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HENRY JOHN ROUS (1795-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:JOHN See also:ROUS (1795-1877)  , See also:British See also:admiral and sportsman, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:January 1795, the second son of the 1st See also:earl of Stradbroke . He was educated at See also:Westminster School, and entered the British See also:navy in 18o8, serving as a See also:midshipman in the expedition to See also:Flushing . He was after-wards appointed to the " Bacchante," and received a See also:medal for bravery in various actions and expeditions . In 1823 he was made See also:captain, and served in the See also:Indian and New See also:Holland stations from 1823 to 1829 . In 1834 he was appointed to the command of the " Pique," a 36-See also:gun See also:frigate, which ran ashore on the See also:coast of Labrador and was much damaged . See also:Rous, however, brought her across the See also:Atlantic with a sprung foremast and without See also:keel, forefoot or See also:rudder, and though the See also:ship was making 23 ins. of See also:water an See also:hour . Rous, always fond of See also:sport, retired from the navy, and became in 1838 a steward of the See also:Jockey See also:Club, a position which he held almost uninterruptedly to his See also:death . In 1855 he was appointed public handicapper . He managed the See also:duke of See also:Bedford's stables at See also:Newmarket for many years, and wrote a See also:work on The See also:Laws and Practice of See also:Horse Racing that procured for him the See also:title of " the See also:Blackstone of the See also:Turf." In 1841 he was returned M.P. for Westminster, and in 1846 See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel made him a See also:lord of the See also:admiralty . He died on the 19th of See also:June 1877 . For the See also:naval career of Admiral Rous see O'Byrne, Naval See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary (See also:London, 1849) . A vivid See also:sketch of him as a turf authority will be found in See also:Day's Turf Celebrities (London, 1891) .

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