After service in the navy in 1819 he was appointed vice consul to Hoppner in Venice, where he remained until 1823; after a decade of travel he retired to Exeter and pursued entomology.

REFERENCES TO Henry Dorville:

Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 22 October 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)