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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Morris, William (a)

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​MORRIS. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 20; h-p., 22.)
William Morris (a), born in Oct. 1792, is son of the late Capt. Robt. Morris, who represented the city of Gloucester in four successive Parliaments, from 1805 to 1817, and who, at a time when the country was menaced with invasion, raised and for many years supported at his own expense a corps of yeomanry cavalry.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kent 74, Capts. Henry Garrett and Thos. Rogers, in which ship, employed in the Channel and off Lisbon, he assisted at the capture, 28 July, 1806, of the French frigate Le Rhin of 44 guns. From Nov. in the latter year until Jan. 1812 he served in the Mediterranean, chiefly at the blockade of Toulon, in the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. David Colby, Abel Ferris, Henry Whitmarsh Pearse, Joseph Spear, John Harvey, and Wm. Bedford. On his arrival in the East Indies in the Volage 26, Capt. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay, he was received, in Sept. 1812, on board the Illustrious 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, who, on 12 Jan. 1813, nominated him Acting-Lieutenant of the Arrogant sheer-hulk at Bombay, Capt. Chas. Biddulph. Accompanying the latter officer in a similar capacity, shortly afterwards, into the Hesper sloop, he accompanied an expedition against the pirates of Ras-al-Khyma in the Persian Gulf. He was confirmed a Lieutenant while serving, still in the East Indies, in the Cornwallis armée en flûte Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, 24 Aug. 1813; and he was subsequently appointed – in Dec. 1814, to the Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell, employed in the Mediterranean in attendance upon her late Majesty Queen Caroline until the summer of 1816 – 1 July and 28 March, 1822, to the Bulwark and Gloucester 74’s, flag-ships of Sir Benj. Hallowell at the Nore – 11 March, 1823, to the Genoa 74, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Walter Bathurst, during his attachment to which ship he had command for some time of the Raymond tender, and was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827 – and, 8 Jan. 1838, to the command of the Partridge brig of 10 guns. In the latter vessel he was at first employed in protecting the fisheries on the coast of Scotland; he then proceeded to the coast of Africa with presents for King Trassar; and, when afterwards on the Brazilian station, he effected the capture of two slave-vessels, the Asseisceira. and San Antonio. He continued in the Partridge until promoted to his present rank, 23 Nov. 1841; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dunbar, James Alexander

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​DUNBAR. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 13; h-p., 0.)
James Alexander Dunbar entered the Navy 6 June, 1834; passed his examination 7 June, 1841; and after officiating for a few months as Mate of the Powerful 84, Capt. Michael Seymour, and Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the Mediterranean station, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 13 June, 1842. From 13 of the following July, until paid off in 1846, he was further employed in North America and the West Indies, and off the coast of Africa, on board the Albatross 16, Capt. Reginald Yorke. He has been engaged on particular service, since 11 Dec. 1846, as First of the Geyser steam-sloop, Capt. Fras. Thos. Brown. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duffill, John

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​DUFFILL. (Captain, 1846.)
John Duffill entered the Navy 4 March, 1812; was wounded, we understand, on board the Glasgow 40, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, at the battle of Algiers, 20 Aug. 1816; and passed his examination in 1821. He subsequently, as Master’s Mate of the Larne 20, Capt. Fred. Marryat, contributed, by his zealous exertions and cool intrepidity, to the successful result of various attacks made on the enemy in the river Rangoon, during the Burmese war, in 1824-5. After acting for fourteen months as Lieutenant of the Druid, Bustard, and Espiègle, he was at length confirmed in the latter vessel, by commission dated 8 Sept. 1827. We next find him appointed – 20 May, 1828, again to the Druid – 19 Nov. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served for nearly two years and a half as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’ s, Capt. Hugh Pigot – and, 31 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard. He assumed the successive command, on various stations, 17 Oct. 1832, 16 Dec. 1834, 1 April, 1835, and 15 April and 21 June, 1836, of the Carron, Meteor, Pluto, Salamander, and again of the Pluto steam-vessels. He was confirmed, 4 April, 1839, in the command of the Niagara 20, on the lakes of Canada; and, from 21 Jan. 1843, until posted, 2 July, 1846, was employed in the Hecla steam-sloop, on the Mediterranean station. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dumaresq, Henry

