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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maude, Francis

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​MAUDE. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 13; h-p., 23.)
The Honourable Francis Maude, born in 1798, is fifth and youngest son of the first Cornwallis Maude, by his third wife, Anne Isabella, daughter of Thos. Monck, Esq., barrister-at-law, and niece of Viscount Monck; and brother (with Capt. Hon. Sir Jas. Ashley Maude, R.N., C.B., K.C.H. (1814), who died 23 Oct. 1841) of the present Viscount. He is brother-in-law of Lord Wm. Stuart, Lord Robt. Ponsonby Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, Lord Lifford, and Lord Dunalley.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1811; and embarked, 24 April, 18J4, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Spithead. In the course of the same year he joined the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, and also the Favorite 20, commanded by his brother, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. In that vessel, after having brought home from America the ratification of the treaty of Ghent, he proceeded to the East Indies; where, in Dec. 1816, 20 months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Magicienne 36, Capt. John Brett Purvis. In Aug. 1819, he became Admiralty-Midshipman of the Superb 78, bearing the broad pendant in South America of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy; who, on 24 May, 1820, nominated him Lieutenant of that ship. He was confirmed, 7 Oct. following, in the Icarus 10, Capt. Henry Algernon Eliot; and returning home about June, 1821, was next, from 13 Dec. 1823, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 30 April, 1827, employed in the Grasshopper 18, Capts. John Geo. Aplin and another. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Maude married, 4 Sept. 1827, Frances, second daughter of Hon. A. H. Brooking, Collector of His Majesty’s Customs at St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Member of the Council for that island. By that lady, who died in 1832, he had issue a son and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mathews, Edward Morrell

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​MATHEWS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Edward Morrell Mathews died about the close of 1846, on board H.M.S. Iris. He was son of C. Mathews, Esq., of Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames.
This officer entered the Navy 16 Nov. 1828; passed his examination in 1834; and, after much creditable service, was made Lieutenant, 14 Oct. 1840, into the Modeste 18, Capts. Harry Eyres and Rundle Burges Watson, under whom, prior to the return of that ship to England in 1843, he took part, if we mistake not, in all the operations on the coast of China, including the storming of Chinghae. His last appointment was, 19 Oct. 1843, to the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, fitting for the East Indies, where, in July, 1846, on the occasion of an expedition conducted by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, he took command of the 5th company of small-arm men, and assisted at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries up the river Brune. In the course of the same month we find him, with 136 seamen belonging to the Iris and Royalist under his orders, accompanying Capt. Mundy and a detached force up different branches of the Borneo river, and then penetrating deep into the country, in a fruitless pursuit of the Sultan, supposed to be at a place called Damuan. During nearly the whole period of their march, which lasted several days, the British were under a torrent of rain, and were plunged knee-deep in swamp at every step. The exertions, however, of Lieut. Mathews throughout were such as to obtain him the thanks of Capt. Mundy.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 396.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 3442.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3444-6-7.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Matson, Henry James

