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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sulivan, Thomas Ross

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​SULIVAN. (Captain, 1847.)
Thomas Ross Sulivan is first-cousin of Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 25 Jan. 1811; passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 25 April, 1825, into the Bellette 18, Capt. John Leith, on the West India station. He had, while serving as Midshipman and Mate in the Iphigenia, Owen Glendower, and Hussar frigates, been very actively and usefully employed against the pirates on the coast of Cuba and in the Isle of Pines. His appointments after he left the Bellette were – 18 May, 1826, to the Hussar 46, Capt. Geo. Harris, again in the West Indies, where, while filling the post of Senior Lieutenant, he was wounded in the boats at the capture of a slave-brig of 10 guns and 57 men – 13 May, 1829, to the Favorite 18, Capt. Joseph Harrison, fitting for the coast of Africa – l8 March, 1833, to the command of the Pluto steamer, on the same station, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1834 – and, 19 Jan. 1836, as Second-Lieutenant, to the Melville 74, bearing the flag of Sir Peter Halkett, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. On the latter ship being paid off she was immediately recommissioned by Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas for the flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Geo. Elliot at the Cape of Good Hope, and Mr. Sulivan was at the same time, 1 Sept. 1837, again appointed to her as First-Lieutenant. He proceeded ultimately to the coast of China, and while there he was promoted, 25 June, 1840, to the command of the Favorite 18. Before he joined that vessel, however, he appears to have been for a time a Supernumerary-Commander in the Melville. He continued in the Favorite on the East India station until 1843, when he returned to England and was paid off. He was advanced to his present rank 29 April, 1847. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sullivan, Charles (b)

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​SULLIVAN. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Sullivan entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 5 Feb. 1840; served at Portsmouth and in the Mediterranean as Mate in the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Formidable 84, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan; and obtained his commission 22 Aug. 1844. His succeeding appointments were – 28 Aug. 1844, again, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Formidable – 7 Sept. following, to the Snake 16, Capt. Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux, in the Mediterranean – and, 17 Dec. 1845, to the Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. In the latter ship he was employed on the Home and Mediterranean stations until the spring of 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sumpter, Nicholas

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​SUMPTER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 25.)
Nicholas Sumpter entered the Navy, 15 Feb. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western; in which ship, after cruizing in the Channel, he accompanied the Royal Family of Portugal in its flight to the Brazils. From June, 1809, until Nov. 1814 he served on the Mediterranean, South American, and North Sea stations, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Jan. 1808), in the Nereus 36 and Montagu 74, both commanded by Capt. Peter Heywood; he then joined the Dee 24, Capt. John Wm. Andrew; and on his return in that ship from a visit to Hudson’s Bay he was presented, in Nov. 1815, with a commission dated back to 28 of the preceding Feb. The Nereus in April, 1810, brought home from the Mediterranean the remains of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood. From 24 Dec. 1830 until the spring of 1836 Mr. Sumpter commanded a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sulivan, Bartholomew James

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​SULIVAN. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 6.)
Bartholomew James Sulivan is son of Capt. Thos. B. Sulivan, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 3 April, 1830; served from 25 June, 1831, until the close of 1836,, in the Beagle surveying-vessel, Capt. Robt. FitzRoy, on the South American station; was appointed to the command, 30 Nov. 1837, of the Pincher schooner, at Chatham; and from 12 April, 1838, until 1839, was again employed in South America in command of the Arrow ketch. He attained the rank of Commander 14 May, 1841; served in that capacity in the Philomel surveying-vessel, on the S.E. coast of America, from 2 April, 1842, until paid off on his return to England in 1846; and since 10 Dec. 1847 has had his name borne as a Supernumerary-Captain, for surveying-service, on the books of the Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth. His promotion to Post-rank, which was effected in March, 1846, by a commission dated back to 18 Nov. 1845, was made a reward for the conduct he had displayed in command of the southern division of the ships engaged in the battle of the Parana; where the combined squadrons of France and Spain, after a hard day’s fighting, destroyed four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also a schooner-of-war mounting 6 guns, and 24 vessels chained across the river. “I should be unmindful,” writes Capt. Chas. Hotham, the Senior British officer present on the occasion, in his official report of the proceedings addressed to the Commander-in-Chief, “of the ability and continued zeal of Commander B. Sulivan, did I not bring him particularly to your notice; by his exertions we were furnished with a chart, which enabled us to complete our arrangements for the attack.”
Capt. Sulivan is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sulivan, Norton Shaw

