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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gooch, George Thomas

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​GOOCH. (Commander, 1824. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
George Thomas Gooch, horn 27 Jan. 1797, at Saxlingham Rectory, co. Norfolk, is third son of the late Venerable John Gooch, Archdeacon of Sudbury, by Barbara, daughter of Ralph Sneyd, Esq., of Keele Hall, co. Stafford, and grand-daughter of Sir Walter Bagot, Bart., father of the first Lord Bagot. One of his brothers, Henry Edward, who served at Waterloo, is a field-officer in the army. He is first-cousin of the present Sir Thos. Sherlock Gooch, Bart.; and is also closely related to Commander Thos. Lewis Gooch, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amelia, of 48 guns, Capt. Hon. Fred. Paul Irby, with whom he served on the Channel and African stations, the last few months as Midshipman, until May, 1813. On 7 Feb. in that year he appears to have been wounded, off the Iles de Los, during a desperate conflict of more than three hours and a half with L’Aréthuse French frigate, of 44 guns and 340 men, which terminated in the separation of the combatants, after a loss to the enemy of 105 killed and wounded, and to the British, out of an original force of 300, of 141 men killed and wounded. On next joining the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christ. Cole, we find Mr. Gooch assisting at the capture, 21 Oct. 1813, of Le Weser of 44 guns. He afterwards served on the Mediterranean and St. Helena stations, in the Maender 38, Capt. John Bastard, and Conqueror 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin; and, attaining the rank of Lieutenant 14 July, 1818, was next appointed – 18 Sept. following and 12 Nov. 1819, to the Racoon 26, Capt. Jas. Wallis, and Vigo 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, both on the St. Helena station-^and, 17 March, 1823, to the Ranger frigate, as Flag-Lieutenant of Sir Chas. Hamilton at Newfoundland. Since his advancement to his present rank, 8 July, 1824, Commander Gooch has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gooch, Thomas Lewis

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​GOOCH. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 14; h-p., 13.)
Thomas Lewis Gooch is a near relative of Commander Geo. Thos. Gooch, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1820; passed Ins examination in 1826; and acquired the rank of Lieutenant 28 April, 1827. He was afterwards appointed, on the Mediterranean and Home stations – 9 June, 1827, to the Jasper 10, Capt. Leonard Chas. Rooke – 29 May, 1828, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland – 1 Feb. 1839, ​to the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey – and, 12 Feb. 1842, to the command of the Kite steamer. He attained the rank he now holds 7 May, 1842; and from 27 Oct. 1843, until the commencement of 1847, had command of the Sealark 16, on the coast of Africa. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Godfrey, John Race

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​GODFREY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 22.)
John Race Godfrey, born 11 March, 1790, is son of the late John Godfrey, Esq., of Bath, by Sarah, daughter of the late Wm. Wigget, Esq., and sister of the late General Bulwer, of Heydon Hall, co. Norfolk.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flags in succession of Admirals Sir Robt. Calder, Sir Jas. Saumarez, Edw. Thornbrough, and Lord Gambier; while in which ship he took part, as Midshipman, in the action of 22 July, 1805, and served on shore throughout the operations connected with the attack on Copenhagen. After the latter event he served, until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 15 March, 1815, in the Sultan 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, Lavinia 44, Capt. John Hancock, Thames 32, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, President 58, Capt. Sam. Warren, and Acasta 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr. During the four years of his continuance in the latter ship, Mr. Godfrey, who had previously visited the Mediterranean and Cape of Good Hope, assisted at the re-capture of the 20-gun ship Levant, and also at the taking of five privateers, carrying in the whole 61 guns and 439 men. In 1820 he obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard; after 12 years’ retention of which he was placed on half-pay. He has not since had any official occupation.
Lieut. Godfrey married, 7 July, 1817, Augusta Maria, daughter of the late John Marsh, Esq., of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, by whom he has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Godwin, Matthew

