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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, Granville Hamilton

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​WOOD. (Commander, 1846.)
Granville Hamilton Wood entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 21 June, 1832; passed his examination 22 March, 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 17 Aug. 1841, had been for some time employed as Mate in the Electra 18, Capt. Edw. Beeves Philip Mainwaring. From 23 Aug. 1841 until paid off in 1845 he served in the Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the East Indies. He attained the rank he now holds 14 Jan. 1846; and since 29 June in the same year has been in command of the Hound 8 on the African and North America and West India stations. While the Hound was fitting at Sheerness, a sailor having fallen overboard, Commander Wood, who from his cabin witnessed the accident, sprang on deck and, without taking off any of his uniform, precipitated himself into the sea and succeeded in saving the man’s life.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark, Dogs, Dagoes, and Cats

MARK, DOGS, DAGOES, AND CATS
Mark never tired telling of the Italian literary shark who unsuccessfully tried to blackmail him out of twenty francs.
"He had a peculiar grievance, that Dago," said Mark. "He vocalized to the effect that he had done me the honor to call four times at my villa and that, just as often, he came near losing the seat of his pants by the actions of my degraded dogs,who drove him off. Hence, he calculated that I owed him at least five francs per visit, on account of his trouble and the anxiety he suffered. But as I kept no dogs, neither degraded nor otherwise, my dogs couldn't have worried the man. And he wasn't on my visiting list anyhow."
"Somewhere," continued Mark, "I put on record that I know the business end of a horse very well, but I never bothered enough about dogs to make sure of their anatomy. Pussy is the animal for me. You remember my adventures in Koernerstrasse No. 7, Berlin. The women took that apartment in Slumland over my head, and lured me to approve of their choice by having two purring cats on the hearth, when I first saw the place. I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Kings in Their Birthday Suits

KINGS IN THEIR BIRTHDAY SUITS
Two things Mark Twain was especially concerned about—the success of his "Joan of Arc," which he considered his best work, and the possibility of getting King Leopold hanged.
Leopold and the Czar were his special bêtes noires. "I'd like to see these two fellows face their people naked except for their whiskers. Let them face public opinion in their birthday suits and see what will happen to them."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark's Idiomatic Gems

MARK'S IDIOMATIC GEMS
"0f course you have had no serious quarrel with the Church?" he was asked by Dr. Dryander, the former Kaiser's body chaplain.
"Oh, my, no—far from it," vowed Mark. "Such expressions as 'the duck that runs the gospel mill' and 'the boss of the doxology works who waltzed a dead 'un through handsome,' are idiomatic gems I picked up in the mining camps. They are not meant in derision.
"William was talking with my cousin. General Von Versen," added Mark, reporting the case at Mr. Phelps' office a few days afterwards—otherwise, you may be sure, he would have ordered me flayed alive, for isn't he the identical gander bossing the German gospel mill?"
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark's Human Side

MARK'S HUMAN SIDE
Susan, Jean, and Clara Clemens, papa Mark, and myself were having lots of fun at the famous Salamonski Circus in Berlin—Mark and I laughing with the children when there was nothing else to interest us. There was a girl of 16 or 17 doing a stunt on a horse. Mark said: "The poor child looks as if she had never had a square meal in her life—isn't that professional smile of hers too sad for words?" While she was doing a salto mortale, a clown ran in and dived between the horse's legs. The horse got frightened and threw the rider. Of course, the children thought this part of the program, and laughed heartily. But the girl didn't attempt to get up, and when the riding master tried to raise her, she cried and moaned, and one of her legs hung down lifeless, while the blood spurted through her white tights.
"Keep still, children," said Mark. "Don't you see the poor girl is hurt?"
A stretcher came and carried off the moaning girl and the performance proceeded as if nothing had happened. But though the children begged hard, Mark would not stay.
"Another time, not now," he insisted.
Just then a gypsy-looking, elderly woman came running from behind the scenes, looking about wildly. When her eye located the clown, she rushed up to him and hit him a ​terrible blow in the face. "You have ruined my girl. She will never be able to ride again," she cried.
"Served him right," said Mark. "I do hope the manager gets a clout on the jaw, too. For he really is the responsible guy. The clown has to get laughs, the girl has to risk her limbs, so that the manager may coin money. What a world this is, what a world! And you and I, too! I never thought of kicking myself for laughing when that poor girl broke her leg—nor did you, I bet."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark's Idea of High Art

