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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, John

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​MORGAN. (Commander, 1837.)
John Morgan was born 29 Jan. 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 11 July, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Uranie 38, Capts. Christopher Laroche and Thos. Manby, on the Guernsey station; joined, next, the Horatio 38, and Royal William, Capts. Geo. Scott and Hon. Courtenay Boyle, lying at Portsmouth; and from the close of the same year until May, 1811, was employed in the East and West Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope in the Sapphire 18, Capts. Geo. Davies and Bertie Cornelius Cator, Charwell 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, and Sapphire again, Capts. B. C. Cator, Wm. Fitzmaurice, Hon. W. Gordon, Geo. Davies, and Henry Montresor. The ensuing three years and ten months were passed by Mr. Morgan on the West India, Portsmouth, Mediterranean, and Irish stations, in the Helena sloop, Capt. H. Montresor, Gladiator 44 and San Josef 110, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Wm. Hargood and Sir Rich. King, and Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford. He was then promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 17 Feb. 1815; and was subsequently appointed to the command – 4 Aug. 1826, for two years, of the Sprightly Revenue-cruizer – and 2 June and 28 Aug. 1832, of the Cracker and Seaflower cutters, in which vessels he served until paid off in 1835. Prior to joining the Cracker, Mr. Morgan commanded for some time the Sylvia cutter. He obtained a second promotal commission 10 Jan. 1837; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1842, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moorsom, William

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​MOORSOM. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Moorsom entered the Navy 28 June, 1830; passed his examination 16 June, 1835; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 29 March, 1842, had been serving for some time in the East Indies as Mate on board the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey. His appointments have since been – 22 April, 1842, as Additional, to the Cornwallis 72, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Parker in the East Indies – 12 Sept. 1842, to the Vixen steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Giffard, on the same station – 29 March, 1845, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 19 Sept. 1845, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, attached to the Channel squadron – and, 9 May, 1846, to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Ogle at Portsmouth, where he is now employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, Richard

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​MORGAN. (Commander, 1834. f-p., 22; h-p., 20.)
Richard Morgan entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on borad the Prevoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Dan. McCoy, and, after serving for a few months off Gibraltar and Cadiz in that vessel and the Colossus 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, joined the Canopus 80, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis, Geo. Martin, and Chas. Boyles. Under the first-mentioned of those officers he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, enacted a part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French frigate Le Président, and, after attending Sir John Duckworth’s expedition to Constantinople in Feb. 1807, assumed a share in the ensuing operations in Egypt. Under Rear-Admiral Martin, he joined, in Oct. 1809, in the pursuit which led to the self-destruction, off Cette, of the French ​ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion. Removing, in Sept. 1811, to the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he was for about 18 months employed in that ship in the Adriatic, where he aided in blockading the French and Venetian squadrons at Venice, consisting of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea, and several of each class fitting in the arsenal. In Feb. 1814, having returned with convoy to England, and been for a short time engaged at the blockade of Cherbourg, he became Master’s Mate of the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel, whence, in the course of the same year, he sailed for North America with Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm in the Royal Oak 74. After witnessing, as Supernumerary-Midshipman on promotion of the Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, the attack on New Orleans, he was nominated, 19 May, 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the Belle Poule troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Baker. On his arrival home in the ensuing summer he found that he had been officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 6 of the preceding Feb. His succeeding appointments were – 19 May, 1818, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flagship of Sir Geo. Campbell at Portsmouth, where he served until paid off in 1821 – 30 April, 1827, to the Brittania 120, bearing the flag of the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth – 22 Sept. 1828, and 28 April, 1830, to the Asia 84, and Brittania again, in which ships he continued employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea, under the flag of Sir P. Malcolm, until the close of 1831 – and, 8 March, 1833, a third time, to the Britannia, as Flag-Lieutenant to the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 23 April, 1834; and, from 29 March, 1837, until the spring of 1840, officiated as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Moorman, Richard (b)