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​GODWIN. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 18; h-p., 49.)
Matthew Godwin was born 25 Dec. 1766.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 May, 1780, as a Volunteer, on board the Foudroyant 84, Capt. John Jervis, and, on 21 April, 1782, assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, after a gallant action of nearly an hour, attended, however, with no casualty to the British, of the French 74-gun ship Pégase, whoso loss, besides being seriously damaged, amounted, out of a crew of 700 men, to 80 killed and wounded. From May in the same year, until the receipt of his first commission, 1 Aug. 1794, Mr. Godwin, with intervals, served, on the West India and Home stations, in the Pigmy brig, Capt. Wm. Mitchel, Triumph 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, Flirt brig, Capt. Jas. Norman, Prudente 38, Capt. Henry Trollope, Active frigate, Capt. Edm. Nagle, and Royal George 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport. He then joined the Bellerophon 74, Capts. Wm. Hope and Lord Cranstoun, and was afterwards appointed to the Commerce de Marseilles, Capt. Child, and to the Prince George, Glory, Thunderer, and Tremendous, flag-ships, latterly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies, of Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 15 Jan. 1802, Capt. Godwin next, on 23 June, 1803, joined the Trompeuse sloop, in which he cruized off the south-west coast of Ireland until 30 Sept. 1804. Having been promoted to Post-rank on 8 of the preceding May, he was then superseded; and since that period he has not been employed. He became a Flag-Officer 17 Aug. 1840. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Goldie, Alexander Taubman

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​GOLDIE. (Commander, 1839. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Alexander Taubman Goldie, born 24 Jan. 1811, is third son of General Alex. John Goldie, of the Nunnery, Isle of Man.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Brazen 26, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, in which frigate, and in the Ganges 84, and Druid 46, Capts. Sam. Hood Inglefield and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, he served the whole of his time on the African and South American stations. He obtained his first commission 30 May, 1832; was ​afterwards appointed, 23 April, 1833, and 3 Feb. 1838, to the Volage and Andromeda 28’s, Capts. Geo. Bohun Martin, Peter Richards, and Robt. Lambert Baynes, on the Mediterranean and North America and West India stations; acquired his present rank 9 May, 1839; and, from 23 March, 1841, until 1846, was employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Goldie married, 14 July, 1841, Mary, youngest daughter of Rich. Simpson, Esq., of the Cliffe, Isle of Man, by whom he has issue two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Goldsmith, George

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​GOLDSMITH. (Captain, 1842. f-p., 18; h-p., 8)
George Goldsmith is son of John Goldsmith, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N. (1795), who served in that capacity, on board the Amazon, at Copenhagen in 1801, in the same vessel at the capture in 1806 of the 80-gun ship Marengo and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, and in the Superb 74 at Algiers, and who is now attached to the William and Mary yacht.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 June, 1821, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Martin 18, Capts. Christ. Craockenthorp Askew and Henry Eden, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he became Midshipman, 16 May, 1824, of the Phaeton 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt. While next borne on the books, from 18 Oct. 1825 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Aug. 1828, of the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, he was lent to the Royal George yacht, and served in her tenders, the Calliope and Onyx, as he did in the Royal Sovereign, when that yacht bore the flag of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence as Lord High Admiral. Mr. Goldsmith’s ensuing appointments were – 29 Sept. 1828, and 1 March and 26 Aug. 1829, to the Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, Samarang 28, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, and Madagascar again, Capts. Hon. Sir R. C. Spencer and Edm. Lyons, all on the Mediterranean station – 16 May, 1834, as Senior, to the Childers 16, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, successively employed on the south-east coast of Spain and on the African station – and in April, 1839, in a similar capacity, to the Druid 44, Capts. Henry John Spencer Churchill and Henry Smith. While in the latter ship, during the China war, we find him commanding her boats at the capture of Tycocktow, 7 Jan. 1841; also present, on 26 Feb., at the taking of the forts in the Boca Tigris; and next displaying the character, when in charge of her launch, of a judicious and gallant officer in the operations which led to the second fall of Canton. Being awarded a second promotal commission 6 May, 1841, and invested with the command, on 14 Aug. in the same year, of the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Goldsmith obtained the recommendation of Sir Wm. Parker for his further conduct at the capture of Chinghae 10 Oct. following. He was promoted for his services to the rank he now holds 16 Sept. 1842; paid the Hyacinth off on 24 of the next month; and has since been unemployed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1164, 2507, 2510.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 2388.
# A Set of Six

