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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, John (c)

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​ALLEN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Allen entered the Navy (from, we believe, the R.N. College) 23 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1828; became Mate, in 1838, of the Camelion 10, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Martin Hunter, on the South America station; and was promoted, while serving in the Coast Guard, 15 Jan. 1841. His appointments have since been – 13 July, 1841, to the Wanderer 16, Capt. Geo. Henry Seymour, in the East Indies – 6 July, 1844, to the Coast Guard – and, 18 June, 1845, to the command of the Tartar Revenue-vessel, in which he is now serving.
Lieut. Allen is Senior of 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alexander, William Charles

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​ALEXANDER. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Charles Alexander died 18 April, 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 23 Dec. 1831; passed his examination 8 March, 1836; and served latterly, as Mate, in the President 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admirals Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross and Rich. Thomas. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 May, 1842, and from 19 July following until the period of his death was employed at the Cape of Good Hope on board the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Christ. Wyvill. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alldridge, Thomas Adye

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​ALLDRIDGE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Thomas Adye Alldridge is brother of Lieut. G. M. Alldridge, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 15 May, 1823; passed his examination 6 Dec. 1831; was for some time Mate of the Pembroke 72, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, on the Mediterranean station; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 24 Feb. 1840; and for a brief period previous to his advancement to the rank he now holds, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, ​officiated as Senior Mate of the Impregnable 104, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore. His appointments have since been – 4 March, 1842, to the Indus 72, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, in the Mediterranean – 20 March, 1843, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, off the coast of Africa – and, 13 Dec. 1845, as First, to the Sampson steam-frigate, Capt. Thos. Henderson, now employed in the Pacific.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, Henry Murray Edward

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​ALLEN. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 22; h-p., 3.)
Henry Murray Edward Allen is next brother of Capt. John Jas. Allen, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1822. Becoming Midshipman, in 1823, of the Sybille 48, Capt. Sam. John Brooke Pechell, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and was there employed in the boats during a hard-fought and sanguinary contest with the pirates of Candia, 18 June, 1826. Obtaining his first commission, 24 Feb. 1829, he was afterwards appointed, on the former and North America and West India stations – 25 Feb. 1830, to the Actæon 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey – 9 July, 1834, as First, to the Favorite 18, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy – and, 14 Feb. 1837, in a similar capacity, to the Seringapatam 46, Capt. John Leith. Capt. Allen, who attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841, and had been employed, since 4 June, 1844, in the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendants at Jamaica of Commodores Alex. Renton Sharpe and Dan. Pring, acquired the rank he now holds 9 Nov. 1846.
He married, 30 Dec. 1841, Mary, daughter of the late John Eversley, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, John James

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​ALLEN. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 14.)
John James Allen, born 15 May, 1806, is eldest son of John Lee Allen, Esq., of Errol Park, co. Perth; and brother of Capt. H. M. E. Allen, R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Feb. 1818; and embarked, in April, 1819, on board the Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon. After an intermediate and uninterrupted servitude on the America, West India, and Mediterranean stations, he was promoted (having passed his examination in 1824) to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 5 April, 1827. His subsequent appointments in that capacity were – on 28 of the same month, to the Chanticleer 10, Capt. Wynne Baird – 21 July, 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 28 April, 1829, and 17 March, 1831, to the Sparrowhawk 18, and Falcon 10, Capts. Thos. Gill and Thos. Metcalfe Currie, both on the Jamaica station – and, 30 Sept. 1831, to the Pallas 42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, also in the West Indies. He obtained the rank of Commander 6 Oct. 1832, but remained thenceforward unemployed until appointed, 27 Aug. 1840, to the Lily 16. After officiating for some months as Senior Officer on the east coast of Africa and in the Indian Ocean, Capt. Allen was advanced to Post-rank 23 Nov. 1841. He has not since been afloat.
He married, 28 Aug. 1832, Lady Henrietta Dundas Duncan, eldest daughter of the Earl of Camperdown, granddaughter of the celebrated Admiral Lord Duncan, and sister of Viscount Duncan, M.P. for Bath, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/To Caroline

