by John Marshall

“ He was made a lieutenant, from the Royal George yacht, May 30th, 1825.
In 1826, Lieutenant De Roos, then belonging to the Jupiter 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral (now Sir Willoughby T.) Lake, on the Halifax station, made a tour of the United States and Canada. In 1827, he published a “Narrative of his travels, with observations on the Maritime Resources of North America, and present state of her Dock-yards and Navy.” In the same year, he accompanied his present Majesty, then Lord High Admiral, in the Royal Sovereign yacht, as flag-lieutenant, during his first visit to the out ports. ”

“ His mother is the only daughter and heiress of the Hon. Robert Boyle Walshingham, youngest son of Henry, first Earl of Shannon, by Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Bart., the descendant of Frances, sister to the sixth Earl of Rutland and seventeenth Baron De Roos, on the demise of whose grandson, George, second Duke of Buckingham and eighteenth Baron De Roos, in 1687, the latter title fell into abeyance, and so continued until terminated in favor of the present peeress. May 9th, 1806, when her ladyship assumed the additional surname of De Roos. ”

“ Captain G. W. Hamilton. In the following year, he relieved Commander Thomas Dickinson, of the Lightning sloop, at Cape Frio, and succeeded in getting up a considerable portion of the treasure from among the wreck of H.M. late frigate Thetis [1] . ”