married, July 16, 1823, Louisa Adams, daughter of John Powell Smith, of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
GEORGE BARNE TROLLOPE, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
This officer is a native of Huntingdon, in which county his father was a clergyman.
He entered the navy during the Spanish armament, and served under the command of his half-brother. Captain (now Sir Henry) Trollope, in the Prudente and Hussar frigates, until 1792, when he joined the Lion 64, Captain Sir Erasmus Gower, then about to sail for China with Lord Macartney and his suite. Towards the end of 1794, he followed that excellent officer into the Triumph a third rate, which ship was one of the small squadron under Vice-Admiral Cornwallis, when he made his masterly retreat, in the face of a powerful French fleet, June 17, 1795[1].
Mr. Trollope obtained the rank of lieutenant Dec. 13, 1796; and was third of the Triumph at the defeat of the Dutch fleet, off Camperdown, Oct. 11. 1797, on which occasion he appears to have been wounded in the leg and hip. The Triumph’s total loss was 29 men killed, and 55, including her captain[2], first lieutenant, and master, wounded.
After that glorious victory. Lieutenant Trollope rejoined Sir Erasmus Gower, then in the Neptune 98; and we subsequently find him in the Princess Royal, another second rate, bearing the flag of the same officer, as Rear-Admiral of the White[3].
His next appointment was, during the peace of Amiens, to la Minerva frigate. Captain (now Sir Jahleel) Brenton, which
- ↑ See p. 296.
- ↑ The late Sir William Essington, who died a Vice-Admiral, July 12, 1816.
- ↑ See p. 228.