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​SULIVAN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Norton Shaw Sulivan passed his examination 21 July, 1841; and after having served as Mate in the Fly surveying-vessel, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, and Ranger 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson (b), in the East Indies and on the coast of Africa, was promoted, 2 June, 1846, to the rank of Lieutenant, and nominated Additional of the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, on the station last named. His appointments have since been – 6 Nov. 1846, to the Birkenhead steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Aug. Henry Ingram, employed on particular service – and, 13 July, 1847, and 19 July, 1848, again as Additional, to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, and Melampus 42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, both in the East Indies, where, with his name on the books of the latter ship, he is now doing duty at Bombay in the Meeanee 80.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Summers, John

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​SUMMERS. (Lieutenant, 1826.)
John Summers was born 1 Jan. 1796. He is brother of Wm. Summers, Esq., Master R.N. (1826).
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Pigmy cutter, stationed in the Downs, He next, in the early part of 1812, joined the Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, employed in the North Sea and Baltic; and in the course of the same year, while absent in a tender, he was taken prisoner. On his release from captivity he was received, in Jan. 1813, on board the Pactolus 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, attached to the force on the Home station; where, in the West Indies, and at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, he served until after the conclusion of hostilities in the Ulysses 44, Capt. Thos. Browne, Chatham 74, Capt. David Lloyd, and Phaeton 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell. Between 1816 (in Nov. of which year he passed his examination) and July, 1826, he was employed on the East India, Home, Mediterranean, Halifax, and West India stations, as Mate, in the Minden 74, Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, Harlequin 18, Capt. Nepean, Britannia 120, and in another ship, the name of which has escaped us. On 10 of the month last mentioned he was made Lieutenant into the Beaver 10, Capt. Joseph O’Brien, also in the West Indies. He invalided in the same year, 1826; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Summers married, in Jan. 1830, Miss Harriette Elizabeth Howell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Suckling, William Benjamin

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​SUCKLING. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
William Benjamin Suckling is eldest son of the late Colonel Suckling, 3rd Dragoon Guards, of Barnham Haugh, co. Norfolk; and a relative of the immortal Nelson, whose mother was a daughter of the Rev. Maurice Suckling, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster, by Anne, elder daughter of Sir Chas. ​Turner, Bart., of Warham, by Mary, his wife, sister of the celebrated Sir Robert Walpole, K.G. This officer entered the Navy, 9 April, 1803, as I’st.-cl. Vol., on borad the Amphion 32, Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy, and sailed shortly afterwards with the flag of Lord Nelson for the Mediterranean; where he continued employed with the hero in the Victory 100, with Capts. Ross Donnelly and Wm. D’Urban in the Narcissus and Ambuscade frigates, and again in the Victory and Ambuscade, until Aug. 1809. In the Victory, we believe, he fought at Trafalgar. He was made Lieutenant, 23 Oct. 1809, into the Talbot sloop, Capt. Hon. Alex. Jones, on the Cork station; and was subsequently appointed – in 1810, to the Caesar 80, Capt. Wm. Granger, and Milford 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, employed off Lisbon and at the defence of Cadiz – 1 Aug. 1811, for 15 months, to the Rodney 74, Capts. John Allen and Edw. Durnford King, in the Mediterranean – and, in June and Dec. 1813, to the Ocean 98 and Unité 36, Capts. Robt. Plampin and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, on the same station, whence he returned in April, 1814. He was promoted, 1 July in that year, to the command of the Merope sloop. In her he served in the Mediterranean and on the coast of North America until Feb. 1815; and he was next, from 19 Feb. 1822 until wrecked on a reef of rocks off Langness Point, in the Isle of Man, 14 Dec. following, employed in the Racehorse 18, and from 15 March, 1828, until he invalided in the spring of 1829, in the Medina 20, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Suckling married, first, 24 Sept. 1844, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Barry, Esq., of Montague Street, Russell Square, London; and, that lady dying 9 Sept. 1846, secondly, 5 Aug. 1847, Caroline, second daughter of the late Wm. Loaden, Esq., of Rosehill, near Bideford, co. Devon. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vocal Association

