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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anson, Talavera Vernon

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​ANSON. (Captain, 1841. p-p., 17; h-p., 6.)
Talavera Vernon Anson, born 26 Nov. 1809, is second son of Gen. Sir Geo. Anson, G.C.B. (Governor of Chelsea Hospital, Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards, Equerry to the Duchess of Kent, and Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert), by Frances, daughter of the late John Hamilton, Esq., and sister of Sir Fred. Hamilton, Bart. Capt. Anson, a collateral descendant of Vice-Admiral Lord Anson, is nephew of Gen. Sir Wm. Anson, Bart., G.C.B., also of the late Viscount Anson, and first cousin (with Lieut. Thos. Anson, R.N.) of the Earl of Lichfield, formerly Postmaster-General. His sister, Mary Anne, married Robert Plumer Ward, Esq., the distinguished novelist, and is consequently step-mother of H. G. Ward, Esq., the present Secretary to the Admiralty.
This officer entered the Navy, 16 June, 1824, on board the Britomart 10, Capt. Octavius Venables Vernon, with whom, and Capts. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman and Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, he afterwards served in the Primrose 18, Rattlesnake 28, and Belvidera 42, on the West India and Mediterranean stations, until advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, 12 March, 1823. His appointments in the latter capacity were, 3 Sept. 1831, to the Spartiate 76, Capt. Robt. Tait, 12 June, 1834, to the Blonde 46, Capt. Fras. Mason, and 14 Feb. 1837, to the Seringapatam 46, Capt. John Leith, in which ships he appears to have been employed both in South America and in the West Indies. Obtaining a second commission, 30 June, 1838, Capt. Anson, on 12 Dec. 1839, assumed command of the Pylades 18. For his subsequent services in China, where he took an able and indefatigable part in the operations against Canton, and witnessed the fall of Amoy, he was elevated to Post-rank, 8 June, 1841. He returned to England in 1842, and now commands the Eurydice 22.
Capt. Anson married, 13 June, 1843, Sarah Ann, daughter of the late Rich. Potter, Esq., of Manchester, by whom (who died 5 May, 1846) he had issue. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anthony, Charles

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​ANTHONY. (Commander, 1813. p-p., 21; h-p., 33.)
Charles Anthony entered the Navy, 6 March, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Russel 74, Capts. John Willet Payne and Thos. Larcom, the former of whom, after participating in the actions of Howe and Bridport, he rejoined, in Otet. 1796, on board the Impétueux 74. During the three following years he served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, under Sir Thos. Livingstone, Sir Home Popham, and other officers, in the Expedition armée en flûte, on the Home station, subsequently to which he sailed for the Mediterranean as Acting-Lieutenant of the Alkmaar 54, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, and was there confirmed, from the Minotaur 74, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, into the Blonde, Capt. John Burn, 29 Aug. 1800. For his services, as First of that ship, in the expedition of 1801 to Egypt, where he assisted at the disembarkation of the troops in Aboukir Bay, commanded a gun-boat up ​the Nile and on Lake Mareotis, and was present at the capture of Alexandria, Mr. Anthony received the Turkish gold medal. Being next appointed, 20 July, 1804, to, the Britannia 100, bearing the flag of Lord Northesk, he took part in the battle of Trafalgar, and on the overthrow of the combined fleets was placed in charge of oue of the prizes, the Swiftsure 74, which ship, however, in consequence of the injuries she had received, be was soon compelled to abandon. From 19 June, 1806, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 29 Dec. 1813, Mr. Anthony was next employed, as First Lieutenant, on the Home, West India, and Canada stations, of the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Sir John Duckworth, Acasta 40, Capt. Philip Beaver, Hippomenes 16, Capt. Edw. Woolcombe, Harpy 14, Capt. Geo. Wm. Blainey, St. Domingo 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Strachan, and Wolfe 18, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. While Acting-Captain of the Harpy, he covered the landing of the troops on the island of Walcheren, in Aug. 1809, and assisted at the ensuing reduction of Flushing. When afterwards with Sir Jas. Yeo on Lake Ontario, we find the subject of this memoir, in June, 1813, commanding a division of gun-boats in a very gallant and successful encounter vrith the Americans at Forty-Mile Creek, and also assisting at the capture of two of their schooners, of a depot of provisions at Genesee River, and of other supplies from Great Sodus. He subsequently took part in three actions with Commodore Chauncey’s squadron, viz. on 10 Aug., when the British took two of his vessels — in a partial action fought on 11 Sept. off Genesee River — and in another which took place on 28 of the same month. Being appointed, on the day of his promotion, to the command of the Star brig, he further co-operated with Sir Jas. Yeo, and behaved much to the satisfaction of that gallant officer, at the capture of Fort Oswego, on which occasion, 6 May, 1814, he united with the Charwell in covering the boats containing the troops. Since his return to England, in Dec. 1814, Commander Anthony has been on half-pay.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 2081.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814. p. 1369.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Antram, Simon Edward

