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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shipton, James Maurice

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​SHIPTON. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
James Maurice Shipton is son of the late Rev. Dr. Shipton, Rector of Porkshead, Vicar of Staunton Bury, and one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 May, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Bedford, attached to the force on the Home station, where he served from Feb. 1805 until June, 1807, in the Hibernia 110, and Prince of Wales 98, flag-ships of Lord Gardner and Sir Jas. Saumarez. He then joined the Penelope 36, Capt. John Dick, employed at first off Ferrol and next on the coast of North America and in the West Indies. After co-operating in the reduction of Martinique, he removed, 2 Nov. 1809, to the Swiftsure 74, ​bearing the flag at Halifax of Vice-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, by whom he was nominated, 11 of the same month, Acting-Lieutenant of the Gorée 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng. In that Tessel, to which he was confirmed 25 June, 1810, he continued until Jan. 1812, when he invalided. His last appointment was, 27 June in the latter year, to the Curlew brig, Capts. Michael Head and Hugh Pearson, with whom he continued employed, again on the Halifax station, until 21 July, 1815. He was in consequence present, 26 March, 1813, at the capture of the American ship letter-of-marque Volante, pierced for 22 guns, mounting 10 24-pounder carronades and 4 long 9’s, with a complement of 85 men.
Lieut. Shipton has been for many years Russian Vice-Consul at Gloucester. He married, 19 Jan. 1820, Eliza, daughter of Robt. Atkins, Esq., of Leamington Priors, co. Warwick, by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Short, Henry Middleton

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​SHORT. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
Henry Middleton Short died 4 Nov. 1844, of typhus fever, at Ballina, co. Mayo.
This officer entered the Navy 16 June, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Porpoise, Capt. J. Short, fitting, we believe, for New South Wales, whence he returned, in 1807, in the Buffalo store-ship. In Aug. 1808, eight months after he had been discharged from the latter vessel, he was received into the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. He next, in June, 1811, joined the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. Nash, lying at Plymouth, and, in the course of the same month, the Rota 38, Capt. Philip Somerville, with whom he served on the Home, North America, and West India stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until May, 1815. He then removed in succession to the Albion 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, and Madagascar and Phaeton frigates, both commanded by Capt. Fras. Stanfell; and in the following Nov. he was presented with a commission bearing date 3 Aug. 1815. His last appointments were – 23 July, 1823, to the Harlequin sloop, Capt, John Weeks, on the Cork station – 20 Nov. 1824, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Hugh Downman, lying at Plymouth – and, 21 Jan. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
Lieut. Short was married and has left issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Short, Samuel Frederick

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​SHORT. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Samuel Frederick Short entered the Navy 14 March, 1823; passed his examination in 1830; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840. His appointments have since been – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Cyclops steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, in the Mediterranean – 8 April, 1843, as Additional, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, on the same station – 11 Dec. following, to the Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn, also in the Mediterranean – 23 April, 1844, again to the Queen, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth – and, 26 Aug. 1844, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Short married, 8 Dec. 1846, Anne, eldest daughter of Lieut. John R. Benson, R.N.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shirley, George James

