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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rochfort, Robert

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​ROCHFORT. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 30.)
Robert Rochfort, born in 1789, is second son of the late Henry Rochfort, Esq., an officer in the 28th Regt., Assistant-Commissary-General on the Irish establishment, by Henrietta, daughter of John Hill, Esq., of Barnhill, co. Carlow. Three of his uncles (the eldest, George, a General of Artillery) were also in the army; his grandfather, Arthur Rochfort, LL.D., was M.P. for Westmeath; his grand-uncle, Robert Rochfort, likewise M.P. for that co., was created, 29 Nov. 1756, Earl of Belvedere; and his great-grandfather, the Right Hon. Geo. Rochfort, M.P., who married a daughter of the third Earl of Drogheda, filled the office of Chief Chamberlain of the Court of Exchequer. The father of the latter gentleman, Robert Rochfort, was appointed Attorney-General in 1695, chosen Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland in the following Aug., and constituted, in June, 1707, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Commander Rochfort, the present male representative of the house of Rochfort, which has been seated in Ireland since the days of Strongbow, is second-cousin of the late Capt. Wm. Rochfort, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Sept. 1799, as A.B., on board the Haerlem 64, Capt. Geo. Burlton, with whom he continued employed in the Mediterranean in the Africaine 38, and as Midshipman in the Success 32, until paid off in April, 1802. He next, in March, 1803, joined the Calcutta 54, Capt. Daniel Woodriff, in which ship, on his return from escorting convicts to Van Diemen’s Land, he proceeded as Master’s Mate to St. Helena for convoy. During her passage home the Calcutta, after having beaten the French 40-gun frigate Armide, was attacked, 26 Sept. 1805, and, at the end of a gallant action of three-quarters of an hour, productive to her of a loss, out of 343 men, of 6 killed and 6 wounded, unavoidably captured, by the 74-gun ship Majestueux, part of a squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral Allemand. Mr. Rochfort remained, we believe, a prisoner in France until Oct. 1809. On 26 April, 1811 (two months after he had been ordered to act as such), he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Mutine brig, Capt. Nevinson de Courcy, on the Brazilian station, whence, in June, 1812, he invalided. In June, 1813, and Feb. 1814, he joined the Chesapeake frigate and Fantome 20, Capts. Alex. Gordon and John Lawrence, both on the coast of North America; and from 29 Sept. in the latter year until 4 July, 1815, he commanded, in the Bay of Fundy, the Landrail cutter, in which vessel he beat off five American privateers of superior force. He afterwards commanded (on the Plymouth station) the Lapwing Revenue-cruizer from 4 March, 1819, until 1822; and the Bittern 10 from 31 Dec. 1825 until advanced to his present rank 10 March, 1828. He has since been on half-pay.
Commander Rochfort married, 12 Sept. 1814, Maria, daughter of Geo. Leonard, Esq., of Dover Castle, in Sussex Vale, New Brunswick, North America, Superintendent of Trades and Fisheries, and has issue one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rodger, William

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​RODGER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
William Rodger entered the Navy, 19 Nov. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Ardent 64, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon. After a servitude of more than three years with that officer in the same ship and in the Thalia 36, on the Leith, Channel, and Jamaica stations, he was nominated, 19 Jan. 1811, Acting-Master of the Pelorus 18, Capts. Thos. Huskisson, Joshua Ricketts Rowley, and Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. Under Capt. Huskisson we find him assisting, 17 Oct. 1809, at the destruction of a battery near Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; and, in Feb. 1810, at the capture of that island. In Dec. 1812, being then in the Mediterranean, he removed to the Goshawk 16, Capt. Hon. Wm. John Napier. On that vessel being wrecked on the coast of Catalonia 21 Sept. 1813, he was received on board the Barfleur 98, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and John Maitland. In July, 1814, he was again placed under the orders of Capt. Napier, as Master’s Mate, in the Erne 20; and in July, 1815, after having served with him on the coast of North America and in the Channel, he took up a commission bearing date 27 of the preceding Feb. He has since been on half-pay.
In the session of 1817-18 Lieut. Rodger received from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., a Silver Medal for his “Plug for raising Empty Casks;” and, in that of 1818-19, a Gold one for his “Life Raft.” In 1829 he was presented by the same Society with the Gold Isis Medal for his “Syphon for Watering Ships,” and with a large Silver Medal for his “Make-Shift Anchor.” Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rodney, John

