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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hare, Thomas

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​HARE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Hare entered the Navy, 25 Jan. 1805, as A.B., on board the Fervent 12, Lieut.-Commander John Edw. Hare, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean. He there removed, as Midshipman, in Nov. 1806, to the Morgiana sloop, Capt. Thos. Landless; and he next, from Aug. 1807 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815, served uninterruptedly on the Home station in the Snake, Capt. Thos. Young, Namur, Capt. Rich. Jones, Starling, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Fred. Napier, Exertion, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Murray, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, and Impregnable, flag-ship for some time of Admirals Wm. Young, and of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and afterwards commanded by Capts. John Wentworth Loring, Robt. Hall, and Jas. Nash. On 2 Aug. 1811, while Sub-Lieutenant of the Exertion, Mr. Hare assisted in the boats of a squadron, 10 in number, and carrying 116 men, under the command of Lieut. Sam. Blyth, at the cutting-out, from within the island of Mordeney, near the Texel, of four Danish gun-vessels, each armed with 1 long-12, and 2 long 6 or 8 pounders, and 25 men, including 5 soldiers, and commanded by a Lieutenant-de-Vaisseau of the French Navy; an exploit that was not accomplished until the enemy had sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 12 wounded, and the British, after an exposure to a fire of grape and canister, and a hard struggle, of 2 killed and 9 wounded, independently of 19 persons who were killed and wounded in the early part of the contest by an accidental explosion on board one of the gun-boats. Mr. Hare subsequently, when in the Impregnable under the Duke of Clarence, escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England. He was lastly employed in command, from 26 Oct. 1836 until 1844, of a station in the Coast Guard. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harper, Francis Henry

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​HARPER. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Francis Henry Harper entered the Navy 1 June, 1826; passed his examination 11 Sept. 1833; and on 23 Nov. 1841 (while serving as Mate, in the Mediterranean, of the Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His subsequent appointments were – 31 Jan. 1842, to the Daphne 18, Capt. John Windham Dalling, in the Mediterranean – 4 June, 1842, to the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, lying at Sheerness – 23 July, 1842, again to the Daphne, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, whom he accompanied to the Pacific – and, 20 June, 1844, to the Satellite 18, Capt. Robt. Hibbert Bartholomew Rowley, stationed on the south-east coast of America. He left the latter vessel in Aug. 1846. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hargood, William

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​HARGOOD. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 16; h-p., 18.)
William Hargood, born 22 June, 1801, is nephew of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Hargood, G.C.B., G.C.H.,
​and is descended in the male line from the ancient and noble family of Harcourt, the last of whose Earls died in 1830, at which period the title became extinct. Capt. Hargood’s father, a gentleman in the law, was an elder brother of the Admiral.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 June, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fylla 22, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, bearing the flag of his uncle on the Jersey and Guernsey station, where he accompanied the Admiral into the Alonzo sloop, and continued until June, 1814. During the next three years we find him employed as a student at the Royal Naval College. On leaving that institution he re-embarked, as a Volunteer, on board the Blossom 24, Capts.,Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Vernon, and sailed for South America, where he appears to have been employed, the last 20 months as Midshipman, until Sept. 1820. He then joined the Sybille 44, of which ship, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Chas. Rowley, he was created a Lieutenant 5 Oct. 1822. Being paid off in June, 1823, Mr. Hargood was next appointed – 6 Dec. following, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, with whom he was once more ordered to South America – 27 Oct. 1825 (after seven months of half-pay), to the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, lying at Newhaven for the purposes of the Coast Blockade – and, 5 Dec. 1826, again to the Sybille, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Fras. Augustus Collier on the coast of Africa, where, on one occasion, while officer of the watch, he received so severe a contusion of the fore-finger of the left hand as to render its immediate amputation necessary. He remained in the Sybille until promoted to the rank of Commander 15 Jan. 1828; after which he procured an appointment, 20 July, 1832, to the Scout 18. In that sloop he proceeded to the North Sea, whence, in the following year, after having been intermediately employed in imposing an embargo on the ships belonging to the subjects of the King of the Netherlands, he was ordered to the Mediterranean. Exchanging, in Dec. 1833, into the Scylla 16, Capt. Hargood soon afterwards returned to England, and on 8 March, 1834, was paid off. He has not been since afloat. His present rank was conferred on him 10 Jan. 1837.
Capt. Hargood married, 1 Oct. 1828, Catherine, eldest daughter of Henry Harison, Esq., of Seaford, co. Sussex, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Harper, George