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vive Henri Quatre

​VIVE HENRI QUATRE. [See Henri Quatre, vol. i. p. 728.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vocalion

​VOCALION. An 'organ' or instrument of the free-reed kind, exhibited by James Baillie Hamilton, Esq., in the International Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885. The first patent was taken out Nov. 13, 1872, by John Farmer (of Harrow), for a combination of reed with string or wire—either as a continuation of the reed or as a coil fastened to the back thereof—and was succeeded by many more, taken out in the names of Mr. Hamilton and others. The first attempts gave a beautiful and very peculiar quality of sound, but by degrees the combination of reed and string from which this proceeded has had to be given up, for practical and commercial reasons, and the instrument as now exhibited is virtually a Harmonium with broad reeds, giving great rigidity of action and therefore purity of tone, and large channels, and acted on by high pressure of wind not suction. A main peculiarity of the Vocalion is that the reeds are placed above the pallets and below the slides, and that though the sliding 'plug' of three reeds is only of the width of the groove, the cavities are more than twice as wide. This is expressed in Mr. Hamilton's latest patent (U.S.A., March 25, 1884) as 'the combination of pallets, soundboard, and reeds with cavity-boards, one above the other, the lower one containing the nostrils and the upper one the mouths, and an intermediate controlling slide.'
The result of this is a charming variety and purity of tone, especially where the music is not in too many parts; and also great force and richness of sound. This is well expressed by Sir Arthur Sullivan in a letter dated New York, July 3, 1885, as follows:—'You have achieved an instrument which shall possess all the power and dignity of an organ, without the cumbersome and expensive aid of pipes. And in doing this, ​you have obtained a totally different tone from that of Harmoniums and other reed organs. I was particularly struck with the nobility and purity of the sound, and also with the great variety in the timbre which the instrument displayed.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vivace

​VIVACE (VIVO, VIVACISSIMO), 'Lively, in the liveliest manner possible.' A direction used either alone, and indicating a rate of speed between Allegro and Presto, or as qualifying some other direction, as Allegro or Allegretto. Allegro vivace will be taken quicker than Allegro by itself, but not so quick as Allegro assai. [See Allegro.] It occurs constantly in Beethoven's works in every class, and the same composer uses the less common 'Allegretto vivace' in the scherzo of the Sonata in E♭, op. 31, no. 3. The word applies not only to speed, but to the manner of interpreting the music. The metronome marks over two movements, one labelled 'Allegro agitato,' and the other, 'Allegro vivace,' might be exactly of the same value; the difference between the two would be entirely one of style. The Vivace in the latter case would imply an absence of passion or excitement, an even rate of speed, and a bright and cheerful character. The direction used by itself at the beginning of a movement is time-honoured; it occurs frequently in Bach and the composers of his time.
In the 'Confiteor' of Bach's Mass in B minor ​he uses the expression 'Vivace e (sic) Allegro' at the wonderful point beginning with the words 'Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum.' In this passage there is a slight discrepancy in the MS. authorities, which leads to considerable differences of rendering. After the first delivery of these words, Adagio, the quick movement starts with three repeated notes in the first soprano part, beginning at the half-bar. In one of the two chief MSS. the direction Vivace occurs at the beginning of the bar in the middle of which this phrase begins, and in the other it appears over the beginning of the next bar. This latter reading has been accepted by the editors of the Peters edition, but the Bach-Gesellschaft editors are doubtless right in placing the direction over the half-bar, so that the alteration of time takes place simultaneously with the soprano lead. This reading has been followed in the performances of the Bach Choir.
Schumann used the terms Vivo and Vivace interchangeably, as is shown in his 6th and 8th Novelettes, at the head of which the two words stand, both being translated by 'Sehr lebhaft.' Other instances of his use of the two words are found in the 'Études symphoniques,' where also there occurs an example of Schumann's peculiar use of the direction, viz. as applied not to an entire movement, indicating its speed, but to a passage in a movement, referring to the manner of its execution. In the fourth variation the bass alone of the third bar is labelled 'sempre vivacissimo,' and no doubt the composer's intention was that the part for the left hand should be much emphasised and its animated character brought out. The same direction, applied in much the same way, occurs more than once in the Sonata in F♯ minor, and in the Scherzo of that work a staccato passage for the left hand is marked 'Bassi vivi.' In the Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, the same composer inscribes the second movement 'Vivo.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vocal Society, The