MARK'S IDEA OF HIGH ART
"This here earth is governed like a military despoty," said Mark Twain when we were sitting outside a Ringstrasse restaurant in Vienna one afternoon. He was eyeing the procession of army officers, with pretty girls upon their arms, passing to and fro.
"And if you had the ordering of things, would your soul have meandered into one of these jackanapes in monkey jackets and corsets, and czackos and busbies and things?" inquired Susan, the wit's witty young daughter.
"No, darling, but I would have loved to live in the time of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth, the best dressed period of the world. You know I like color and flummery and all such things—I was born red-headed—maybe that accounts for my passion for the gorgeous and ornamental."
"Tell the company about the riot of colors you delight in," said Susan.
"I saw it only once," replied Mark, "and it was rather uncomfortable, even painful, to the other creature, namely, a tortoise-shell cat that accidentally had dropped into a tomato stew. As pussy tried to get out, pawing like the baby after the Ivory soap, there was a display of rainbows, spectrums, chromatics, prisms, pigments, and plain everyday paints and stains such as I have run across in a few Italian picture galleries only.
​He picked up a copy of the "New York Herald," lying on the table. "There's our friend George in New York," he said, "having more trouble with that pesky French brother-in-law of his. The little Paris fortune hunter has already cost his wife's estate fifteen or twenty million francs and—no returns outside of a few babies. Yet French brother-in-law could make a tall income if he were put to 'work right,' as they say in the wild and woolly, for he has a most tremendous eye for color effects, that chap. If he were my brother-in-law, I would starve the cuss into becoming a man-milliner, the first of the world. That's what he could be, and ought to be with clever management.
"My word," continued Mark, "you ought to see him drive in state in the Bois de Boulogne. When I first clapped eyes on his flunkies and outriders, in their liveries, rich yet soft in color effects, I almost yearned to be one of them for the sake of their fine togs."
Indeed, sensational clothes were always Mark's hobby. Hence the white suits he wore in his reclining days, and the sealskin coat, with the fur outside, that adorned him in his days of youthful glory. I am quite sure he would have gone to bed in his Oxford mantle and cap if he had had more than one of each, and the passing of his red hair was a real grievance to him, he told Gyp, the French novelist whom he called, "warm, yet not torrid."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark's Martyrdom

MARK'S MARTYRDOM
"Well, how did you like your reception in England?" Mark was asked during his last visit there.
"Overwhelming, indescribable! There are no other words for it," he said, "but let me get hold of Andy (Carnegie). His country, Scotland, used truly fiendish means for humiliating me, though I spent a whole day riding across the blamed island—couldn't do better, for the train between Edinburgh and London wouldn't, or couldn't, go slower.
"Well, at Edinburgh I crept into one of those rat-cages they call railway carriage, first class, and opened the 'Irish Times,' that I bought at the station. I kidded myself, hoping that the unfurling of that paper would promote conversation, or trouble or something, with fellow passengers. But there was only one, and he got even with me in the most awful and bloodthirsty style. Namely, he pulled out of his valise a copy of the 'Innocents,' in two volumes, and after lighting a pipe, began reading. I watched him, first out of a corner of my eye, then with the whole eye, then with the pair of them. Nothing doing—that horse thief didn't crack a single smile over the first two hundred and fifty pages.
"After luncheon—even the excellent salmon was gall and the other thing to me—Mr. Scotchman repeated his torture, heaping more red-hot coals on my mane, the insides of my ​hands and of my shoes—that is, he read the second story through likewise without as much as a squint."
And Mark got up and left without another word.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Little Boy Blue