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​ANTRAM. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Simon Edward Antram, born 28 Feb. 1786, is brother of Lieut. Geo. Antram, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 March, 1801, as A.B., on board the St. George 98, Capts. Thos. Masterman Hardy, Lenox Thompson, and Wm. Grenville Lobb, successive flag-ship of Lord Nelson and Sir Chas. Morice Pole. In March, 1803, after serving in the Baltic, off Cadiz, and in the West Indies, he became Master’s Mate of the Enterprise receiving-ship off the Tower, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Somerville; and while subsequently attached, from Jan. 1804, to Jan. 1810, to the Illustrious 74, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Mich. Seymour, Wm. Shield, and Wm. Robt. Broughton, he witnessed the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and commanded a gun-vessel during the operations against Flushing. Until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 14 June, 1811, Mr. Antram served, on the West India station, in the Sparrow, Sappho, and Pelorus sloops, Capts. Josh. Ricketts Rowley and Hayes O’Grady. He then rejoined the Sappho, commanded by the latter officer, and, on 26 May, 1815, was next appointed to the Censor 10, Capt. Josh. Kneeshaw. He was placed on half-pay 10 Oct. following, and has not since been afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anley, William

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​ANLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
William Anley entered the Navy, 19 Nov. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Neptune 98, Capts. Sir Thos. Williams and Chas. Dilkes, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Alex. Cochrane, in which he assisted at the capture, in Feb. and April, 1809, of the island of Martinique, and of the French 74-gun ship D’Haupoult. After serving for some time with Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Pompée 74, and Statira 38, and co-operating in the reduction of ​Guadeloupe, he joined the Dragon 74, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey, on leaving whom, in Feb. 1811, he appears to have been employed for two years with Capt. Dilkes, in the Castor 32, on the Jamaica and Mediterranean stations. He then became successively attached to the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, Forth 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, and Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Sir A. Cochrane; and, in Sept. 1814, was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Royal Oak 74. In that ship he served under Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the ensuing attack upon New Orleans. Since his official promotion, which took place 13 June, 1815, he has been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Aplin, Benjamin

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​APLIN. (Lieutenant, 1811.)
Benjamin Aplin is brother of Capt. J. G. Aplin R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1805 as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Weymouth, Capt. John Draper. Joining, on his return from a voyage to the East Indies, the Maes 74, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Wm. Lukin, he assisted, as Midshipman, we believe, at the capture of the French frigate Le Rhin, of 44 guns, 28 July, 1806; was also present at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Sam. ​Hood, of four other of the enemy’s frigates, two of which, La Gloire 46, and L’Infatigable 44, struck to the Mars, off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806; and accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807. After a subsequent attachment of three years to the Volontaire 38, Capt. Chas. Bullen, Atlas 98, flag-ship of Vice- Admiral John Child Purvis, and Goldfinch and Pheasant sloops, Capts. Arden Adderley and John Palmer, in the Mediterranean and off the coast of Spain, Mr. Aplin was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 16 May, 1811. His succeeding appointments were, on the North America, West India, and Home stations – 5 Sept. 1811, to the Reindeer 18, Capts. Peter John Douglas, John Geo. Boss, and Wm. Manners – 15 Aug. 1814, to the Armide 38, Capts. Fras. Temple and Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge – 15 Aug. 1814, to the Redwing 16, Capt. Thos. Young – 20 Jan. 1816, to the Rivoli 71, Capt. Chas. Ogle – 17 April, 1819, to the Hind, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard – 26 July, 1821, to the Coast Guard – and, 25 Oct. 1822, 11 Jan. 1827, and 24 May, 1830, to the command of the Swan cutter, Skylark brig, and Messenger steamer, which latter vessel he left in 1832. Mr. Aplin, since 3 Dec. 1842, has been in command of the Acheron steam-sloop, on the Mediterranean station. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Ada's Beast of a Man