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​MOORMAN. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 6.)
Richard Moorman (b), born 19 April, 1810, at Tregony, co. Cornwall, is fourth and youngest son of Wm. Moorman, Esq., of Falmouth; and nephew of Commander Rich. Moorman (a), R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, ,27 Nov. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Semiramis 42, Capt. Peter Ribouleau, bearing the flag of Lord Colville at Cork; and, from Aug. 1825 until Nov. 1831 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), was employed, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Pandora 18 and Success 28, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, and Calcutta 84, Capt. Peter Fisher, on the East India station. In Nov. 1829 the Success was all but lost on a reef, while making for Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. Five days elapsed before she could be got off, and then only by dint of the most determined exertions. The spirited and undaunted manner in which Mr. Moorman and his brother Midshipmen performed the very arduous duties that fell to their lot had the effect of officially eliciting the warmest praise and admiration on the part of Capt. Jervoise. In Feb. 1832 he was appointed Mate of the Pigeon, and in Sept. 1834 (after an interval of 15 months) of the Seagull, Falmouth packets, Lieut.-Commanders John Binney and John Parsons. On leaving the latter vessel, in Sept. 1835, he took command of a Liverpool West Indiaman, and continued trading from that port for a period of two years. In April, 1838, he joined the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir T. Hastings; and, on 1 June, 1839, he entered the Royal Naval College, on the occasion of its being opened for the instruction of Mates and half-pay officers. He removed, in the capacity of Gunnery-Mate, to the Calcutta 84, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, 26 Sept. 1840; and, on 28 Sept. 1841, owing to the strong recommendation of Sir Thos. Hastings, and as a mark of the especial importance attached by their Lordships to the cultivation of gunnery, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. On his return to England from the Mediterranean he was reappointed, 7 Dec. 1841, to the Excellent, in which ship he continued employed, in the capacity of Gunnery-Lieutenant, until advanced to the rank of Commander, 30 Aug. 1845. He has been in command, since 14 Sept. 1847, of the Hecate steam-sloop, of 240-horse power.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, Edward Edwin

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​MORGAN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Edward Edwin Morgan passed his examination 10 Sept. 1836; and after having served for several years as Mate, on the South American and East India stations, in the Rose 18 and North Star 26, Capts. Peter Christie and Sir Jas. Everard Home, was promoted, 20 Jan. 1845, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, 13 Feb. following, Additional of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship on the latter station of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Being next, 17 Dec. in the same year, appointed to the Hazard 18, Capt. Fras. Philip Egerton, he accompanied, in July, 1846, an expedition conducted by Sir T. J. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, where, on 8 of that month, he commanded the eighth company of small-arm men at the capture of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of the latter stream by a force under Capt. Geo. Mundy, and its debarkation, after struggling for many hours against an almost impenetrable navigation, at the village of Mallout, Mr. Morgan, while the main body marched on to Damuan, in the hope of there capturing the Sultan’s person, was left behind in partial charge of a flotilla of seven gun-boats under Lieut. Geo. Edwin Patey, and was mentioned for the cheerful assistance he afforded on the occasion. The Hazard was paid off in 1847.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morgan, Robert (a)

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​MORGAN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Robert Morgan (a) entered the Navy, 18 May, 1803, as L.M., on board the Termagant sloop, Capt. Robt. Pettet, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, from May, 1805, until Aug. 1808, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Bittern 18, Capts. John Louis, Edw. Aug. Down, and Thos. Ussher. He then proceeded to the Brazils in the Brilliant, Capt. Thos. Smyth, and next to the Cape of Good Hope in the Inconstant 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson. In July, 1810, he joined the Hannibal 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Williams off Lisbon; and after a servitude of two years and nine months on that station, he removed, in April, 1811, to the Dragon 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey in the West Indies; where, between Oct. 1812 and May, 1813, he acted as Master of the Swaggerer gun-brig, Lieutenant-Commander Chas. Dayman Jermy. In Oct. of the latter year he arrived in England in the Surinam sloop, Capt. Thos. Martin; in which vessel, since the date last mentioned, he had been officiating as Acting-Lieutenant. On 22 June, 1814, after he had been for six months borne as Supernumerary-Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the books of the Asia 74 and Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane in North America, he was there again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Hebrus frigate, Capt. Edm. Palmer; as he was subsequently, in April and May, 1815, in the Gorée and Pylades sloops, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Stone Cotgrave. On his return to England in the ensuing July he took up a commission bearing date 9 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George

​Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George (1810-1852).—Miscellaneous writer, b. in County Galway, travelled in the East, and pub. an account of his experiences, The Crescent and the Cross, which had remarkable success, brought out an historical work, Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers (1849), and ed. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries. He perished in the burning of the steamer Amazon.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ward, Robert Plumer

​Ward, Robert Plumer (1765-1846). Novelist and politician, b. in London, ed. at Oxf., and called to the Bar 1790, held various political offices, and wrote some books on the law of nations; also three novels, Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, full of prolix discussions; De Veve, or the Man of Independence, in which Canning is depicted under the character of Wentworth; and De Clifford, or the Constant Man.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warren, Samuel

​Warren, Samuel (1807-1877).—Novelist, b. in Denbighshire, s. of a Nonconformist minister. After studying medicine at Edin. he took up law, and became a barrister, wrote several legal text-books, and in 1852 was made Recorder of Hull. He sat in the House of Commons for Midhurst 1856-59, and was a Master in Lunacy 1859-77. He was the author of Passages from the Diary of a late Physician, which appeared (1832-37) first in Blackwood's Magazine, as did also Ten Thousand a Year (1839). Both attracted considerable attention, and were often reprinted and translated. His last novel, Now and Then, had little success. W. entertained exaggerated ideas as to the importance of his place in literature.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warton, Thomas

