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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Elwin, Joseph

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​ELWIN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 38; h-p., 5.)
Joseph Elwin is brother of Lieut. Jas. Elwin, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Tigress gun-brig, Lieut.Commander Edw. Nathaniel Greensword, from which vessel he removed, in Dec. 1805, to the Pompée 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith. In that ship, while actively employed on the coast of Italy, he had the misfortune to lose a hand by the explosion of some arms taken from the enemy. After serving, in 1807, at the passage of the Dardanells, the destruction of the Turkish squadron at Point Pesquies, and the siege of Copenhagen, Mr. Elwin accompanied Sir W. S. Smith into the Foudroyant 80. On his return from a visit to South America he became attached, in May, 1809, to the Dryad 36, Capt. Edw. Galwey; and while under that officer he appears to have been much engaged in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he landed with the naval brigade, and assisted, in 1810, in destroying all the batteries (with the exception of Castro) from St. Sebastian to St. Andero, on which were found altogether about 100 pieces of heavy cannon. Rejoining Sir W. S. Smith, afterwards, in the Hibernia 120, Mr. Elwin, on 18 Aug. 1813, served in the boats of that ship, and of a small squadron under Capt. Thos. Ussher, in a very gallant attack on the batteries at Cassis, where, after sustaining a loss of 4 men killed and 16 wounded, the British in four hours succeeded in capturing 3 heavy gun-boats, and 26 vessels laden with merchandise. On 24 March, 1814, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Scipion 74, Capt. Henry Heathcote. Being officially promoted 2 Aug. following, he was subsequently appointed – 6 May, 1815, to the command of the Telegraph at Barham Downs, where he continued for about twelve months – in March, 1820, to the Coast Guard – in Oct. 1825, to the Hound Revenue-cruizer – 18 April, 1831, again to the Coast Guard – 30 Dec. 1839, and 23 Aug. 1843, to the Sprightly and Active, also Revenue-vessels – 1 April, 1845, a third time to the Coast Guard – and 27 June, 1846, to be Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel, in which capacity he was but for a short time employed.
For his frequent exertions in saving life from shipwreck, Lieut. Elwin has elicited the expressed ​approbation of the Admiralty and the thanks of the Committee at Lloyd’s, and been rewarded with a medal from the Royal National Shipwreck Institution. In acknowledgment of the important assistance afforded by him to a dismasted Dutch man-of-war off Alderney, 13 Jan. 1844, the King of the Netherlands has also presented this officer with a valuable piece of plate.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Podmore, John George King

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​PODMORE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 40.)
John George King Podmore entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prompte 20, Capts. Thos. Dundas, Matthias Spread, and Robt. Philpot, in which ship we find him serving until Oct. 1800 in the West Indies, and there assisting at the destruction of a Spanish vessel-of-war, pierced for 26 guns, but with only 12 mounted. From the date last mentioned he did not again go afloat until Dec. 1807. Returning, then, to the West Indies as Midshipman in the Variable, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Ballard Yates, he continued employed on that station in the Sandwich, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Kingston Foley, and Musette sloop, Capt. Thos. Parry Jones Parry, until transferred, in July, 1810, to the Fawn 18, Capts. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton and Thos. Fellowes, attached to the force in the Channel; where he assisted at the capture, 11 Oct. following, of Le Téméraire privateer, of 10 guns, 6 large swivels, and 35 men; and, in April and May, 1812, removed to the Oberon and Griffon sloops, Capts. Jas. Murray and Geo. Barne Trollope. In April, 1813, after he had been for three months borne as Master’s Mate on the books of the Ceres, flag-ship at Chatham of Rear-Admiral Thos. Surridge, he sailed for Canada in the Niobe 40, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu; and on his arrival in the ensuing June joined the Naval Establishment on Lake Ontario, under the orders of Commodore Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. In a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour made, 30 May, 1814, by a detachment of 180 seamen and marines, under Capts, Stephen Popham and Francis Brockell Spilsbury, to cut out 18 American gun-boats lying at Sandy Creek under the protection of a powerful land force, Mr. Podmore fell into the hands of the enemy, by whom 18 of his companions had been killed and 50 wounded. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 March, 1815, but has not been since afloat. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Poole, Robert