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​MATSON. (Commander, 1843. f-p., 22; h-p., 2.)
Henry James Matson, born 5 April, 1810, is son of Chas. Matson, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, R.N. (1793); nephew of Admiral Rich. Matson; grand-nephew of the late Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, K.B., who commanded the Ramillies 74 in the action of 1 June, 1794, and also of the gallant Capt. John Harvey, R.N., who was mortally wounded in command of the Brunswick 74 on the same occasion; and second-cousin of Commander G. W. Matson, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 July, 1823, as Fst-cl. Vol., on board the Seringapatam 46, Capt. Sam. Warren, stationed in the Channel; and in the early part of the following year proceeded in the Samarang 28, Capt. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, to North America; where, in Dec. 1824, he joined the Jupiter 60, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake. In Sept. 1827, having attained the rating of Midshipman some time previously, he joined the Revenge 76, Capts. Norbome Thompson and Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, in which ship, stationed in the Mediterranean, he continued until Oct. 1830. In the course of the ensuing month (he had passed his examination 12 Aug. 1829) he became Mate of the Undaunted 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope; and in Feb. 1833 he was transftrred from that frigate to the Curlew 10, Capt. Henry Dundas Trotter, and placed in charge of a watch. For his subsequent conduct at the capture of some pirates on the west coast of Africa, Mr. Matson, who left the Curlew in June, 1834, was promoted, 8 April, 1835, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, a week afterwards, to the Pearl 20, Capts. Hugh Nurse and Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, employed at first on the Lisbon and then on the North America and West India station. The latter vessel, of which he had been for eighteen months First-Lieutenant, being put out of commission 2 Jan. 1839, he obtained command, 2 March following, of the Waterwitch 10, and was again ordered to the west coast of Africa; where four years of the most successful exertion in suppression of the slave trade resulted in his advancement to the rank of Commander, 17 July, 1843. His last appointment was to the command, 7 Sept. 1844, of the Daring 12, in which sloop he served on the Home and North America and West India stations until superseded in Feb. 1847.
Commander Matson married, 12 June, 1837, ​Philadelphia Stephens, daughter of Thos. Josling, Esq., of Lisbon, by whom, who died 23 Oct. 1845, he had issue one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Matthews, Michael

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​MATTHEWS. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 31.)
Michael Matthews is son of F. Matthews, Esq., formerly in the Ordnance Department at Portsmouth.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sans Pareil 80, Capts. Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, Jas. Katon, and Wm. Essington, successive flag-ship of Admirals Lord Hugh Seymour and Robt. Montagu in the Channel and West Indies, where he served until Sept. 1802, latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. In Feb. 1 803, he joined the Venerable 74, bearing the flag, on the former station, of the late Lord Collingwood; whom, in the course of 1804, he followed into the Colossus and Culloden 74’s, and Prince and St. George 98’s. He was made Lieutenant, 15 Oct. 1806, into the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Wm. Bedford, flag-ship for some time of Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Baltic; and he was next, between Aug. 1807, and July, 1813, employed, on the latter and on the West and East India stations, in the Captain 74, Capt. Isaac Wolley, Melville sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King, Cornelia frigate, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, Russel 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, and Minden 74, Capts. Edw. Wallis Hoare, Alex. Skene, and Jos. Prior, flag-ship latterly of Sir Sam. Hood. In the Russel he took part in the earlier portion of the operations that preceded the fall of the Isle of France; and in the Minden he saw much active service on the coast of Java. On leaving that ship he was nominated Lieutenant-Governor of the ​Naval Hospital, and Superintendent of the Impress, at Bombay. He continued in discharge of the duties thus imposed upon him until Feb. 1815; and on 20 of the following Sept., after having acted in command of the Wellesley 74, he was confirmed in that of the Hesper sloop. He returned to England about Aug. 1816 in the Hecate 16; and has since been on half-pay.
He is married, and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/More, Hannah

More, Hannah (1745-1833). -- Miscellaneous and religious writer, was one of the five daughters of a schoolmaster at Stapleton, Gloucestershire. The family removed to Bristol, where Hannah began her literary efforts. Some early dramas, including The Search after Happiness and the Inflexible Captive brought her before the public, and she went to London in 1774, where, through her friend, Garrick, she was introduced to Johnson, Burke, and the rest of that circle, by whom she was highly esteemed. After publishing some poems, now forgotten, and some dramas, she resolved to devote herself to efforts on behalf of social and religious amelioration, in which she was eminently successful, and exercised a wide and salutary influence. Her works written in pursuance of these objects are too numerous to mention. They included Hints towards forming the Character of a young Princess (1805), written at the request of the Queen for the benefit of the Princess Charlotte, Cœlebs in search of a Wife (1809), and a series of short tales, the Cheap Repository, among which was the well-known Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. This enterprise, which had great success, led to the formation of the Religious Tract Society. The success of Miss M.'s literary labours enabled her to pass her later years in ease, and her sisters having also retired on a competency made by conducting a boarding-school in Bristol, the whole family resided on a property called Barley Grove, which they had purchased, where they carried on with much success philanthropic and educational work among the people of the neighbouring district of Cheddar. Few persons have devoted their talents more assiduously to the well-being of their fellow-creatures, or with a greater measure of success.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Morgan, Lady