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​HARPER. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
George Harper passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his commission 6 June, 1837. His appointments have since been – on 12 of the same month, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 14 April, 1838, to the Malabar 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, on the North America and West India station – 1 Feb. 1839, to the Implacable 72, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Edw. Harvey – and, 3 June, 1842, as First-Lieutenant, to the Talbot 26, Capt. Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, attached to the force in the Pacific, whence he returned in 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Little Free-Mulatto

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M’sié Jean-Ba’ – that was Aurélia’s father – was so especially fine and imposing when he went down to the city, with his glossy beard, his elegant clothes, and gold watch-chain, that he could easily have ridden in the car “For Whites.” No one would ever have known the difference. But M’sié Jean-Ba’ was too proud to do that. He was very proud. So was Ma’ame Jean-Ba’. And because of that unyielding pride, little Aurélia’s existence was not altogether a happy one.
She was not permitted to play with the white children up at the big-house, who would willingly have had her join their games. Neither was she allowed to associate in any way with the little darkies who frolicked all day long as gleefully as kittens before their cabin doors. There seemed nothing for her to do in the world but to have her shiny hair plaited, or to sit at her mother’s knee learning to spell or to patch quilt pieces.
It was well enough so long as she was a baby and crawled about the gallery satisfied to play with a sun-beam. But growing older she pined for some more real companionship.
“La p’tite, ‘pear tu me lack she gittin’ po’, yere lately,” remarked M’sié Jean-Ba’ solicitiously to his wife one day when he noted his little daughter’s drooping mien.
“You right, Jean-Ba; Aurélia a’n’t pick up none, the las’ year.” And they watched the child carefully after that. She seemed to fade like a flower that wants the sun.
Of course M’sié Jean-Ba’ could not stand that. So when December came, and his contract with the planter had ceased, he gathered his family and all his belongings and went away to live – in paradise.
That is, little Aurélia thinks it is paradise, the change is so wonderful.
There is a constant making and receiving of visits, now. She trudges off every morning to the convent where numbers of little children just like herself are taught by the sisters. Even in the church in which she, her mamma and papa make their Sunday devotions, they breathe an atmosphere which is native to them. And then, such galloping about the country on little creole ponies!
Well, there is no question about it. The happiest little Free-Mulatto in all Louisiana is Aurélia, since her father has moved to “L’Isle des Mulâtres.”
# A Little Litany

When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low arch the land is bright) Peered through you, gate of heaven--and saw the earth.
Or shutting out his shining skies awhile Built you about him for a house of gold To see in pictured walls his storied world Return upon him as a tale is told.
Or found his mirror there; the only glass That would not break with that unbearable light Till in a corner of the high dark house God looked on God, as ghosts meet in the night.
Star of his morning; that unfallen star In that strange starry overturn of space When earth and sky changed places for an hour And heaven looked upwards in a human face.
Or young on your strong knees and lifted up Wisdom cried out, whose voice is in the street, And more than twilight of twiformed cherubim Made of his throne indeed a mercy-seat.
Or risen from play at your pale raiment's hem God, grown adventurous from all time's repose, Or your tall body climed the ivory tower And kissed upon your mouth the mystic rose.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Waller, John Francis

​Waller, John Francis (1810-1894).—Poet, b. at Limerick, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, became a contributor to and ultimately ed. of the Dublin University Magazine, usually writing under the pseudonym of "Jonathan Freke Slingsby." His works include Ravenscroft Hall (1852), The Dead Bridal (1856), and Peter Brown (1872).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Walpole, Horatio or Horace

