HENRY

See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

See also:

• ROUS, FRANCIS (1579-1659)
• HENRY JOHN ROUS (1795-1877)

ROUS (1795-1877)  , British admiral and sportsman, was born on the 23rd of January 1795, the second son of the 1st earl of Stradbroke . He was educated at Westminster School, and entered the British navy in 18o8, serving as a midshipman in the expedition to Flushing . He was after-wards appointed to the " Bacchante," and received a medal for bravery in various actions and expeditions . In 1823 he was made captain, and served in the Indian and New Holland stations from 1823 to 1829 . In 1834 he was appointed to the command of the " Pique," a 36-gun frigate, which ran ashore on the coast of Labrador and was much damaged . Rous, however, brought her across the Atlantic with a sprung foremast and without keel, forefoot or rudder, and though the ship was making 23 ins. of water an hour . Rous, always fond of sport, retired from the navy, and became in 1838 a steward of the Jockey Club, a position which he held almost uninterruptedly to his death . In 1855 he was appointed public handicapper . He managed the duke of Bedford's stables at Newmarket for many years, and wrote a work on The Laws and Practice of Horse Racing that procured for him the title of " the Blackstone of the Turf." In 1841 he was returned M.P. for Westminster, and in 1846 Sir Robert Peel made him a lord of the admiralty . He died on the 19th of June 1877 . For the naval career of Admiral Rous see O'Byrne, Naval Biographical Dictionary (London, 1849) . A vivid sketch of him as a turf authority will be found in Day's Turf Celebrities (London, 1891) .