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​POOLE. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Robert Poole entered the Navy 14 May, 1808; passed his examination in 1814; attained the rank of Lieutenant 10 Jan. 1825; served for three years (dating from 23 Nov. 1827) in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot; had charge of a station in the Coast Guard from 7 June, 1831, until Sept. 1847; and has since been in command of the Active and Eagle Revenue-vessels.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Plunkett, Edward

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​PLUNKETT. (Captain, 1846.)
The Honourable Edward Plunkett, born 29 Nov. 1808, is second son of Lord Dunsany, by his first wife, Charlotte Louisa, youngest daughter of Nicholas, first Lord Cloncurry; and nephew, by marriage, of Capt. Jas. Ryder Burton, R.N. This officer entered the Navy 4 Oct. 1823; served as Midshipman in the boats of the Sybille 48, Capt. Sam. John Brooke Pechell, in a severe encounter with the pirates in the Grecian Archipelago in 1826; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 24 Aug. 1834. His succeeding appointments were, 10 Sept. 1834, to the Castor 36, Capts. Lord John Hay and Wm. Robertson, and, 19 Jan. 1837 and 16 July, 1838, to the command of the 10-gun brigs Royalist and Savage. In the three vessels last mentioned he served on the coast of Spain during the civil war from 1835 until promoted to the rank of Commander 1 Aug. 1840. He was subsequently, from 9 Oct. 1843 until June, 1845, employed on particular service in the Stromboli steamer; and, on 9 Nov. 1846, was advanced to his present rank.
Capt. Plunkett, in 1846, published a pamphlet much prized, entitled ‘The Past and Future of the British Navy.’ Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pollard, Walter James

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​POLLARD. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Walter James Pollard is third son of the late Wm. Dutton Pollard, Esq., of Kintuck, Castle Pollard, co. Westmeath, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant, and High Sheriff for the co. in 1811, whose first wife, Frances, was third daughter of Gustavus Hume Rochfort, Esq., of Rochfort, M.P. for co. Westmeath; and whose second, Louisa Anne, was eldest daughter of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Thos. Pakenham, G.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 21 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 7 April, 1837; and, between 1840 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 19 July, 1843, was employed as Mate on the African, Home, and North America and West India stations, in the Buzzard brigantine, Megaera steamer, and Griffon brigantine, Lieut.-Commanders Reginald Thos. John Levinge, Geo. Oldmixon, and Chas. Jenkin. his appointments have since been – 9 March, 1844, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Penelope steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the coast of Africa – 17 Aug. 1844, to the Larne 18, Capt. John Wm. Douglas Brisbane, on the same station – 16 April, 1845, to the Prometheus steam-sloop, of 200 horse-power, of which vessel, also stationed on the African coast, he became First-Lieutenant – 17 Nov. 1847, as Additional, to the Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen in North America and the West Indies – and 11 Feb. 1848, in a similar capacity, to the Havannah 19, Capt. John Elphinstone Erskine, fitting at Devonport. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Poad, James

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​POAD. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 23; h-p., 21.)
James Poad was born 11 Jan. 1789 at Devonport. This officer entered the Navy, 14 June, 1803, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Conqueror 74, Capts. Thos. Louis and Israel Pellew, stationed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the Mediterranean. Removing as Midshipman, in March, 1805, to the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson, he accompanied the hero in his celebrated pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and fought under him in the action off Cape Trafalgar. From 16 Jan. 1806 until May, 1812, he served on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations, part of the time in the capacity of Master’s Mate, in the Ocean 98, Ville de Paris 110, and Barfleur 98, flag-ships of Lord Collingwood, Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, and Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. He was then nominated Acting- Lieutenant of the Mermaid troop-ship, Capt. David Dunn, on the eve, at the time, of her departure for England; where on his arrival, 12 days afterwards, he had the mortification to be superseded. Being, however, 5 July following, appointed Admiralty Midshipman of the Impétueux 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin off Lisbon, he was again, 31 of that month, ordered to assume the rank of Lieutenant, and, with it, the command of No. 7 gun-boat at Cadiz. On 24 Aug. in the same year his promotion received oflicial sanction. He was next, from 14 Dec. 1812, until paid off in Nov. 1814, employed in the Mediterranean on board the Union 98, Capt. Robt. Rolles, and Leviathan and Scipion 74’s, Capts. Patrick Campbell and Henry Heathcote; and was subsequently appointed – in 1829, to the office of Agent for Transports Afloat, in which service he continued until wrecked ​in 1830 on the coast of Sicily – 9 March, 1837, to the charge of the Semaphore station on Haste Hill – in Oct. 1841, to the Rendezvous established at Sunderland for the raising of seamen – and 7 Dec. following, to the Semaphore on Pewley Hill, where he remained upwards of six years.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pogson, Henry Freeman Young

