Royal Naval Biography/Felix, Robert Rochford
ROBERT ROCHFORD FELIX, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of Dr. Felix, of Bristol. This officer obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 20th Sept. 1806; and subsequently served under Captains James Macnamara, Paul Lawless, and Francis W. Austen, in the Edgar 74, Vautour sloop, and Elephant 74, on the North Sea and Baltic stations. He was promoted from the Salisbury 58, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John E. Douglas, at Jamaica, to the command of the Rifleman sloop, June 10th, 1817. We afterwards find him in the Beaver 10, on the same station, where he continued until Oct. 1818.