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​RODNEY. (Captain on Retired Half-pay, 1780.)
The Honourable John Rodney was born 10 May, 1765, and died 9 April, 1847, at Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was the eldest son of the famous Admiral Lord Rodney, K.B., the hero of 12 April, 1782, whose brilliant services won for him a peerage, by his second wife, Henrietta, daughter of John Clies, Esq. His half-brother, Geo. Rodney, was lost at sea in command of the Ferret sloop-of-war in Aug. 1776; his own brother, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, R.N. (1806), died 12 Nov. 1828. He was half-brother of the second, and uncle of the third, fourth, and fifth peers of his name; uncle also of Capt. Hon. Robt. Rodney, R.N., who died in command of the Dryad frigate 20 July, 1826, and of Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, R.N.; and grand-uncle of Lieut. Mortimer Harley Rodney, R.N.
This officer was a Midshipman, Lieutenant, Commander, and Captain – all within the short space of five weeks. His first commission was dated 10 Sept. 1780; his two others on the same day, 14 Oct. 1780. He was afterwards tried by court-martial and broken. Although reinstated, he never obtained his flag.
Capt. Rodney filled for many years the appointment of Chief Secretary to the Government of Ceylon. He married, first, 4 July, 1784, Catherine, only daughter of Thomas, sixth Earl of Westmeath. That lady dying 26 Feb. 1794, he married, a second time, 19 Oct. 1799, Louisa Martha, eldest daughter of John, third Earl of Aldborough. Being again left a widower, he married a third time, in 1815, Antoinette, only daughter of Anthony Pierre Reyne, Esq. By his first wife he had issue three daughters (one married to Lord Blantyre); by his second, two sons (the youngest, Thos. Maitland, a Commander R.N.) and six daughters (the eldest married to Lord John Geo. Lennox); and by his third, a son, Geo. Brydges, First-Lieutenant R.M., and four daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Roddam, William

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​RODDAM. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
William Roddam, horn 4 Jan. 1793, is fourth son of the late Walter Spencer Stanhope, Esq., of Cannon Hall, co. York, formerly M.P. for Carlisle, by Mary Winifred, daughter of Thos. Babington Pulleine, Esq., of Carleton Hall, co. York, and grand-daughter, maternally, of E. Collingwood, Esq., of Byker and Dissington. He assumed the surname and arms of Roddam, on inheriting, in 1806, the estates of his kinsman and godfather Admiral Robt. Roddam.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ocean 98, Capt. Rich. Thomas, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of his cousin Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman in the Ville de Paris 110 until the death of that veteran hero in March, 1810. He then returned to England in the Rota 38, Capt. Philip Somerville, and on his arrival was received, in the ensuing May, on board the Namur 74, flag-ship of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope at Sheerness. In March, 1811, he again, in the Undaunted 38, commanded by his old Captain, Thomas, sailed for the Mediterranean; where, soon after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 17 Aug. 1812, he removed to the Berwick 74, Capt. Edw. Brace. While in that ship ​he co-operated in the reduction of Genoa and the siege of Gaeta. Following Capt. Brace, in July, 1816, into the Impregnable 104, he fought, on the 16th of the next month, at the battle of Algiers. He was placed on half-pay in Oct. of the same year; and has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Roddam married, in Sept. 1835, Charlotte, daughter of Henry Percy Pulleine, Esq., of Crake Hall, co. York, and by that lady, who died in July, 1837, has an only daughter. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rodney, Mortimer Harley

