ROW, CHEYNEY; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114); m. 28 Jul 1664 Elizabeth Stone (IGI); d. 1699 (will proved PCC 12 Dec 1699, he of Higham Hill, Essex, name spelled Cheyney Rowe).
ROUSE, JAMES, son of John Rouse, Wokingham, Berkshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Cleighorne, Westminster, patentee in reversion of office of Warden of Court of High Commission; b.; at school (aged 14) in 1655 (Chapter Muniments 43112); of Wokingham, Berks.; m.
ROUSE, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
ROUS, HON. WILLIAM RUFUS, son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 1 Aug 1796; adm.; left 1809; RMC Great Marlow; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 17 Dec 1812; Lieut. and Capt., 18 Nov 1819; Capt., 55th Foot 19 Feb 1823; half-pay, 24 Apr 1823; DL JP [check county]; m. 27 Dec 1822 Louisa, youngest dau. of James Hatch, Claybury Hall, Essex; d. 2 Mar 1875.
ROUS, JOHN, 1ST EARL OF STRADBROKE, only son of Sir John Rous, Bart., MP, and Judith, dau. of John Bedingfield, Beeston, Norfolk; b. 30 May 1750; in school lists 1764; lerft 1767; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1768; MA 1771; succ. father as 6th baronet 31 Oct 1771; Grand Tour (Italy) 1772-3; MP Suffolk 1780-96; created Baron Rous 14 Jun 1796 and Earl of Stradbroke 18 Jul 1821; DL Suffolk 1787; m. 1st, Jan 1788 Frances Juliana, dau. of Edward Warter Wilson, Bilboa, co. Limerick; m. 2nd, 23 Feb 1792 Charlotte Maria, dau. of Abraham Whittaker, Stratford, Essex; d. 17 Aug 1827.
ROUS, JOHN EDWARD CORNWALLIS, 2ND EARL OF STRADBROKE, eldest son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stadbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 13 Feb 1794; adm.; left 1808; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 28 Jun 1810; Lieut. and Capt., 4 May 1814; Capt., 93rd Foot 6 Nov 1817; half-pay, Nova Scotia Fencibles 15 Jan 1818; retd. 1821; served in Peninsular War; styled Viscount Dunwich 1821-7; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Stradbroke 17 Aug 1827; took Conservative whip, House of Lords; Lord Lieut., Suffolk, from 19 Jan 1844; Vice-Adm., Coast of Suffolk, from 1846; m. 26 May 1857 Augusta, widow of Col. Henry Frederick Bonham, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), and second dau. of Rev. Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart.; d. 27 Jan 1886.
ROUS, HON. HUGH ANTHONY, son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 15 Jul 1800; adm. Mich. 1812; KS 1814; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1818, adm. pens. 14 May 1818, but went to Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Jun 1818; BA 1821; MA 1824; ordained; Vicar of Reydon, Suffolk, 10 Oct 1826; Perpetual Curate of Southwold, Suffolk, from 1826; d. at Geneva 29 Sep 1828.
ROUS, HON. HENRY JOHN, second son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 23 Jan 1795; adm.; left 1807; 1st cl. Volunteer, Royal Navy 28 Jan 1808; Lieut., 18 May 1814; Cdr., 26 Nov 1817; Post Capt., 25 Apr 1823; Rear-Adm. 17 Dec 1852; Vice-Adm., 5 Jan 1858; Adm., 25 Jun 1863; served in Flushing expedition and in Mediterranean; during his last cruise, his frigate HMS Pique ran ashore on the coast of Labrador Sep 1835, but Rous brought her into St. Helen’s [check], after a run of 1500 miles without a rudder and leaking badly; MP (Conservative) Westminster 1841 – Feb 1846; a Lord of the Admiralty 17 Feb – 13 Jul 1846; member, Jockey Club, from 1821, Steward 1838 and subsequently; public handicapper from 1855; present at every great race meeting held in the last forty years of his life, and universally respected and regarded as the “dictator of the turf”; m. 2 Jan 1836 Sophia, dau. of James Ramsay Cuthbert MP; d. 19 Jun 1877. DNB.
ROUS, ANTHONY; b.; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1726/7; in school list 1731.