A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rothery, John
ROTHERY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 27; h-p., 20.)
John Rothery entered the Navy, in Dec. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alligator 28, Capt. Bowen, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; on which station he continued employed as Midshipman in two other vessels, commanded by Capts. Langford and Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, until Sept. 1803. He served subsequently in the West Indies and Channel in the Pandora, Capt. John Nash, Alligator again, Capt. Chas. Richardson, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Lords Gardner and St. Vincent, and Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Bedford. In 1807, being then in the London, 98, Capt. Thos. Western, he accompanied the royal family of Portugal in its flight to the Brazils. In July, 1809, he became Acting-Lieutenant (a rank he had held on board the London) of the Rosario sloop, Capt. Booty Harvey, lying in the Downs, where, and in the Baltic, North Sea, and Channel, he served as Midshipman and as Master’s Mate, from May, 1810, until July, 1813, in the Princess of Orange and Princess Caroline 74’s, Capts. Fras. Beauman and Hugh Downman. In Oct. of the latter year he was nominated Second-Master of the Montagu 74,’Capt. Peter Heywood, under whom he continued serving as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 8 Feb. 1815) in the North Sea and Mediterranean until July, 1816. Deducting a three years’ command, held from Oct. 1834 until Sept. 1837, of the Cheerful Revenue-vessel, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard since 10 Nov. 1829.