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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dicken, Henry Perry

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​DICKEN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 28; h-p., 11.)
Henry Perry Dicken entered the Navy, 1 June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats, in which he witnessed the ensuing embarkation from Nyeborg of the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot army – was frozen up a whole winter at Gottenborg – and assisted at the siege of Flushing in Aug. 1809. After an attachment of four months to the Puissant 74, guard-ship at Portsmouth, he removed, in March, 1810, to the Kent 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, on the Lisbon station. In Aug. following he rejoined Sir R. G. Keats, as Midshipman, in the Milford 74; from which ship, after intermediately serving with the flotilla at the siege of Cadiz, he followed the same officer, in July, 1811, into the Hibernia 110, on the Mediterranean station; where; during a subsequent employment of two years in the Franchise 36, Capt. Rich. Buck, he co-operated much with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Mr. Dicken, whom we next find officiating as Admiralty Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and of the Bellerophon 74, and Salisbury 50, flag-ships of his patron. Sir R. G. Keats, obtained his commission 7 March, 1815. His appointments have since been – 14 Sept. 1815, to the Hazard 16, Capt. John Cookesley, off Newfoundland – 13 Sept. 1816, to the Tiber 46, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, in the Channel – 31 Jan; 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 50, and Ramillies 74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until 1825 – and, 11 Jan. 1830, 18 July, 1843, and 8 April, 1845, to the command of the Reindeer, Linnet, and Seagull packets, on the Falmouth station, in the last-mentioned of which he is at present employed.
Lieut. Dicken married, in June, 1833, Emily, youngest daughter of Henry Williams, Esq., of Falmouth, by whom he has issue. Agent- – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dick, Thomas

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​DICK. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
Thomas Dick entered the Navy, 21 Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board L’Aigle frigate, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield; and, after assisting at the reduction of Corsica, removed, in June, 1794, to the Bedford 74, Capts. Robt. Mann and Davidge Gould, under the latter of whom we find him present in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. In Sept. following he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Mann, on board the Windsor Castle 98, also in the Mediterranean, where he continued until Dec. 1796; from which period he afterwards served, until 1799, in the Nassau 64, and Monarch 74, flag-ships in the North Sea of Vice-Admiral Rich. Onslow; under whom, in the Monarch, he bore a part in the battle off Camperdown, 11 Oct. 1797. On 11 March, 1799, Mr. Dick was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Nemesis 98, Capt. Thos. Baker; subsequently to which he joined, 11 Oct. following, the Melpomene 44 Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, and witnessed the capture, 5 April, 1800, of the island of Goree. While on the African station, he assumed command, on the night of 3 Jan. 1801, of five boats, manned with 97 volunteers , for the purpose of surprising a corvette of 18 guns, and an armed schooner, anchored within the bar off Senegal. After a desperate struggle of 20 minutes, in which 11 men were killed, 18 wounded, and two boats sunk, Lieut. Dick and his party gallantly carried the corvette, Le Sénégal, which they eventually destroyed under a heavy fire of grape and musketry from the batteries. With intermissions, the subject of this sketch continued to serve under Sir Chas. Hamilton in the Illustrious 74, Téméraire 98, and Tonnant 80, on the Channel and Cadiz stations, until July, 1810. On being promoted to the rank of Commander 21 Oct. following, he joined the Thisbe 28, bearing the flag of the same officer, and afterwards of the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, in the River Thames, where he remained until posted 7 June, 1814. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Dick married, 20 June, 1820, Miss Katherine Martyr. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dewes, George Bourchier

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​DEWES. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Bourchier Dewes entered the Navy 9 Jan. 1824; and passed his examination in 1831. While afterwards attached, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias, he was recommended to particular notice for his conduct in command of a boat at the storming and destruction of a 20-gun battery at the back of the island of Anunghoy, during the Chinese ​campaign, 23 Feb. 1841. He further landed at the storming, on 27 of the same month, of the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach, where 54 pieces of cannon were taken – was present in the boats, on 13 March, at the capture of several rafts, and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton took a similar part in the ensuing capture of that city – and again commanded a boat at the destruction of a fleet of more than 30 war-junks and fishing-vessels, 22 May. Mr. Dewes, who was rewarded for these services by a commission dated 8 June, 1841, has been employed in the East Indies since 9 Sept. 1844, as Lieutenant of the Espiègle 12, Capt. Thos. Pickering Thompson.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1497.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1501, 1503, 1505, 2511.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dick, John Goodrich