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vivier, Eugène

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vivo

​VIVO. [See Vivace.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vocal Concerts

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# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Moronihah (II)

​MORONIHAH. A Nephite general who commanded a corps of ten thousand men in the last great struggle between the Nephites and Lamanites. He, with all his command, was slain in the final series of battles in the land Cumorah, when the Nephite nation was annihilated (A. C. 385).
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Moses

​MOSES. The great lawgiver to Israel, Frequent references are made to him in the Book of Mormon. Lehi refers to the prophecy of Joseph, the son of Jacob, of the coming and mission of Moses (II Nephi, 3:9, 10, 16, 17). Nephi and others make mention of his dividing the waters of the Red Sea ([[Book of Mormon/1 Nephi|I Nephi, 4:2; 17:24-27; Helaman, 8:11). The ancient Nephite prophets also speak of his foreknowledge of the coming of the Messiah (1 Nephi, 22:20, 21; Mosiah, 13:33, Helaman, 8:15, 16); of his smiting the rock for water (II Nephi, 25:20); of the lifting up of the brazen serpent in the wilderness (Helaman, 8:14); of his burial by the Lord (Alma, 45:19). Jesus said to the Nephites, "I am he of whom Moses spake" (III Nephi, 20:23). The five books of Moses are mentioned (I Nephi, 5:11), and the law of Moses is spoken of more than forty times.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Mosiah, Sons of

​MOSIAH, SONS OF. The four sons of the second Mosiah, who accomplished the great and successful mission to the Lamanites (B. C. 91 to B. C. 78). Their names were Aaron, Ammon, Omner and Himni.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Mulek, City of

​MULEK, CITY OF. A city of the Nephites on the east borders by the sea shore, about a day's journey south of the city Bountiful, and therefore in the northernmost part of South America. It was captured by the Lamanites under Amalickiah (B. C. 67), who placed a Zoramite, named Jacob, in command. By stratagem, Moroni, Lehi and Teancum recaptured it (B. C. 64), when Moroni made it Lehi's headquarters. It again fell into the hands of the Lamanites when (B. C. 34-33) they drove the Nephites from all their possessions in the southern continent; but it was one of the first cities retaken by Moronihah, when the tide of victory turned (B. C. 32). It is then mentioned as being one of the cities to which Lehi and Nephi, the sons of Helaman, went forth calling the people to repentance, in that great mission which they commenced in the land of Bountiful and continued to the land of Lehi-Nephi, B. C. 30.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Mulek