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 277
TO CAROLINE.
When thy bounding step I hear,
And thy soft voice, low and clear;
When thy glancing eyes I meet,
In their sudden laughter sweet—
Thou, I dream, wert surely born
For a path by care unworn!
Thou must be a shelter'd flower,
With but sunshine for thy dower.
Ah! fair child, not e'en for thee
May this lot of brightness be;
Yet, if grief must add a tone
To thine accents now unknown;
If within that cloudless eye
Sadder thought must one day lie,
Still, I trust the signs which tell
On thy life a light shall dwell,
Light—thy gentle spirit's own,
From within around thee thrown.
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/To the New-Born

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Pages 195-196
TO THE NEW-BORN.*
A Blessing on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!
A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and tears.
Thy father greets thee unto life, with a full and chasten'd heart,
For a solemn gift from God thou com'st, all precious as thou art!
I see thee not asleep, fair boy, upon thy mother's breast,
Yet well I know how guarded there shall be thy rosy rest;
And how her soul with love, and prayer, and gladness, will o'erflow,
While bending o'er thy soft-seal'd eyes, thou dear one, well I know!
A blessing on thy gentle head! and bless'd thou art in truth,
For a home where God is felt, awaits thy childhood and thy youth:
Around thee pure and holy thoughts shall dwell as light and air,
And steal unto thine heart, and wake the germs now folded there.
Smile on thy mother! while she feels that unto her is given,
In that young day-spring glance the pledge of a soul to rear for heaven!
Smile! and sweet peace be o'er thy sleep, joy o'er thy wakening shed!
Blessings and blessings evermore, fair boy! upon thy head!
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/The Rod of Aaron

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 175
THE ROD OF AARON.
(Numbers xvii. 8.)
Was it the sigh of the southern gale
 That flush'd the almond bough?
Brightest and first the young Spring to hail,
 Still its red blossoms glow.
Was it the sunshine that woke its flowers
 With a kindling look of love?
Oh, far and deep, and through hidden bowers,
 That smile of heaven can rove!
No! from the breeze and the living light
 Shut was the sapless rod;
But it felt in the stillness a secret might,
 And thrill'd to the breath of God.
E'en so may that breath, like the vernal air,
 O'er our glad spirits move;
And all such things as are good and fair,
 Be the blossoms, its track that prove!
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/The Star of the Mine

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 142
THE STAR OF THE MINE.
From the deep chambers of a mine,
 With heavy gloom o'erspread,
I saw a star at noontide shine,
 Serenely o'er my head.
I had not seen it 'midst the glow
 Of the rich upper day;
But in that shadowy world below,
 How my heart bless'd its ray!
And still, the farther from my sight
 Torches and lamps were borne,
The purer, lovelier, seem'd the light
 That wore its beams unshorn.
Oh! what is like that heavenly spark?
 —A friend's kind, steadfast eye;
Where, brightest when the world grows dark,
 Hope, cheer, and comfort lie!
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/To the Daughter of Bernard Barton

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 141
TO THE DAUGHTER OF BERNARD BARTON,
THE QUAKER POET.
Happy thou art, the child of one
 Who in each lowly flower,
Each leaf that glances to the sun,
 Or trembles with the shower;
In each soft shadow of the sky,
 Or sparkle of the stream,
Will guide thy kindling spirit's eye
 To trace the Love Supreme.
So shall deep quiet fill thy breast,
 A joy in wood and wild;—
And e'en for this I call thee blest,
 The gentle poet's child!
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/On the "Iphigenia" of Goethe