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​RODNEY. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Mortimer Harley Rodney, born 23 Feb. 1817, is eldest son of the Hon. Mortimer Rodney (brother of the present Lord Rodney), by Sarah, daughter of Robt. Withy, Esq.; and grand-nephew of the late Capt. Hon. John Rodney, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1836; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His Succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Talbot 26, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Robt. Fanshawe Stopford, on the Mediterranean station, where he remained until the spring of 1842 – 28 Feb. 1843, to the Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Brace and Sir John Chambers White at Sheerness – and 12 Sept. 1844 and 27 Oct. 1847, as First, to the Cruizer 16, and Nerbudda 12, Capts. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, Wm. Maclean, and Edw. Peirse, both in the East Indies, whence he returned in 1848. On 19 Aug. 1845 he commanded the Cruizer’s pinnace and served with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Scott, John

​SCOTT, John, nephew of John Sale, jun., was born about 1776. He was a chorister of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and Eton College; afterwards studied the organ under William Sexton, organist of St. George's, Windsor, and became deputy for Dr. Arnold at Westminster Abbey. He was also chorus master and pianist at Sadler's Wells. On the erection of the first organ in Spanish Town, Jamaica, he went out as organist, and died there in 1815. He was composer of the well-known anthem, 'Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem,' as well as of the comic song, 'Abraham Newland.'
You may Abraham sham, but you mustn't sham Abraham Newland.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Scotch Symphony, The

​SCOTCH SYMPHONY, THE. Mendelssohn's own name for his A minor Symphony (op. ​56), one of the works in which he recorded the impressions of his Scotch tour in 1829. Other results of that expedition are the 'Hebrides' overture, the PF. Fantasia in F♯ minor (op. 28), originally entitled by its author 'Sonate écossaise,' the PF. Fantasia in A minor, op. 16, no. 1, and the two-part song 'O wert thou in the cauld cauld blast.'
The subject of the opening Andante of the Symphony dates from his visit to Holyrood in the evening of July 30, 1829, when it was written down. The Symphony was planned and begun during his residence in Italy in 1831, but was not finally finished till Jan. 20, 1842, the date on the finished score. It was first performed at a Gewandhaus Concert on March 3 of the same year, again at the Gewandhaus Concert next following. He then brought it to England, conducted it at the Philharmonic Concert, June 13, 1842, and obtained permission to dedicate it to Queen Victoria.
The passage for flutes, bassoons, and horns, connecting the end of the first movement with the scherzo, was, on the authority of Prof. Macfarren, put in after the rehearsal (under Sterndale Bennett) at the Philharmonic, and added by Goodwin, the copyist, to the Leipzig MS. parts. The score and parts were published (as Symphony no. 3) by Breitkopf & Härtel in March 1851.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Scudo, Pietro

​SCUDO, Pietro, born June 6, 1806, at Venice, but brought up in Germany. Some circumstance led him to Pans, and in 1816 he entered Choron's school, and studied singing there at the same time with Duprez. He never became a good singer, and after taking a secondary part in Rossini's 'Il Viaggio a Reims' left the boards, returned to Choron's school, and there picked up a slender knowledge of music. After the revolution of 1830 he played second clarinet in a military band. Returning to Paris he made his way into society, set up as a teacher of singing, and a composer of romances, one of which, 'Le fil de la Vierge,' was very successful. His knowledge of harmony and the elementary laws of musical accent was but slight, as is evident from his songs 'Le Dante,' 'La Baigneuse,' and 'Souvenir; indeed he himself admits the fact, in spite of his vanity. Continuing his career as a professor of singing, he took to writing, and published 'Physiologie du rire' and 'Les Partis politiques en province' (1838). He gradually restricted himself to musical criticism, but as long as he wrote only for the 'Revue de Paris,' the 'Réforme,' and the 'Revue indépendante,' he was unknown outside certain cliques in Paris. As musical critic to the 'Revue des deux Mondes' he became a man of mark, though he was never more than a laborious writer, who made good use of German and Italian books, and managed by means of certain dogmatic formulæ and fine writing to conceal his want of knowledge and ideas. Scudo's articles are worth reading as specimens of French musical criticism before Berlioz was known, and while Fétis occupied the field without a rival. They have been mostly republished under the following titles:—'Critique et littérature musicale' (1850, 8vo; 1852, 12mo), 2nd series (1859, 12mo); 'La Musique ancienne et moderne' (1854, 12mo); 'L'Année musicale,' 3 vols. (Hachette, 1860, 61, and 62), 'La Musique en 1862' (Hetzel, 1863), and 'Le Chevalier Sarti' (1857, 12mo), a musical novel taken from Italian and German sources, of which a continuation, 'Frédérique,' appeared in the 'Revue des Deux Mondes,' but was not republished. All his works were printed in Paris.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sebald, Amalie