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​DICK. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 6.)
John Goodrich Dick, born 22 Nov. 1806, is eldest son of Vice-Admiral John Dick.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 Oct. 1819, and embarked, 9 Oct. 1821, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, fitting at Portsmouth. On being soon after transferred to the Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Grant, he proceeded to the East Indies, where he bore a part in the Burmese war in 1824-5, and was present, on 11 May in the former year, at the capture of Rangoon. In Nov. 1825, he next joined the Leven 24, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, under whom, and Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal of the Baracouta surveying-tender, he served, off the coast of Africa, until a few days after his examination for Lieutenant, which took place 6 Sept. 1826. From the following Dec. until the receipt of his first commission, 28 March, 1831, Mr. Dick appears to have been further employed, as Mate, and latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Spartiate 78, Capt. Fred. Warren, Falcon tender, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Fred. Lapidge, Ocean 80, Capt. Patrick Campbell, Wasp 18, Capts. Thos. Edw. Hoste and Brunswick Popham, and Philomel 10, Capt. Hugh ​Berners, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. We subsequently find him appointed – 17 Aug. 1831, to the Britannia 120, Capts. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone and Peter Rainier – 21 Oct. 1832, to the Stag 46, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, from which ship he invalided in consequence of a severe fracture of the leg, 9 Sept. 1833 – 19 July, 1834, to the North Star 28, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt – 4 July, 1835, to the Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond – 12 Oct. 1835, to the Blonde 46, Commodore Fras. Mason – 29 March, 1838, as Senior Lieutenant, to the Andromache 28, Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes – 13 May, 1839, to the Revenge 78, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave – 1 Nov. 1839, to the Howe 120, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Robt. Waller Otway, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore – and, 1 Oct. 1840, to the Britannia 120, bearing the Flag of Sir John Ommanney. In those ships, Mr. Dick served on the Home, Lisbon, South American, North America and West India, and Mediterranean stations. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and since 1 July, 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Dick married, 7 Dec. 1843, Harriet, only daughter of the Rev. Chas. Baker, Vicar of Tilmanstone, co. Kent, sister of Lieut. Chas. Hougham Baker, R.N., and niece of Vice-Admiral the late Sir Thos. Baker, K.C.B., by whom he has issue one son. and two daughters.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dickens, Samuel Trevor (b)

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​DICKENS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Samuel Trevor Dickens passed his examination 7 Feb. 1843; and served, as Mate, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, in the St. Vincent 120, ​flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir David Milne, Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lookyer, and Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. He obtained his commission 5 Aug. 1846; and, since 11 March, 1847, has been employed on Particular Service, as First of the Rattler steam-sloop, Capt. Rich. Moorman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dickens, Samuel Trevor (a)

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​DICKENS. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Samuel Trevor Dickens, born 10 Feb. 1788, is son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Sam. Dickens, Col.-Commandant, Royal Engineers.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Guerrier 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed in the Mediterranean; where, and on the Home station, he afterwards, until April, 1806, served; part of the time as Midshipman, on board the Courageux and Venerable 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Hood, Champion 24, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Harpy 18, Capt. Edm. Heywood, Crescent 36, Capt. Lord W. Stuart, and Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent. He then, as Acting-Lieutenant of the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack, proceeded to the West Indies, where he was confirmed by commission dated 4 Aug. 1806. In Oct. 1807, Mr. Dickens joined the Eclipse 18, commanded off the coast of Portugal by Capt. G. A. Creyke; after which he appears to have been borne, from Feb. 1809, to Feb. 1812, on the books of the Trident 64, and Canopus 80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admirals Sir Alex. Ball and Chas. Boyles. During that period he held the acting command, from May to Sept. 1809, of the Redwing 18, in the Adriatic, and, for some time, in 1811, of the Cephalus sloop, and Cerberus frigate, in the latter of which he conducted for several weeks the blockade of Corfu in face of a very superior force. His next appointment was, on 8 May, 1813, to the Ocean 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, with whom he remained until appointed by Sir_ Edw. Pellew to the command, 24 Feb. 1814, of the Badger sloop. Commander Dickens, whose promotion obtained official sanction 5 April following. Invalided home on 17 Dec. in the same year; and has since been on half-pay.
He married, 9 Sept. 1819, Isabella, second daughter of Benj. Craven, Esq., of Colchester, and has issue five sons and one daughter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dick, John

