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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Patey, George Edward

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​PATEY. (Lieutenant, 1813. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
George Edward Patey, born in 1789, is only son of Lieut. Wm. Patey R.N., who lost his life while employed in embarking troops on the coast of Spain in 1810; and nephew of Commander Joseph Patey R.N. Two other uncles died Lieutenants in the service.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mars 74, Capts. John Sutton, Geo. Duff, Wm. Hennah, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, stationed at first off Brest and then off the port of Cadiz. After sharing as Midshipman and Aide-de-Camp to Capts. Duff and Hennah in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Jan. 1806, to the Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew; under whom he was for two years employed, chiefly at the blockade of the Texel. He then proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in the Bombay 74, he was for a further period of three years engaged in watching the port of Toulon. In April, 1811, and March, 1812, Mr. Patey became in succession Master’s Mate of the Vigo and Montagu 74’s, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon in the Baltic and South America. He was confirmed to the rank of Lieutenant, after having twice acted in that capacity, 20 July, 1813; and from the latter date until Feb. 1815 was employed, on the station last named, in the Nereds 36, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, and Albacore 18, Capt. Joseph Patey. In the Albacore he assisted, as First-Lieutenant, in chasing into St. Salvador, and in there detaining, a notorious American privateer, the True-Blooded Yankee, of equal force. In 1831 he was appointed Senior of the Pallas 42, Capt. M. H. Dixon; but a nearly fatal illness deprived him of the possibility of joining. He has not been since able to procure employment. We are told that during the war Lieut. Patey was ​captured in a transport-brig by two privateers after an honourable defence. He married, in Feb. 1817, Lucy, only child and heiress of the late Thos. Macnamara Russell, Esq., Admiral of the White, formerly Commander-in-Chief in the North Sea; by whom he has had issue four sons. One of them, the eldest, Russell, is a Lieutenant R.N.; a second, Macnamara, was a Lieutenant R.M. (184.3); and the two others are in the Church and Army. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pasco, William Montagu Isaacson George

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​PASCO. (Commander, 1846.)
William Montagu Isaacson George Pasco is eldest son of Rear-Admiral Pasco.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1820; passed his examination in 1826; and obtained his first commission 8 Jan. 1830. His succeeding appointments were – 5 May, 1831, to the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, fitting for South America, whence he returned in the summer of 1834 – 5 Feb. 1835, to the Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Eden, under whom he was employed for a further period of three years in South America, part of the time as First Lieutenant – 8 Oct. 1838, to the Coast Guard – 18 May, 1842, to the command of the Kite steamer, equipping for the coast of Africa, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1843 – and 7 April, 1845, to that of the Jackal, another steamer, stationed in the Mediterranean. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Paterson, George Yates

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​PATERSON. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Yates Paterson entered the Navy 17 June, 1828; passed his examination in 1834; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney; and was advanced to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He was next, 7 Jan. 1842, appointed to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and from 16 May, 1843, until paid off on his return to England at the close of 1847, was employed in the Pacific on board the Fisgard 42, Capt. Jas. Alex. Duntze. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Paterson, William Love

