Portrait.

A hand-coloured, stipple engraving, depicting Sir Henry Trollope (1756-1839). He is shown wearing the 1795 Captain’s full-dress uniform with the lapels buttoned across. The original image probably dates from the high point of Trollope’s career in 1797. The artist Thomas Braine, was a London miniaturist born in 1769 who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1791-1802.
Trollope entered the navy in 1771 and spent the early part of his career on the North America station during the American War of Independence later accompanying Lord Darby’s fleet to the relief of Gibraltar. During the peace that followed, Trollope, now with the rank of commander, was able to retire to a country house in Carmarthenshire on his prize money. In 1795 he was appointed to the ‘Glatton’- a converted East Indiaman. His ship served with the North Sea fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan. A short fierce action with six French frigates, a cutter and a brig off Helvoetsluys in 1796 saved a large British Baltic convoy. Resolute action on the part of Trollope prevented the crew of ‘Glatton’ from joining the mutiny at the Nore during the following year, the ship rejoined Duncan’s forces at the Texel instead. Now in command of ‘Russell’, Trollope played a distinguished part in the battle of Camperdown 12 October 1797, and was knighted as a result. He reached flag rank in 1801 but his latter career was blighted by a dispute with Lord St Vincent and attacks of gout. Living a Freshford in Bath, following the death of his wife, he developed a morbid fear of burglary and shot himself in 1839.