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​DICK, K.C. (Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 21; h-p., 41.)
John Dick, born at Rochester, is son of the late Jas. Dick, Esq., who passed his life in the civil department of the Navy; and cousin of Sir Robt. Keith Dick, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1785, as a Volunteer, on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, under whom, and Capts. Skeffington Lutwidge and Thos. West, of the Scipio and Dictator, he served, in the River Medway, until 1790. He then became Midshipman of the Trusty 50, Capt. John Drew, flag-ship in the West Indies of Sir John Laforey; removed, in Aug. 1793, to the Carysfort 28, Capt. Fras. Laforey, in the North Sea; and after a further servitude of six months in the Channel, on board the Phaeton 38, Capt. Andrew Snape Douglas, and Nonsuch 64, Capt. Billy Douglas, was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 4 Aug. 1794, in the Victorious 74, Capt. John Brown. From 17 March, 17S5, until promoted to the command, 28 June, 1796, of the Bulldog sloop, he again served with Sir John Laforey in the West Indies on board L’Aimable 32, the Beaulieu 40, and the Majestic 74. We next, during the summer of 1797, find him commanding a division of gun-boats for the suppression of the mutiny at the Nore; after which he successively joined, 4 June, 1798, and 11 Aug. 1800, the Discovery bomb, and Cynthia 18. While in the former vessel Capt. Dick attended the expedition to the Helder in 1799, where he covered the landing of the troops, and served on shore with the army till the final evacuation of Holland. For his meritorious vigilance, in the Cynthia, as senior officer of the squadron employed at the blockade of Alexandria, and in co-operating with the Turks at the capture of Damietta, he was knighted by Sultan Selim, and invested with the insignia of a K.C. of the third class, 8 Oct. 1801. Attaining Post-rank, April, 1802, Capt. Dick was next appointed, 24 Nov. 1804, to the Jamaica 24, from the command of which ship, after an intermediate employment on the Newfoundland and Channel stations, he was transferred, in May, 1807, to that of the Penelope 36. After conveying Major-Gen. Sir Geo. Prevost to Barbadoes, and escorting thither four chosen regiments destined to assist at the reduction of Martinique, he proceeded to the latter island, and acquired the particular thanks of Capt. Philip Beaver, the commanding officer, for his services in superintending the disembarkation of the troops, Jan. 1809. He afterwards landed with a party of seamen, and succeeded in securing Fort Trinité and other works on the windward side of the island. Capt. Dick, who left the Penelope 26 Sept. 1810, and subsequently commanded the Donegal 78, in the Mediterranean, from 22 July, 1830, until the summer of 1832, attained flag-rank 10 Jan. 1837. His last promotion took place 9 Nov. 1846.
The Vice-Admiral, now a widower, married Augusta, daughter of Bartlet Goodrich, of Saling Grove, co. Essex, by whom he had, with other issue, two sons, John Goodrich, a Commander R.N., and another, Francis, a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Irving, Edward

​Irving, Edward (1792-1834).—Theologian and orator, b. at Annan, Dumfriesshire, and ed. at Edin. Univ., for some years thereafter was engaged in teaching at Kirkcaldy. Ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland he became, in 1819, assistant to Dr. Chalmers in Glasgow, after which he went to the Scotch Church in Hatton Gardens, London, where he had an almost unprecedented popularity, his admirers including De Quincey, Coleridge, Canning, Scott, and others. The effect of his spoken oratory is not preserved in his writings, and was no doubt in a considerable degree due to his striking appearance and fine voice. He is described as "a tall, athletic man, with dark, sallow complexion and commanding features; long, glossy black hair, and an obvious squint." Soon after removing to a new church in Regent Square he began to develop his views relative to the near approach of the Second Advent; and his Homilies on the Sacraments involved him in a charge of heretical views on the person of Christ, which resulted in his ejection from his church, and ultimately in his deposition from the ministry. Thereafter his views as to the revival, as in the early Church, of the gifts of healing and of tongues, to which, however, he made no personal claim, underwent rapid development, and resulted in the founding of a new communion, the Catholic Apostolic Church, the adherents of which are commonly known as "Irvingites." Whether right or mistaken in his views there can be no doubt of the personal sincerity and nobility of the man. His pub. writings include For the Oracles of God, For Judgment to Come, and The Last Days, and contain many passages of majestic eloquence.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/James I., King of Scotland

​James I., King of Scotland (1394-1437).—Poet, the third s. of Robert III., was b. at Dunfermline. In 1406 he was sent for safety and education to France, but on the voyage was taken prisoner by an English ship, and conveyed to England, where until 1824 he remained confined in various places, but chiefly in the Tower of London. He was then ransomed and, after his marriage to Lady Jane or Joan Beaufort, dau. of the Duke of Somerset, and the heroine of The King's Quhair (or Book), crowned at Scone. While in England he had been carefully ed., and on his return to his native country endeavoured to reduce its turbulent nobility to due subjection, and to introduce various reforms. His efforts, however, which do not appear to have been always marked by prudence, ended disastrously in his assassination in the monastery of the Black Friars, Perth, in February, 1437. J. was a man of great natural capacity both intellectual and practical—an ardent student and a poet of no mean order. In addition to The King's Quhair, one of the finest love poems in existence, and A Ballad of Good Counsel, which are very generally attributed to him, he has been more doubtfully credited with Peeblis to the Play and Christis Kirke on the Greene.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Jefferies, Richard