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​PATERSON. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 1 9; h-p., 32.)
William Love Paterson was born 17 March, 1781, at Doneraile, co. Cork. His brother, Thos. Paterson, Master’s Mate of H.M.S. Arrow, was killed in a boat affair in the Gulf of Venice 4 June, 1804, aged 21.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Oct. 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the Terpsichore 32, Capts. Rich. Bowen and Wm. Hall Gage. On 13 of the same month he assisted at the capture, off the port of Carthagena, of the Mahonesa Spanish frigate of 34 guns and 275 men, after a spirited contest of an hour and 20 minutes, in which the enemy sustained a loss of 30 men killed and as many wounded, and the British, out of 182 men, of only 4 wounded; and on 13 of the ensuing Dec. he was present, off Cadiz, in another most determined action of an hour and forty minutes, which terminated in the surrender to the Terpsichore (whose loss on the occasion amounted, out of 166 men, to 4 killed and 18 wounded) of the French frigate La Vestale of 36 guns and at least 270 men, 30 of whom were killed and 37 wounded. In the summer of 1797 we find Mr. Paterson co-operating in the bombardment of Cadiz, and employed, as Midshipman, in the Terpsichore’s barge. In Lord Nelson’s attack upon Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, where Capt. Bowen was killed. Quitting the Terpsichore in Jan. 1800, he served, during the five following years, chiefly on the Home station, in the Triton 32, Capt. John Gore, Majestic 74, Capt. Davidge Gould, Port Mahon 18, Capts. Walter Grosett and Ralph Neville, and Impétueux 74, Capts. Thos. Byam Martin and John Erskine Douglas. He was then, in Jan. and Sept. 1805, and July, 1806, successively nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Borer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Wilbraham, Pegasus, Capt. John Pengelly, and Tickler gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Skinner; on leaving the latter of which vessels he was constituted, 6 Sept. 1806 (although the date of his commission was subsequently altered to 20 Jan. 1809), full Lieutenant of the Surinam 18, Capt. John Lake. Becoming attached next, 6 Feb. 1807, to the Tartarus 20, Capts. Thos. Fras. Chas. Mainwaring and John Pasco, Mr. Paterson accompanied in that vessel the expedition sent in the course of the same year against Copenhagen; and on 25 April, 1808, he assisted in her boats, with those of the Daphne 20, commanded by Lieut. Wm. Elliott, at the cutting-out, with a loss to the British of only 5 persons wounded, of a convoy of 10 deeply-laden vessels, moored close under the foot of a castle mounting 10 guns, in the harbour of Fladstrand, near the Skawe, defended also by a heavy fire from another battery, as well as from the crews of the vessels assembled on the beach, and made fast to the shore by hawsers. With the exception of a short command, held between June and Nov. 1811, of the Cuttle schooner, at Halifax, he continued employed in the Tartarus, on the American, West India, and Cork stations, until May, 1815. Not having been since afloat, he accepted his present rank 3 Feb. 1847.
Commander Paterson married, 9 April, 1811, Miss Priscilla Blight, of Plymouth.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Patey, Charles

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​PATEY. (Retired Commander, 1825. f-p., 40; h-p., 28.)
Charles Patey, born 31 Dec. 1770, is brother of Commander Joseph Patey, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1779, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Ocean 98, Capt. Geo. Ourry, stationed in the Channel; where, in 1781, he joined the Nonsuch 64, Capt. Wm. Truscott. Becoming attached, next, to the Warrior 74, Capts. Sir Jas. Wallace and John Symonds, he served in that ship in Rodney’s actions of 9 and 12 April, 1782, and was present in her at the ensuing capture, by Sir Sam. Hood, of the Caton, Jason, &c., in the Mona Passage. Paid off at the peace in 1783, he did not go afloat until 1785; between which period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 22 Nov. 1790, we find him alternately employed, at Plymouth, in the Crown 64 and Bombay Castle 74, under Capts. Sam. Reeve, Robt. Fanshawe, Chas. Morice Pole, Anthony Jas. Pye Molloy, and John Thos. Duckworth- His succeeding appointments were – 6 Sept. 1791, to the Carnatic 74, Capt. John Ford, lying at the port last mentioned – 22 Dec. 1792, to the Terrible 74, Capts. Skeffington Lutwidge, Geo. Campbell, and Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton – 27 Sept. 1797, to the Zealand 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Lutwidge at the Nore – 29 June, 1798, to the command of the George cutter of 14 guns, employed, until Dec. 1800, on the Home and West India stations – and, in May, 1801, to the Semaphore service, in which he continued (with the exception of an interval between March, 1802, and May, 1803) until Nov. 1814. In 1793 Lieutenant Patey, then belonging to the Terrible, was present at the occupation and evacuation of Toulon; on the latter of which occasions he very narrowly escaped destruction, the boat he commanded being blown to pieces. He afterwards took part, in the same ship, in the reduction of Bastia and Calvi; and also in Hotham’s partial engagements of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. During his command of the George he fought an action of two hours with a French cutter, whom he at length compelled to take refuge in the port of Cherbourg. In the same vessel he captured, 19 Nov. 1798, after a chase of four hours, the French privateer lugger Enterprise, mounting two swivels, with muskets, pistols, swords, halt-pikes, &c., and carrying 16 men. The British on this occasion sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 2 wounded. From Jan. 1820 until 1830 Commander Patey (who was advanced to his present rank 20 July, 1825) officiated as a chief officer in the Coast Guard.
One of his sons, Chas. G. E. Patey, is a Captain, and another, George Edwin, a Commander, in the R.N.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1794, p. 43.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1798, p. 1109.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pasley, Thomas Sabine

