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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brownrigg, Marcus Freeman

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​BROWNRIGG. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 20; h-p., 14.)
Marcus Freeman Brownrigg is second son of the late General Thos. Brownrigg, who died in 1827, by Anne, daughter of Robt. Shearman, Esq., of Kilcrean, co. Kilkenny; nephew of the late General Sir Robt. Brownrigg, Bart., G.C.B., Colonel of the 9th Foot, and Governor of Landguard Fort; and cousin both of the late Capt. Wm. Crosbie Brownrigg, R.N., who died in 1805, and the present Sir Robt. Jas. Brownrigg, Bart.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 3 Feb. 1813, and embarked, 4 Feb. 1816, as Midshipman, on board the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, in which ship he accompanied Lord Amherst on his embassy to China, and was wrecked, while returning home with that nobleman, in the Straits of Gaspar, 18 Feb. 1817. He next served for upwards of four years in the Glasgow 50, Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland and Bentinck Cavendish Doyle, on the Mediterranean and East India stations; passed his examination 12 March, 1821; wag promoted, from the Leander 60, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Hen. Blackwood, to be Acting-Lieutenant of the Topaze 38, Capt. Price Blackwood, 24 May, 1822; and, on his arrival in England, was officially confirmed, 20 Nov. in the same year. He was afterwards appointed – 2 Feb. 1824, to the Samarang 28, Capts. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman and David Dunn, employed on the Halifax and Cape stations – 30 Sept. 1827, and 23 Dec. 1828, as First-Lieutenant, to the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Jas. Polkinghome, and Maidstone 42, Commodores Wm. Skipsey and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, both on the latter station – 13 Dec. 1832, to the Castor 36, Capt. Lord John Hay, in the North Sea – and, 15 May, 1833, to the Donegal 78, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, then engaged on a Particular Service. He was placed on half-pay in the following Aug., and has not since been employed. ​Lieut. Brownrigg married, 19 Jan. 1830, Maria, only daughter of Colonel Blake. Agents – Messrs. Stillwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Browne, William Cheselden

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​BROWNE. (Commander, 1832. f-p., 21; h-p., 10.)
William Cheselden Browne, whose ancestors were High Sheriffs of Leicestershire as far back as the reign of Henry VII., is second son of the late Suffield Brown, Esq., of Leesthorpe Hall, in that co.; nephew of the late Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown; and first-cousin of Commander C. F. Brown, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1816, as Midshipman, on board the Minden 74, Capt. Wm. Paterson, and, on 27 Aug. in the same year, was at the battle of Algiers. He next, in 1819, joined the Carron 20, Capt. John Furneaux, under whom he was wrecked in the Bay of Bengal on the night of 5 July, 1820, and, in 1821, the Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, attached to the force in the Mediterranean. He passed his examination 22 July, 1824; proceeded subsequently to the West Indies in the Pyramus 42, Capt. Robt. Gambler; and, after serving for some time as Flag-Mate to Sir Edw. Codrington in the Asia 84, again on the Mediterranean station, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 9 Oct. 1827. His succeeding appointments were, to the Talbot 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Spencer – Pelican 18, Capt. Wm. Alex. Baillie Hamilton, in which we find him actively engaged at the destruction of several piratical vessels in the harbour of Carabusa – Warspite 76, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. Codrington, with whom he returned home – Undaunted 46, Capt. A. W. J. Clifford, in the Channel – Alfred 50, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, in the Mediterranean – and Melville 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir John Gore in the East Indies, where he was promoted, 13 June, 1832, to a death vacancy in the Comet 18, which sloop, however, he never joined. He returned to England in the early part of 1833, and since 15 July, 1842, has been in the Coast Guard.
Commander Browne married, 24 March, 1836, Susannah Inman, second daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sam. Hood Linzee, and has issue two children. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bruce, Charles