​Walpole, Horatio or Horace (1717-1797).—Miscellaneous writer, third s. of Sir Robert W., the great minister of George II., was b. in London, and ed. at Eton and Camb., after which he travelled on the Continent with Gray, the poet (q.v.). His f. bestowed several lucrative appointments upon him, and he sat in Parliament for various places, but never took any prominent part in public business. By the death of his nephew, the 3rd Earl, he became in 1791 4th Earl of Orford. In 1747 he purchased the villa of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, the conversion of which into a small Gothic Castle and the collection of the works of art and curios with which it was decorated was the main interest of his subsequent life. His position in society gave him access to the best information on all contemporary subjects of interest, and he was as successful in collecting gossip as curios. He also erected a private press, from which various important works, including Gray's Bard, as well as his own writings, were issued. Among the latter are Letter from Xo Ho to his Friend Lien Chi at Pekin (1757), The Castle of Otranto, the forerunner of the romances of terror of Mrs. Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis, The Mysterious Mother (1768), a tragedy of considerable power, ​Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, Anecdotes of Painting, Catalogue of Engravers (1763), Essay on Modern Gardening, Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of George II., Memoirs of the Reign of George III., and above all his Letters, 2700 in number, vivacious, interesting, and often brilliant. W. never m.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Walton, Izaak

​Walton, Izaak (1593-1683).—Biographer, and author of The Compleat Angler, s. of a yeoman, was b. at Stafford. Of his earlier years little is known. He carried on business as a hosier in London, in which he made a modest competence, which enabled him to retire at 50, the rest of his long life of 90 years being spent in the simple country pleasures, especially angling, which he so charmingly describes. He was twice m., first to Rachel Floud, a descendant of Archbishop Cranmer, and second to Ann Ken, half-sister of the author of the Evening Hymn. His first book was a Life of Dr. Donne (1640), followed by Lives of Sir Henry Wotton (1651), Richard Hooker (1662), George Herbert (1670), and Bishop Sanderson (1678). All of these, classics in their kind, short, but simple and striking, were coll. into one vol. His masterpiece, however, was The Compleat Angler, the first ed. of which was pub. in 1653. Subsequent ed. were greatly enlarged; a second part was added by Charles Cotton (q.v.). With its dialogues between Piscator (angler), Venator (hunter), and Auceps (falconer), full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity, its charming pictures of country scenes and pleasures, and its snatches of verse, it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language. His long, happy, and innocent life ended in the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Hawkins, Prebendary of Winchester, where in the Cathedral he lies buried.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wakefield, Gilbert

​Wakefield, Gilbert (1756-1801).—Scholar and controversialist, b. at Nottingham, ed. at Camb., took orders, but becoming a Unitarian renounced them and acted as classical tutor in various Unitarian academies. He was a strong defender of the French Revolution, and was imprisoned for two years for writing a seditious pamphlet. He pub. ed. of various classical writers, and among his theological writings are Early Christian Writers on the Person of Christ (1784), An Examination of Paine's Age of Reason (1794), and Silva Critica (1789-95), illustrations of the Scriptures.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wallace, Lewis

​Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905).—Novelist, b. at Brookville, Indiana, served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and rose to the rank of General. He was also a politician of some note, and was Governor of Utah and Minister to Turkey. His novel, Ben Hur (1880), dealing with the times of Christ, had great popularity, and was followed by The Fair God, The Prince of India, and other novels, and by a work on the Boyhood of Christ.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Walpole, Sir Spencer