Morgan, Lady (SYDNEY Owenson) (1780?-1859).—Novelist, dau. of Robert Owenson, an actor, was the author of several vivacious Irish tales, including The Wild Irish Girl (1806), O'Donnel (1814), and The O'Briens and the O'Flaherties (1827); also two books on society in France and in Italy characterised by "more vivacity and point than delicacy," and a Life of Salvator Rosa.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Moore, John

Moore, John (1729 or 1730-1802). -- Physician and miscellaneous writer, s. of an Episcopal minister, was b. in Stirling. After studying medicine at Glasgow, he acted as a surgeon in the navy and the army, and ultimately settled in Glasgow as a physician. In 1779 he pub. View of Manners and Society in France, Switzerland, and Germany,page 277 which was well received. A similar work, relating to Italy, followed in 1781. He is, however, chiefly remembered by his romance Zeluco (1786?). One or two other novels followed, and his last works are a Journal during a Residence in France (1792), and Causes and Progress of the French Revolution (1795), the latter of which was used both by Scott and Carlyle. M. was one of the friends of Burns, and was the f. of Sir John M., the hero of Corunna.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/More, Sir Thomas

More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535).—Historical and political writer, s. of Sir John M., a Justice of the King's Bench, was b. in London. In his 16th year he was placed in the household of Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was wont to say, "This child here page 279waiting at the table ... will prove a marvellous man." In 1497 he went to Oxf., where he became the friend of Erasmus and others, and came in contact with the new learning. He studied law at New Inn and Lincoln's Inn, and for some time thought of entering the Church. He was, however, in 1504 sent up to Parliament, where his powerful speaking gained for him a high place. Meanwhile, he had brilliant success in the Law Courts, and was introduced by Wolsey to Henry VIII., with whom he soon rose into high favour. He became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1523, and was sent on missions to Charles V. and Francis I. At length, on the fall of Wolsey, M. was, much against his will, appointed Lord Chancellor, an office which he filled with singular purity and success, though he was harsh in his dealings with persons accused of heresy. But differences with the King soon arose. M. disapproved of Henry's ecclesiastical policy, as well as of his proceedings in regard to the Queen, and in 1532 he resigned his office. In 1534 he refused the oath which pledged him to approval of the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn, and for this he was imprisoned in the Tower, and on July 7, 1535, beheaded. His body was buried in St. Peter's in the Tower, and his head exhibited on London Bridge, whence it was taken down and preserved by his dau., the noble Margaret Roper. All Catholic Europe was shocked at the news of what was truly a judicial murder. Among his works are a Life of Picus, Earl of Mirandula (1510), and a History of Richard III., written about 1513. His great work, Utopia, was written in Latin in two books -- the second 1515, and the first 1516. It had immediate popularity, and was translated into French 1530, English 1551, German 1524, Italian 1548, and Spanish 1790. It gives an account of an imaginary island and people, under cover of which it describes the social and political condition of England, with suggested remedies for abuses. The opinions on religion and politics expressed in it are not, however, always those by which he was himself guided. M. wrote many works of controversy, among which are Dyaloge concerning Heresies, also epigrams and dialogues in Latin. His pure and religious character, his sweet temper, his wit, his constancy and fortitude under misfortune combine to render him one of the most attractive and admirable figures in English history.
Life by W. Roper (son-in-law), Lord Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, Utopia was translated by Robinson (1551, etc.), Bishop Burnet (1684, etc.), and ed. by Lupton (1895), and Michelis (1896).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/More, Henry