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​BRUCE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 28.)
Charles Bruce died 23 Aug. 1843.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Agincourt 64, Capt. Thos. Briggs; and, on ultimately accompanying the same Captain to the West Indies in the Orpheus 32, was wrecked, as Midshipman, 22 Jan. 1807. He then joined the Cuba, Capt. John Parish, but removed in the following Sept. to the Amphion 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste. While in the latter frigate, Mr. Bruce, on 12 May, 1808, shared in a very spirited engagement of many hours with several batteries in the Bay of Bosas, in an attempt to cut out the French frigate-built 800-ton store-ship Balleine, mounting from 26 to 30 guns, with a crew of 150 men. He also, on 27 Aug. 1809, served with a detachment, under Lieut. C. G. K. Phillott, at the storming of the strong fort of Cortellazzo, near Trieste; the capture of which occasioned the simultaneous surrender, within sight of the Italian squadron off Venice, of 6 of the enemy’s gun-boats, and a large convoy of merchant-trabacolos anchored for protection under its walls. On 29 June, 1810, Mr. Bruce further landed near the town of Groa, and, after defeating a large body of French troops, assisted at the capture and destruction of a convoy of 25 vessels. He was eventually captured by the enemy in Nov. 1810, and taken to Italy, where he was detained a prisoner until Jan. 1812. Being then released, he successively joined, in the course of the same year, the Unité 36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley, and Bacchante 38, Capts. Sir Wm. Hoste and Fras. Stanfell. On 14 Feb. 1813, we find him serving in the Bacchante’s barge, armed with a 12-pounder carronade, and manned with 23 officers and men, under Lieut. Silas Thomson Hood, at the boarding and capture, near Otranto, of the French gun-vessel Alcinous, of 2 long 24-pounders and 45 men; and, on 5 Jan. 1814, his emulous conduct appears to have been spoken of in high terms by Sir Wm. Hoste, in his despatch announcing the surrender, after a ten days’ cannonade, of the fortress of Cattaro, in the Adriatic. Mr. Bruce – who we believe witnessed the ensuing reduction of Ragusa, and, by his unwearied exertions, as Master’s Mate, in command of a party of 30 seamen, attached to the army at the capture of Machias, in Sept. 1814, obtained the official notice of Lieut.-Colonel Pilkington – was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 15 Feb. 1815, in the Adder sloop, Capts. Jos. Pearce and Sam. Malbon. He left that vessel, of which he acted for two months as Commander, 6 Sept. 1815; and was not afterwards employed.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1907.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1858.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 701.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 2122.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Rejoicing at the Arrival of Ch'ēn Hsiung

REJOICING AT THE ARRIVAL OF CH'ĒN HSIUNG
[Circa A. D. 812]
When the yellow bird's note was almost stopped; And half formed the green plum's fruit;
Sitting and grieving that spring things were over,
I rose and entered the Eastern Garden's gate. I carried my cup and was dully drinking alone:
Suddenly I heard a knocking sound at the door. Dwelling secluded, I was glad that someone had come; How much the more, when I saw it was Ch'ēn Hsiung! At ease and leisure, — all day we talked; Crowding and jostling, the feelings of many years. How great a thing is a single cup of wine! For it makes us tell the story of our whole lives.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Releasing a migrant "Yen" (Wild Goose)

At Nine Rivers, in the tenth year, in winter,— heavy snow;
The river-water covered with ice and the forests broken with their load. The birds of the air, hungry and cold, went flying east and west;
And with them flew a migrant "yen," loudly clamouring for food. Among the snow it pecked for grass; and rested on the surface of the ice:
It tried with its wings to scale the sky; but its tired flight was slow. The boys of the river spread a net and caught the bird as it flew;
They took it in their hands to the city-market and sold it there alive. I that was once a man of the North am now an exile here:
Bird and man, in their different kind, are each strangers in the south. And because the sight of an exiled bird wounded an exile's heart,
I paid your ransom and set you free, and you flew away to the clouds.
Yen, Yen, flying to the clouds, tell me, whither shall you go? Of all things I bid you, do not fly to the land of the northwest;
In Huai-hsi there are rebel bands that have not been subdued;
And a thousand thousand armoured men have long been camped in war. The official army and the rebel army have grown old in their opposite trenches;
The soldier's rations have grown so small, they'll be glad of even you. The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long feathers and make them into arrow-wings!
* ↑ Kiukiang, the poet's place of exile.
* ↑ A. D. 815. His first winter at Kiukiang.
* ↑ By the weight of snow.
* ↑ The revolt of Wu Yüan-chi
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Realizing the Futility of Life

REALIZING THE FUTILITY OF LIFE
Written on the wall of a priest's cell, circa 828
Ever since the time when I was a lusty boy
Down till now when I am ill and old,
The things I have cared for have been different at different times,
But my being busy, that has never changed. Then on the shore,— building sand-pagodas;
Now, at Court, covered with tinkling jade. This and that,— equally childish games,
Things whose substance passes in a moment of time! While the hands are busy, the heart cannot understand;
When there are no Scriptures, then Doctrine is sound. Even should one zealously strive to learn the Way,
That very striving will make one's error more.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Regret

REGRET
By Yüan Chi [210–263]
When I was young I learnt fencing
And was better at it than Crooked Castle.
My spirit was high as the rolling clouds
And my fame resounded beyond the World. I took my sword to the desert sands, I drank my horse at the Nine Moors.
My flags and banners flapped in the wind,
And nothing was heard but the song of my drums.
And a fierce anger burns within me:
It's thinking of how I've wasted my time
That makes this fury tear my heart.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Pruning Trees

