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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.