More, Henry (1614–1687). -- Philosopher, b. at Grantham, and ed. at Camb., took orders, but declined all preferment, including two deaneries and a bishopric; and also various appointments in his Univ., choosing rather a quiet life devoted to scholarship and philosophy, especially the study of writings of Plato and his followers. He led a life of singular purity and religious devotion, tinged with mysticism, and his writings had much popularity and influence in their day. Among them may be mentioned Psychozoia Platonica (1642), repub. (1647) as Philosophicall Poems, Divine Dialogues (prose) (1668), The Mystery of Godliness, and The Mystery of Iniquity. His life was written by his friend Richard Ward.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Morier, James Justinian

Morier, James Justinian (1780?-1849). -- Traveller and novelist, s. of Isaac M., descended from a Huguenot family resident at Smyrna, where he was b., was ed. at Harrow. Returning to the East he became in 1809 Sec. of Legation in Persia. He wrote accounts of travels in Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor; also novels, page 280in which he exhibits a marvellous familiarity with Oriental manners and modes of thought. The chief of these are The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1824), and Hajji Baba in England (1828), Zohrab the Hostage (1832), Ayesha (1834), and The Mirza (1841). All these works are full of brilliant description, character-painting, and delicate satire.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Morison, James Cotter

Morison, James Cotter (1832-1888). -- Was ed. at Oxf. He wrote Lives of Gibbon (1878), and Macaulay (1882); but his best work was his Life of St. Bernard (1863). The Service of Man (1887) is written from a Positivist point of view.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Morley, Henry

Morley, Henry (1822-1894). -- Writer on English literature, s. of an apothecary, was b. in London, ed. at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's Coll., London, and after practising medicine and keeping schools at various places, went in 1850 to London, and adopted literature as his profession. He wrote in periodicals, and from 1859-64 ed. the Examiner. From 1865-89 he was Prof. of English Literature at Univ. Coll. He was the author of various biographies, including Lives of Palissy, Cornelius Agrippa, and Clement Marot. His principal work, however, was English Writers (10 vols. 1864-94), coming down to Shakespeare. His First Sketch of English Literature -- the study for the larger work -- had reached at his death a circulation of 34,000 copies.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Moore, Edward

Moore, Edward (1712-1757). -- Fabulist and dramatist, s. of a dissenting minister, was b. at Abingdon. After being in business as a linen-draper, in which he was unsuccessful, he took to literature, and wrote a few plays, of which The Gamester (1753) had a great vogue, and was translated into various languages. He is best known by his Fables for the Female Sex (1744), which rank next to those of Gay (q.v.).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Denham, Sir John

​Denham, Sir John (1615-1669).—Poet, s. of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, was b. in Dublin, and ed. at Oxf. He began his literary career with a tragedy, The Sophy (1641), which seldom rises above mediocrity. His poem, Cooper's Hill (1642), is the work by which he is remembered. It is the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description. D. received extravagant praise from Johnson; but the place now assigned him is a much more humble one. His verse is smooth, clear, and agreeable, and occasionally a thought is expressed with remarkable terseness and force. In his earlier years D. suffered for his Royalism; but after the Restoration enjoyed prosperity. He, however, made an unhappy marriage, and his last years were clouded by insanity. He was an architect by profession, coming between Inigo Jones and Wren as King's Surveyor.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dennis, John

​Dennis, John (1657-1734).—Critic, etc., s. of a saddler, was b. in London, and ed. at Harrow and Caius Coll., Camb., from the latter of which he was expelled for stabbing a fellow-student, and transferred himself to Trinity Hall. He attached himself to the Whigs, in whose interest he wrote several bitter and vituperative pamphlets. His attempts at play-writing were failures; and he then devoted himself chiefly to criticising the works of his contemporaries. In this line, while showing some acuteness, he aroused much enmity by his ill-temper and jealousy. Unfortunately for him, some of those whom he attacked, such as Pope and Swift, had the power of conferring upon him an unenviable immortality. Embalmed in The Dunciad, his name has attained a fame which no work of his own could have given it. Of Milton, however, he showed a true appreciation. Among his works are Rinaldo and Armida (1699), Appius and Virginia (1709), Reflections Critical and Satirical (1711), and Three Letters on Shakespeare. He d. in, straitened circumstances.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dibdin, Charles

​Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814).—Dramatist and song writer, b. at Southampton, began his literary career at 16 with a drama, The Shepherd's Artifice. His fame, however, rests on his sea songs, which are unrivalled, and include Tom Bowling, Poor Jack, and Blow High Blow Low. He is said to have written over 1200 of these, besides many dramatic pieces and two novels, Hannah Hewitt (1792), and The Younger Brother (1793), and a History of the Stage (1795).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dekker, Thomas

​Dekker, Thomas (1570?-1641?).—Dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was b. in London. Few details of D.'s life have come down to us, though he was a well-known writer in his day, and is believed to have written or contributed to over 20 dramas. He collaborated at various times with several of his fellow-dramatists, including Ben Jonson. Ultimately Jonson quarrelled with Marston and D., satirising them in The Poetaster (1601), to which D. replied in Satiromastix (1602). D.'s best play is Old Fortunatus (1606), others are The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600), Honest Whore (1604), Roaring Girl (1611), The Virgin Martyr (1622) (with Massinger), and The Witch of Edmonton (1658) (with Ford and Rowley), History of Sir Thomas Wyat, Westward Ho!, and Northward Ho, all with Webster. His prose writings include The Gull's Hornbook (1609), The Seven Deadly Sins of London, and The Belman of London (1608), satirical works which give interesting glimpses of the life of his time. His life appears to have been a somewhat chequered one, alternating between revelry and want. He is one of the most poetical of the older dramatists. Lamb said he "had poetry enough for anything."
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dermody, Thomas

​Dermody, Thomas (1775-1802).—Poet, b. at Ennis, showed great capacity for learning, but fell into idle and dissipated habits, and threw away his opportunities. He pub. two books of poems, which after his death were coll. as The Harp of Erin.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Digby, Sir Kenelm

​Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665).—Miscellaneous writer, b. near Newport Pagnell, s. of Sir Everard D., one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, was ed. at Oxf., travelled much, and was engaged in sea-fighting. Brought up first as a Romanist, then as a Protestant, he in 1636 joined the Church of Rome. During the Civil War he was active on the side of the King, and on the fall of his cause was for a time banished. He was the author of several books on religious and quasi-scientific subjects, including one on the Choice of a Religion, on the Immortality of the Soul, Observations on Spenser's Faery Queen, and a criticism on Sir T. Browne's Religio Medici. He also wrote a Discourse on Vegetation, and one On the Cure of Wounds by means of a sympathetic powder which he imagined he had discovered.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dilke, Charles Wentworth

​Dilke, Charles Wentworth (1789-1864).—Critic and writer on literature, served for many years in the Navy Pay-Office, on retiring from which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. He had in 1814–16 made a continuation of Dodsley's Collection of English Plays, and in 1829 he became part proprietor and ed. of The Athenæum, the influence of which he greatly extended. In 1846 he resigned the editorship, and assumed that of The Daily News, but contributed to The Athenæum his famous papers on Pope, Burke, Junius, etc., and shed much new light on his subjects. His ​grandson, the present Sir C. W. Dilke, pub. these writings in 1875 under the title, Papers of a Critic.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Deloney, Thomas

​Deloney, Thomas (1543-1600).—Novelist and balladist, appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in Norwich, but was in London by 1586, and in the course of the next 10 years is known to have written about 50 ballads, some of which involved him in trouble, and caused him to lie perdue for a time. It is only recently that his more important work as a novelist, in which he ranks with Greene and Nash, has received attention. He appears to have turned to this new field of effort when his original one was closed to him for the time. Less under the influence of Lyly and other preceding writers than Greene, he is more natural, simple, and direct, and writes of middle-class citizens and tradesmen with a light and ​pleasant humour. Of his novels, Thomas of Reading is in honour of clothiers, Jack of Newbury celebrates weaving, and The Gentle Craft is dedicated to the praise of shoemakers. He "dy'd poorely," but was "honestly buried."
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