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​DUMARESQ. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 20; h-p., 6.)
Henry Dumaresq was born, 28 Sept. 1808, at Jersey, where his father was the late King’s Attorney-General. His brother, Lieut. Don Philip Dumaresq, R.N., died on board H.M.S. Bittern, of African fever, in 1844; and his cousin, Lieut. Philip Dumaresq, R.N., was killed in the Asia, at Navarin. He is a cousin of the present Capt. Rich. Saumarez, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Sept. 1821; and embarked, 29 Aug. 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the Victor 18, Capt. Thos. Prickett; under whom he was actively employed on boat service against the Ashantees, in 1823-4. Until he passed his examination, 19 July, 1828, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, on the Cape and South American stations, in the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. T. Prickett, Jaseur 18, Capt. Thos. Martin, Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, and Maidstone 42, Commodore Wm. Skipsey. He then successively joined, as Mate, the Helicon 10, Capt. Stanhope, Isis 50, Commodore Sir Thos. Staines, Meteor surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, Dee steamer, Capt. Robt. Oliver, Caledonia and Britannia, flag-ships of Sir Josias Rowley and Sir Philip Chas. Durham, Salamander steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, and Britannia again, bearing the flag of Sir P. Durham. During his attachment to those ships, Mr. Dumaresq appears to have been much employed in the Mediterranean, and also off the north coast of Spain, where, in the Salamander, he was particularly active during the civil war in 1838. He was at length promoted, on 10 Oct. in the latter year, to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed, 8 Sept. 1839, to the Wolverene 16, Capt. Wm. Tucker. As First-Lieutenant of that vessel he distinguished himself by his conduct in capturing two Spanish slavers up the river Niger; and on a later date he took by assault the island of Corisco, in face of an overwhelming force, and destroyed all the slave-factories there established. On that occasion his party, originally 40 in number, sustained a loss of 10 men killed and wounded. For these services Mr. Dumaresq, who paid the Wolverene off as her Acting-Commander, was ultimately promoted, from the Caledonia 120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore, to his present rank 21 March, 1842. He has been in command, since 12 Nov. 1846, of the Seaflower cutter, at Portsmouth.
Commander Dumaresq married, 18 Jan. 1844, his cousin, Anna Susanna, second daughter of Philip Janvrin, Esq., of Jersey, and has issue one son. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dunbar, Charles Sydney

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​DUNBAR. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Sydney Dunbar entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1832; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Lizard steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and Fox 42, Capt. Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 3 July, 1844, and on the same day was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. Mr. Dunbar, since 29 March, 1845, has been employed on the same station in the Iris 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy. During an expedition conducted, in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him commanding the pinnace belonging to the Iris, and assisting at the capture and destruction, on 8 of that month, of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of the latter stream by a force under Capt. Mundy, and its debarkation, after struggling for many hours against an almost impenetrable navigation, at the village of Mallout, Mr. Dunbar, while the main body marched on to Damuan, in the hope of there capturing the Sultan’s person, was left with a party of blue-jackets to garrison the former place. While the British were afloat he had partial command of a flotilla of seven gun-boats, and was mentioned for the cheerful assistance he afforded on the occasion.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duff, Archibald