​MULEK. The infant son of Zedekiah, king of Judea, who was preserved when the rest of his brothers were slain (II Kings, 25:7) by the king of Babylon. Eleven years after Lehi left Jerusalem the Lord led another colony from that city to America, among whom was Mulek, who, at that time, must have been very young, as his father was only 21 years old when he commenced to reign, and he reigned but eleven years in Jerusalem (II Chronicles, 36:11; Jeremiah, 52:1). It is altogether probable that when Mulek attained a proper age he, on account of his lineage, was recognized as king or leader of the colony.
Regarding the journey of this company, all we are told in the Book of Mormon is that they came out of Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah, king ​of Judea, was carried away captive into Babylon, and that they journeyed in the wilderness and were brought by the hand of the Lord across the great waters. Again we are informed that they landed on the northern continent, in the land afterwards known to the Nephites as the land Desolation, and for this reason the Nephites called North America the land of Mulek. This must not be confounded with the country immediately surrounding the city of Mulek, in South America. In after years this colony migrated southward and settled on the River Sidon, where their descendants were afterwards found by the Nephites.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Mulek, Land of

​MULEK, LAND OF. The name given by the Nephites to the whole of North America, because Mulek landed on this continent, while Lehi brought his colony to the southern continent, to which his descendants gave his name. (Helaman, 6. 10).
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Moronihah, City of

​MORONIHAH, CITY OF. One of the great and iniquitous cities of the Nephites destroyed at the time of the Savior's crucifixion. The earth, during the great convulsions that then occurred, was carried up upon the city; it and its people were buried, and in its place stood a great mountain. Thus were its iniquities and abominations hid from the face of the Lord, and the blood of the prophets and saints came up no more to Him against them (III Nephi, 8:10, 25; 9:5). Nothing is written which throws any light on the location of this ill-fated city.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stoddard, Richard Henry

Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903). -- Poet, b. at Hingham, Mass., worked in a foundry, and afterwards in New York Custom House, wrote a Life of Washington, but is chiefly known as a poet, his poetical works including Songs in Summer (1857), The King's Bell, The Lions Cub, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Storer, Thomas

Storer, Thomas (1571-1604). -- Poet, b. in London, and ed. at Oxf., wrote a long poem, The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Strode, William

Strode, William (1600-1645). -- Poet, only s. of Philip S., who belonged to an old Devonshire family, he was b. at Plympton, Devonshire, and showing studious tendencies, was sent to Westminster School and Oxf. While at the Univ. he began to manifest his poetic talents, and generally distinguished himself, being elected in 1629 Public Orator. He took orders and, on Richard Corbet (q.v.) becoming Bishop of Oxf., became his chaplain. Later he was Rector of E. Bredenham, Norfolk, and of Badley, Northants, and Canon of Christ Church. On the outbreak of the Civil War he attached himself warmly to the cause of the King. He was a High Churchman, and had a reputation as "a witty and sententious preacher, an exquisite orator, and an eminent poet." It is therefore singular that, until the recovery of his poems by Mr. B. Dobell, he had fallen into absolute oblivion. As a poet he shines most in lyrics and elegies. With much of the artificiality of his age he shows gracefulness, a feeling for the country, and occasional gleams of tenderness. His play, The Floating Island, a political allegory, was produced in 1633 and played before the Court then on a visit to Oxf., where it was a subject of complaint that it had more moralising than amusement. Mr. Dobell, who ed. his poems in 1907, claims for S. the poem on "Melancholy" ("Hence all you vain delights"), hitherto attributed to Fletcher.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (1818-1878). -- Historian and writer on art, s. of Archibald Stirling of Keir, succeeded to the estates and title of his uncle, Sir John Maxwell of Pollok, as well as to Keir, ed. at Camb., afterwards travelled much. He sat in the House of Commons for Perthshire, which he twice represented, 1852-68 and 1874-80, served on various commissions and public bodies, and was Lord Rector successively of the Univ. of St. Andrews and Edin. and Chancellor of that of Glasgow. His works include Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848), The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. (1852), and Don John of Austria, pub. posthumously in 1885. They were all distinguished by research and full information, and the last two are standard authorities He m. as his second wife the Hon. Mrs. Norton (q.v.)page 363.