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​POGSON. (Commander, 1819. f-p., 28; h-p., 29.)
Henry Freeman Young Pogson entered the Navy, in the spring of 1790, as A.B., on board the Romulus 36, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, and, until the following year, was employed, latterly with the rating of Midshipman, in watching the port of Brest. After a servitude of five years and four months on the Mediterranean and Channel stations in the Terrible 74, Capts. Skeffington Lutwidge, Geo. Campbell, and Sir Rich. Bickerton (under the first and second of whom he assisted at the occupation of Toulon in 1793, at the reduction of Corsica in 1794, and in Hotham’s partial actions in 1795), he was made Lieutenant, 28 April, 1798, into the Espiègle sloop, Capt. Jas. Broodier, employed as a cruizer in the North Sea. His succeeding appointments were – 26 Dec. 1799, to the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, attached to the Channel fleet – 18 Aug. 1801, to the Téméraire 98, in which ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell, he made a voyage to the West Indies – 8 April, 1803 (after six months of half-pay), to the Canopus 80, bearing the flag of the same officer in the Mediterranean, where he remained until Aug. 1805, officiating part of the time as First-Lieutenant – 3 June, 1807, to the Majestic 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in tha Downs, where he became Signal-Lieutenant, and, witnessed the surrender of Heligoland – 17 March, ​1808, and 7 Nov. 1810, to the Prince of Orange 74, and Monmouth 64, flag-ships in the Downs of Admirals G. Campbell and Thos. Foley – and 17 July and 26 Aug. 1812, 28 June, 1814, and 7 June, 1816, to the command of the Bold, Bramble, Racer, and Eagle. In the Bramble and Racer (which latter yessel was wrecked in the Gulf of Florida 10 Oct. 1814) he was employed in carrying despatches to the coasts of Spain and North America; and in the Eagle he cruized in protection of the revenue until promoted to his present rank 4 March, 1819. His last appointment was, 6 April, 1830, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued, as an Inspecting-Commander, for nearly three years.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ponsonby, Thomas Cabrique

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​PONSONBY. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Thomas Cabrique Ponsonby entered the Navy 1 Blarch, 1815; passed his examination in 1822; obtained his commission 30 April, 1827; and served in the Coast Guard from 9 Nov. 1831 until 1836. His appointments have since been – 10 Oct. 1840, to the Lucifer steamer, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey, on the coast of Ireland, where he was superseded in Feb. 1841 – 26 April, 1847, to the Poictiers 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Bourchier, lying at Chatham – and, 24 Nov. following, to the command of the Firefly steamer, of 220 horse-power, now on the coast of Africa. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Meves, Augustus

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Midsummer Night's Dream Music

From volume 2 of the work.
​MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM MUSIC, by Mendelssohn, consists of two parts, 1. The Overture was written between July 7 and Aug. 6, 1826, with the latter of which dates the score (in the Berlin Bibliothek) is signed. It appears from Marx's statement (Erinn. ii. 231–3) that the work, as we possess it, is a second attempt. The former one, of which the first half was completed, began with the four chords and the fairy figure. On these followed a regular overture, in which the theme
represented the proceedings of the lovers. Nothing else has survived. The Bergomask dance and other most characteristic features are all new, and appear to have been the result of the representations of Marx, who urged that the overture should not only be formed on the subject of the play but should adopt it as a Programme. It was first performed in public at Stettin in Feb. 1827. Mendelssohn brought it with him to London in 1829, and it was played under his direction at a concert given by Drouet at the Argyll Rooms, on June 24, Midsummer night. On returning from the concert the score was left in a hackney coach and irrecoverably lost.
The coincidence between the melody at the close of the overture and that in the 'Mermaid's song' in the Finale to the 2nd act of Weber's 'Oberon' is no doubt a mere coincidence. Weber's sketch of the Finale was finished in Dresden onJan. 7, 1826, immediately after which he started for London; and it is very improbable that any of the motifs of the opera should have become known before its performance, April 12, 1826. But apart from this, it is so extremely unlike Mendelssohn to adopt a theme from another composer, that we may be perfectly sure that the idea was his own. He introduces it in the beginning of the work, at the first fortissimo; it then twice recurs in the course of the working, and appears in an extended form as a cantilène in the coda. Mendelssohn appears to have felt some difficulty as to the notation of the overture. He first wrote it with the fairy subject in quavers, and two minims in a bar. He then published an arrangement for the P.F. with Cramer & Co., which has the fairy subject in semiquavers; and lastly returned to the original notation, in, which the score is printed. The score was published with those of the Hebrides and Meeresstille, as '3 concert overtures,' by Breitkopfs, in March or April 1835.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mi contra Fa

