by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Rooke, Leonard Charles (1823)
“ Youngest son of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Rooke, and nephew to Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Bart. G.C.B. &c. &c. This officer served as a midshipman under Captains the Hon. Henry Duncan and John Brett Purvis, in the Glasgow and Magicienne frigates; was made a lieutenant from the latter ship into the Bacchus sloop, on the East India station, Oct. 15th, 1818 ; appointed to the Cambrian frigate. Captain Gawen William Hamilton, destined to Constantinople, July 25th, 1820; promoted to the rank of commander on the 14th Oct. 1824; and wrecked in the Jasper sloop, on the north end of St. ”
