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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bridge, William Henry

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​BRIDGE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Henry Bridge entered the Navy 22 March, 1823; passed his examination 20 Nov. 1830; became, in 1839, a student at the Royal Naval College; and was promoted (from the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting for the Mediterranean) to the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1841. His appointments have since been – 6 May following, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 17 Aug. in the same year, to the Southampton 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Sir Edw. Durnford King, from which he was paid off in Dec. 1842 – 19 Oct. 1843, to the Cormorant steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, with whom he served as First-Lieutenant in the Pacific – 30 May, 1845, as Additional, to the Hibernia 104, Capt. Peter Richards, lying at Portsmouth – and, 14 July, 1845, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, now attached to the Channel squadron.
Lieut. Bridge married, 6 June, 1841, Anne, only daughter of the late E. K. Piercy, Esq., of Passage West, co. Cork, and by that lady has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boys, Edward

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​BOYS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 22; h-p., 29.)
Edward Boys entered the Navy, in 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Overyssel 64, Capt. Wm. Swaffleld, on the North Sea station; joined, next, the Ethalion 38, Capt. Geo. Countess, one of Sir John Borlase Warren’s ships at the capture, in Oct. 1798, of Commodore Bompart’s squadron, consisting of Le Hoche 74, and several frigates, of whom La Bellone 36 struck to the Ethalion, after a close engagement of an hour and 54 minutes, on the coast of Ireland; became, after participating in the capture of L’Infatigable privateer, of 18 guns and 120 men. Midshipman of the Robust 74, Capts. Countess and Wm. Brown, 16 April, 1799; served, from Oct. 1800 until paid off, 26 April, 1802, as Master’s Mate in the Royal Sovereign 100, flagship, in the Channel likewise, of Sir Hen. Harvey and, in June following, joined the Phoebe 36, Capts. Shepheord and Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, on the Mediterranean station. He subsequently, in 1803, ​commanded one of the boats of that frigate in a disastrous attack on two French privateers off Civita Vecchia, when the former were repulsed, with the loss of 8 killed and wounded; and, on 4 Aug. in the same year, while prize-master of a settee, one of two at the taking of which he had a few days previously assisted, he was captured by a French squadron. On escaping from captivity, 10 May, 1809, Mr. Boys was immediately allowed to pass his examination, and, in a few days afterwards, the 25th, was appointed liieutenant of the Arachne 18, Capts. Sam. Chambers and Chas. Hope Watson, in which sloop, after attending the expedition to the Walcheren, he proceeded to the West Indies, where for a short period he officiated as Acting-Commander. His subsequent appointments, as Lieutenant, were, in 1813-14, to the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, Queen 74, Capt. Lord John Colville, and Venerable 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, all likewise stationed in the West Indies. He was confirmed in the command of the Dunira of 18 guns, 8 July, 1814, but in Sept. following was placed on half-pay, and has not since been afloat. He was latterly employed, from 16 Sept. 1837 until the close of 1841, as Superintendent of the Dockyard at Deal.
He is married, and has a second son, Henry, a Lieut. R.N. His third son, Richard, a young officer of the greatest promise, was killed in the boats of H.M.S. Fantome, during an affray with some pirates on the coast of Barbary, 12 May, 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyd, David