MARK AND THE COSTERMONGERS
Ada's Beast of a Man
"Well, m'am, I feels all over alike. That beast of a 'usband of my pretty pet of a Ada he wouldn't let her have a van to move in when she had all that sweep of furniture that he bought for her at the market for five pounds ($25) and her chest of drawsers besides. Real, I don't feel as if I could eat a bit, I don't.
"She had to get a barrow, Ada had, and a wheel came hoff and the pretty pet had to hold it up with the long broom while the man was a-pushing of it. But I will say, she has improved her rooms in moving.
"But it didn't look at all like a man of his standing, the governor of a coal cart. And you can imagine what the neighbors said, seeing the moving on the barrow and my pretty pet holding of it up.
"But I must say she got blinds, they are those Verinkers (Venetians) you 'eard of. Sure he is a beast, my pretty pet's man. He wouldn't even put up the indecent lights for her, and she had to pay a man tuppence to do it for her while she was still a-trembling from holding up the barrow and that after paying tuppence halfpenny for the indecent lights."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/An Australian Surprise

AN AUSTRALIAN SURPRISE
At the time when Mark was living quietly at Ledworth Square, London, writing "Around the World," we met a party of Australians at the Metropole one afternoon. It was after poor Susie's death, and the heartbroken father hadn't made anyone laugh for months. But those "Aussies kind of woke me up," he admitted. "Jolly guys, out there at the Antipodes," he said after the first round; "too bad I didn't know that when I struck Sydney. As I prepared to step upon the platform there, I wondered, with some fear and trepidation, whether your people would take kindly to my brand of humor. If they refused to be tickled by my first lecture—God have mercy upon my creditors! Of course I had my story pat. Still, as I climbed those steps, I debated in my mind whether or not I had better substitute such or such a yarn for the opening lines planned. I had half decided to risk a change, when I faced the audience and—the pleasantest, the most overwhelming surprise of my life! I met a sea, a whole Atlantic, of guffawing heads, of swaying bodies and shoulders. There wasn't a titter or a snicker; there wasn't any smirking or grinning; all eyes were in flood with genuine laughter; men, women, and children were crowing and chuckling aloud, were shouting and hurraying, everybody was convulsed—really I must have looked the white kangaroo for which ​I was named. The Sydney audience laughing at me before I opened my mouth clinched my success at the Antipodes."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field

ABROAD WITH MARK TWAIN and EUGENE FIELD
Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent
By HENRY W. FISHER
NICHOLAS L. BROWN NEW YORKMCMXXII
Copyright, 1922 by Nicholas L. Brown
To Marian Phelps (Mrs. Phelps-Peters)
whose youth, beauty and cleverness delighted Mark Twain in his troubled Berlin days.
CONTENTS
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# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/"Ambition Is a Jade that More Than One Man Can Ride"

"AMBITION IS A JADE THAT MORE THAN ONE MAN CAN RIDE"
We had been talking about changing one's luck at the Eccentric Club, London, and Mark said: "All is personal effort, there is no such thing as anything interfering for one's advantage or the opposite."
"Guess you are about right," said Stoker. "There was Loie Fuller, an indifferent soubrette before she became the goddess of beauty and chained Anatole France and the rest to her chariot. I remember meeting her one afternoon in the Strand, looking for a cable office. Only a few hours previous I had heard that poor Loie was on her uppers, her manager having cheated her, leaving her penniless in Berlin. And, worse luck, I didn't know a thing she could do in London, or even the provinces, just then. That, you can imagine, made me feel quite gawky."
"Well, you had a right to be a sob sister," interpolated Mark.
"She didn't give me the chance, not she," emphasized Bram, "for, grabbing me by the arm, with tears rolling down her cheeks, she whispered in a choked voice: "Father is dead. Father is dead! Lend me ten shillings to cable to New York, please." She added: 'Poor Father. But now I will succeed, I swear it, Father.'
"And two or three weeks later she created the serpentine dance, earning such blurbs as
​'the chastest and most expressive of dancers, who restored to us the lost wonders of Greek mimicry.'"
"I hear she is about to open her own theatre in Paris now," announced the Standard critic.
"That's the stuff," said Mark. "Loie, like myself—both red-headed—knew that ambition is a horse that more than one can ride. I grabbed that idea 'way back in the seventies when Artemus Ward came down lecturing Virginia way. Art was a success and I liked the lordly nonchalance with which he spent two or three hundred dollars on a tear. I helped him spend plenty, I assure you, but when Art and the brown taste in my mouth had gone, I took stock.
"'Sam,' I said to myself, quite familiar-like, 'Sam, your mental adipose is as good as his, and in originality you can beat him dead.'
"After these encouraging remarks, I set to work making good," concluded Mark.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/"Murderer" Blücher in Oxford

