America. In Aug. 1815 he joined the Romney 50, Capt. John Mackellar, lying at Chatham; and in the ensuing Nov. he was received on board the Salisbury 58, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies; where after he had acted for upwards of five months as Lieutenant in the Sabine and Shark sloops, and Pique 36, he was confirmed, 15 Oct. 1816, into the Rifleman 16, Capt. Houston Stewart. He went back, in the course of the same month, to the Pique, commanded by Capt. Jas. Haldane Tait; and in Jan. 1817, at which period he was again in the Salisbury, he returned home. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1818, for nearly three years, to the Lee 20, Capts. John Pasco and Stewart Blacker, on the Home station – 22 March, 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued as Supernumerary- Lieutenant of the Severn 50, Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, until 1828 – 3 Oct. 1829, to the Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, guard-ship at Portsmouth – 1 May, 1830, to the St. Vincent 120, Capts. Hyde Parker and Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, employed at first at Portsmouth as flag-ship to Sir Thos. Foley and afterwards in the Mediterranean, where he remained until 1834 – and 10 July, 1835, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Ross married, 6 July, 1825, Sophia, daughter of David Richardson, Esq., of Wellclose Square, London. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.