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​SHIRLEY. (Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 26; h-p., 41.)
George James Shirley died, 2 Aug. 1845, at Bath, aged 77. He was son of Capt. Jas. Shirley (1772), who was lost when in command of the Vestal frigate, with all on board, on the banks of Newfoundland, in 1777; and grandson of Capt. Jas. Shirley (1762), who died in command of the Dolphin 20, on the East India station, in 1774.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 May, 1779, as A.B., on board the Robust 74, Capts. Alex. Hood (afterwards Lord Bridport) and Philip Cosby, employed in the Channel and on the coast of North America. In March, 1782, he removed as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Oct. 1780) to L’Espion, Capt. Thos. Revell Shivers, stationed in the West Indies; he next, in May, 1783, joined the Scipio, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield, guard-ship at Sheerness; and from May, 1785, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in Nov. 1790, he was employed in North America and the Channel, as Master’s Mate, in the Weazle and Thisbe, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Hood, and London 98, Capt. Wm. Domett, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Hood. His next appointments were, on the Home station – 1 April and 27 Sept. 1791, to the Thorn and Spitfire sloops, Capts. John Woodley and Philip Chas. Durham – 15 June, 1793, to the Hebe frigate, Capt. Alex. Hood – and 18 Aug. 1794, to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport. By the latter nobleman he was placed in acting-command, 11 Sept. 1797, of the Megaera fire-ship, and, 26 April, 1798, of the Mars 74. He was confirmed to the {{sc|Megaera} 11 Sept. 1797, and to the Mars by a commission bearing the same date as his acting-order. During the above period he was often in battle, and was several times wounded. In the Royal George he was present in the action off the Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795, and in the mutiny at Spithead. An attack of rheumatic gout, induced by frequent exposure to wet and cold, compelled him, in Aug. 1798, to leave the Mars, and prevented him from afterwards going afloat. From 26 March, 1804, until the corps was disbanded in Feb. 1810, he commanded the Poole district of Sea Fencibles. He became a Rear-Admiral on retired half-pay 2 June, 1825; and was placed on the active list of Vice-Admirals 12 Nov. 1840.
He was married and has left issue.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Fox and the Cat

33. The Fox and the Cat.
The Fox and the Cat, as they travelled one day,
With moral discourses cut shorter the way:
"'Tis good," said the Fox, "to make justice our guide."
"How godlike is mercy!" Grimalkin replied.
As thus they proceeded, a Wolf from the wood,
Impatient of hunger and thirsting for blood,
Rush'd forth as he saw the dull shepherd asleep,
And seized for his breakfast an innocent Sheep.
"'Tis in vain," cried the Wolf, "Mistress Sheep, that you bleat,
When mutton's at hand, you know well I must eat."
The Cat was astounded! the Fox stood aghast!
To see the fell beast at his cruel repast.
​"What a wretch!" said the Cat; "what a bloodthirsty brute!
To seize a poor Sheep, when there's herbage and fruit."
Cried the Fox, "With the acorns so sweet and so good,
What a tyrant this is to spill innocent blood."
Then onward they went and discoursed by the way,
And with still more wise maxims enliven'd the day;
And e'er as they travell'd they moralised still,
Till they came where some poultry peck'd chaff by a mill
Then the Fox, without ceasing his sayings so wise,
Now snapp'd up a Chicken by way of a prize;
And a mouse which then chanced from her covert to stray,
The thoughtful Grimalkin secured as her prey.
A Spider who sat in her web on the wall
Perceived the poor victims and pitied their fall;
She cried, "Of such murders how guiltless am I!"
Then ran to regale on a new-taken Fly.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Fox and the Goose

16. The Fox and the Goose.
FOX.
Good Mistress Goose, this charming day
Pray walk with me a little way;
The sun is up, the air is clear,
A walk will do you good, my dear. ​Suppose we just go into town,
To hear and see what's going on;
Folks all admire your snow-white coat,
Bright eyes, and long and slender throat.
GOOSE.
I thank you kindly, Mister Fox,
But more I thank the bolts and locks,
That make you stand outside the door,
To try elsewhere your lying lore.
Before you came the day was fair;
But since you spoke I do declare,
The sight of you, good sir, to day,
Has sent the whole sunshine away.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Fox and the Grapes

9. The Fox and the Grapes.
A hungry fox one day did spy,
Fa la la, fa la la la la,
Some nice ripe grapes that hung fall high,
Fa la la, fa la la la, la;
And as they hung they seem'd to say,
To him who underneath did stay, If you can reach me down you may,
Fa la la, fa la la la la.
The fox he jump'd and jump'd again,
Fa la la, fa la la la la.
And tried to reach them but in vain,
Fa la la, fa la la la la;
He smack'd his lips for near an hour,
But found the prize beyond his power,
And then he said, The grapes are sour!
Fa la la, fa la la la la.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Humming-Bird