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​DUFF. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 18; h-p., 41.)
Archibald Duff entered the Navy, 29 June, 1788, as a Boy, on board the Champion 24, Capt. Sampson Edwards, on the Leith station. In Jan. 1791, he became Midshipman of the Martin sloop, Capt. Geo. Duff, and with that officer he continued employed, in the Resource 23, Duke 98, Ambuscade 32, and Glenmore 50, until May, 1798. In the Duke he served under the broad pendant of Commodore Murray during the expedition against Martinique, in June, 1793. Having been awarded, when in the Ambuscade, a commission, dated 8 Dec. 1798, Mr. Duff, on leaving the Glenmore, was appointed to a Lieutenancy in the Foudroyant 80, Capt. Sir Thos. Bayard, on rejoining which ship, after a brief attachment to the Barfleur 98, we find him, while at the blockade of Malta, present with Lord Nelson at the capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of Le Généreux 74, and Ville de Marseilles store-ship. He soon after removed to the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, and, on 17 March following, narrowly escaped involvement in the destruction of that ship, being on board when she took fire in Leghorn Roads. In the course of the same year he was promoted from the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, to the acting-command of the Bonne Citoyenne sloop; but his confirmation not taking place, he joined the Guillaume Tell 80, and next became First Lieutenant to Lord Keith, in his old ship the Foudroyant. After figuring in the Egyptian campaign, for his services during which he received the Turkish gold medal, Mr. Duff, who had been invested with the temporary command of the Mondovi brig, returned to England with Capt. Rich. Curry, R.N., and Major Henry Montressor, the officers charged with the naval and military despatches announcing the surrendar of Grand Cairo. Prior to his official promotion to the rank of Commander, 29 April, 1802, ​he appears to have repulsed an attack made on the Mondovi by 17 Spanish gun-boats in the Gut of Gibraltar, and to have been in command of the Lutine prison-ship at Minorca. Capt. Duff’s first appointment on the renewal of hostilities was, 25 Oct. 1803, to the Megaera fire-ship, in which, with a few small vessels occasionally under his orders, he was employed watching the enemy’s ports in the Channel. Assuming Post-rank 22 Jan. 1806, he next joined, 28 May, 1807, the Muros 20, and in that ship, after convoying a fleet of merchantmen to Halifax, was unfortunately wrecked on a reef at the entrance of the Bay of Honda, in Cuba, 24 March, 1808. His last employment was in the command, from 23 April, 1814, to Aug. 1815, of the President 38, on the Irish station. He attained Flag-rank 17 Aug. 1840.
Rear-Admiral Duff, when a Lieutenant of the Foudroyant, received a gold medal from the Royal Humane Society for his “intrepid and manly exertions” in jumping overboard, in a dark night of Sept. 1799, and saving the life of a man who had fallen into the sea. He married, 1 Dec. 1815, Frances, third daughter of the late Rev. Meredith Jones, of Guestling, co. Sussex. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Duins, George Parley

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​DUINS. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
George Parley Duins died 26 Sept. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 4 March, 1808; passed his examination in 1821; and was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 19 Jan. 1828, in the Undaunted 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, employed on a particular service. His next appointments were – 3 April, 1829, to the Kent 78, Capts. John Ferris Devonshire and Sam. Pym, on the Mediterranean station – 17 April, 1832, to the Coast Guard, in which he served for about two years – and subsequently, for a brief period, to the Britannia 120.
He married, in May, 1836, Anne Mortimer, eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. Amyatt Chaundy, of Charlinch, near Bridgewater. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dumbreck, William

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​DUMBRECK. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 12; h-p., 33.)
William Dumbreck was born in Nov. 1789, at Edinburgh.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1802, as Fst -cl. Vol., on board the Ruby 64, Capt. Chas. Rowley, bearing the flag off the Texel of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He removed, as Midshipman, in May, 1804, to the Defence 74, Capt. Geo. Hope; and after participating in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, proceeded to the West Indies, in the Canada 74, Capt. John Harvey. On his return from that station, in Nov. 1807, he rejoined Capt. Hope in the Pompée 74. Sailing afterwards for the coast of Spain in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served in the boats at the embarkation of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna, in Jan. 1809. He was confirmed, 27 Sept. 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the Mars 74, Capts. John Surman Garden and Henry Raper, and while in that ship was much employed in command of her boats up the Tagus. Mr. Dumbreck, whose next appointment was, 6 Aug. 1811, to the Plover 26, Capt. Colin Campbell, invalided home from the coast of Africa in Aug. 1814. Since that period he has been on half-pay.
He married, first, 1 June, 1816, Miss Jane Inglis, of Lasswade, N.B., who was wrecked and drowned on her passage to Aberdeen, 21 Jan. 1819, leaving issue an only son; and, secondly, 15 May, 1820, Miss Margaret M‘Vicol, of Glenarchy, by whom, who died suddenly, 2 June, 1843, he had also issue a son. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Du Cane, Charles