​SEBALD, Amalie. The records of the Singakademie in Berlin contain the names of Frau von Sebald (geb. Schwadke), alto, 1791, her daughters Amalie, 1801, and Auguste, 1802, soprani. They appear first as soloists in 1794, 1803, and 1804 respectively Amalie is reported to have had 'an enchantingly beautiful voice.' C. M von Weber was in Berlin in 1812. Of all his acquaintances made there, two, says his son, wer special objects of affection ever afterwards. One was Lichtenstein; 'the other was the youngest of two most amiable, extremely musical sisters, Auguste and Amalie Sebald. For the second, in the highest degree distinguished alike for her intellectual and physical charms, Weber conceived a warm and deep, and, through the lady's virtues, a highly ennobling affection.' As Weber in 1812, so Beethoven the year before, who met her at Töplitz, whither she had come with the once-famous Countess von der Recke, whose house in Berlin, the 'Recksche Palais,' afterwards became the home of the Mendelssohns. [See vol. ii. p. 258a.] The impressionable composer then wrote the following epigram in her album:—
Ludwig van Beethoven den Sie, wenn Sie auch wollten doch nicht vergessen sollten.
[Whom even if you would Forget you never should.] Toplitz am 8. August 1812.
He met her there again in Sept 1812, and a series of notes to her of that date, published by Jahn in the 'Grenzboten,' from copies furnished by the writer of this notice, shows the extraordinary impression which she made upon him.
On May 8, 1816, Beethoven wrote in a letter to Ries, 'Everything good to your wife; I, alas, have none; I have found but one, and her I never can possess.' On Sept. 16 of the same year, he said to Giannatasio, that 'he loved unhappily; that some five years before he had made the acquaintance of a person, closer connexion with whom he should have considered the highest happiness of his life. This was not to be thought of for a moment, almost an utter impossibility, a chimera. Still, his love was now as strong as on the first day. Such harmony, he added, had he never found before. He had never declared himself, and yet had not been able to get her out of his mind.'
It was at this time that Beethoven composed the cycle of songs 'To the distant loved one.' Schindler supposed his 'Autumn love' to have been for a certain Marie Koschak: he is wrong; Beethoven never saw that lady until after she had married Dr. Pachler. Amalie Sebald married the Berlin Justizrath Krause.
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* ↑ The '1812' was probably added to Beethoven's Autograph, and should be 1811. He was not at Töplitz on Aug. 8, 1812. (Thayer's Beethoven, ill, 215.)
* ↑ These letters, seven in number, are given in Ibid. iii. 212–214.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Scotson Clark

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Scottish Musical Society, The

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Seasons, The

​SEASONS, THE—Die Jahreszeiten—Haydn's last oratorio. The book was compiled in German from Thomson's Seasons by Van Swieten, who induced Haydn to undertake its composition ​immediately after the success of the 'Creation'; and the music was written between April 1798 and April 24, 1801, on which day the first performance took place at the Schwarzenberg palace, Vienna. Haydn always averred that the strain of writing it had hastened his death. [See vol. i. 714b.]
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lockyer, William Nicholas Love