A SET OF SIX
BY
JOSEPH CONRAD
Les petites marionnettes Font, font, font, Trois petits tours Et puis s'en vont. —Nursery Rhyme
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# A Set of Six/Gaspar Ruiz

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# A tribute to Paul de la Garza

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A Tribute to Paul de la Garza. Source: 2006 Congressional Record, Vol. 152, Page E2010 (November 13, 2006)
HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG
of florida
in the house of representatives
Monday, November 13, 2006
Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Paul de la Garza, a hard charging newspaper reporter for The St. Petersburg Times with a generous heart of gold who died on October 29, 2006.
Many of our colleagues worked with Paul as he reported on stories affecting our national security and the health care of our country's veterans. Paul was an outstanding investigative reporter who mined his many sources to effect necessary changes in the way in which we deliver medical care at our Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. He also spent time earlier this summer in Iraq as he did extensive reporting on the war there and the role U.S. Central Command plays in managing our troops on the ground.
Paul was more than a reporter though. He was first and foremost an outstanding husband to his wife Georgia and a loving father to his two children Monica, 12, and Carlos, 11, both of whom he adopted from Mexico.
His is the story of the American dream, growing up poor in a small Texas town. He worked 40 hour weeks as a fourth grader to help out his family. Later he delivered newspapers and waited tables to put himself through college at the University of Texas. He was a reporter with the Associated Press and Chicago Tribune before becoming a regular on the front pages of The St. Petersburg Times as a reporter in the Washington and Tampa bureaus.
Following my remarks, Mr. Speaker, I would like to include tributes to Paul from The St. Petersburg Times, The Tampa Tribune and The Chicago Tribune. They speak to Paul's success as a reporter but more importantly his compassion and love for his family, his friends, and for those most in need of help.
Mr. Speaker, I knew Paul de la Garza as a reporter, but I will forever miss him as a very special friend who always kept life's priorities in order. My prayers go out to Paul's family, especially to Georgia, Monica and Carlos, as they deal with the loss of a great man, a great husband and a great father.
[From the St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 30, 2006]
Passionate Reporter "Never Met A Stranger"
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# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Ypres Tower, Rye

YPRES TOWER, RYE
TOWER of Ypres that watchest, gravely smiling, Green marsh-meadows stretching far away, With long thoughts of famous deeds beguiling March unceasing of the ages grey, Once beneath thee Swayed the seaweed, churned and foamed the sea.
Fleet of Frenchman, fleet of Spaniard thundered, Victor, vanquished, 'neath your little hill, Gaily fearless if they fled or plundered, You, who faced our foemen, face them still— Now the reeds sigh, Young lambs frolic where tall ships sailed by.
​Tower of Ypres, a little slept your glory, Lips again are busy with your name, Ypres again is famous in our story, Ypres of Flanders, wrapt in blood and flame— Here the spring song, There black ruin, hate and death and wrong.
Dear grey Sussex town, your childlike beauty, Passing price and more desired than gold, Speaks to English souls of love, and duty Faithful in the little wars of old— In our hearts still Live your dreaming fens, your bastioned hill.
Everard Owen
April, 1917.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mathias, Thomas