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​BOYD. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
David Boyd entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boston, of 38 guns and 204 men, Capt. Geo. Wm. Augustus Courtenay, and on 31 July following, when off New Jersey, participated, as Midshipman, in a close-fought action of two hours with the French frigate Embuscade, of 38 guns and 327 men, which terminated in a loss to the British of 10 men, including their Captain, killed, and 24 wounded, and to the enemy of 50 killed and wounded. He continued thenceforward to serve with Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris in the same ship, and the Lively 32, until wrecked on Rota Point, near Cadiz, 12 April, 1798. We then find him joining the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Earl St. Vincent, by whom, in the following Oct., he was promoted into the Bellerophon 74, Capt. Hen. D’Esterre Darby, employed in the Mediterranean. Being officially promoted on 30 May, 1800, and appointed with Capt. Darby to the Spencer 74, Mr. Boyd, in July, 1801, took part in Sir Jas. Saumarez’s actions off Algesiras and Cadiz. His subsequent appointments were – 9 Nov. 1803, to the Franchise 38, Capt. Hon. John Murray – in 1804-5-6) to the Theseus, Hercule, and Veteran, flag-ships on the Jamaica station of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres – next, to the command of the Veteran’s tender, the Gracieuse schooner, in which, when in company with another vessel, he captured, after a running fight, the Spanish privater Juliana, of 5 guns and 83 men, 27 Dec. 1807 – 12 March, 1808, and 28 July, 1813, to the command, on the West India and North American stations, of the Firefly and St. Lawrence schooners – and, 1 Oct. 1814, to the Acting-command of the Alban sloop. He was confirmed to the latter vessel 7 Feb. 1815, but went on half-pay in the following Sept., and has not since been employed.
Commander Boyd is Senior of 1815. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyle, Alexander

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​BOYLE. (Commander, 1842.)
Alexander Boyle, born 9 March, 1810, is second son of the Right Hon. David Boyle, of Shewalton, co. Ayr, Lord Justice-General and President of the Court of Session, in Scotland, by Elizabeth Montgomerie, niece of Hugh, 12th Earl of Eglinton; brother of Patrick Boyle, Esq., principal Clerk of the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, and of Lieut. Wm. Boyle, of the 15th Foot; brother-in-law of Sir Chas. Dalrymple Ferguson, Bart.; nephew of the late John Rouett Smollett, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red; and cousin of the present Earl of Glasgow, Lieut. R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 5 Oct. 1830. He joined, 24 June, 1832, the Champion 18, Capts. Hon. Arthur Duncombe and Robt. Fair, under whom he served for three years in the Mediterranean, North America, and West Indies; was afterwards employed, from 15 Sept. 1836, until the close of 1839, in the Pique 36, Capts. Hon. Hen. John Rous and Edw. Boxer, on the Lisbon and former stations; and became, 8 Sept. 1841, First of the North Star 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, lying at Portsmouth, where he removed, 2 Oct. following, in the same capacity, to the Queen 110, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Owen. He was advanced to his present rank 7 Feb. 1842; and since 27 Dec. 1845, has been in command of the Thunderbolt steam-sloop, at the Cape of Good Hope.
Commander Boyle appears to have been for some time a student at the R.N. College. He married, 2 July, 1844, Agnes, youngest daughter of Jas. Walker, Esq., of Great George Street, Westminster.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyes, Henry

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​BOYES. (Captain, 1842. f-p., 19; h-p., 32.)
Henry Boyes entered the Navy, 1 May, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Lion 64, Capts. Edm. Crawley, Hen. Inman, Chas. Cobb, and Manley Dixon, and soon afterwards attained the rating of Midshipman. Under the last-named officer he took ​part, 15 July, 1798, In a brilliant action, off Carthagena, between the Lion and four Spanish frigates of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender of one of the latter, the Santa Dorotea; and, on 31 March, 1800, we believe he further assisted, in company with the Penelope and Foudroyant, at the capture, after a tremendous conflict, in which the Lion had 8 men killed and 38 wounded, of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, having Rear-Admiral Decrès on board. He was then transferred with Capt. Dixon to the Généreux 74, and from that ship, in Nov. following, to the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, with whom, after serving under the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton at the blockade of Alexandria, he was taken prisoner in a desperate engagement, of more than an hour’s duration, which rendered the Swiftsure a prize-wreck to Rear-Admiral Ganteaume’s squadron of 4 line-of-battle ships, 24 June, 1801. On regaining his liberty, Mr. Boyes, in June, 1802, joined the Kent 74, bearing the flag on the Mediterranean station of Sir R. Bickerton, from whom he received, 1 Oct. following, an order to act as his Flag-Lieutenant, in which rank he was confirmed 14 Jan. 1803. After accompanying the same officer, in a similar capacity, into the Royal Sovereign 100, and Queen 98, he was successively appointed – 29 Oct. 1805, to the Fame 74, Capts. Graham Moore and Bich. Hen. Alex. Bennett, employed in the West Indies, off Newfoundland, and in the Channel, from which ship he invalided in Jan. 1806 – 2 May, 1808, to the Statira 46, Capt. Robt. Howe Bromley, on the Western station – 8 Aug. in the same year, to the Caledonia 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Lord Gambler, under whom he was present, 11 April, 1809, at the destruction of the French ships in Aix Boads – in May, 1811, and March, 1813, to the Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, as Flag-Lieutenant likewise to Sir Harry Neale, in the Channel – and, 3 Nov. 1813, to the Prince 98, again as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Rich. Bickerton, then Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, where he continued until the receipt of his second promotal commission, 11 May, 1815. Capt. Boyes, who remained on half-pay from that period until appointed, 30 Aug. 1841, to the Vixen steam-vessel, on the East India station, was, for his services during the operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang river in China, advanced to Post-rank 23 Dec. 1842. He is at present unemployed. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyle, Courtenay Edmund William