41. The Humming-Bird.
The humming-bird, the humming-bird,
So fairy-like and bright,
It lives among the sunny flow'rs,
A creature of delight;
In radiant islands of the East,
Where fragrant spices grow,
A thousand thousand humming-birds
Go glancing to and fro.
Like living fires they flit about
Scarce larger than a bee,
Among the broad palmetto leaves,
And through the fan palm-tree.
And in the wild and verdant woods
Where lofty moras tower;
Where hangs from branching tree to tree
The stately passion-flow'r.
Thou happy happy humming-bird,
No storms around thee low'r;
Thou never saw'st a leafless tree,
Nor land without a flow'r. ​A reign of summer joyfulness
To thee for life is given;
Thy food the honey from the flow'r,
Thy drink the dew from heaven.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Fox and the Crow

56. The Fox and the Crow.
In a dairy one day
There had ventured to stray
A prying and pilfering crow,
To get what she could,
And fly off to the wood,
To her nest on the top of a bough.
There looking about,
She soon spied out
A newly cut slice from a cheese;
"Ah, ah, now," said she,
"This will just do for me
So away she flew off with her prize.
A Fox who stood by,
And had noticed her fly,
Thought, "Come, Mistress Crow, let me see!
For a Crow this may do,
But I'm fond of cheese too!"
So he came and stood under the tree.
​"Good day, Mistress Crow;
'Tis a long time ago
Since friends like ourselves have been found;
Old friends, when they meet,
One another should greet;"
But the Crow did not care to look round.
"'Tis true years have past
Since the time we met last,
But your good looks are just what they were;
The silvery tone
Of your sweet voice alone
Still sounds like a charm in mine ear.
Oh, how I would fain
Once to hear it again!"
Thought the Crow, we should all try to please;
I will just sing one note,— So she open'd her throat;
When the Fox ran away with her cheese.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Hive-Bee

4. The Hive-Bee.
Child of patient industry,
Little active busy Bee:
For thou art out at early morn,
Just as op'ning flowers are born.
Thou on eager wing art flown,
Where the thyme grows on the down;
Or, where the cowslips hang their heads,
In the green and grassy meads.
Or to revel 'mid the broom,
Or the clover's crimson bloom;
Or by the hedge-rows, where the dew
Glitters on the harebell blue.
​Sipping sweets from ev'ry flower,
Thou hast ne'er an idle hour:
Full well thou murm'rest, busy Bee,
Thy sweet Ode to Industry.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Harebell and the Foxglove

35. The Harebell and the Foxglove.
In a valley obscure, on a bank of green shade,
A sweet little Harebell her dwelling had made; ​Her roof was a woodbine that tastefully spread
Its close-woven tendrils o'erarching her head;
Her bed was of moss that each morning made new;
She din'd on a sunbeam and supp'd on the dew;
Her neighbour the nightingale sang her to rest,
And care had ne'er planted its thorn in her breast.
One morning she saw on the opposite side
A Foxglove displaying his colours of pride;
She gazed on his form, that in stateliness grew,
And envied his height and his beautiful hue;
She mark'd how the flow'rets all gave way before him.
While they press'd round her dwelling with far less decorum.
Dissatisfied, jealous, and peevish she grows,
And the sight of this Foxglove destroys her repose.
She tires of her vesture, and swelling with spleen,
Cries, "Ne'er such a dowdy blue mantle was seen!"
Nor keeps to herself any longer her pain,
But thus to a Primrose begins to complain:
"I envy your mood, that can patient abide
The respect paid that Foxglove, his airs and his pride: ​There you lit, still the same, with your colourless cheek;
But you have no spirit—would I were as meek!"
The Primrose, good-humoured, replied, "If you knew
More about him—(remember I'm older than you,
And, better instructed, can tell you his tale)—
You would envy him least of all flowers in this vale;
With all his fine airs and his dazzling show,
No flower more baneful and odious can blow;
And the reason the others before him give way
Is because they all hate him and shrink from his sway.
To stay near him long would be fading or death,
For he scatters a pest with his venomous breath;
While the flowers that you fancy are crowding you there,
Spring round you delighted your converse to share.
His flame-coloured robe is imposing, 'tis true,
Yet who likes it so well as your mantle of blue?
For we know that of innocence one is the vest,
The other the cloak of a treacherous breast.
​I see your surprise—but I know him full well,
And have numbered his victims as fading they fell;
He blighted twin violets that under him lay,
And poison'd a sister of mine the same day."
The Primrose was silent; the Harebell, 'tis said,
Inclined for a moment her beautiful head,
But quickly recover'd her spirits, and then
Declared that she ne'er would feel envy again.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Italian Pedlar Boy

