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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Masterman, Charles Henry

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​MASTERMAN. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Charles Henry Masterman was born 20 Nov. 1791, at Chepstow, co. Monmouth. He is first-cousin of Commander Henry Marshall, R.N.; and has lost three brothers in the service of their country.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 May, 1807, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Cambrian 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, lying at Portsmouth; and on becoming Midshipman, soon afterwards, of the Zebra bomb, Capt. Wm. Bowles, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, where he was for nearly two months employed with the in-shore squadron. In Nov. of the same year he rejoined Capt. Paget on board the Cambrian, commanded next by Capts. Rich. Budd Vincent and Fras. Wm. Fane. After serving in the Channel and Mediterranean, in that vessel and also in the Hind 28, Capts. R. B. Vincent and Geo. Miller Bligh, and Woolwich 44, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, he returned to England in May, 1809, and in the course of the next month was received into the Royal Oak 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, and Stately 64, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Thos. Bertie. In the latter ship, when commanded, in 1811, by Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, we find Mr. Masterman cooperating in the defence of Cadiz, and assisting in landing the troops previous to the battle of Barossa. From Aug. in that year until his return home in July, 1814, he again served with Capt. Bowles in the Aquilon and Ceres frigates, on the Baltic and South American stations. In the boats of the former vessel, commanded by Lieut. Sam. Sparshott, he aided in destroying a convoy off the Island of Rugen. On leaving the Ceres, he successively joined, on the Home and West India stations, the Nymphen 36, Capt. Matt. Smith, Montagu 74, Capt. Peter Heywood, Warrior 74, flagship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Douglas, Shark sloop, Capt. Alex. Campbell, and Drake 10, Capt. Gregory Grant. The Drake, of which vessel he had been constituted an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 26 May and 14 July, 1815, he left in Sept. of that year. With the exception of a short time passed about 1825 in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, he has not been since employed.
Lieut. Masterman is married, and has two sons living. His third son, Samuel, died at the Upper School, Greenwich, in 1839, aged 13.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mason, Henry William

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​MASON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
Henry William Mason entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Terrible 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet. In that ship, which was at first employed off Cadiz, he saw a good deal of active service in the Mediterranean, where he assisted, as Midshipman, in driving two French ships on shore, and commanded the jolly-boat at the cutting-out of an enemy’s vessel. He left the Terrible in June, 1810, and between that period and Aug. 1815 was employed on the Lisbon, North American, Mediterranean, Home, and Bermuda stations in the Macedonian 38, Capts. Lord Wm. Fitzroy, Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, and John Surman Garden, Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Resistance 38, Capts. Chas. Hole, Wm. Hamilton, and Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Thisbe 28, Acting-Capt. Rich. Weymouth, and Scamander 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote. He then took up a commission, bearing date 27 Feb. 1815; and was afterwards, from 5 Oct. in that year until 9 Oct. 1817, employed on the Home, Jamaica, and South American stations, in the Désirée and Active frigates, both commanded by Capt. Philip Carteret. During the term of his attachment to the ship last mentioned Lieut. Mason was placed in charge of the Speedwell tender, and employed on the eastern coast of England. Since he left the Active he has been on half-pay.
In 1829 Lieut. Mason was Sheriff for Buckinghamshire. He is now a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that co. He married first, in 1822, Mary, niece of the late Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart.; and (that lady dying in 1825), secondly, in 1826, Horatia, fourth daughter of Geo. Matcham, Esq., of Ashford Lodge, Sussex, by Catherine, sister of the immortal Nelson. By his second wife (who is sister-in-law of Lieuts. John Bendyshe and John Davies, and of the late Capt. Edw. Blanckley, R.N.), the Lieutenant has had issue two sons and five daughters. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Masters, James

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​MASTERS. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
James Masters entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Defiance 74, Capt. Thos. Revell Shivers, attached to the Channel fleet; with which he continued to serve, as Midshipman of the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Sir Andw. Mitchell, and Malta 84, Capt. Albemarle Bertie, until April, 1802; when he again joined Sir A. Mitchell in the Cambrian 40, at Newfoundland. In the following Dec. he removed to the Leander 50, Capts. Jas. Oughton, John Talbot, Alex. Skene, and Henry Whitby; and while in that ship, under Capt. Talbot, be assisted at the taking, 23 Feb. 1805, of La Ville de Milan French frigate of 46 guns, and the simultaneous recapture of her prize, the Cleopatra 32. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for four months as such, in the Halifax sloop, Capt. Jas. Townshend, 22 Sept. 1806; and was subsequently appointed – 19 Nov. 1808, to the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, employed on the Home station, where, in April, 1809, he witnessed the destruction of the shipping in Aix Roads – and, 21 Nov. 1810 and 14 April, 1813, as Senior, to the Lavinia and Niobe frigates, Capts. Geo. Digby and Wm. Augustas Montagu. In those vessels he served in the Mediterranean and off Cadiz and Lisbon until June, 1814. He accepted his present rank 29 Jan. 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mason, Thomas Henry