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​LOCKYER. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Nicholas Love Lockyer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 2 Nov. 1838; and after having been for some time attached, as Mate, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was employed in that capacity in the Aigle 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, on the Mediterranean station, from the close of 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845. His appointments have since been – on 15 of the latter month, as Additional, to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Commodore Wm. Jones – 26 Doc. 1845, to the Albion 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, part of the Channel squadron – and 6 May, 1847, again to the Excellent, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, under whom he is at present serving.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lodder, Charles Arthur

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​LODDER. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Charles Arthur Lodder served as Midshipman of the Powerful 84, Commodore Chas. Napier, during all the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He passed his examination 7 July, 1842; was employed in the Mediterranean, as Mate, from the close of that year until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 June, 1846, of the Orestes 18, Capt. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Virago steam-sloop, Capts. Geo. Graham Otway and John Lunn; and since 22 Oct. in the latter year has been serving in the Sidon steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, now on the coast of Portugal.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Loney, John Jenkins

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​LONEY. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 25; h-p., 31.)
John Jenkins Loney, born 8 Dec. 1783, is son of the late Mr. J. Loney, a warrant-officer in the Royal Navy, who served his country with credit for nearly 50 years.
​This officer entered the Navy, early in 1791, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Thorn sloop, Capt. Taylor, on the Leith station. In the course of the same year he became attached to the Prosperine frigate, commanded in the West Indies by Capt. Jas. Alms; and enjoining, for a short time in 1794, the Latona 38, Capt. Edw. Thornbrough, he fought and was severely wounded in Lord Howe’s famous action. With the exception of a few months in 1796-7, during which we find him serving at Home on board the Carnatic, Colossus, and Russell 74’s, all commanded by Capt. Rich. Grindall, he did not again go afloat until May 1803, on 5 of which month he was received into the Windsor Castle 98, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham, Albemarle Bertie, and Davidge Gould. With those officers Mr. Loney was for two years employed in the Channel, principally in the capacity of Midshipman. He then in succession joined the Thunderer 74, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, and Dart sloop, Capt. Brownrigg; and on 6 Feb. 1806, having returned to the West Indies, it was his fortune to be present in the action off St. Domingo on board the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of the late Sir Alex. Cochrane; by whom he was nominated, 5 May, 1807, Acting-Lieutenant of the Chichester store-ship, Capt. Tait. On leaving that vessel, to which he had been confirmed 11 Aug. in the same year, Mr. Loney was appointed, 26 April, 1808, to the Thisbe 28, bearing the flag in the Thames of Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope. Removing, a month afterwards, to the Thrush 18, Capt. Chas. Webb, he was again ordered to the West Indies, where, in July, 1809, he witnessed the surrender of St. Domingo. About the early part of 1810, being at the time engaged in the defence of Cadiz, he was placed by Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats in acting-command of the Thunder bomb, in which vessel he remained until superseded on the arrival from England of a Captain appointed by the Admiralty. While next in command (from Nov. 1810 until compelled by illness to resign in March, 1811) of the Dart cutter, Mr. Loney was employed in the conveyance of despatches between Cadiz and Lord Wellington’s army in Portugal. His subsequent appointments were – 12 Dec. 1811, to the Spider 16, Capt. Frank Gore Willock, on the West India station, whence he invalided 6 Feb. 1813 – 4 Sept. 1826, to be Agent for Transports afloat, which service a severe injury received in the head during a heavy gale obliged him to quit in the ensuing March – and 2 April, 1827, and 6 Feb. 1837, to the command, for a period each time of five years, of the Semaphores at Beacon Hill and Portsmouth. He has been on half-pay since 1 April, 1842.
Lieut. Loney married, 20 April, 1808, the daughter of a respectable Government Contractor, by whom he has issue ten children. One of his sons, John Felix, a Master in the R.N. (1845), is now serving in that capacity on board the Poictiers 72, guardship at Chatham.