​Warton, Thomas (1728-1790).—Literary historian and critic, younger s. of Thomas W., Prof. of Poetry at Oxf., and brother ​of the above, was ed. under his f. at Basingstoke and at Oxf. At the age of 19 he pub. a poem of considerable promise, The Pleasures of Melancholy, and two years later attracted attention by The Triumph of Isis (1749), in praise of Oxf., and in answer to Mason's Isis. After various other poetical excursions he pub. Observations on Spenser's Faery Queen (1754), which greatly increased his reputation, and in 1757 he was made Prof. of Poetry at Oxf., which position he held for 10 years. After bringing out one or two ed. of classics and biographies of college benefactors, he issued, from 1774-81, his great History of English Poetry, which comes down to the end of the Elizabethan age. The research and judgment, and the stores of learning often curious and recondite, which were brought to bear upon its production render this work, though now in various respects superseded, a vast magazine of information, and it did much to restore our older poetry to the place of which it had been unjustly deprived by the classical school. His ed. of Milton's minor poems has been pronounced by competent critics to be the best ever produced. W. was a clergyman, but if the tradition is to be believed that he had only two sermons, one written by his f. and the other printed, and if the love of ease and of ale which he celebrates in some of his verses was other than poetical, he was more in his place as a critic than as a cleric. As a poet he hardly came up to his own standards. He was made Poet Laureate in 1785, and in the same year Camden Prof. of History, and was one of the first to detect the Chatterton forgeries, a task in which his antiquarian lore stood him in good stead.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warburton, William

​Warburton, William (1698-1779).—Theologian, b. at Newark, where his f. was an attorney. Intended for the law, he was for a few years engaged in its practice, but his intense love of, and ​capacity for, study led him to enter the Church, and in 1728 he was presented to the Rectory of Brand-Broughton, where he remained for many years. His first important work was The Alliance between Church and State (1736), which brought him into notice. But it was entirely eclipsed by his Divine Legation of Moses, of which the first part appeared in 1737, and the second in 1741. The work, though learned and able, is somewhat paradoxical, and it plunged him into controversies with his numerous critics, and led to his publishing a Vindication. It, however, obtained for him the appointment of chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales. In 1739 W. gained the friendship of Pope by publishing a defence of The Essay on Man. Through Pope he became acquainted with most of the men of letters of the time, and he was made by the poet his literary executor, and had the legacy of half his library, and the profits of his posthumous works. On the strength of this he brought out an ed. of Pope's works. He also pub. an ed. of Shakespeare with notes, which was somewhat severely criticised, and his Doctrine of Grace, a polemic against Wesley. He became Dean of Bristol in 1757 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1759. W. was a man of powerful intellect, but his temper was overbearing and arrogant.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ward, William George

​Ward, William George (1812-1882). Theologian, ed. at Winchester and Oxf., and came under the influence of J. H. Newman, whose famous Tract No. XC. he defended, and whom he followed into the Church of Rome. In 1844 he pub. The Ideal of a Christian Church from the Romanist point of view, whence his soubriquet of "Ideal Ward." He was lecturer on Moral Philosophy at St. Edward's Coll., Ware, and wrote various treatises on controversial theology.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady

​Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady (1677-1727). Poetess, dau. of Sir Charles Halkett of Pitfirrane, and wife of Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie, is believed to have written the pseudo-ancient ballad of "Hardyknute." The ballad of "Sir Patrick Spens" and others have also, but doubtfully, been attributed to her.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warner, Susan

​Warner, Susan (1819-1885). Writer of tales, b. at New York and wrote, under the name of "Elizabeth Wetherell," a number of stories, of which The Wide, Wide World (1851) had an extraordinary popularity. Others were Queechy (1852), The Old Helmet (1863), and Melbourne House (1864). They have no particular literary merit or truth to nature, and are rather sentimental and "gushy."
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warton, Joseph

​Warton, Joseph (1722-1800).—Critic, elder s. of the Rev. Thomas W., Prof. of Poetry at Oxf., was ed. at Basingstoke School, (of which his f. was headmaster), Winchester, and Oxf. He took orders, held various benefices, and became headmaster of Winchester Coll., and Prebendary of Winchester and of St. Paul's. He pub. miscellaneous verses, 2 vols. of Odes (1744 and 1746), in which he displayed a then unusual feeling for nature, and revolted against the critical rules of Pope and his followers. He was a good classical scholar, and made an approved translation of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil. He and his brother Thomas (q.v.) were friends of Johnson, and members of the Literary Club. His last work of importance was an Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, of which the first vol. appeared in 1757, and the second in 1782, and which gave an impulse to the romantic movement in English literature. He also ed. Pope's works, and had begun an ed. of Dryden when he d.
# A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty (1890)/Chapter 5