12. The Italian Pedlar Boy.
From the fair Sardinian shore,
I your markets come to store;
Muse not though so far I dwell,
And my wares come here to sell:
'Tis from the fear of hunger and cold.
Then come to my pack while I cry,
What d'ye lack, what d'ye buy?
For here it is to be sold.
Knives and scissors—thus I cry;
Thread and tape—come, ladies, buy;
Pins and needles—here you see
All of finest quality.
Things for the young, and things for the old.
Then come to my pack, &c.
Ladies! ah, you not'ing buy
From the poor Italian boy;
Yet I left my own dear home,
And to you, kind friends, am come.
Let me not die, then, of hunger and cold.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Highland Lassie

5. The Highland Lassie.
With merry blue eyes, and with loose flowing hair,
With fresh rosy cheeks, and her pretty feet bare,
With a tatter'd straw bonnet, that loosely is tied,
And a little rush basket that hangs at her side,
Which she fills full with heather bells lilac and blue,
And daisies and berries of many a hue,
My sweet Highland lassie is singing as gay,
As a little sky-lark at the break of the day.
My pretty young child, can I take you with me,
My little pet servant and maiden to be,
Away from this moorland, so dismal and drear,
To be nurse to my own little baby and dear;
To sing your nice songs, all so lively and gay,
To my merry young folks at the time of their play?
Oh, come, my sweet maiden, and do not say nay;
Let us leave these bleak mountains, and hasten away.
​O lady! my mother is aged and poor,
And scarcely can walk to her own cottage-door;
My father is dead, and no other has she
To help and to tend her but poor little me.
No! while mother lives, by her side will I stay,
To watch her by night, and to cheer her by day;
But when mother dies, and in her grave is laid,
Oh, send for me then, for your own little maid.
# A First Series of Hymns and Songs/Descriptive Songs/The Irish Harper and his Dog

14 The Irish Harper and his Dog.
On the green banks of Shannon, when Summer was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my faithful dog Tray.
Poor dog! he was watchful and kind, to be sure,
And he constantly loved me, although I was poor;
When the sour-looking folks sent me heartless away,
I had always a friend in my faithful dog Tray.
When the road was so dark, and the night was so cold,
And Pat and his dog were grown weary and old,
How snugly we slept in my old coat of gray,
And he lick'd me for kindness, my faithful dog Tray!
Though my wallet was scant, I remembered his case,
Nor refused my last crust to his pitiful face;
But he died at my feet on a cold winter's day,
And I play'd a lament for my faithful dog Tray.
​Where now shall I go, poor, forsaken, and blind?
Can I find one to guide me, so faithful and kind?
To my sweet native village, so far, far away,
I can never return with my faithful dog Tray.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hall, Basil

​Hall, Basil (1788-1844).—Traveller, s. of Sir James H., an eminent man of science, was in the navy, and rose to be captain. He was one of the first to visit Corea, and wrote Voyage of Discovery to Corea (1818), also Travels in North America in 1827-28, a lively work which gave some offence in the U.S., Fragments of Voyages and Travels (1831-40), and some tales and romances. He was latterly insane.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hall, Joseph

​Hall, Joseph (1574-1656).—Divine, b. at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, and ed. at Camb., he entered the Church, and became in 1627 Bishop of Exeter, and in 1641 Bishop of Norwich. He had a chequered career. He accompanied James I. to Scotland in 1617, and was a Deputy to the Synod of Dort. Accused of Puritanism, and at enmity with Laud, he fell on troublous days, and was, in 1641, imprisoned in the Tower for joining those bishops who protested against the validity of laws passed during their exclusion (owing to tumult in the streets) from Parliament. Returning to Norwich he found that his revenues had been sequestrated, and his private property seized. In 1647 he retired to a small farm near Norwich, where he passed the remainder of his life. Among his works are Contemplations, Characters of Virtues and Vices (1614), and his Virgidemiarum, or Satires (1597-8), the last written before he was in orders, and condemned by Archbishop Whitgift to be burned. Pope, however, thought them "the best poetry and truest satire in the English language." H.'s Divine Right of Episcopacy gave rise to much controversy, in which Archbishop Ussher, Milton, and the writers who called themselves "Smectymnuus" (a combination of their initials) took part.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hall, or Halle, Edward