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​BOYLE. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 14; h-p., 20.)
Courtenay Edmund William Boyle, born 3 Aug. 1800, is eldest son of the late Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle, K.C.H., F.R.S., formerly a Commissioner of the Navy Board, who died 21 May, 1844, by Carolina Amelia, daughter of the late Wm. Poyntz, Esq., of Mingham, co. Berks. He is grandson of the seventh, and nephew of the present Earl of Cork and Orrery.
This officer entered the R.N. College 3 Sept. 1813, and embarked, 7 Sept. 1816, as a Volunteer, on board the Madagascar 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, with whom, on removing to the Maeander 38, he miraculously escaped shipwreck in Yarmouth Roads 19 Dec. following. He afterwards joined the Severn 50, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Egeria 24, Capt. Robt. Rowley, and Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres; served, from Sept. 1817 to Oct. 1820, as Midshipman, in the Glasgow 80, Capt. Hon. Anth. Maitland, on the Mediterranean station; and, after a further attachment, as Admiralty Midshipman, to the Queen Charlotte first-rater, Capt. John Baker Hay, at Portsmouth, and Royal George yacht, Capt. Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, was awarded a Lieutenant’s commission 14 Dec. 1821. He was next appointed, 25 Nov. 1822, to the Tribune 36, Capt. Gardiner Hen. Guion, with whom he returned to the Mediterranean; and, 6 Jan. 1824, to the Jupiter 60, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake at Halifax, where he continued until made Commander, 23 Dec. 1826. Capt. Boyle, whose next appointment was, 16 Aug. 1828, to the Cordelia sloop on the Mediterranean station, attained Post-rank 27 May, 1830; and has not since been afloat.
Capt. Boyle, in 1840, was nominated Groom of the Chamber to Prince Albert. He married, in Nov. 1836, Wallace, daughter of Wm. W. Ogle, Esq., of Causey Park, Northumberland. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyle, Robert Francis

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​BOYLE. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
The Honourable Robert Francis Boyle, born 6 Oct. 1818, is third son of the present Earl of Shannon, by Sarah, fourth daughter of John Hyde, Esq., of Castle Hyde. This officer passed his examination 29 July, 1839, and served, as Mate, on the East India station, in the Melville 72, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, Dido 18, Capt. Hon. Hen. Keppel, and Vixen steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Giffard. He obtained his commission 20 Sept. 1843, and was next appointed, 17 June, 1844, and 25 Sept. 1845, to the Spiteful steamer, and Serpent 16, commanded on the same station by Capts. Wm. Maitland and Wm. Nevill. Since his return to England in 1846, Mr. Boyle has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyd, John Augustus Hugh