​Walpole, Sir Spencer (1839-1907).—Historian, s. of the Right Hon. Spencer W., Home Sec. in the three Derby Cabinets, belonged to the same family as Sir Robert W. Ed. at Eton he became a clerk in the War Office, and was thereafter successively Inspector of Fisheries 1867, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man 1882, and Sec. to the Post Office, where he made a reputation as an efficient administrator, and was made K.C.B. in 1898. He pub. History of England from 1815 in 6 vols., bringing the story down to 1858, and followed it up with The History of Twenty-five Years. He also wrote Lives of Spencer Percival, Prime Minister 1809-12, who was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons in the latter year, and who was his maternal grandfather, and of Earl Russell. His latest book was Studies in Biography. He wrote with much knowledge, and in a clear and sober style.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Very, Jones

​Very, Jones (1813-1880).—Essayist and poet, b. at Salem, Mass., where he became a clergyman and something of a mystic. He pub. one small volume, Essays and Poems, the latter chiefly in the form of the Shakespearian sonnet. Though never widely popular, he appealed by his refined, still thoughtfulness to a certain small circle of minds.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wace

​Wace (ft. 1170).—Chronicler, b. in Jersey, and ed. at Caen, was influenced by the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth (q.v.), and based upon it a French metrical romance, Brut. Later, at the command of Henry II., he rewrote with additions a chronicle of the life of William the Conqueror and entitled it Roman de Rou.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wade, Thomas

​Wade, Thomas (1805-1875).—Poet, b. at Woodbridge, pub. poems, dramas, sonnets, and a translation of Dante's Inferno. Among his writings are Tasso and the Sisters (1825), Mundi et Cordis Carmina (1835); Duke Andrea (1828), and The Jew of Arragon (1830), both tragedies, and the Phrenologists (1830), a farce.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Waller, Edmund

​Waller, Edmund (1606-1687).—Poet, b. at Coleshill, Herts, and ed. at Eton and Camb., belonged to an old and wealthy family, and in early childhood inherited the estate of Beaconsfield, Bucks, worth £3500 a year. He was related to John Hampden, and was distantly connected with Oliver Cromwell, his own family, however, being staunch Royalists. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and at the age of 16 became a member of Parliament, in which he sat for various constituencies for the greater part of his life, and in which his wit and vivacity, as well as his powers of adapting his principles to the times, enabled him to take a prominent part. In 1631 he added to his fortune by marrying Anne Banks, a London heiress, who d. in 1634, and he then paid assiduous but unsuccessful court to Lady Dorothea Sidney, to whom, under the name of Sacharissa, he addressed much of his best poetry. Though probably really a Royalist in his sympathies, W. supported the popular ​cause in Parliament, and in 1641 conducted the case against Sir Francis Crawley for his opinion in favour of the legality of ship-money. His speech, which was printed, had an enormous circulation and brought him great fame. Two years later, however, he was detected in a plot for seizing London for the King, was expelled from the House, fined £10,000, and banished. On this occasion he showed cowardice and treachery, humiliating himself in the most abject manner, and betraying all his associates. He went to the Continent, living chiefly in France and Switzerland, and showing hospitality to Royalist exiles. Returning by permission in 1652 he addressed some laudatory verses, among the best he wrote, to Cromwell, on whose death nevertheless he wrote a new poem entitled, On the Death of the late Usurper, O.C. On the Restoration the accommodating poet was ready with a congratulatory address to Charles II., who, pointing out its inferiority as a poem to that addressed to Cromwell, elicited the famous reply, "Poets, Sire, succeed better in fiction than in truth." The poem, however, whatever its demerits, succeeded in its prime object, and the poet became a favourite at Court, and sat in Parliament until his death. In addition to his lighter pieces, on which his fame chiefly rests, W. wrote an epic, The Summer Islands (Bermudas), and a sacred poem, Divine Love. His short poems, such as "On a Girdle," often show fancy and grace of expression, but are frequently frigid and artificial, and exhibit absolute indifference to the charms of Nature. As a man, though agreeable and witty, he was time-serving, selfish, and cowardly. Clarendon has left a very unflattering "character" of him. He m. a second time and had five sons and eight daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tripp, John Upton