From volume 2 of the work.
​MI CONTRA FA. In pure Ecclesiastical Music, the use of the Tritonus, or Augmented Fourth, is strictly forbidden; as is also that of its inversion, the Quinta falsa, or Diminished Fifth. It is scarcely necessary to say that the presence of these intervals is felt, whenever F and B are brought either into direct or indirect correspondence with each other, whatever may be the Mode in which the contact takes place. Now, according to the system of Solmisation adopted by Guido d'Arezzo, B, the third sound of the Hexachordon durum, was called MI; and F, the fourth sound of the Hexachordon naturale, was called FA. Mediæval writers, therefore, expressed their abhorrence of the false relation existing between these two sounds, in the proverb—
Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica.
When the use of the Hexachords was superseded by a more modern system of immutable Solmisation (see Solmisation; Hexachord), F still retained its name of FA, while B took that of the newly-added syllable, SI: and the old saw then ran thus—
Si contra fa est diabolus in musica.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mikado, The

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mezzo

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Micheli

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mignon

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# A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/ד

    ד - דאיץ
    דאיץ - דבוריא
    דבוריא - דבק
    דבק - דבר
    דבר - דגל
    דגל - דדי
    דדי - דהק
    דהק - דוגמטרין
    דוגמטרין - דווללא
    דווללא - דויל
    דויל - דול
    דול - דוסאי
    דוסאי - דוקא
    דוקא - דור
    דור - דוריא
    דוריא - דושא
    דושא - דחיה
    דחיה - דחס
    דחס - די
    די - דיבורא
    דיבורא - דיה
    דיה - דיוסטר
    דיוסטר - דיותא
    דיותא - דייקי
    דייקי - דילמא
    דילמא - דין
    דין - דינא
    דינא - דיסקרא
    דיסקרא - דיפליסטון
    דיפליסטון - דיקולר
    דיקולר - דיש
    דיש - דכותא
    דכותא - דכר
    דכר - דלדל
    דלדל - דלי
    דלי - דלסתי
    דלסתי - דם
    דם - דמי
    דמי - דמכא
    דמכא - דן
    דן - דעד
    דעד - דפא
    דפא - דק
    דק - דקילין
    דקילין - דקר
    דקר - דרגון
    דרגון - דרומא
    דרומא - דרי
    דרי - דרכא
    דרכא - דרפתקי
    דרפתקי - דרשן
    דרשן - דשתקא
    דשתקא - הא
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Waley, Simon

​WALEY, Simon Waley, composer and pianist, was born in London in 1827. He began music with his sister, herself a pupil of Herz and Thalberg, and became a pupil successively of Moscheles, Bennett, and G. A. Osborne for the piano, and of W. Horsley and Molique for theory and composition. He began composing very early, and wrote several elaborate PF. pieces before he was 12. His first published work, 'L'Arpeggio,' a PF. study, appeared in 1848. It was speedily followed by a number of songs and pianoforte pieces, including a concerto with orchestral accompaniment, and 2 pianoforte trios, op. 15 in B♭, and op. 20 in G minor (published by Schott & Co.), both deserving to be better known. Simon Waley was an accomplished pianist, and frequently performed at the concerts of the Amateur Musical Society, conducted by Mr. H. Leslie. His compositions abound in the plaintive melody characteristic of Mendelssohn; they exhibit great finish, and a richness of detail and harmony not unworthy of the best disciples of the Leipzig school.
Besides being an artist, he was a practical and exceptionally shrewd man of business. At the age of 17 he wrote an able series of letters to the 'Times' advocating Boulogne as the postal route between England and the Continent, and a little later he contributed some sprightly letters on a tour in the Auvergne to the 'Daily News.' He was a prominent member of the London Stock Exchange, and for many years took an active part on the committee. He died in 1875 at the early age of 48. Mr. Waley belonged to the Jewish faith, and was a leading member of that community during the critical period of its emancipation from civil disabilities. One of his finest works is a choral setting of the 117th and 118th Psalms for the Synagogue service. There was a singular charm about his person and manner. To know him was to love him; and those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance will never forget the mingled modesty and sweetness of his disposition.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walker, Eberhardt