LITTLE BOY BLUE
It has been forgotten by this time that Gene lost a son while the boy was at school in Hanover—the most promising of his boys, it was said. But at the time when the grieving father brought the body of his boy home, a great many lovers of his poetry associated the child's death with the famous "Little Boy Blue."
As a matter of fact, however, "Little Boy Blue" was not the echo of a fond parent's sorrow, but was written when all his children were flourishing. At the time Gene was simply in a sentimental mood. Maybe, too, some newspaper story he read was responsible. At any rate, "Little Boy Blue" was published and admired and beloved a year or two, or longer, before Gene went to Europe, and while all his children enjoyed good health.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Mark's Children Knew Him

MARK'S CHILDREN KNEW HIM
I congratulated Mark Twain on the fact that he had been mistaken for the great Mommsen, and, throwing out his chest, he said:
"I feel indeed flattered because somebody thought that I have the whole Roman world, with Poppaea and Nero and Augustus and all the rest, under my hat, yet, when I come to think of it, there is some difference between us two. My children know their papa, and I know Susan, Clara, and Jean. But think what happened to Mommsen the other day. He was proceeding to a bus from his residence, when an unmannerly wind carried off his hat. A boy, playing in the street, picked it up and brought it to the great man. (By the way, never run after your own hat—others will be delighted to do it. Why spoil their fun?)
"'Thank you,' said Mommsen. *I never could have recovered the hat myself.' He looked the boy over carefully, and added:
"'And a nice little boy. Do you live in the neighborhood? Whose little boy are you?'
"'Why,' said the kid, 'mamma says I am Professor Mommsen's little boy, but I never see him. He is always among the Romans, writing in a book.'
"'Bless your heart, little man,' said Mommsen. 'To-night I will surely be home early; tell your mamma, and ask her to introduce you and the other children properly.'"
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Day, John

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​DAY. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
John Day entered the Navy, 26 April, 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Stately 64, Capt. Billy Douglas, in which ship, after assisting at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, he beheld the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay, 17 Aug. 1796. He then joined the Braave, Capts. Andw. Todd and Josias Rowley; and, on next removing to the Tremendous 74, Capt. John Osborne, was, in company with the 50-gun ship Adamant, at the destruction of the French 40-gun frigate La Preneuse, off the Isle of France, 11 Dec. 1799. After an additional servitude, at the Cape, of two years, as Acting-Master of the Euphrosyne, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Wilkinson, Mr. Day returned to England in 1802; subsequently to which we find him, in 1804-5, serving, on the Home station, in the Hawk, Unité, and Royal William. Towards the ​close of the latter year he Bailed for Cadiz with Sir John Duckworth in the Superb 74; and, on proceeding soon afterwards to the West Indies in the Canopus 80, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Louis, bore a part in the battle off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. During the next six months Mr. Day officiated as Acting-Lieutenant of the Canopus; but at the end of that period, being unconfirmed by the Admiralty, he became Master’s Mate of the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, under whom he witnessed Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, and was present at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. In the following April he joined the Glatton 50, Capts. Thos. Seccombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh; and, after again serving as Acting-Lieutenant in that ship for the space of five months, was at length formally promoted, by commission dated 21 Dec. 1808. From 22 May, 1809, until 6 March, 1813, he next served, still on the Mediterranean station, as First of the Wizard 18, under the command of various officers. His last war-appointment was, on 17 Sept. 1813, to the Andromeda 22, Capt. Rich. Arthur, employed off Gibraltar and Lisbon, whence he returned home early in 1815. He subsequently, in 1841-2, commanded the Pike steamer; and on 3 Nov. 1846 accepted the rank he now holds.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Ros, John Frederick Fitzgerald