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​TRIPP. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 14; h-p., 31.)
John Upton Tripp is fourth and youngest son of the late Rev. John Tripp, Rector of Spofforth and of Catton, co. York, LL.D. of Christchurch, Oxford. His eldest brother, George, a Captain in the 25th Regt. of Foot, served under Sir Ralph Abercromby in Egypt in 1801, and died two years afterwards of consumption, occasioned by sleeping on the sands; his next, Charles, D.D., the present representative of the family, is Rector of Silverton, co. Devon, and a Magistrate for the counties of Somerset and Devon; and his third, Peter, is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 98th Regt. of Foot.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Magicienne frigate, Capt. Henry Vansittart; with whom he removed, in the following Feb., to the Fortunée 36. In that ship, after blockading the rivers Elbe and Weser and cruizing off Boulogne, he sailed, in Feb. 1804, for the West Indies. When on her passage home in the summer of 1806, in company with the Hercule 74, Surveillante frigate, an armed schooner, and a large fleet of merchantmen, the Fortunée fell in with a number of Spanish vessels, under the protection of a 74-gun ship and two gun-boats. She was immediately detached in pursuit, and, assisted by the schooner and the boats of the Surveillante, succeeded in capturing and destroying the gunboats and 20 sail deeply laden with sugar, &c. Independently of this Mr. Tripp assisted, during his sojourn in the West Indies, at the capture of Le Cazar and Le Vautour French privateers, a Spanish brig laden with cocoa, Le Grand Juge Bertolio French schooner of 7 guns and 51 men, and two Spanish feluccas laden with beef and flour. The latter vessels were destroyed. While cruizing in 1807 in the Channel the Fortunée took Le Magicien privateer of 2 guns and 44 men. In Dec. 1808 Mr. Tripp, who had been rated Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the Fortunée in April, 1805, and June, 1807, joined, in the latter capacity, the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, on the Lisbon station; where he was made Lieutenant, 7 June, 1809, into the Triumph 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee. He was afterwards employed, from Sept. 1809 until Aug. 1812, in the Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley in the Tagus; and from Oct. in the latter year until March, 1816, in the Ramillies 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy and Thos. Boys. Under Sir T. M. Hardy (who also commanded the Barfleur) we find him present in the Ramillies in a variety of operations on the coast of North America, particularly at the blockade of New London, the occupation of the ​islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, and the bombardment of Stonington. He accepted the rank he now holds 5 Oct. 1847.
Commander Tripp married his cousin Sarah, daughter of Jas. Upton Tripp, Esq., by whom he has issue six children. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Trollope, Henry

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​TROLLOPE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Trollope entered the Navy 7 Aug. 1828; passed his examination 27 Aug, 1834; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, was serving at Chatham as Mate on board the Ardent steamer, Capt. John Russell, His appointments have since been – 3 Dec, 1841, to the Alfred 50, Capt, John Brett Purvis, fitting for the coast of Brazil – 21 May, 1842, to the Isis 44, Capt, Sir John Marshall, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned in the early part of 1845 – and 6 June in the latter year, to the Herald 22, Capt. Henry Kellett, equipping for the Pacific, where he continues employed on surveying service. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tringham, William

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​TRINGHAM. (Commander, 1844.)
William Tringham passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 28 June, 1826, into the Maidstone 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Bullen on the coast of Africa; whence, in the following year, he returned to England. His succeeding appointments were – 28 Nov. 1836, to the Howe 120, flag-ship of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Sir Robt. Waller Otway at the Nore – 19 April, 1839, and 1 Oct. 1840, to the Britannia 120 and Queen 110, bearing the flags of Hon. C. E. Fleeming and Sir Edw. Codrington at Portsmouth – 19 April, 1841, to the command of the Spitfire steamer, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in 1842 – and 1 July, 1843, to the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence. Since he attained his present rank, 22 Oct. 1844, he has been on half-pay.
Commander Tringham married, in 1831, Eleanor, widow of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Tarleton, late of the 60th Regiment. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.