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Wallerstein, Anton

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walker, Joseph & Sons

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walküre, Die

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Wallace, Grace

​WALLACE (Grace) Lady, daughter of John Stein, Esq., of Edinburgh, married in 1836 Sir James Maxwell Wallace, who died 1867, and herself died 1878.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walkeley, Antony

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Wallace, Vincent

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walliser, Christoph

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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Taylor, Sir Henry

Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886). -- Dramatist, s. of a gentleman farmer in the county of Durham. After being at sea for some months and in the Naval Stores Department, he became a clerk in the Colonial Office, and remained there for 48 years, during which he exercised considerable influence on the colonial policy of the Empire. In 1872 he was made K.C.M.G. He wrote four tragedies -- Isaac Comnenus (1827), Philip van Artevelde (1834), Edwin the Fair (1842), and St. Clement's Eve (1862); also a romantic comedy, The Virgin Widow, which he renamed A Sicilian Summer, The Eve of the Conquest and other Poems (1847). In prose he pub. The Statesman (1836), Notes from Life (1847), Notes from Books (1849), and an Autobiography. Of all these Philip van Artevelde was perhaps the most successful. T. was a man of great ability and distinction, but his dramas, with many of the qualities of good poetry, lack the final touch of genius.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Taylor, John

Taylor, John (1580-1653). -- Known as the "Water Poet," b. at Gloucester of humble parentage, was apprenticed to a London waterman, and pressed for the navy. Thereafter he returned to London and resumed his occupation on the Thames, afterwards keeping inns first at Oxf., then in London. He had a talent for writing rollicking verses, enjoyed the acquaintance of Ben Jonson, and other famous men, superintended the water pageant at the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth 1613, and composed the "triumphs" at the Lord Mayor's shows. He made a journey on foot from London as far as to Braemar, of which he wrote an account, The Pennyless Pilgrimage ... of John Taylor, the King's Majesty's Water Poet (1618). He visited the Queen of Bohemia at Prague in 1620, and made other journeys, each of which was commemorated in a book. His writings are of little literary value, but have considerable historical and antiquarian interest.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Taylor, Philip Meadows

Taylor, Philip Meadows (1808-1876). -- Novelist, b. at Liverpool, s. of a merchant there. When still a boy went out to a mercantile situation in Calcutta, but in 1826 got a commission in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad. From this he rose to a high civil position in the service of the Nizam, and entirely reorganised his government. He wrote several striking novels dealing with Indian life, including Confessions of a Thug (1639), Tara, and A Noble Queen. He left an autobiography, The Story of my Life, ed. by his dau.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Taylor, Thomas

Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835). -- Translator, b. in London and ed. at St. Paul's School, devoted himself to the study of the classics and of mathematics. After being a bank clerk he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Society for the encouragement of Arts, etc., in which capacity he made many influential friends, who furnished the means for publishing his various translations, which include works of Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, Porphyry, Apuleius, etc. His aim indeed was the translation of all the untranslated writings of the ancient Greek philosophers.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Tennyson, Frederick

Tennyson, Frederick (1807-1898). -- Poet, was the eldest s. of the Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred T. (q.v.). Ed. at Eton and Camb., he passed most of his life in Italy and Jersey. He contributed to the Poems by Two Brothers, and produced Days and Hours (lyrics) (1854), The Isles of Greece (1890), Daphne (1891), and Poems of the Day and Night (1895). All his works show passages of genuine poetic power.