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London: G. W. Foote; Progressive Pub. Co., pages 62–63
Fifth argument, taken from the nature of Rewards and Punishments.
V. A fifth argument to prove man a necessary agent is as follows: If man was not a necessary agent, determined by pleasure and pain, there would be no foundation for rewards and punishments, which are the essential supports of society.
For if men were not necessarily determined by pleasure and pain, or if pleasure and pain were no causes to determine men’s wills; of what use would be the prospect of rewards to frame a man’s will to the observation of the law, or punishments to hinder his trans- ​gression thereof? Were pain, as such, eligible, and pleasure, as such, avoidable; rewards and punishments could be no motives to a man, to make him do or forbear any action. But if pleasure and pain have a necessary effect on men, and if it be impossible for men not to choose what seems good to them, and not to avoid what seems evil, the necessity of rewards and punishments is then evident, and rewards will be of use to all those who conceive those rewards to be pleasure, and punishments will be of use to all those who conceive them to be pain; and rewards and punishments will frame those men’s wills to observe and not transgress the laws.
Besides, since there are so many robbers, murderers, whore-masters, and other criminals, who notwithstanding the punishments threatened, and rewards promised, by laws, prefer breaking the laws as the greater good or lesser evil, and reject conformity to them as the greater evil or lesser good; how many more would there be, and with what disorders would not all societies be filled, if rewards and punishments, considered as pleasure and pain, did not determine some men’s wills, but that, instead thereof, all men could prefer or will, punishment considered as pain, and reject rewards considered as pleasure? Men would then be under no restraints.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wordsworth, Christopher (biographer)

​Wordsworth, Christopher (1774-1846).—Biographer, etc., was a younger brother of the poet, ed. at Camb., took orders, and became Chaplain to the House of Commons, and Master of Trinity Coll., Camb. 1820-41. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the Univ. 1820-21 and 1826-27. He pub. Ecclesiastical Biography (1810), and Who wrote Eikon Basiliké? in which he argued for the authorship of Charles I.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wood, or à Wood, Anthony

​Wood, or À Wood, Anthony (1632-1695).—Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian enthusiasm was awakened by the collections of Leland, and he early began to visit and study the antiquities of his native county. This with history, heraldry, genealogies, and music occupied his whole time. By 1669 he had written his History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, which was translated into Latin not to his satisfaction by the Univ. authorities, and he wrote a fresh English copy which was printed in 1786. His great work was Athenæ Oxonienses; an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford, to which are added the Fasti or Annals of the said University (1691-92). For an alleged libel on the Earl of Clarendon in that work the author was expelled in 1694. He also wrote The Ancient and Present State of the City of Oxford, and Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour, generally of an ill-natured cast.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wordsworth, Christopher (bishop)

​Wordsworth, Christopher (1807-1885).—S. of above, ed. at Camb., took orders and became a Canon of Westminster 1844, and Bishop of Lincoln 1868. He travelled in Greece, and discovered the site of Dodona. His writings include in theology a commentary on the Bible (1856-70), Church History to A.D. 451 (1881-83), and in other fields, Athens and Attica (1836), and Theocritus (1844).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wood, John George

​Wood, John George (1827-1889).—Writer on natural history, s. of a surgeon, b. in London, and ed. at home and at Oxf., where he worked for some time in the anatomical museum. He took orders, and among other benefices which he held was for a time chaplain to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was a very prolific writer on natural history, though rather as a populariser than as a scientific investigator, and was in this way very successful. Among his numerous works may be mentioned Illustrated Natural History (1853), Animal Traits and Characteristics (1860), Common Objects of the Sea Shore (1857), Out of Doors (1874), Field Naturalist's Handbook (with T. Wood) (1879-80), books on gymnastics, sport, etc., and an ed. of White's Selborne.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wood, Mrs. Ellen

​Wood, Mrs. Ellen (Price) (1814-1887).—Novelist, writing as "Mrs. Henry Wood," was b. at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which, especially East Lynne, had remarkable popularity. Though the stories are generally interesting, they have no distinction of style. Among the best known are Danesbury House, Oswald Cray, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, The Channings, Lord Oakburn's Daughters, and The Shadow of Ashlydyat. Mrs. W. was for some years proprietor and ed. of the Argosy.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wordsworth, Dorothy

​Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855).—Diarist, etc., was the only sister of the poet, and his lifelong and sympathetic companion, and endowed in no small degree with the same love of and insight into nature as is evidenced by her Journals. Many of her brother's poems were suggested by scenes and incidents recorded by her, of which that on Daffodils beginning "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a notable example.