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​PASLEY, Bart. (Capt., 1831. f-p., 15; h-p., 15.)
Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, born 26 Dec. 1804, is only son of the late Major John Sabine, of the Grenadier Guards, by Maria, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley, Bart.; in pursuance of whose will he assumed, in 1809, the surname and arms of Pasley, instead of those of his paternal family, Sabine. One of the Baronet’s maternal grand-aunts was the mother of the present Vice-Admiral Sir Chas. Malcolm, Kt., and another of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Briggs, G.C.M.G.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College, 7 Aug. 1817; and embarked, 20 Dec. 1818, as a Volunteer, on board the Rochfort 80, Capts. Andrew ​Pellett Green and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, successive flag-ship of Vice-Admirals Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean; where, in June, 1821, and Oct. 1822, he was lent, as Midshipman, for a few months, to the Larne 20, Capt. Robt. Tait, and Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. He left the Rochfort in Oct. 1823; and, after having intermediately served on board the Redpole 10, Capt. Rich. Anderson, and Arachne 18, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, he was advanced, 16 March, 1824, to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 17 April, 1824, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, with whom he sailed for South America – 25 Aug. following, as Senior, to the Éclair 18, commanded on that station by Capt. Thos. Bourchier – 13 June, 1827 (having been on half-pay since July, 1825), to the Fairy 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, fitting for the West Indies – and, 6 June, 1828, to the Asia 84, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean. Being awarded a second promotal commission, dated 17 Sept. 1828, he successively assumed command, also on the Mediterranean station – 31 Oct. following, of the Camelion 10 – 30 Nov. 1829, of the Procris 10 – in May, 1830, as Acting-Captain, of the Rattlesnake 28 – and in Nov. 1830, in a similar capacity, of the Blonde 46. On the paying off of the latter ship he was confirmed in his present rank 24 May, 1831. His next and last appointment was, 22 Feb. 1843, to the Curaçoa 24, in which vessel he served on the S.E. coast of America, until superseded in Jan. 1846.
Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley married, 10 June, 1826, Jane Matilda Lilly, eldest daughter of the Rev. Montagu John Wynyard, rector of Wesh Rounton, and of St. Martin’s, Micklegate, Yorkshire, by whom he has issue seven sons and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Patey, Charles George Edward

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​PATEY. (Captain, 1846.)
Charles George Edward Patey is son of Retired Commander Chas. Patey R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 20 Jan. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 6 Dec. 1836. His succeeding appointments were – 6 May and 16 Aug. 1837, to the Caledonia 120 and Princess Charlotte 104, flagships in the Mediterranean of Sir Josias Rowley and Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and, 22 Feb. 1840, as First-Lieutenant, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier. Uniting, in the latter ship, in the operations on the coast of Syria, he found opportunity of highly distinguishing himself by his officer-like, cool, and steady conduct, at the capture both of Caiffa and Tsour. On the fall of Caiffa he planted the Ottoman flag upon the ramparts; and in a day or two afterwards, with the marines and a few seamen belonging to the Castor and Pique under his orders, destroyed a castle mounting 5 guns, in full view of 500 of the Egyptian army. At Tsour, as soon as the enemy had been put to flight, he landed and took possession of the town; in the immediate vicinity of which he contrived, although in the presence of 800 infantry and 60 cavalry, to get into his possession 40 prisoners and deserters. On 4 Nov. 1840, the day after the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He served next, from 5 March, 1842, until posted, 27 June, 1846, in the Resistance 42, troop-ship; and is now on half-pay.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, pp. 2602, 2608.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Barnfield, Richard

​Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627).—Poet, e. s. of Richard B., gentleman, was b. at Norbury, Shropshire, and ed. at Oxford. In 1594 he pub. The Affectionate Shepherd, a collection of variations in graceful verse of the 2nd Eclogue of Virgil. His next work was Cynthia, with certain Sonnets and the Legend of Cassandra in 1595; and in 1598 there appeared a third vol., The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, etc., in which are two songs ("If music and sweet poetrie agree," and "As it fell upon a day") also included in The Passionate Pilgrim, an unauthorised collection, and which were long attributed to Shakespeare. From this time, 1599, B. produced nothing else, and seems to have retired to the life of a country gentleman at Stone in Staffordshire, in the church of which he was buried in 1627. He was for long neglected; but his poetry is clear, sweet, and musical. His gift indeed is sufficiently attested by work of his having passed for that of Shakespeare.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Barton, Bernard

​Barton, Bernard (1784-1849).—Poet, b. of Quaker parentage, passed nearly all his life at Woodbridge, for the most part as a clerk in a bank. He became the friend of Southey, Lamb, and other men of letters. His chief works are The Convict's Appeal (1818), a protest against the severity of the criminal code of the time, and Household Verses (1845), which came under the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of £100. With the exception of some hymns his works are now nearly forgotten, but he was a most amiable and estimable man—simple and sympathetic. His dau. Lucy, who married Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam, pub. a selection of his poems and letters, to which her husband prefixed a biographical introduction.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bayly, Ada Ellen

​Bayly, Ada Ellen (d. 1903).—Novelist, wrote several stories under the name of "Edna Lyall," which were very popular. They include Autobiography of a Slander, Donovan, Hope the Hermit, In the Golden Days, To Right the Wrong, We Two, and Won by Waiting.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Beattie, James

​Beattie, James (1735-1803).—Poet and philosophical writer, s. of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and ed. at Aberdeen; he was, in 1760, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy there. In the following year he pub. a vol. of poems, which attracted attention. The two works, however, which brought him most fame were: (1) his Essay on Truth (1770), intended as an answer to Hume, which had great immediate success, and led to an introduction to the King, a pension of £200, and the degree of LL.D. from Oxford; and (2) his poem of ​The Minstrel, of which the first book was pub. in 1771 and the second in 1774, and which constitutes his true title to remembrance. It contains much beautiful descriptive writing. The Essay on Truth and his other philosophical works are now forgotten. B. underwent much domestic sorrow in the death of his wife and two promising sons, which broke down his own health and spirits.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Barrow, Isaac

​Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677).—Divine, scholar, and mathematician, s. of a linen-draper in London, was ed. at Charterhouse, Felsted, Peterhouse, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge, where his uncle and namesake, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph, was a Fellow. As a boy he was turbulent and pugnacious, but soon took to hard study, distinguishing himself in classics and mathematics. Intending originally to enter the Church, he was led to think of the medical profession, and engaged in scientific studies, but soon reverted to his first views. In 1655 he became candidate for the Greek Professorship at Cambridge, but was unsuccessful, and travelled for four years on the Continent as far as Turkey. On his return he took orders, and, in 1660, obtained the Greek Chair at Cambridge, and in 1662 the Gresham Professorship of Geometry, which he resigned on being appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the same university. During his tenure of this chair he pub. two mathematical works of great learning and elegance, the first on Geometry and the second on Optics. In 1669 he resigned in favour of his pupil, Isaac Newton, who was long considered his only superior among English mathematicians. About this time also he composed his Expositions of the Creed, The Lord's Prayer, Decalogue, and Sacraments. He was made a D.D. by royal mandate in 1670, and two years later Master of Trinity Coll., where he founded the library. Besides the works above mentioned, he wrote other important treatises on mathematics, but in literature his place is chiefly supported by his sermons, which are masterpieces of argumentative eloquence, while his treatise on the Pope's Supremacy is regarded as one of the most perfect specimens of controversy in existence. B.'s character as a man was in all respects ​worthy of his great talents, though he had a strong vein of eccentricity. He d. unmarried in London at the early age of 47. B.'s theological works were edited by Napier, with memoir by Whewell (9 vols., 1839).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Baxter, Richard

