Royal Naval Biography/Bloye, Robert

by John Marshall

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ROBERT BLOYE, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1813.]

This officer served as lieutenant under Earl St. Vincent; obtained the rank of commander Aug. 4, 1806; and was appointed to the Lyra brig about Jan. 1810. His subsequent services, on the north coast of Spain, have been noticed in our memoirs of Sir George R. Collier and Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, C.B.^[1] He was advanced to post rank Sept. 23, 1813; and nominated a C.B. in 1815.

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1. See Vol. II. Part II. pp. 525–532; and Suppl. Part III. pp. 140–143.