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Pages 298-299
ON THE "IPHIGENIA" OF GOETHE.
AN UNFINISHED FRAGMENT.
There is a charm of antique grace, of the majestic repose resulting from a faultless symmetry, about the whole of this composition, which inclines us to rank it as among the most consummate works of art ever achieved by the master-mind of its author. The perfection of its design and finish is analogous to that of a Grecian temple, seen as the crown of some old classic height, with all its pure outlines—all the delicate proportions of its airy pillars—brought into bold relief by the golden sunshine, and against the unclouded blue of its native heavens. Complete within itself, the harmonious edifice is thus also to the mind and eye of the ​beholder; they are filled, and desire no more—they even feel that more would be but incumbrance upon the fine adjustment of the well-ordered parts constituting the graceful whole. It sends no vague dreams to wander through infinity, such as are excited by a Gothic minster, where the slight pinnacles striving upward, like the free but still baffled thought of the architect—the clustering pillars and high arches imitating the bold combinations of mysterious forests—the many-branching cells, and long visionary aisles, of which waving torchlight or uncertain glimpses of the moon seem the fittest illumination—ever suggest ideas of some conception in the originally moulding mind, far more vast than the means allotted to human accomplishment—of struggling endeavour, and painfully submitted will. Akin to the spirit of such creations is that of the awful but irregular Faust, and other works of Goethe, in which the restless questionings, the lofty aspirations, and dark misgivings of the human soul, are perpetually called up to "come like shadows, so depart," across the stormy splendours of the scene; and the mind is engaged in ceaseless conflict with the interminable mysteries of life. It is otherwise with the work before us: overshadowed, as it were, by the dark wings of the inflexible destiny which hovers above the children of Tantalus, the spirit of the imaginary personages, as well as of the reader, here moves acquiescently within the prescribed circle of events, and is seldom tempted beyond, to plunge into the abyss of general speculations upon the lot of humanity.
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/To Giulio Regondi. The Boy Guitarist

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 269
TO GIULIO REGONDI,
THE BOY GUITARIST.
Blessing and love be round thee still, fair boy!
 Never may suffering wake a deeper tone,
Than genius now, in its first fearless joy,
 Calls forth exulting from the chords which own
Thy fairy touch! Oh! may'st thou ne'er be taught
The power whose fountain is in troubled thought!
For in the light of those confiding eyes,
 And on the ingenuous calm of that clear brow,
A dower, more precious e'en than genius lies,
 A pure mind's worth, a warm heart's vernal glow!
God, who hath graced thee thus, oh, gentle child,
Keep 'midst the world thy brightness undefiled!
# Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/Lot of Man and Woman Compared by Iphigenia

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 301
III.
LOT OF MAN AND WOMAN COMPARED BY IPHIGENIA.
Man by the battle's hour immortalized
May fall, yet leave his name to living song;
But of forsaken woman's countless tears,
What recks the after-world? the poet's voice
Tells nought of all the slow, sad, weary days,
And long, long nights, through which the lonely soul
Pour'd itself forth, consumed itself away,
In passionate adjurings, vain desires,
And ceaseless weepings for the early lost,
The loved and vanish'd!
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Andros, Charles

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​ANDROS. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)
Charles Andros entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1806, as Second-cl. Vol., on board the Canopus 80, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, bearing the flags in succession of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis and Geo. Martin, under the former of whom he witnessed the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le President, French frigate of 44 guns, and was present in the Constantinople and Egyptian expeditions of 1807. During a subsequent attachment of two years with Capt. Jahleel Brenton to the Spartan, of 46 guns and 258 men, he assisted in an attack made in company with the Mercury 28, on Pesaro and Ceseratrio, where the fortifications were destroyed and 25 sail of merchantmen captured; witnessed the ensuing surrender of the garrison of the island of Lossini; and co-operated in the reduction of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo. On 3 May, 1810, Mr. Andros further participated in a brilliant victory gained by the Spartan in the Bay of Naples over a Franco-Neapolitan squadron, carrying in the whole 95 guns and about 1400 men, on which occasion the British lost 10 men killed and 22 wounded, and the enemy about 41 killed and 90 wounded. After that event he successively joined the Inconstant 36, Capt. John Quilliam, Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Dictator 64, Capt. John Pattison Stewart, and Scarborough 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier. While in the Dictator, on the Baltic station, we find Mr. Andros serving in the boats of that ship at the cutting out of a Danish lugger; and, on 6 July, 1812, assisting, in company with the Calypso 18, at the capture and destruction, within the rocks of Mardoe, on the coast of Norway, of an entire Danish squadron, consisting of the Nayaden, of 48 guns, the Laland, Samsoe, and Kiel sloops, and several gunboats, after a long conflict, which cost the Dictator a loss of 5 men killed and 24 wounded, and the enemy of 300 killed and wounded. He was ultimately confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 9 Aug. 1814, in the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, on the West India station, and was afterwards appointed in succession to the Bustard, Capt. Lord John Hay, and Perseus 22, Capts. Edw. Henry A’Court, Thos. Huskisson, and Thos. Rich. Toker, employed on the Home station. With the exception of a three years’ attachment, from April, 1824, to April, 1827, to the Britannia 120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Mr. Andros has been on half-pay since 11 July, 1816.
He married, 28 Oct. 1830, Mary, second daughter of Thos. Godfrey Dobree, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Annesley, Francis Charles