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​MATHIAS. (Commander, 1837. f-p., 25; h-p., 12.)
Thomas Mathias entered the Navy, 19 Nov. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Courageux 74, Capt. Philip Wilkinson, stationed in the Baltic; where, in May, 1813, 12 months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart; under whom, in the following Dec, he assisted in reducing the islands of Schouwen and Tholen. Towards the close of 1814, after having visited Madeira, in the Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he sailed for the East Indies in the Cornwallis 74 flag-ship of Sir Geo. Burlton. In Aug. 1818 (he had returned to England in Nov. 1816) he joined the Ontario 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, lying at Plymouth; and he next, between Sept. in the same year and June, 1823, served, principally as Acting Second Master and Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Slaney 20, Capts. Donat Henchy O’Brien and Henry Stanhope, Nimrod sloop, Capt. Wm. Rochfort. Brazen 26, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, and Doris frigate, Capt. Fred. Edw. Vernon (now Harcourt). The Nimrod was employed in 1822 in ​subduingsome serious riots among the keelmen on the river Tyne: the other vessels were all stationed in South America; where, on the date above mentioned, Mr. Mathias was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Tartar 42, bearing the broad-pendant of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. He was officially promoted 22 Oct. 1823; and was afterwards appointed – 23 March, 1824, again to the Doris, Capts. Vernon, Thos. Bourchier, and Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, in which vessel he returned home and was paid off in Jan. 1825 – 12 March, 1830, to the Talavera 74, Capts. Hugh Pigot, David Colby, and Thos. Brown, on the Home and Lisbon stations – and, 17 May, 1833, as First, to the Caledonia 120, commanded in the Mediterranean, part of the time a flag-ship to Sir Josias Rowley, by Capts. T. Brown and Geo. Bohun Martin. He was superseded on being advanced to his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and he was next, from 22 March, 1838, until 1843, employed in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Mathias married, first, 14 July, 1838, Emily, fourth daughter of the late Rev. John Taylor, Rector of Stainford; and (that lady dying 19 Feb. 1839), secondly, in 1840, Lydia Charlotte, eldest daughter of R. Moyle, Esq., of Penzance, Cornwall. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mathison, Charles Mitchell

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​MATHISON. (Commander, 1843.)
Charles Mitchell Mathison entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1819; passed his examination in 1825; and was made Lieutenant, 12 May, 1827, into the Alacrity 10, Capt. Geo. Jas. Hope Johnstone, on the Mediterranean station. His succeeding appointments were – 12 March, 1830, to the Scylla 18, Capts. John Hindmarsh and Hon. Geo. Grey, also in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in the early part of 1834 – 31 Jan. 1835, as a Supernumerary, to the Dublin 50, Capt. Chas. Hope, fitting at Plymouth – 10 April, 1835, 2 Nov. 1836, and 18 May, 1837, to the Barham 50, Thunderer 84, and. Minden 72, Capts. Armar Lowry Corry, Wm. Furlong Wise, and Alex. Renton Sharpe, all in the Mediterranean, where he remained until the commencement of 1840 – 20 Aug. 1841, to the Malabar 72, Capt. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, on the South American station – and, 2 Jan. 1843, to the St. Vincent 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth. He attained the rank he now holds 25 Sept. in the latter year; and since 28 Jan. 1847 has been in command of the Mariner 16, on the coast of Africa.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Matson, George William