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​DE ROS, F.R.S. (Captain, 1835. f-p., 14; h-p., 1.5.)
The Honourable John Frederick Fitzgerald De Ros, born 6 March, 1804, at Boyle Farm, co. Surrey, is second surviving son of the late Lord Henry Fitzgerald (second son of James, first Duke of Leinster), by Charlotte Baroness De Ros; and only brother of the present Lord De Ros. An elder brother, Arthur John Hill De Ros, died a Lieut.Colonel in the Army, in the 33rd year of his age, 23 Feb. 1826.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 March, 1818, as Midshipman, on board the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Cork. He afterwards served, under Capts. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer and Hon. Fred. Spencer, in the Ganymede 26, Owen Glendower 42, Alacrity 10, and Créole 32, on the Mediterranean and South American stations. On 30 May, 1825, he obtained a Lieutenancy in the Jupiter 50, flag-ship at Halifax of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake; subsequently to which he joined – 25 June, 1827, the Royal Sovereign yacht, in which he accompanied H.R.H. the Lord High Admiral, as Flag-Lieutenant, in his first visit to the out-ports – and, 14 Aug. following, the Undaunted 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. Assuming the rank of Commander 24 Jan. 1828, Capt. De Ros was next appointed, 14 May, 1831, to the Algerine 10, on the South American station; where he succeeded, at Cape Frio, in recovering a considerable portion of the treasure from the wreck of H.M. late ship Thetis, and for that service received the warm thanks of the Commander-in-Chief. The Algerine was paid off 3 Dec. 1833. Since that period Capt. De Ros, who acquired Post-rank 7 Feb. 1835, has not been afloat.
Capt. De Ros published, in 1827, a Narrative of Travels made by him in the United States and Canada, together with Observations on the Maritime Resources of North America, and the state of the Dockyards and Navy. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dayman, Joseph

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​DAYMAN. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Joseph Dayman is son of the late Rev. Chas. Dayman, Rector of Great Tew, co. Oxford.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Oct. 1831; and passed his examination 1 1 May, 1838. In 1839 he was appointed Mate of the Erebus bomb, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross; and, on his return home from a four years’ explorative mission to the Antarctic Seas, he was promoted to the rank he now holds 4 Oct. 1843. He was next employed in the survey of the coast of Ireland, from 23 July, 1845, until the close of 1846, as Lieutenant of the Tartarus steamer, Capt. Jas. Wolfe.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Courcy, Michael

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​DE COURCY. (Commander, 1842.)
Michael De Courcy is eldest son of the late Capt. Nevinson De Courcy, R.N., K.T.S., by Catherine, daughter of Wm. Blennerhasset, Esq.; brother of First Lieut. Nevinson Willoughby De Courcy, R.M.; grandson of the late Hon, Michael De Couroy, Admiral of the Blue, who died in 1824; and cousin of the present Lord Kingsale.
This officer entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1824; passed his examinatiun in 1830; and, obtaining his commission 28 June, 1838, was appointed, 20 Sept. following, to the Racer 16, Capts. Geo. Byng and Thos. Harvey, on the North America and West India station. He assumed command, 4 March, 1841, of the Charybdis brigantine; and, on 12 Feb. 1842, was promoted to his present rank for his extraordinary gallantry at the capture of the Carthagenian squadron, when protecting the British interests in South America. Since 13 July, 1844, Commander De Courcy has been employed in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Sausmarez, Philip

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​DE SAUSMAREZ. (Commander, 1845. f-p. 14; h-p., 10.)
Philip De Sausmarez entered the Navy, 18 June, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 78, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, flag-ship of Sir Harry Neale, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, where he continued until May, 1827 – serving intermediately, as Midshipman, in the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Robt. Stuart, and Algerine 10, Capt. Wemyss. In March, 1828, after an interim attachment, at Portsmouth and Plymouth, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, and Britannia 120, flag-ship of the Earl of Northesk, he returned to the former station, on board the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons; and in the following Oct., by the erection of batteries and otherwise, he co-operated with the French in the reduction of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. Having passed his examination 11 Aug. 1829, Mr. De Sausmarez, who left the Blonde in Sept. 1830, was promoted, 3 Oct, 1831, to a Lieutenancy in the Pelorus 18, Capt. Rich. Meredith, stationed off the coast of Africa. We subsequently find him appointed – 18 June and 13 Sept. 1834, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley, and Endymion 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, respectively employed on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations – and, 16 Nov. 1841, after an interval of exactly five years’ half-pay, to the Belleisle troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome. Previously to the latter vessel being put out of commission in Sept. 1843, he appears to have been present during the operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1842, and at the pacification of Nanking. Commander De Sausmarez assumed his present rank 25 July, 1845. He has not since been employed.
He married, 30 April, 1840, Jane Maria, only child of the late Lieut.-Colonel F. Barlow, of H.M. 61st, who fell at Salamanca at the head of his regiment. By that lady he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Day, George Fiott