"MURDERER" BLUCHER IN OXFORD
"Oxford, though you might not think so, has a traffic cop, the same as Forty-Second Street and Fifth Avenue," said Mark in the Savoy Lounge across the teacups after the excitement over his triumph in the British University metropolis had cooled down a bit. "He is a smart guy—actually remembers Holmes' visit and asked me about the old man. He spoke of him as 'Ome's, Sweet Ome's.' When you come to think of it, it's a good name, after all.
"Among other interesting things, not connected with the University, was a public house sign I lit upon at a corner not far from our inn. It showed a great warrior on a fierce charger. 'General Blucher' was written across the bottom. It gave me quite a start when I learned that on this spot, in 1816 or 1817, Blucher hollered for a drink and got it when on his way to the University."
"What did he want with the University?" I queried.
"He was crowned a doctor there after Waterloo.
"I tell you, that took me down a peg, or rather a whole row of pegs. Blucher a doctor like myself! I knew him as a foul-mouthed, cruel, pestiferous, and thieving scoundrel—occasionally lucky in the field. But now I wanted to know more about him and I have ​haunted the British Museum for additional facts. What do you think I learned? Blucher, who was dirty and slouchy by nature, dressed up on the eve of battle:—best tunic, fancy sword, gilt lace, feathered hat and what-not! And he had himself bathed, rouged and powdered, manicured and curry-combed.
"'I feel like a girl going to her first ball,' he used to say.
"And people like that, who delight in murder and rapine, receive honorary degrees!"
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/A Wise Provision of Providence

A WISE PROVISION OF PROVIDENCE
From a window at the Hotel de Rome, Mark and friends were "reviewing" the ceremonial entry of the King of Italy in Berlin.
"Fine horse-flesh," Mark kept saying, "and the gee-gees look better fed and happier than all that bedizened and beribboned royalty."
"What's that string of riders following the 'four-poster'" (Mark's description of a state coach), "tied to the twelve horses? They seem to sport every conceivable uniform, Horse, Foot, and Artillery!"
"Those are the German kings and kinglets," it was explained.
"Let's count them," said Mark.
They counted some twenty crowned heads, "young, old, and mouse-colored," said our friend, as he retired from the window and attacked the coffee and cake. He sat musing for a while, but when somebody suggested "billiards," he became alert as usual.
"I have been thinking," he said—"thinking of wise Providence. Just fancy that Providence had run the Equator through Europe, instead of through the Pacific, or wherever it is now. If the Equator happened to be located in the Old World, each of the kings we have seen, and more to be heard from, would be itching and grabbing for it, pouring out their subjects' blood like water (saving their own, of course) to get hold of the blamed thing. I would make them sit on it. Hot dogs."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/American Humorists

AMERICAN HUMORISTS
They were talking about humorists in Mr. Jackson's office. Jackson was the first secretary of legation, blessed with a very beautiful wife and money. After a lot of talk, Twain was asked for his opinion.
"Well," he said, "the greatest American humorist I know of is Mr. Fox of the 'Police Gazette'—the fellow who put full evening dress on sluggers. John L. Sullivan and some of the hard-boiled boys he licked were, of course, familiar to the American eye in trunks and undershirts. Reflect on the giant mind that conceived the original idea of making them look like Kyrle Bellew or Augustin Daly. Fox with that picture beat us Knights of the Quill easily."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/"Pa Used to Be a Terrible Man"