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​MASON. (Commander, 1841.)
Thomas Henry Mason entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1822; passed his examination in 1830; obtained his first commission 21 July, 1837; and was appointed – 29 of the same month, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Winchester 52, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel – 11 March, 1838, to the Wellesley 72, bearing the flag of Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland on the same station – and, 26 March, 1839, to the command of the Algerine 10. In that vessel he obtained mention for his zeal and alacrity at the capture of Chusan in July, 1840; after which he was sent, in company with the Conway 28, and Young Hebe tender, to examine the entrance of the Yang-tse-Kiang. In the attack made upon Canton in March, 1841, we find him enacting a very conspicuous part; as he subsequently did in the operations renewed in the following May against that place. Having, in the words of Sir Humphrey Le Fleming Senhouse, won his promotion by a series of gallant and brave services, he was accordingly, 8 June, 1841, advanced to the rank of Commander. Continuing, however, in the Algerine until Sept. 1842, he was afforded an opportunity of aiding in the capture of Amoy. He has been in command, since 25 Jan. 1847, of the Medea steam-sloop of 350 horse-power, in the East Indies.
Commander Mason married, 14 July, 1846, Isabella Susanna, third daughter of the late Edw. Frere, Esq., of Bitton, Gloucestershire.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2991.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1505.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 2510.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 83.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Massie, Henry George

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MASSIE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 15; h-p., 35.)
Henry George Massie entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1797, as A.B., on board the Nassau 64, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Edw. O’Bryen; on accompanying the latter of whom, as Midshipman, into the Monarch 74, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing, under the flag of Vice-Admiral Rich. Onslow, in the action off Camperdown, 11 Oct. in the same year, 1797. He continued in the Monarch with Vice-Admiral Archibald Dickson, on the North Sea station until March, 1800, and then joined the Hebe frigate, Capts. Wm. Birchall and Geo. Reynolds, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where, on his removal to the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, he took part in the operations of 1801 on the coast of Egypt. In Dec. 1803, nearly five months after he had left the ship last named, he was received on board the Neptune 98, Capts. Wm. O’Brien Drury and Sir. Thos. Williams; in which ship, and in the Monarch and Edgar 74’s, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, we find him continuously employed, in the Channel, until there nominated, 7 July, 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Daphne, Lieut.-Commander Price. He was officially promoted 9 Sept. following; and was subsequently appointed – 13 Nov. 1806, to the Flying Fish, Lieut.-Commander Goodwin, from which vessel, after witnessing the unsuccessful attack upon Buenos Ayres, he invalided in Sept. 1807 – 17 March, 1809, to the Africa 64, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland and Geo. Fred. Ryves, stationed in the Baltic – 14 Jan. 1811, to the Royal William flag-ship at Spithead of Sir Roger Curtis and Sir Rich. Bickerton – and, 6 Feb. 1813, to the Prospero sloop, Capt. John Hardy Godby, in the North Sea. He went on half-pay in the following Sept., and accepted his present rank 5 Oct. 1840. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Massie, John Bevis

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​MASSIE. (Lieutenant, 1838. f-p., 22; h-p., 2.)
John Bevis Massie, born 5 Sept. 1809, is brother of Capt. Thos. L. Massie, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 July, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen Charlotte 100, commanded at Portsmouth by Capt. J. Nash; and from the following Nov. until Oct. 1825 was employed on particular service in the Phaeton 46, Capt. Hen. Evelyn Pitfield Sturt. He then became Midshipman of the Icarus 10, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, lying at Portsmouth; but had not been many weeks in that vessel before he was transferred to the Procris 10, commanded at first by Capt. Waldegrave and next by Capts. Chas. Henry Paget, Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley, and John Thos. Talbot; with whom, it appears, he served on the North Sea, Cork, and Mediterranean stations until July, 1832 – the last three years in the capacity of Mate. Being next, in April, 1833, received on board the Malabar 74, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, he returned to the Mediterranean, where he continued employed under that officer in the Canopus 84, until Feb. 1837. In the ensuing Oct. we find him joining the Donegal 78, flag-ship at Lisbon of Sir John Acworth Ommanney. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 28 June, 1838; and has been since appointed – 15 Nov. 1838, to the Daphne 18, Capt. John Windham Dalling, under whom he partook of the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria – 15 July, 1842, and 15 April, 1844, to the Queen 110, and, as Senior Lieutenant to the Formidable 84, bearing each the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Mediterranean, whence he returned and was paid off at the close of 1845 – and 22 Jan. 1846, also as First, to the Grampus 50, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, now in the Pacific. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Massey, John