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​ANNESLEY. (Commander, 1814, f-p., 18; h-p., 30.)
Francis Charles Annesley died, 30 Jan. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in Jan. 1798, as a Volunteer, on board the Greyhound 32, Capt. Rich. Lee, on the West India station; became Midshipman, in Feb. 1799, of the America 64, Capt. John Smith, in the North Sea; served, during a subsequent attachment of four years to the Thames 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action vrith the combined squadrons in the Gut of Gibraltar, 13 July, 1801; and after a further employment of 18 months with Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby in the Vestal and Abgo frigates, on the Home and Africa stations, was appointed Acting-Lieutenant, in Oct. 1806, of the Arab 22, Capt. Keith Maxwell. Being officially promoted while in the West Indies, by commission dated 14 Jan. 1808, he next served as Lieutenant, from April following until March, 1812, of the Pilot 18, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, on the Mediterranean station. During that period Mr. Annesley bore a distinguished share in many gallant and important enterprizes, particularly on 8 July, 1810, when, in conjunction with Lieut. Geo. Penruddocke, he brought out two gun-boats well fastened to a small island on the coast of Naples, and thence defended by a heavy fire of musketry – on 25 of the same month, when he similarly shared in the capture and destruction of 31 transports, laden with stores and provisions for Murat’s army at Scylla, together with seven large gun-boats and five armed scampavias – in April, 1811, when he was especially noticed for his zeal and exertions in getting off three vessels hauled high on the beach under the town of Monasteracci, and protected by a party of soldiers and armed peasantry – and on 26 May following, when the boats of the Pilot, under the orders of Lieut. Alex. Campbell and himself, took and destroyed, on the beach close to the town of Strongoli, four settees, laden with commissariat stores, and guarded by a tower within half musket-shot distance, as well as by a detachment of at least 140 troops. Until advanced to the rank of Commander, 30 July, 1814, Mr. Annesley afterwards served in the Grampus, Vestal, and Venerable, flag-ships in the West Indies of Rear- Admirals Sir Fras. Laforey and Philip Chas. Durham. He then successively joined the Satellite, Spider, and Heron sloops, the latter of which he paid off about Sept. 1815. Commander Annesley was not afterwards employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anson, Thomas

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​ANSON. (Lieutenant, 1843. f-p., 9; h-p., 3.)
Thomas Anson was born 24 May, 1820, and died in 1845. He was fourth son of the Hon. and Rev. Fred. Anson, Prebendary of Southwell, by Mary Anne, only daughter of the Rev. Rich. Levett, of Milford, co. Stafford; and first cousin of Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 June, 1833, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Asia 84, Capt. Peter Richards, off Lisbon. The whole of his time appears to have been served in that ship, and in the Pique 36, Hercules 74, and Fly 18, Capts. Hon. Henry John Rous, Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Russell Eliott, and Granville Gower Loch – the last four years on the South America station. Passing his examination 8 Aug. 1840, he next became Mate in succession of the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, and Cornwallis 72, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Parker. While in the latter ship, on the China station, he was present, in the course of 1842, at the capture of Chapoo, the attack on the batteries of Woosung, the reduction of Shanghae, the storming of Chin-Keang-Foo, and the pacification of Nankin. He obtained his commission 17 Feb. 1843, and from 13 April following until 18 July, 1844, served on the South America and Mediterranean stations in the Cormorant steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Aigle 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget. During the few months that preceded his death Mr. Anson was unemployed. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Anthony, Mark