PRUNING TREES
Trees growing — right in front of my window;
The trees are high and the leaves grow thick. Sad alas! the distant mountain view
Obscured by this, dimly shows between. One morning I took knife and axe;
With my own hand I lopped the branches off. Ten thousand leaves fall about my head;
A thousand hills come before my eyes. Suddenly, as when clouds or mists break
And straight through, the blue sky appears;
Again, like the face of a friend one has loved
Seen at last after an age of parting. First there came a gentle wind blowing;
One by one the birds flew back to the tree. To ease my mind I gazed to the South East;
As my eyes wandered, my thoughts went far away. Of men there is none that has not some preference;
Of things there is none but mixes good with ill. It was not that I did not love the tender branches;
But better still,— to see the green hills!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Rising Late and Playing with A-ts'ui, aged Two

RISING LATE AND PLAYING WITH A-TS'UI, AGED TWO
Written in 831
All the morning I have lain perversely in bed;
Now at dusk I rise with many yawns. My warm stove is quick to get ablaze;
At the cold mirror I am slow in doing my hair. With melted snow I boil fragrant tea;
Seasoned with curds I cook a milk-pudding. At my sloth and greed there is no one but me to laugh;
My cheerful vigour none but myself knows. The taste of my wine is mild and works no poison;
The notes of my harp are soft and bring no sadness. To the Three Joys in the book of Mencius I have added the fourth of playing with my baby-boy.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Plucking the Rushes

PLUCKING THE RUSHES
[A BOY AND GIRL ARE SENT TO GATHER RUSHES FOR THATCHING]
Anon. [fourth century]
Green rushes with red shoots,
Long leaves bending to the wind —
You and I in the same boat
Plucking rushes at the Five Lakes.
We started at dawn from the orchid-island:
We rested under the elms till noon.
You and I plucking rushes
Had not plucked a handful when night came!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Remembering Golden Bells

REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS
Ruined and ill, — a man of two score;
Pretty and guileless, — a girl of three.
Not a boy, — but still better than nothing:
To soothe one's feeling, — from time to time a kiss!
There came a day, — they suddenly took her from me;
Her soul's shadow wandered I know not where.
And when I remember how just at the time she died
She lisped strange sounds, beginning to learn to talk,
Then I know that the ties of flesh and blood
Only bind us to a load of grief and sorrow.
At last, by thinking of the time before she was born,
By thought and reason I drove the pain away.
Since my heart forgot her, many days have passed
And three times winter has changed to spring.
This morning, for a little, the old grief came back,
Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Sailing Homeward

SAILING HOMEWARD
By Chan Fang-shēng [fourth century A. D.]
Cliffs that rise a thousand feet
Without a break, Lake that stretches a hundred miles
Without a wave,
Sands that are white through all the year, Without a stain, Pine-tree woods, winter and summer
Ever-green,
Streams that for ever flow and flow
Without a pause,
Trees that for twenty thousand years
Your vows have kept, You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveller's heart,
And moved his brush to write a new song.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gostling, John

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gordon, John

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gordon, W.

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goss, John Jeremiah

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gottschalk, Louis

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goudimel, Claude

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goulding and Dalmaine

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gorgheggi

​GORGHEGGI. [See Solfeggi.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Goss, Sir John

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Buchanan, Alexander

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​BUCHANAN. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Alexander Buchanan was born 5 May, 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Theseus 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, in which ship he served for some time at the Cape; removed, in June, 1807, to the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, under whom he attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; then rejoined Capt. Hope in the Pompée 74, lying at Chatham; became Midshipman, in March, 1808, of the Victory 100, flag-ship in the Baltic of Sir Jas. Saumarez; served next, from May to Nov. 1809, in the Melpomene 38, Capts. Fred. Warren and Peter Parker, and Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley; and was subsequently, for upwards of three years, actively employed in the Hussar 38, Capts. Alex. Skene, Jas. Coutts Crawford, and Geo. Elliott, on the East India station, where he assisted at the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811. He passed his examination 7 Feb. 1813; received immediately afterwards an order to act as Lieutenant of the Barracouta 18, Capt. Chas. Hawkey; and on 24 Aug. following was officially promoted. He subsequently, from Sept. to Nov. 1815, served in the Martin 18, Capt. Hon. Jas. Arbuthnot, lying at Plymouth, and, for a short time in 1828, in the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, stationed in Newhaven Harbour for the purposes of the extended Coast Blockade. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Buchanan married, in Jan. 1827, a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Alex. Shippard, and granddaughter of the late Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.B., by whom he has issue four sons and two daughters.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bruce, Thomas Cuppage