"PA USED TO BE A TERRIBLE MAN"
With Mark's daughter Susie, I was walking in the Berlin Thiergarten one afternoon when we encountered a very rough specimen of the genus tramp.
"Look at him," said Susie. "You know, Pa, too, was an awful man before Mamma took him in hand and married him." And with added seriousness, she continued: "He used to swear and swear, and then swear again, and the only thing that he didn't do that was bad was to let cards and liquor alone—some kinds of liquor."
It is too bad that I forget Mark's comment on the above when I told him.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/American Women the Prettiest

AMERICAN WOMEN THE PRETTIEST
In another place I have recorded Mark's high opinion of the beauty of the Vienna women and of the lack of beauty he encountered at the Berlin court.
As we were walking home from a reception given by Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson (John Jackson, of New Jersey, first secretary of the Berlin Legation) Mark said: "It's like looking up at the Horse Shoe in the Metropolitan Opera House to see those pretty American girls, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Bingham (wife of Captain, later General Bingham) and Marion Phelps (daughter of Minister William Walter Phelps). Marion is blonde and inclined to be statuesque, like the native women here, but oh, the difference! As in the case of Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Bingham, one sees at a glance that Nature squandered more refinement on her than on a thousand Berlin women, royal and otherwise.
"They say God made man in his effigy. I don't know about that, but I'm quite sure that he put a lot of divinity into the American girl."
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ross, Robert

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​ROSS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Robert Ross (whose name had been borne on the books of the Cambridge 74, guard-ship at Plymouth) embarked, 16 July, 1803, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Sea Flower 14, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, attached to the fleet in the Channel; where, from Aug. 1804 (seven months after he had left that vessel) until Feb. 1808, he served, the greater part of the time with the rating of Midshipman, in the Prince George 98, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke and Geo. Losack, Barfleur 98, Capt. Sir J. S. Yorke, and Foudroyant 80, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Albemarle Bertie. After he had been further employed on the Lisbon and North Sea stations in the Minotaur 74, Capt. Norborne Thompson, and Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, he joined, in Oct. 1810, the Galatea 42, Capt. Woodley Losack; under whom, while cruizing off Madagascar, in company with the Astraea and Phoebe, frigates about equal in force to the Galatea, and 18-gun brig Racehorse, we find him, 20 May, 1811, participating in a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde, and Néréide, in which the Galatea, besides being much damaged in her hull, masts, and rigging, sustained a loss of 16 men killed and 46 wounded. Quitting her in Jan. 1813, Mr. Ross was next, until Sept. 1815, employed on the American and Home stations in the Saturn 56, Capts. Jas. Nash and Thos. Brown, Bittern sloop, Capt. Geo. Augustus Hire, and Superb 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham. He then took up a commission bearing date 10 March, 1815; and has not been since afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rothery, John

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​ROTHERY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 27; h-p., 20.)
John Rothery entered the Navy, in Dec. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alligator 28, Capt. Bowen, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; on which station he continued employed as Midshipman in two other vessels, commanded by Capts. Langford and Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, until Sept. 1803. He served subsequently in the West Indies and Channel in the Pandora, Capt. John Nash, Alligator again, Capt. Chas. Richardson, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Lords Gardner and St. Vincent, and Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Bedford. In 1807, being then in the London, 98, Capt. Thos. Western, he accompanied the royal family of Portugal in its flight to the Brazils. In July, 1809, he became Acting-Lieutenant (a rank he had held on board the London) of the Rosario sloop, Capt. Booty Harvey, lying in the Downs, where, and in the Baltic, North Sea, and Channel, he served as Midshipman and as Master’s Mate, from May, 1810, until July, 1813, in the Princess of Orange and Princess Caroline 74’s, Capts. Fras. Beauman and Hugh Downman. In Oct. of the latter year he was nominated Second-Master of the Montagu 74,’Capt. Peter Heywood, under whom he continued serving as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 8 Feb. 1815) in the North Sea and Mediterranean until July, 1816. Deducting a three years’ command, held from Oct. 1834 until Sept. 1837, of the Cheerful Revenue-vessel, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard since 10 Nov. 1829.