​Jefferies, Richard (1848-1887).—Naturalist and novelist, s. of a farmer, was b. at Swindon, Wilts. He began his literary career on the staff of a local newspaper, and first attracted attention by a letter in the Times on the Wiltshire labourer. Thereafter he wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, in which appeared his Gamekeeper at Home, and Wild Life in a Southern County (1879), both afterwards repub. Both these works are full of minute observation and vivid description of country life. They were followed by The Amateur Poacher (1880), Wood Magic (1881), Round about a Great Estate (1881), The Open Air (1885), and others on similar subjects. Among his novels are Bevis, in which he draws on his own childish memories, and After London, or Wild England (1885), a romance of the future, when London has ceased to exist. The Story of My Heart (1883) is an idealised picture of his inner life. J. d. after a painful illness, which lasted for six years. In his own line, that of depicting with an intense sense for nature all the elements of country and wild life, vegetable and animal, surviving in the face of modern civilisation, he has had few equals. Life by E. Thomas.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Irving, Washington

​Irving, Washington (1783-1859).—Essayist and historian, b. in New York, s. of William I. who had emigrated from Scotland. He was in his youth delicate, and his education was somewhat desultory, but his f. had a fine library, of which he had the run, and he was an omnivorous reader. In 1799 he entered a law office, but a threatening of consumption led to his going, in 1804, on a European tour in search of health. On his return in 1806 he was admitted to the Bar. He did not, however, prosecute law, but joined his brothers in business as a sleeping partner, while he devoted himself to literature. In 1807 he conducted Salmagundi, an amusing miscellany, and in 1809 appeared A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a burlesque upon the old Dutch settlers, which has become a classic in America. He made in 1815 a second visit to Europe, from which he did not return for 17 years. In England he was welcomed by Thomas Campbell, the poet, who introduced him to Scott, whom he visited at Abbotsford in 1817. The following year the firm with which he was connected failed, and he had to look to literature for a livelihood. He produced The Sketch-Book (1819), which was, through the influence of Scott, accepted by ​Murray, and had a great success on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1822 he went to Paris, where he began Bracebridge Hall, followed in 1824 by Tales of a Traveller. In 1826 Everett, the American minister at Madrid, invited him to come and assist him by making translations relative to Columbus, which opened up to him a new field hitherto little cultivated. The result was a series of fascinating historical and romantic works, beginning with History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus (1828), and including The Conquest of Granada (1829), Voyages of the Companions of Columbus (1831), The Alhambra (1832), Legends of the Conquest of Spain (1835), and Mahomet and his Successors (1849). Meanwhile he had returned to England in 1829, and to America in 1832. In 1842 he was appointed Minister to Spain, and in 1846 he finally returned to America. In the same year he pub. a Life of Goldsmith, and his great work, the Life of Washington, came out 1855-59, Wolfert's Roost, a collection of tales and essays, appeared in 1855. I. was never m.: in his youth he had been engaged to a girl who d., and whose memory he faithfully cherished. His last years were spent at Sunnyside, an old Dutch house near his "sleepy hollow," and there he d. suddenly on Nov. 28, 1859. Though not, perhaps, a writer of commanding power or originality, I., especially in his earlier works, imparted by his style and treatment a singular charm to every subject he touched, and holds a high place among American men of letters, among whom he is the first who has produced what has, on its own merits, living interest in literature. He was a man of high character and amiable disposition.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/James, George Payne Rainsford

​James, George Payne Rainsford (1801-1860).—Novelist and historical writer, s. of a physician in London, was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. At an early age he began to write romances, and continued his production with such industry that his works reach to 100 vols. This excessive rapidity was fatal to his permanent ​reputation; but his books had considerable immediate popularity. Among them are Richelieu (1829), Philip Augustus (1831), The Man at Arms (1840), The Huguenot (1838), The Robber, Henry of Guise (1839), Agincourt (1844), The King's Highway (1840). In addition to his novels he wrote Memoirs of Great Commanders, a Life of the Black Prince, and other historical and biographical works. He held the honorary office of Historiographer Royal.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse

​Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse (1841-1905).—B. at Dundee, and ed. at St. Columba's Coll., Dublin, Charterhouse, and Camb., at the last of which he lectured on the classics, and was in 1869 elected Public Orator. After being Prof. of Greek at Glasgow, he held from 1889 the corresponding chair at Camb., and for a time represented the Univ. in Parliament. He was one of the founders of the British School of Archæology at Athens. Among his works are The Attic Orators, An Introduction to Homer, Lectures on Greek Poetry, Life of Richard Bentley (English Men of Letters Series), and he ed. the works of Sophocles, and the Poems and Fragments of Bacchylides, discovered in 1896. J. was one of the most brilliant of modern scholars.
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