Thomas Groube

  General Notes:

British Naval Records.

GROUBE. (Captain, 1814 F-P 19; H-P 35)
THOMAS GROUBE entered the Navy in June 1793 as A.B. on board the LEVIATHAN 74 Capt. Lord Hugh Seymour, and in the course of the same year was present at the investment of Toulou. In Feb. 17949 he became Midshipman of the ARETHUSA 38, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew; under whom, when in company with other ships, he successfully witnessed the capture of La Pamone of 44 guns and 351 men, La Babet of 22 guns and 178 men, L'Engageente of 38 guns and 300 men, and La Revolutionaire of 44 guns and 351 men. On his removal with the same officer to the INDEFATIGABLE of 46 guns, he further assisted at the capture of L'Unite of 38 guns and 265 men, and Lie Virginia of 44 guns and 340 men; besides contributing, in company with the AMAZON 36. to the destruction with a loss to the INDEFATIGABLE of 19 men wounded, of Les Droits L'Homme 74. On 21 Aug. 1799, a few months after he had accompanied Sir Edw. Pellew into the IMPETUEUX 74. Mr. Groube was appointed a Lieutenant of that ship, and he continued to be bourne on her books until April 1802; previously to which period he had been taken by a French privateer, while in charge of a prize-brig, but not after a brave defence. He subsequently, on 11 March 1803 rejoined his patron on board the TONNANT 80, commanded afterwards by Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, with whom he served until his health obliged him to invalid in Feb. 1805. In the following Oct. he was appointed to the WOOLWICH 44, armee--an-flute and sailed for the East Indies, where he was nominated 13 Aug. 1806, First-lieutenant of the CULLODEN 74, then flagship of his friend Sir Edw. Pellew and where, on 27 of the ensuing Nov., he commanded a division of boats at the capture and destruction of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war and about 20 armed and other merchant vessels lying in Batavia Roads. In the course of 1807 we find him successfully placed by his Admiral in command of the PSYCHE and DOVER ships-of-war, and VICTOR sloop; in which latter vessel he co-operated in the further annihilation of the dockyard and stores at Griessel. in the island of Java, and of all the naval force remaining to Holland in the East Indies. From Oct. 1808 until Jan. 1811, he next had charge of the Marine Hospital at Madras; after which, having been officially advanced to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 31 July, 1809, he joined, 29 June 1812, the CALYPSO brig, stationed in the Baltic. For his services to that vessel, particularly at the siege of Danzig in 1813, Capt. Groube, whom we previously find conveying Lord Walpole to St. Petersburg, was promoted to Post rank 7 June 1814. His acceptance of the Retirement took place 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, 13 June 1809, Mrs Anna Maria Watson, daughter of the late Jas. Dodson Esq. And Sarah Carey.
Thomas Groube later rose to Rear Admiral on 9 October 1849, but died on 25 January 1850 of peritonitis at his home in Honiton Devon.


AT a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Gentlemen, Merchants, Tradesmen, and Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of HONITON, held at the Golden Lion Inn, in Honiton, on Friday the 16th December, 1825, JAMES BASLEIGH, Esq. Portreeve, in the Chair;
Resolved, that in order to preserve and maintain public confidence in this town and neighbourhood, which has not been interrupted; this Meeting considers it a duty they owe themselves and the Public, to declare their most perfect and implicit Confidence in the Firm of Messrs. FLOOD, LOTT, and LOTT, of the Honiton Bank.
Resolved unanimously, that the following Declaration be signed by the Persons present at this Meeting, and that the same be circulated.
We, the undersigned, declare our full and perfect Confidence in the Stability of the Bank of Messrs. Flood, Lott and Lott, which has been established in this town ever since the year 1786, and own our willingness to take their Notes in payment, to any amount.
JAMES BASLEIGH, Portreeve.
The petition was signed by T. Groube, R.N. along with a number of others.

The Examiner (London, England) Saturday, October 13, 1849.
AMIRALTY, October 9.
The following Retired Captains have been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms proposed in the "London Gazette" of the 1st of September, 1846, without increase to their pay: - C. Bertram, G. Hills, H. Funshawe, I. H. Morrison, G. B. Trollope, C. B., Sir T. Mansell, K.C.H., T. Groube, H. Robinson, and W. Black.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Rear Admiral In The British Navy.

• connection. My connection to Edward Groube (1846) who is one of my Argentinian Groube line enquired about by Juan Delius
is as follows:

Edward Groube (1846)
His father was George Groube (1810)
His father was Thomas Groube (1774) & he also had Rev Horatio Groube (1814)
He had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
She had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• connection. ⁸⁰⁰ Sarah Bedford 's links to me are as follows:
Sarah Bedford . . .
Her Grandfather was . . .
Walter Richard Denby (1934)
His father was Walter James Denby (1904) who married Nina Blake (1907)
Her father was Charles Blake (1872) & his mother was Elizabeth Sunnex (1870) who also married Horatio Herbert Groube (1870)
His father was George Boulderson Groube (1839)
His father was George Bromley Groube (1810)
His father was Thomas Groube (1774) & he also had Horiatio Groube (1814)
He had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Thomas married Anna Marie Dodson, daughter of James Dodson and Sarah Carey, on 13 Jun 1809 in Fort Saint George, Madras, Tamil, Nadu, India. (Anna Marie Dodson was born on 1 Nov 1784 in London City, Middlesex England, christened on 1 Nov 1783 in St Marys, Stepney, London England and died on 15 Mar 1855 in Honiton On Otter, Devon England.)