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​DU CANE. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Charles Du Cane entered the Navy, 26 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Beaver 14, Capts. Chas. Pelly and Chas. Mars Gregory, stationed in the North Sea, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in June, 1804. From Aug. 1805, until April, 1809, we find him employed, under Capts. Pelly and Jas. Alex. Gordon, in the Mercury 28, and Active 38; as Master’s Mate of the former of which ships he served in the boats, with Lieut. Allan Stewart, at the cutting-out, 4 April, 1808, of seven Spanish tartans from under the very muzzles of the guns in the batteries at Rota.’ Rejoining Capt. Pelly, in July, 1809, on board the Bucephalus 36, Mr. Du Cane presently attended the expedition to the Walcheren, and, during the operations against that island, had command of a gun-boat. On its evacuation he returned to port as Acting-Lieutenant of the Parthian brig, Capt. Hon. Henry Dawson. Being confirmed by the Admiralty on 2 Dec. 1809, he next, in succession, joined the Egeria 18, Capt. Lewis Hole, and Egmont and Spencer 74’s, Capts. Joseph Bingham and Rich. Raggett, employed on the Home and North American stations. He attained the rank he now holds 30 Aug. 1815, and afterwards, in 1824-5, officiated as Inspecting-Commander of the Coast Guard. He has since, we believe, been on the half-pay list.
Commander Du Cane married, in 1823, Frances, second daughter of the Rev. C. Prideaux Brune, of Prideaux Place, co. Cornwall.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dufty, William

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​DUFTY. (Retired Commander, 1843. f.-p., 18; h-p., 32.)
William Dufty was born 28 Feb. 1781. This officer entered the Navy, 12 Aug. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Thos. Larcom, bearing the flag in the Channel and off Cadiz of Sir Roger Curtis. Under the first-named officer, and Capt. Wm. Fothergill, he was subsequently employed, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, from March, 1799, to Aug. 1807, in the Lancaster 64, on the Cape of Good Hope, East India, and South American stations. On the night of 13 Sept. 1800, he served with the boats of that ship, and of the Adamant, at the cutting-out, with loss to the British, of an enemy’s vessel from Port Louis, in the Isle of France; and, in Feb. 1807, was a witness to the fall of Monte Video. Being confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant 14 Aug. 1807, Mr. Dufty, in Oct. following, joined the Intrepid 64, Capts. Rich. Worsley and Christopher John Williams Nesham, under the latter of whom he served at the reduction, in 1809, of Martinique and the Saintes, and partook of a skirmish with some French frigates. He then returned home with Capt. Nesham in the Captain 74, and was afterwards appointed, on the Home and North American stations – 11 Sept. 1810, to the Vengeur 74, flag-ship of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke – and, 13 Feb. 1813, to the Madagascar 38, Capts. Lucius Curtis and Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. He invalided home in Nov. 1815, and has not since been ​employed. Commander Dufty accepted his present rank 19 Oct. 1843.
He married 6 Feb. 1816, and has issue three children.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mure, William

Mure, William (1799-1860). -- Scholar, laird of Caldwell, Ayrshire, ed. at Westminster, Edin., and Bonn, sat in Parliament for Renfrewshire 1846-55. He was a sound classical scholar, and pub. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece (5 vols., 1850-57). He held the view that the Iliad and Odyssey are now substantially as they were originally composed. M. was Lord Rector of Glasgow Univ. 1847-48.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Morris, Sir Lewis