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​BOYD. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
John Augustus Hugh Boyd entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 12 June, 1839; served, as Mate, on the Mediterranean station, in the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and Devastation and Medea steamers, Capts. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie and Fred. Warden; and, while in the former ship, was employed on shore at the taking, in 1840, of Caiffa and Tsour, on the coast of Syria, where he also beheld the fall of St. Jean d’Acre. At Caiffa, in particular, he appears to have assisted in planting the Ottoman flag on the ramparts. He obtained his commission 28 May, 1845; and, with the exception of a short attachment in the same year to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley, has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyd, John McNeill

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​BOYD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John M‘Neill Boyd entered the Navy 28 Sept. 1825; passed his examination 14 May, 1832; took part, we believe, in an expedition to the Niger; served for some time, as Senior Mate, on board the Queen 110, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington; and obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841. He rejoined the St. Vincent on 17 of the following month; and from 7 March, 1842, imtll paid off in 1846, was next employed, latterly as First-Lieutenant, in the Winchester 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy. He is at present unemployed. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyce, William Henry

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​BOYCE. (LLieut., 1805. f-p., 14; h-p., 41.)
William Henry Boyce entered the Navy, in Dec. 1792, as Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the Alcide 74, Capt. Robt. Linzee, on the Mediterranean station, where, in 1794, he served with the same officer in the Windsor Castle 98. In May, 1797, after an unemployed interval of more than two years, he became Midshipman of the Intrepid 64, Capts. R. Parker and E. Bass, and in that ship proceeded with convoy to St. Helena, He subsequently joined, in succession, the Gallant and Viper, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Hargood and Wm. Stag, lying at Portsmouth – Impregnable 98, Capt. Jonathan Faulkner, sent, in the summer of 1799, to Lisbon in charge of convoy – Glory 98, Capt. Thos. Wells, employed during the three following years in the Channel – Aurora 28, Capt. Micajah Malbon, off Newfoundland – Dreadnought 98, Capts. John Child Purvis, John Bowen, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, one of the Channel fleet in 1803-4 – and Ville de Paris 110, Capts. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin and John Whitby, also on the Home station. On 28 May, 1805, Mr. Boyce was made Lieutenant into the Mars 74, Capt. Geo. Duff, which ship, after participating in the battle of Trafalgar, he left in March, 1806. He was next employed for a few weeks in the Impress Service at Folkestone; commanded, from 15 Jan. 1808, to 24 Dec. 1811, the Bienfaisant, On the Plymouth station; and, from May to Dec. 1813, served in the Veteran 64, Lieut.-Commander Stephen Donovan, prison-ship at Portsmouth. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Boyce was presented in 1812, in consequence of a serious injury he had received in the eye, with a gratuity of 91l. 5s., but was refused a pension.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyce, William Nettleton

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​BOYCE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 20; h-p., 21.)
William Nettleton Boyce entered the Navy, 29 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kent 74, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, with whom, after removing to the Ville de Paris 110, he proceeded, in Nov. of the same year, to the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the Royal Sovereign 100. He was afterwards successively transferred – in Aug. 1808, to the Niobe 38, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, employed in the West Indies and off Havre de Grace – in Nov. 1810, into the Fortunée 36, Capt. Hen. Vansittart, on the Irish station, where he assisted in taking, 11 Oct. 1811, Le Vice-Amiral Martin, of 18 guhs and 140 men, a notorious privateer – in July, 1812, to the Stag 36, Capts. Wm. Wolrige and Phipps Hornby, cruizing off Cherbourg – and, in Jan. 1813, and April, 1814, to the Lion 64, and Medway 74, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. From 24 March, 1815, until paid off in Feb. 1816, Mr. Boyce, who had been awarded a commission on 15 Feb. in the former year, next served on the Cape station in the Harpy 16, Capt. Geo. Tyler. He obtained a command in the Coast Guard 6 May, 1834, and retained it until shortly previous to his appointment, 22 May, 1840, to the Poictiers 72, Capts. John Clavell and Wm. Hen. Shirreff, guard-ship at Chatham. Since the close of 1843 he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Boyce married, first, 19 Aug. 1818, Miss Anne Harrow, of Alton, who died 23 Jan. 1837; and, secondly, in 1838, Anne Helena, widow of Lieut. F. N. Price, R.A.
# A Maypole