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​MATSON. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 22; h-p., 20.)
George William Matson was born 10 Aug. 1794.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 June, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Glory 98, Capt. Sam. Warren, and on 22 July following was present, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action with the combined squadrons of France and Spain off Cape Finisterre. Quitting the Glory in July, 1806, he was next, until March, 1814, employed, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the Sampson 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Stirling, Diadem 64, Bellerophon 74, and President 38, all commanded (the two former as flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Stirling and Gardner) by Capt. Sam. Warren, Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Biokerton, Ardent 64, Capt. John Cochet, North Star 20, Capt. Thos. Coe, Shark sloop, Capt. John Gore, and Argo 44, Capts. Cornelius Quinton and Wm. Fothergill. He served in the Diadem at the reduction of Monte Video in Feb. 1807; assisted, 7 July, 1809, in the boats of the Bellerophon and other ships, at the capture of a Russian flotilla and convoy in the Baltic (an exploit more particularly alluded to in our memoir of Capt. Chas. Allen); and was present, in the President, at the taking of Java in Sept. 1811. On 25 March, 1814, at which time he was serving in the Argo in the West Indies, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capts. Pitt Burnaby Greene and Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. He obtained official promotion 1 Feb. 1815; and was afterwards appointed – 29 April, 1815, to the gun-boat service at Deal – 5 Nov. following, to the Harrier sloop, Capt. Sir Chas. Thos. Jones, on the Halifax station, where he continued, the last two years and a half as First-Lieutenant, until the close of 1818 – about Dec. 1820, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Sophie 18, Capts. Geo. French, Robt. Graham Dunlop, and Geo. Fred. Ryves, fitting for the East Indies, whence he invalided 28 Aug. 1823 – 14 Sept. 1824, again as Senior, to the Esk 20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, whom he accompanied to the coast of Africa – and, 21 Nov. 1825 and 1 Nov. 1826, to the command, on that station, of the Swinger and Clinker gun-brigs. On paying the Swinger off at Portsmouth, 26 July, 1826, Lieut. Matson was presented by the crew with a dress-sword, belt, and epaulette, in token of their very great esteem. He was advanced to his present rank soon after his return to England in the Clinker (in which vessel he had effected the emancipation of 1400 slaves) 22 Oct. 1830; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Matson married, 7 Oct. 1835, Jane Newman, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Walter Yea, Esq., of Pyrland, co. Somerset, and sister of the present Sir Wm. Walter Yea, Bart. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Matson, Richard

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​MATSON. (Admiral of the Blue, 1847. f-p., 21; h-p., 43.)
Richard Matson is son of the late John Matson, Esq., Chief Justice and Governor of Dominica; uncle of Commander Henry Jas. Matson, R.N.; and cousin of Commander Geo. Wm. Matson, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1783, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Irresistible 74, bearing the broad pendant at Chatham of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond; and was afterwards, between 1786 and* Jan. 1793, employed, in the capacities of Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Solebay 32, Capt. John Holloway, Jupiter 50, Commodore Wm. Parker, Solebay again, Capt. Wm. Squire, and Hermione 32, Capt. John Hills, on the West India and Home stations. He then joined the Britannia 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Wm. Hotham in the Mediterranean; where, in the course of the same and the following year, he served on shore at the occupation ot Toulon, was publicly thanked by Sir Wm. Sidney Smith for his conduct at the destruction of the arsenal and fleet in the harbour of that place, and was present at the sieges of St. Fiorenza and Bastia. Being made Lieutenant, 15 Oct. 1794, into the Bedford 74, Capts. Davidge Gould and Augustus Montgomery, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing, under the former of those officers, in Hotham’s partial actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. After a servitude of nearly two years on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, and West India stations, in the Sybille and Daphne frigates, Capts. Edw. Cooke and Jas. Brisbane, Tamar 38, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin, and Prince of Wales 98, flagship of Vice-Admiral Henry Harvey, he was promoted, 22 Sept. 1797, to the command of the Beaver sloop, also in the West Indies; where he removed, in May, 1798, to the Cyane 18, and was posted, 22 March, 1799, into the Daphne 20. He returned to England in April, 1802; and was subsequently appointed – 2 Sept. 1807 and 9 April, 1808, to the San Ysidoro and Braave 40, lying at Plymouth – and 16 June, 1808, to the Sea Fencible service between North Shields and St. Abb’s Head. He has been on half-pay since Feb. 1810. He became a Rear-Admiral 27 May, 1825; a Vice-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; and a full Admiral 26 June, 1847. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.