​Hall, or Halle, Edward (1499?-1547).—Chronicler, b. in London, studied successively at Camb. and Oxf. He was a lawyer, and sat in Parliament for Bridgnorth, and served on various Commissions. He wrote a history of The Union of the two Noble and Illusive Families of Lancastre and Yorke, commonly called Hall's Chronicle. It was pub. after the author's death by Richard Grafton, and was prohibited by Queen Mary.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hallam, Henry

​Hallam, Henry (1777-1859).—Historian, s. of a Dean of Wells, was b. at Windsor, and ed. at Eton and Oxf. He was ​called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, and appointed a Commissioner of Stamps. Among his earliest writings were papers in the Edinburgh Review; but in 1818 he leaped into a foremost place among historical writers by the publication of his View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. This was followed in 1827 by The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II., and his third great work, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, in 4 vols., appeared in 1837-39. All these, which have gone through several ed., and have been translated into the principal languages of Europe, are characterised by wide and profound learning, indefatigable research, and judicial impartiality. They opened a new field of investigation in which their author has had few, if any, superiors. In politics H. was a Whig; but he took no active share in party warfare. He had two sons of great promise, both of whom predeceased him. Of these the elder, Arthur Henry, is the subject of Tennyson's In Memoriam, and of him his f. wrote a touching memoir prefixed to his literary remains.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of

​Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of (1661-1715).—A famous wit, statesman, and patron of literature, was ed. at Westminster School and Trinity Coll., Camb. Entering Parliament he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1694, and First Lord of the Treasury 1697. Vain and arrogant, he soon lost popularity and power. His chief literary effort was his collaboration with Prior in The Town and Country Mouse (1687), a parody of and reply to Dryden's Hind and Panther. H. was the friend and patron of Addison, Steele, Congreve, and many other of the classical writers of his day. He became a peer in 1701.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria

​Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria (Fielding) (1800-1881).—Novelist, was b. in Dublin, but left Ireland at the age of 15. Nevertheless, that country gave her the motive of several of her most successful books, such as Sketches of Irish Character (1829), Lights and Shadows of Irish Character (1838), Marian (1839), and The White Boy (1845). Other works are The Buccaneer, and Midsummer Eve, a fairy tale, and many sketches in the Art Journal, of which her husband, Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), was ed. With him she also collaborated in a work entitled ​Ireland, its Scenery, Character etc. Mrs. H. was a very voluminous writer; her descriptive talents were considerable, as also was her power of depicting character. Her husband was likewise a writer of some note, chiefly on art.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hall, Robert

​Hall, Robert (1764-1831).—Divine, b. at Arnsby, Leicestershire, the s. of a Baptist minister of some note, was ed. at a Baptist Academy, and at the Univ. of Aberdeen, from which he received the degree of D.D. in 1817. He ministered to congregations at Bristol, Cambridge, Leicester, and again at Bristol, and became one of the greatest pulpit orators of his day. His most famous sermon was that on the Death of the Princess Charlotte (1817). Another which created a great impression was that on Modern Infidelity. H. was a life-long sufferer, and was occasionally insane, yet his intellectual activity was unceasing. After his death a collection of 50 of his sermons was pub. (1843), and Miscellaneous Works and Remains (1846).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

​Hamerton, Philip Gilbert (1834-1894).—Artist and writer on æsthetics, s. of a solicitor, was b. near Oldham. Originally intended for the Church, he decided for art and literature. After working as an artist in the Highlands with his wife, who was a Frenchwoman, he settled in France, and devoted himself to writing on art. Among his works are Etching and Etchers, etc. (1868), Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism (1869), The Intellectual Life (1873), Human Intercourse (1884), The Graphic Arts (1882), Landscape (1885), some of which were magnificently illustrated. He also left an autobiography. His writings had a great influence upon artists, and also in stimulating and diffusing the love of art among the public.
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