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ship, and he continued to be borne on her books until April, 1802; previously to which period he had been taken by a French privateer, while in charge of a prize-brig, but not until after a brave defence. He subsequently, on 11 March, 1803, rejoined his patron on board the Tonnant 80, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, with whom he served until his health obliged him to invalid in Feb. 1805. In the following Oct. he was appointed to the Woolwich 44, armée en flûte, and sailed for the East Indies, where he was nominated, 13 Aug. 1806, First-Lieutenant of the Culloden 74, then flag-ship of his friend Sir Edw. Pellew, and where, on 27 of the ensuing Nov., he commanded a division of boats at the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads. In the course of 1807 we find him successively placed by his Admiral in command of the Psyche and Dover ships-of-war, and Victor sloop; in which latter vessel he co-operated in the further annihilation of the dockyard and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the naval force remaining to Holland in the East Indies. From Oct. 1808 until Jan. 1811, he next had charge of the Marine Hospital at Madras; after which, having been officially advanced to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 31 July, 1809, he joined, 29 June, 1812, the Calypso brig, stationed in the Baltic. For his services in that vessel, particularly at the siege of Danzig in 1813, Capt. Groube, whom we previously find conveying Lord Walpole to St. Petersburg, was promoted to Post-rank 7 June, 1814. His acceptance of the Retirement took place 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, 17 March, 1810, Mrs. Watson, daughter of the late Jas. Dudson, Esq.
GROVE. (Commander, 1838. f-p., 17; h-p., 17.)
Francis Grove, born in 1799, is second son of Edw. Grove, Esq., D.C.L., of Shenstone Park, co. Stafford, a Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire, by his first wife, Caroline, third surviving daughter of the Very Rev. Baptist Proby, Dean of Lichfield, youngest brother of John, first Lord Carysfort. His great-grandfather, Wm. Grove, Esq., D.C.L., represented the city of Coventry in Parliament from 1741 to 1761. One of his brothers, Wm. Grove, Esq., is a Police Magistrate; and another, Edm. Sneyd Grove, Esq., an officer in the R.N. His first-cousin, Mary (daughter, by one of his father’s sisters, of Thos. Lister, Esq., of Armitage Park, co. Stafford), who died in 1838, was the successive wife of Thos. Lord Ribblesdale, and of the present Lord John Russell. Her Ladyship’s sister is now a maid of honour to the Queen.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daedalus 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, and on 2 of the following July was wrecked near Ceylon. From that date until his return to England in July, 1815, he continued to be employed in the East Indies, chiefly as Midshipman, on board the Minden 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, Volage 22, Capt. Joseph Drury, and Malacca 36, Capt. Geo. Henderson. His name was then placed for very short periods on the books of the Manly 12, Capt. Chas. Simeon, and Hyacinth 20, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, both lying at Portsmouth; whence, on being appointed to the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne, he sailed for Algiers. After assisting at the bombardment of that place, 27 Aug. 1816, Mr. Grove proceeded to the coast of North America, where he remained until the summer of 1819. He then, on his return to England, joined the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Campbell, but in the following Dec. was again ordered abroad, having been appointed Mate of the Vigo 74, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 29 Nov. 1821 (upwards of two years after he had passed his examination), in the Beaver 10, Capts. Archibald Maclean and Thos. Bourchier, on the South American station, and next appointed Senior – 9 March, 1824, of the Brisk 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, employed on Home duty – 1 Jan. 1828, of the Challenger 28, commanded on paarticular service by Capts. Joseph Harrison and Chas. Howe Fremantle – and 26 Oct. 1830, of the Tyne 28, Capt. Chas. Hope, with whom he returned to South America. He went on half-pay 2 Sept. 1832; and was advanced to his present rank 28 June, 1838.
Commander Grove married, first, 9 Dec. 1825, Emily, only daughter of the late Geo. Ure, Esq., of the Bengal Medical Establishment; and, secondly, 10 Sept. 1839, Mary, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Roberts, banker, of Glasgow. He has issue, by his first marriage, four sons and two daughters; and, by his second, two sons.
GROVE. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Henry Leslie Grove entered the Navy, 9 June, 1795, as a Volunteer, on board the Narcissus frigate, Capt. Percy Eraser, whom he accompanied to the Bahama Islands. From 1796 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Aug. 1801, he served as Midshipman, on the Home station, in the Porcupine, Capt. John Draper, London 98, flag-ship of the late Sir John Colpoys, La Nymphe 36, Capt. P. Eraser (one of Lord Bridport’s ships in the action of Ile de Groix, 23 June, 1795), Namur 98, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy, and Narcissus again, Capt. P. Eraser. He was then successively intrusted with the command, until July, 1802, of the William and Constant gun-brigs. Independently of a further command, from Nov. 1803 to April, 1804, of the Hope cutter, stationed off Havre, Mr. Grove was employed, between June in the former year and Jan. 1806, in the Beaver 10, Capt. Chas. Pelly, Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, Pallas frigate, Capt. Lord Cochrane, and Impétueux 74, Capts. John Erskine Douglas, Thos. Byam Martin, and John Lawford. Being in May 1807 appointed an Agent for Transports, he visited in that capacity Copenhagen, Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Lisbon; after which we find him officiating, between 1809 and 1815, as Agent for prisoners of war at Gottenborg, and again, in the Transport service, as Resident Agent at Deptford, Guernsey, and Cork. He was invested with the rank of Retired Commander on the Junior List 19 Oct. 1831; and on the Senior 12 Oct. 1846.
Commander Grove holds the appointment of Collector of the Customs at Exeter.
GROVE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
William Grove entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impétueux 74, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, whom he accompanied in the expeditions of 1800 to Quiberon and Ferrol. Being paid off in April 1802, he next, in the following Dec, joined the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, fitting for the East Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 1 Jan. 1804, and where, in Feb. 1806, he rejoined Sir E. Pellew, whose flag was then flying on board the Culloden 74. On 10 June 1807, after having assisted at the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia roads, Mr. Grove was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Dasher sloop, Capts. Nevinson De Courcy and Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing. He invalided home in April, 1809, and, between Nov. in that year and June, 1811, was next employed in the Channel, and again in the East Indies, on board the Orestes brig, Capt. John Richards Lapenotiere, Scipion 74, Capt. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and Hecate sloop, Capt. Hen. John Peachey. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 4 March, 1812 in the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, on the Home station; where, and in the Mediterranean, he subsequently joined – 30 July 1812, the Echo sloop, Capt. Thos. Percival – 12 Feb 1813,