Morris, Sir Lewis (1833-1907). -- Poet, b. at Penrhyn, Carnarvonshire, and ed. at Sherborne and Oxf., was called to the Bar, and practised as a conveyancer until 1880, after which he devoted himself to the promotion of higher education in Wales, and became honorary sec. and treasurer of the New Welsh Univ. In 1871 he pub. Songs of Two Worlds, which showed the influence of Tennyson, and was well received, though rather by the wider public than by more critical circles. It was followed in 1876-77 by The Epic of Hades, which had extraordinary popularity, and which, though exhibiting undeniable talent both in versification and narrative power, lacked the qualities of the higher kinds of poetry. It deals in a modern spirit with the Greek myths and legends. Other works are A Vision of Saints, Gwen, The Ode of Life, and Gycia, a tragedy.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Motley, John Lothrop

Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877). -- Historian, b. at Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, was ed. at Harvard, where O.W. Holmes (q.v.), afterwards his biographer, was a fellow-student. After graduating he went to Europe, studied at Göttingen and Berlin, and visited Italy. On his return he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1837. He did not, however, practise, and was in 1840 sent to St. Petersburg as Sec. of Legation. Meanwhile, having pub. two novels, Morton's Hope and Merry Mount, which had little success, he turned to history, and attracted attention by some essays in various reviews. Having decided to write an historical work on Holland, he proceeded in 1851 to Europe to collect materials, and in 1856 pub. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. It was received with the highest approval by such critics as Froude and Prescott, and at once took its place as a standard work. It was followed in 1860 by the first two vols. of The United Netherlands. The following year M. was appointed Minister at Vienna, and in 1869 at London. His latest works were a Life of Barneveldt, the Dutch statesman, and A View of ... the Thirty Years' War. M. holds a high place among historical writers both on account of his research and accuracy, and his vivid and dramatic style, which shows the influence of Carlylepage 282.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Moultrie, John

Moultrie, John (1799-1874). -- Poet, ed. at Eton and Camb., took orders and was Rector of Rugby. He wrote several books of poetry, his best known pieces are My Brother's Grave, and Godiva.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Munday, Anthony

Munday, Anthony (1553-1633). -- Dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer, s. of a draper in London, appears to have had a somewhat chequered career. He went to Rome in 1578, and pub. The Englyshe Romayne Life, in which he gives descriptions of rites and other matters fitted to excite Protestant feeling; and he appears to have acted practically as a spy upon Roman Catholics. He had a hand in 18 plays, of which four only are extant, including two on Robert, Earl of Huntingdon (Robin Hood) (1598), and one on the Life of Sir John Oldcastle. He was ridiculed by Ben Jonson in The Case is Altered. He was also a ballad-writer, but nothing of his in this kind survives, unless Beauty sat bathing in a Spring be correctly attributed to him. He also wrote city pageants, and translated popular romances, including Palladino of England, and Amadis of Gaule. He was made by Stow the antiquary (q.v.) his literary executor, and pub. his Survey of London (1618).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mulock, Dinah Maria

Mulock, Dinah Maria (MRS. Craik) (1826-1887). -- Novelist, dau. of a Nonconformist minister of Irish descent. Beginning with stories for children, she developed into a prolific and popular novelist. Her best and most widely known book is John Halifax, Gentleman (1857), which had a wide popularity, and was translated into several languages. Others are The Head of the Family, Agatha's Husband, A Life for a Life, and Mistress and Maid. She also wrote one or two vols. of essays.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Motherwell, William

Motherwell, William (1797-1835). -- Poet, b. and ed. in Glasgow, he held the office of depute sheriff-clerk at Paisley, at the same time contributing poetry to various periodicals. He had also antiquarian tastes, and a deep knowledge of the early history of Scottish ballad literature, which he turned to account in Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern (1827), a collection of Scottish ballads with an historical introduction. In 1830 he became ed. of the Glasgow Courier, and in 1832 he coll. and pub. his poems. He also joined Hogg in ed. the Works of Burns.