Deprived of root, and branch, and rind, Yet flowers I bear of every kind: And such is my prolific power, They bloom in less than half an hour; Yet standers-by may plainly see They get no nourishment from me. My head with giddiness goes round, And yet I firmly stand my ground; All over naked I am seen, And painted like an Indian queen. No couple-beggar in the land E'er join'd such numbers hand in hand. I join'd them fairly with a ring; Nor can our parson blame the thing. And though no marriage words are spoke, They part not till the ring is broke: Yet hypocrite fanatics cry, I'm but an idol raised on high; And once a weaver in our town, A damn'd Cromwellian, knock'd me down. I lay a prisoner twenty years, And then the jovial cavaliers To their old post restored all three-- I mean the church, the king, and me.
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# A Meeting

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* A Meeting, a poem by Edwin Markham.
* A Meeting, a poem by Clark Ashton Smith.
* A Meeting, a poem by Edith Wharton.
* A Meeting, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
# A Meditation for His Mistress

"A Meditation for His Mistress" was first published in Robert Herrick's collection Hesperides in 1648.
* A Meditation for His Mistress. Alfred Pollard, ed. 1898. The Hesperides & Noble Numbers.
* A Meditation for his Mistress. Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
# A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

A HAIRDRESSER'S EXPERIENCE
IN
HIGH LIFE.
CINCINNATI:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
ELIZA POTTER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of Ohio.
* The Author's Appeal
* My Debut
* England
* America
* Saratoga
* Leaving Saratoga—Burning of the Baggage Car—Visit to New York
* Newport—The Maid's Story
* Minnie
* Natchez—New Orleans
* Cincinnati
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# A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life/Chapter 1

THE AUTHOR'S APPEAL.
It may perhaps be considered presumptive for one in my humble sphere of life to think of writing a book; but, influenced by the earnest persuasions of many ladies and gentlemen, I have at last concluded that I might just as well note down a few of my experiences for their amusement as not.
The unlettered of all ages have numbered in their ranks many with sufficient observation and intelligence to have written more entertaining books than many which have emanated from cultivated pens, had they only possessed the courage to tell what they knew in simple, plain language—could they only remember that the mouths of babes and sucklings have, in other days, perfected the praise of the mightiest. Those days may come again.
The physician writes his diary, and doubtless his means of discovering the hidden mysteries of life are great. The clergyman, whose calling inspires the deepest confidence, and into whose ear the tales of sorrow are unreservedly breathed, sends forth his diary to an eager world, and other innumerable chroniclers of fireside life have existed; but the ​hair-dresser will yield rivalship to none in this regard. If domestic bitterness and joy, and all the heart-emotions that exist, cannot be discovered by her, she defies all the rest of the world to find them out.
My avocation calls me into the upper classes of society almost exclusively; and there reign as many elements of misery as the world can produce. No one need go into alleys to hunt up wretchedness; they can find it in perfection among the rich and fashionable of every land and nation. Oh! if tesselated hearths and satin tapestries could speak, what tales of agony they might tell! If the marble statues that adorn the riches of lordly mansions could open their mouths, how would they outrival all poetry and romance in the incidents they could proclaim! and could the nuptial couch, with its silken hangings, unfold its memories, could we bear to listen to its disclosures? But nowhere do hearts betray themselves more unguardedly than in the private boudoir, where the hair-dresser's mission makes her a daily attendant. Why, then, should not the hair-dresser write, as well as the physician and clergyman? She will tell her story in simpler language; but it will be none the less truthful, none the less strange.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lawrance, George Bennett

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​LAWRANCE. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
George Bennett Lawrance is only surviving son of the late Retired Commander Geo. Bell Lawrance, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 19 June, 1829; passed his examination 6 Jan. 1836; and since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 15 Feb. 1843, has been in command, on the North America and West India station, of the Lark surveying-vessel, in which he had been previously employed for many months in the capacity of Mate.