​Baxter, Richard (1615-1691).—Divine scholar and controversialist, was b. of poor, but genteel, parents at Rowton in Shropshire, and although he became so eminent for learning, was not ed. at any university. Circumstances led to his turning his attention to a career at court under the patronage of the Master of the Revels, but a short experience of this sufficed; and giving himself to the Christian ministry, he was ordained in 1638, and, after being master of a school at Dudley, exercised his ministry successively at Bridgnorth and Kidderminster. His learning and capacity for business made him the leader of the Presbyterian party. He was one of the greatest preachers of his own day, and consistently endeavoured to exert a moderating influence, with the result that he became the object of attack by extremists of opposing views. Though siding with the Parliament in the Civil War, he opposed the execution of the King and the assumption of supreme power by Cromwell. During the war he served with the army as a chaplain. On the return of Charles II., B. was made one of his chaplains, and was offered the see of Hereford, which he declined, and his subsequent request to be ​allowed to return to Kidderminster was refused. He subsequently suffered persecution at the hands of Judge Jeffreys. After the Revolution he had a few years of peace and quiet. His literary activity was marvellous in spite of ill-health and outward disturbance. He is said to have written 168 works, the best known of which are The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), and Call to the Unconverted (1657), manuals of practical religion; and, among his controversial writings, Methodus Theologiæ (1681), and Catholic Theology (1675), in which his theological standpoint—a compromise between Arminianism and Calvinism—is set forth. Dr. Isaac Barrow says that "his practical writings were never mended, and his controversial seldom confuted," and Dean Stanley calls him "the chief English Protestant schoolman." B. left an autobiography, Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, which was a favourite book with both Johnson and Coleridge. Other works by him are The Life of Faith (1670), Reasons of the Christian Religion (1672), and Christian Directory (1675). Practical Works in 23 vols. (1830) edited with memoirs by W. Orme, also Lives by A. B. Grosart (1879), Dean Boyle (1883), and J. H. Davies (1886).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bayly, Thomas Haynes

​Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839).—Miscellaneous writer, s. of a wealthy lawyer in Bath. Originally intended for the law, he changed his mind and thought of entering the Church, but abandoned this idea also, and gave himself to writing for the stage and the periodical press. He is chiefly known for his songs, of which he wrote hundreds, which, set to the music of Bishop and other eminent composers, found universal acceptance. Some were set to his own music. He also wrote several novels and a number of farces, etc. Although making a large income from his writings, in addition to that of his wife, he fell into embarrassed circumstances. Among the best known of his songs are I'd be a Butterfly, Oh, no, we never mention Her, and She wore a Wreath of Roses. He may be regarded as, excepting Moore, the most popular song writer of his time.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Baynes, Thomas Spencer

​Baynes, Thomas Spencer (1823-1887).—Philosopher, s. of a Baptist minister, b. at Wellington, Somerset, intended to study for Baptist ministry, and was at a theological seminary at Bath with that view, but being strongly attracted to philosophical studies, left it and went to Edin., when he became the favourite pupil of Sir W. Hamilton (q.v.), of whose philosophical system he continued an adherent. After working as ed. of a newspaper in Edinburgh, and after an interval of rest rendered necessary by a breakdown in health, he resumed journalistic work in 1858 as assistant ed. of the Daily News. In 1864 he was appointed Prof. of Logic and English Literature at St. Andrews, in which capacity his mind was drawn to the study of Shakespeare, and he contributed to the Edinburgh Review and Fraser's Magazine valuable papers (chiefly relating to his vocabulary and the extent of his learning) afterwards collected as Shakespeare Studies. In 1873 he was appointed to superintend the ninth ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, in which, after 1880, he was assisted by W. Robertson Smith (q.v.).