Hon.ble Will.m Rowley esq.r [engraving]

Hon.ble Will.m Rowley esq.r [engraving]

Honorable William Rowley Esquire [engraving]

[London] Edw. Harding, Pall Mall 1800

1 engraving : port. ; 18 x 11 cm. on a sheet 47 x 30 cm.

IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff

"On 7 December 1743 [Rowley] was promoted rear-admiral of the White, and hoisted his flag in the Barfleur. In that capacity, as junior flag officer, he commanded the van in the engagement off Toulon on 11 February 1744, and was one of the few concerned whose conduct was not called into question." -- Oxford DNB, vol. 48, p. 27
This likeness not mentioned in the Oxford DNB.
On leaf 45 of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng.

L2005F180

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