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​BRUCE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Thomas Cuppage Bruce is son of the Rev. T. Bruce, of Westbere, near Canterbury. This officer was employed throughout all the operations on the coast of Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre. He passed his examination 2 ​June, 1841; served for some years as Mate of the Queen 110, and Formidable 84, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and, on 26 May, 1846, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant as a reward for the conduct he had previously displayed in the Harpy steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Halked Beauchamp Proctor, when under a galling fire from the forts of San Lorenzo, in the river Parana, on which occasion, his Captain being disabled, he took charge of the ship. His name has been since borne on the books of the Vernon 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Buchan, David Adye

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​BUCHAN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
David Adye Buchan entered the Navy 2 March, 1821; passed his examination 24 July, 1830; was promoted from the Mastiff, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, then employed in surveying the Orkneys, 17 Aug. 1841; joined, on 31 of the same month, the Vixen steam-vessel, Capt. Henry Boyes; was transferred, 5 Feb. 1842, to the Agincourt 72, flagship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane; and since 16 March, 1846, has been occupied as First of the Firefly steam surveying-vessel, commanded in the Irish Channel by Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Buchanan, William George

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​BUCHANAN. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
William George Buchanan died 2 March, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 6 Aug. 1813; passed his examination in 1820; was promoted into the Icarus 10, Capt. John Geo. Graham, on the Jamaica station, 12 Jan. 1825; subsequently joined, 21 Aug. 1828, the Semiramis 24, flag-ship at Cork of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget; obtained command of the Firebrand steam-yacht, 11 Nov. 1832; was superseded from that vessel in the early part of 1834; became First-Lieutenant of the St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington, 17 Oct. 1842; and in 1843 was again placed on half-pay. He was not afterwards employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bryant, William

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​BRYANT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
William Bryant entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sultan 74, Capts. Edw. Griffith and John West, under whom he continued to be actively employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Mediterranean, Channel, and West India stations, until paid off 15 March, 1815. He immediately afterwards proceeded to North America, as a Supernumerary, in the Perseus 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court; served, from 6 May to 26 July following, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Bacchante 38, Capt. Geo. Stanfell; and was then confirmed in his present rank by commission dated back to 7 March in the same year. He has been ever since on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brydges, Thomas

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​BRYDGES. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 17; h-p., 22.)
Thomas Brydges entered the Navy, 23 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Aetna bomb, Capts. Wm. Godfrey and John Bowker, then stationed in the Baltic. Under the former officer he assisted at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809, on which occasion the Aetna had the honour of leading in and anchoring inside the batteries, with which she continued to be engaged until the 29th. With Capt. Bowker, Mr. Brydges took part in the ensuing reduction of Flushing, as well as in all those harassing services up the Scheldt, for which, including the bombardment of Fort Lillo, Sir Richard Strachan returned his thanks in public orders. After a further employment of some months at the defence of Cadiz, where he witnessed the attack of the French on Fort Matagorda, he accompanied Capt. Bowker, in Sept. 1810, into the Wizard 16, commanded subsequently by Capts. Fairfax Moresby and Walter Croker, on the Mediterranean station. While attached to that vessel, Mr. Brydges served in her boats, as Master’s Mate, at the capture, in April, 1812, of two French privateers, one a felucca, of 8 guns and 60 men, the other a settee, of 4 guns and 45 men; commanded, on 18 Aug. 1813, a boat at the successful storming of the French batteries at the entrance of the Booca di Cattaro; was employed in the batteries at the siege of Trieste, in Oct following; and afterwards participated in many boat affairs on the river Po. He passed his examination 20 March, 1814; was paid off from the Wizard in Sept. 1815; then joined the Erne 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer, under whom he experienced a great deal of arduous boat-service in the Archipelago, until his return home in Dec. 1817; and became attached subsequently in succession to the Spencer 74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, in the Channel, Raleigh 18, Capt. Wm. Augustus Baumgardt, in the West Indies, Brazen 24, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, off St. Helena and the Cape, Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Bruce, at Portsmouth, and Owen Glendower 36, Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, employed in suppression of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa. He became Acting-Lieutenant of the Bann 20, Capt. Thos. Saumarez, 1 Aug. 1823; obtained his official promotion on 22 Oct. in the same year; and since 2 June, 1846, has been employed in the Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker.
Lieut. Brydges married, in 1827, the daughter of Thos. Williams, Esq., an eminent solicitor.