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​MASSEY. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
John Massey entered the Navy, 3 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Plantagenet 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, Fras. Pender, and Wm. Bradley. After a servitude of four years in the Channel and among the Western Islands, half the time in the capacity of Midshipman, he joined, in Nov. 1807, the Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of his friend Hon. M. De Courcy; whom, in March, 1809 (having previously assisted in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s army at Corunna), he followed, as Master’s Mate, into the Foudroyant 80, of which ship he was successively created an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 3 Nov. 1809 and 9 April, 1810. He continued in her on the Brazilian station until Nov. 1812; and was next, from Nov. 1813 until Nov. 1814, employed off New York in the Saturn 56, Capt. Nash. He has not been since afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Massingberd, Vincent Amcotts

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​MASSINGBERD. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 18; h-p., 7.)
Vincent Amcotts Massingberd is a relative of Algernon Langton Massingberd, Esq., of Gunby Hall, co. Lincoln, whose maternal grandfather, Henry Massingberd, Esq., was a son (with Capt. Thos. Massingberd, R.N., of Candlesby House, co. Lincoln) of Thos. Massingberd, Esq., by Elizabeth Emerson, sister of Sir Walter Amcotts, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 June, 1822, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ariadne 28, Capt. Coustantine Rich. Moorsom, and sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, where, in 1824, he exchanged, with the same Captain, into the Andromache 46. In Sept. 1825, having returned to England, he followed Capt. Moorsom, as Midshipman, into the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Moorsom at Chatham. In the summer of 1826 he was discharged into the Jasper 10, fitting for the Mediterranean, on which station he continued employed, ​under Capts. Henry Martin Blackwood and Leonard Chas. Rook, until wrecked, off Santa Maura, 11 Oct. 1828. Mr. Massingberd had been previously, 11 Oct. 1827, wounded in a boat-engagement with pirates. Having passed his examination 20 June, 1828, he was successively nominated Mate – in Feb. 1829, of the Prince Regent, flag-ship at the time of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood at Chatham – in Nov. 1829 of the Volage 28, Capt. Lord Colchester, under whom he escorted the ex-Emperor and Empress of Brazil to Cherbourg, and was employed during the winter of 1832 in enforcing the Dutch embargo – in Feb. 1834 (he had been on shore since Jan. 1833) of the Salamander steamer, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, engaged on Home service – and in Sept. 1835 (six months after the latter vessel had been paid off), of the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, stationed in the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in June, 1836. Being at length promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 10 Jan. 1837, Mr. Massingberd, on 21 of the same month, obtained an appointment in that capacity to the Pelorus 16, Capt. Fras. Harding; which vessel, after a very useful career in the East Indies, had the misfortune to be wrecked, at Port Essington, 25 Nov. 1839. For his subsequent services in China, as Senior-Lieutenant of the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Herbert, Mr. Massingberd, who remained in that ship from 20 June, 1841, until paid off in March, 1843, was promoted to the rank of Commander by commission dated 23 Dec. 1842. He has been in command, since 17 Nov. 1846, of the Alecto steam-sloop, of 200 horse-power, on the south-east coast of America.
He married, 3 Sept. 1844, Julia, eldest daughter of Moses Gutteres, Esq., of Belmont, near Sidmouth, Devon. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Political Romance

A Political Romance &c.
A Political Romance
BY LAURENCE STERNE
[1759]
An Exact Reprint of the First Edition With an Introduction by Wilbur l. Cross
Author of "The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne"
BOSTON
The Club of Odd Volumes
1914
Copyright, 1914, by The Club of Odd Volumes of Boston.
* Introduction
* A Political Romance, &c.
* Postscript
* The Key
* To ——— ——— of York
* To Dr. Topham
One hundred and twenty-five copies printed for The Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, in the month of October, 1914.
BRUCE ROGERS.
# A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries

* Dedication
* CHAPTER I.
* CHAPTER II.
* CHAPTER III.
* CHAPTER IV.
* CHAPTER V.
* CHAPTER VI.
* CHAPTER VII.
* CHAPTER VIII.
* CHAPTER IX.
* CHAPTER X.
* CHAPTER XI.
* CHAPTER XII.
* CHAPTER XIII.
* CHAPTER XIV.
* CHAPTER XV.
* FOOTNOTES
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Chapone, Hester

​Chapone, Hester (Mulso) (1727-1801).—Miscellaneous writer, dau. of a gentleman of Northamptonshire, was m. to a ​solicitor who d. a few months afterwards. She was one of the learned ladies who gathered round Mrs. Montague (q.v.), and was the author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind and Miscellanies.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

​Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773).—Statesman and letter-writer, was the eldest s.. of the 3rd Earl. After being at Trinity Coll., Camb., he sat in the House of Commons until his accession to the peerage in 1726. He filled many high offices, including those of Ambassador to Holland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Sec. of State. He was distinguished for his wit, conversational powers, and grace of manner. His place in literature is fixed by his well-known Letters addressed to his natural son, Philip Dormer Stanhope. Though brilliant, and full of shrewdness and knowledge of the world, they reflect the low tone of morals prevalent in the age when they were written. He was the recipient of Johnson's famous letter as to his "patronage."
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Chettle, Henry

​Chettle, Henry (1565-1607?).—Dramatist. Very little is known of him. He ed. R. Greene's Groat's-worth of Wit (1592), is believed to have written 13 and collaborated in 35 plays. He also wrote two satires, Kind Harts Dreame (1593), and Pierre Plainnes Prentship (1595). He was imprisoned for debt 1599.
Among his own plays, which have considerable merit, is Hoffmann, which has been reprinted, and he had a hand in Patient Grissill (1603) (which may have influenced Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor), The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and Jane Shore.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Chapman, George

​Chapman, George (1559-1634).—Dramatist and translator, was b. near Hitchin, and probably ed. at Oxf. and Camb. He wrote many plays, including The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596), All Fools (1599), A Humerous Daye's Myrthe (1599), Eastward Hoe (with Jonson), The Gentleman Usher, Monsieur d'Olive, etc. As a dramatist he has humour, and vigour, and occasional poetic fire, but is very unequal. His great work by which he lives in literature is his translation of Homer. The Iliad was pub. in 1611, the Odyssey in 1616, and the Hymns, etc., in 1624. The work is full of energy and spirit, and well maintains its place among the many later translations by men of such high poetic powers as Pope and Cowper, and others: and it had the merit of suggesting Keats's immortal Sonnet, in which its name and memory are embalmed for many who know it in no other way. C. also translated from Petrarch, and completed Marlowe's unfinished Hero and Leander.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Charleton, Walter

​Charleton, Walter (1619- 1707).—Miscellaneous writer ed. at Oxf., was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious writer on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and pub. Chorea Gigantum (1663) to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes. He was also one of the "character" writers, and in this kind of literature wrote A Brief Discourse concerning the Different Wits of Men (1675).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Channing, William Ellery

​Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842).—American Divine, b. at Newport, Rhode Island, was for a time a minister in the Congregationalist Church, but became the leader of the Unitarians in New England. He had a powerful influence on the thought and literature of his time in America, and was the author of books on Milton and Fénelon, and on social subjects. The elevation and amiability of his character caused him to be held in high esteem. He did not class himself with Unitarians of the school of Priestley, but claimed to "stand aloof from all but those who strive and pray for clearer light."
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Child, Francis J.

​Child, Francis J. (1825-1896).—English scholar, b. at Boston, Mass., was a prof, at Harvard, one of the foremost students of early English, and especially of ancient ballads in America. He ed. the American ed. of English Poets in 130 vols., and English and Scottish Ballads. He was also a profound student of Chaucer, and pub. Observations on the Language of Chaucer, and Observations on the Language of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Cherry, Andrew

​Cherry, Andrew (1762-1812).—Dramatist, s. of a bookseller at Limerick, was a successful actor, and managed theatres in the provinces. He also wrote some plays, of which The Soldier's Daughter is the best. His chief claim to remembrance rests on his three songs, The Bay of Biscay, The Green Little Shamrock, and Tom Moody.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Patton, Thomas

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​PATTON. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Patton entered the Navy, in Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Otter sloop, Capts. John Davies and Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under the latter of whom, in the same vessel and the Nériéide 36, he saw a great deal of active service. He was present in the Nériéide in particular at the capture of Ile de Bourbon in July, 1810; also when she compelled the enemy’s sloop Victor to surrender, and exchanged broadsides with the 40-gun frigate Minerve; and again during a series of unhappy although heroic operations, which, by 28 Aug. 1810, terminated in the self-destruction, in Port Sud-Est, Isle of France, of the British frigates Magicienne and Sirius, and the capture by a French squadron of the Néréide and Iphigenia – the former after being reduced to a mere wreck, and incurring a loss of nearly her whole crew. On the reduction of the Mauritius in the following Dec. Mr. Patton was sent home in the Minerva frigate, Capt. Robt. Tom Blackler. On his arrival he successively joined the Ann tender, Lieut.-Commander John Turner, lying at Swansea, and the Salvador del Mundo 112, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. John Nash. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812. His last appointments were – 11 July and 3 Aug. following, to the Egeria and Forester sloops, Capts. Lewis Hole and Alex. Kennedy, on the Home station – 21 April, 1813, to the Benbow 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, in the West Indies – and, 26 Oct. 1814, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Dowell O’Reilly, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Aug. 1815.
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