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​ANTHONY. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 29; h-p., 17.)
Mark Anthony is son of the late Joseph Anthony, Esq., by his second wife, Miss Lambert, of Camagh, co. Wexford; and grandson of Peter Anthony, Esq., of Carrig Castle, co. Waterford, who served as Captain in one of the Irish regiments under Louis XV., and fought at Fontenoy.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Hunter 18, Capts. Geo. Jones and Sam. Hood Inglefield, and served in the boats of that vessel when they sustained a loss of 15 men killed in an ineffectual attempt made, towards the close of 1803, to bring out several armed merchantmen fastened in a secure manner to the beach in a small harbour, on the west side of the island of Cuba. After the latter event he became Master’s Mate of the scp frigate, Capts. Cathcart and M‘Donald, and, in Sept. 1804, joined the Naiad 38, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Thos. Dundas, one of Lord Nelson’s repeaters in the action off Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, on which occasion he assisted in towing the Belleisle 74, from her perilous position near the shoals, and had the good fortune to rescue, in a boat, 56 of the officers and crew of the French ship Achille before she blew up. The Naiad, who had previously effected a very gallant escape from a powerful French squadron, appears to have been also much engaged with Spanish gun-boats and batteries. Shortly after his junction of the Theseus 74, Capt. John Poo Beresford, Mr. Anthony was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission, dated 22 April, 1808, and appointed to the Fury bomb, Capt. John Sanderson Gibson, on the Baltic station, where he received a severe injury in the thigh by the recoiling of a gun, which he was in the act of pointing at a Danish gun-boat. On removing with Capt. Gibson to the Sarpen 18, he accompanied, as First Lieutenant of that sloop, the expedition to the Walcheren, and did good service to several of the transports. On 12 April, 1811, he was appointed to the Stately 64, Capts. Robt. Campbell and Edw. Stirling Dickson, under whom he was actively employed, on boat duty and otherwise, at the defence of Cadiz and Tarifa, until 20 Nov. following, when he was compelled to invalid, owing to a fracture of the leg and dislocation of the ankle-joint. From Oct. 1814, until 1818, Mr. Anthony further served, in the Orestes 16, Capt, Wm. Robt. Smith, and in the Boyne and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Thrnbrough, on the Irish and Portsmouth stations. He was then appointed Harbour-Master of Dunmore East, of which situation, on its abolition in 1832, he was deprived without the slightest compensation, although he had originally obtained it under the idea of its being a life-appointment, and had been thereby prevented from otherwise working his promotion. He has not since been employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Antram, George

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​ANTRAM. (Lieut., 1802. f-p., 16; h-p., 38.)
George Antram is son of Simon Antram, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N.; brother of the late Lieut. Chas. Aubrey Antram, R.N. (1810); and also of the present Lieut. S. E. Antram, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Inflexible 64, Capt. Solomon Ferris; removed as Midshipman, 1 Jan. 1794, to the Enterprise receiving-ship in the river Thames, Lieut.-Commanders Edw. Howarth and John Yetts; and from 10 March, 1798, until 22 July, 1799, served in the Vanguard 74, and Foudroyant 80, bearing each the flag of Lord Nelson, under whom, in the former ship, he was wounded at the battle of the Nile, 1 Aug. 1 798. He then served for three years as Acting-Lieutenant of the Mutine 18, Capts. Wm. Hoste and Lord Wm. Fitzroy, on the Mediterranean station, and, being confirmed 14 Dec. 1802, was afterwards employed on the Impress service for a few months in 1803, and in command, from 11 Nov. in that year until 25 Nov. 1809, of the Deptford tender, on the rivers Thames and Medway. He has since been on half-pay. Agents — Messrs. Stilwell.