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​DAY. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
George Fiott Day passed his examination 10 Nov. 1838; and from 1839, until the receipt of his commission, 13 Dec. 1845, served in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Benbow 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, and of the Queen 110, and Formidable 84, flag-ships of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. While in the Benbow, he commanded that ship’s barge, and had 4 men wounded in the attack on the town of Tortosa, 25 Sept. 1840, and was present at the ensuing bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He served for a few months after his promotion in the Bittern 16, Capt. Thos. Hope, off the coast of Africa; but is at present on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Lisle, Henry

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​DE LISLE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Henry De Lisle passed his examination 23 May, 1837; served for some time as Mate, in the Mediterranean, of the Phoenix and Hecla steam-vessels, Capts. John Richardson and John Duffill; obtained his commission 19 July, 1844; was appointed Additional-Lieutenant, soon afterwards, of the Alfred 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis, on the Brazilian station; and, since 21 Jan. 1845, has been employed in the Pacific, as Lieutenant of the Frolic 16, Capt. Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Roverea, Frederick Nicholas

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​DE ROVEREA. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Frederick Nicholas De Roverea died about the early part of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1806, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean. Between Aug. 1808 and June, 1814, he served, under Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, in the Montagu and Repulse 74’s; in the former of which ships he assisted at the reduction, in April, 1810, of the island of Sta. Maura, where the Montagu lost 4 men killed and 21 wounded. After a further attachment to the Salvador del Mundo, Impregnable, and St. George, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, Mr. De Roverea (who, while in the Montagu and Repulse, had also seen much active boat-service) obtained a Lieutenant’s commission, dated 24 Feb. 1815. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Sausmarez, Durell

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​DE SAUSMAREZ. (Commander, 1830)
Durell De Sausmarez entered the Navy 6 April, 1812; and obtained his first commission 10 May, 1824. He was afterwards appointed – 13 Aug. following, to the Britannia 120, as. Flag-Lieutenant to Jas. Sausmarez, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth and, 1 Feb. 1828, and 25 Jan. 1830, to the Alligator and Ariadne frigates, Capts. Chas. Philip Yorke and Geo. Bennie, both employed on Particular Service. He assumed his present rank on 23 July in the latter year; and, from 23 Nov. following until Feb. 1832, when he invalided home from New South Wales, commanded the Zebra sloop. He has since then been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/De Blaquiere, William Barnard

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​DE BLAQUIERE. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
The Honourable William Barnard De Blaquiere, born 16 Dec. 1814, is second and youngest son of Lord De Blaquiere, by Lady Harriet Townshend, daughter of George first Marquess Townshend; brother of the Hon. John De Blaquiere, a ​Captain in the 3rd West India Regt.; and first cousin of the Earl of Orkney.
Thia officer passed his examination 3 Jan. 1838; and was afterwards employed, as Mate, in the Wellesley 72, bearing the broad pendant in the East Indies of Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and the Howe and Caledonia, flag-ships in the Mediterranean and at Devonvort of Sir Fras. Mason and Sir David Milne. He obtained his commission 23 Sept. 1844; and has been actively employed, since 4 Dec. in the same year, as Gunnery Lieutenant of the Eagle 50, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin, on the American and West India stations.
# A Selection of Hymns, Used in the Parish Church, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Ulverston/Hymn 113

HYMN 113.
The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast the wintry sky; Out of the depths to Thee we call; Our fears are great, our strength is small.
Oh! gracious God, Thy part perform, And guide and guard us through the storm, Defend us from each threat'ning ill, Control the waves, say "peace, be still!"
Amidst the raging of the sea, Our souls still hang their hope on Thee; Thy constant love and faithful care Support, and save us from despair.