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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, George Thomas Cleather

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​SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 2.)
George Thomas Cleather Smith was born 18 May, 1815.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 120, Capts. Edw. Hawker and Geo. Burdett, employed at home and in the Mediterranean. On his return to England with Capt. Burdett as Midshipman in the Asia 84, he was received as a Supernumerary, in June, 1830, on board the St. Vincent 120, Capt. Hyde Parker, lying at Portsmouth; and after again serving with him for a few weeks in the Ganges 84, he joined, in the following Oct., the Racehorse 18, Capts. Chas. Hamlyn Williams and Fras. Vere Cotton, fitting for the North America and West India station. He left that vessel at Halifax in Sept. 1832; he served next, from March, 1834, until April, 1842, off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean, six years and eight months of the time as Mate, in the Revenge 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, Beacon surveying- vessel, Capts. Sackett Hope and Thos. Graves, and Gorgon steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson; and, on 10 Nov. in the latter year, at which period he had been for nearly three months employed at Portsmouth and at Harwich in the Orestes 18, Capt. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Shearwater steamer, Capt. John Washington, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 13 Jan. 1843, to the Hecla steam-sloop, Capt. John Duffill, fitting at Woolwich – 13 March, 1843, and 13 Feb. 1844, to the Comet and Lucifer steam surveying-vessels, commanded on the coast of Ireland by Capt. Geo. Alex. Frazer – and, 29 Oct. 1847, to the command of the Blazer steamer, of 136-horse power, on the coast of Africa.
While belonging to the Racehorse Mr. Smith was on several occasions employed on shore in Montego and Lucca Bays during the insurrection among the negroes in 1831. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, George Hamilton

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​SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
George Hamilton Smith died 23 Dec. 1845. This officer entered the Navy 4 July, 1808; passed his examination in 1814; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825.
​At the period of his death he was holding the appointment of Landing-Surveyor in the Customs at St. John’s, New Brunswick.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, George Woodberry

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​SMITH. (Commander, 1841.)
George Woodberry Smith entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1812; passed his examination in 1819; and was made Lieutenant, 27 July, 1826, into the Pandora 18, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, on the East India station. His next appointments were – 15 Sept. 1830, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, employed on particular service – 6 July, 1832, and 8 Nov. 1833, as First, to the Dee steam-vessel, Capts. Wm. Oliver and Edw. Stanley, and Phoenix, another steamer, Capts. W. Oliver and Hugh Nurse, both in the Channel – and 3 July, 1835, and 2 Feb. 1838, to the command, in the West Indies, of the Meteor and Tartarus steamers. He continued in the latter vessel until some months after his promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 23 Nov. 1841; and was afterwards, from 28 Sept. 1842 until Nov. 1846, employed as Additional- Commander of the William and Mary yacht. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, Henry Thomas

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​SMITH. (Lieutenant, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
Henry Thomas Smith was born 7 March, 1810, at Greenwich, co. Kent. He is brother of Lieut. A. J. Smith, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 March, 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victory 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth. From Sept. 1825 until Jan. 1829, he served as Midshipman in the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, on the Channel, West India, Lisbon, and South American stations, and also in the Mediterranean; where, from March, 1829, until April, 1832, he was employed, the last two years as Mate, in the Melville 74 and Raleigh 18, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Abraham Mills Hawkins. He then joined the Donegal 78, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Fanshawe, in the Channel; and next – in Nov. 1832, the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, employed off Lisbon and on the coast of Holland – in March, 183-3, for about two months, the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Manley Dixon at Plymouth – in April, 1834, the Hastings 74, Capt. Henry Shiffnher, on the Lisbon station, where he remained until Jan. 1836 – in July, 1836, and June, 1839, the Firefly and Kite steamers, Lieut.-Commanders Joseph Pearse and Geo. Snell, in the Mediterranean and West Indies – in the course of 1840, the Pluto steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn, and Winchester 60, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, both on the coast of North America – and, in Feb. 1841 (five months after he had left the Winchester), the Mastiff surveying-vessel, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, stationed among the Orkney Islands. He attained his present rank (eleven years and a half after he had passed his examination) 23 Nov. 1841; was appointed, 15 Dec. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore at Plymouth; and, from 5 Jan. 1842 until he invalided in June, 1843, was employed in the Ferret brig, Capt. Josiah Oake, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Smith married, 22 Feb. 1844, Jane Hardy, of Thorngumbald, Holderness, co. York.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smith, Henry (b)

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​SMITH. (Captain, 1846.)
Henry Smith (b) entered the Navy, 20 May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, stationed in Basque Roads; and, from the following Nov. until March, 1813, was employed in the East Indies in the Malacca 36, commanded by the latter officer and by Capts. Sam. Leslie and Henry John Peachey, Sir Francis Drake 32, Capt. H. J. Peachey, and Modeste 36, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford. He served next, until Aug. 1815, on the Baltic and Home stations, as Midshipman, in the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn; and, from Nov. 1816 until Oct. 1821, in North and South America, the Mediterranean, and West Indies, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Leander 50, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Pyramus 42, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Chas. Fahle. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, to which ship, employed at Halifax and in the West Indies, he was confirmed 9 Jan. 1822. He was placed on half-pay in 1823, and was subsequently appointed – 10 Aug. 1826, as First, to the Pelican 18, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned in the summer of 1827 – 15 Dec. 1828, in a similar capacity, to the Champion 18, Capts. Geo. Scott and Fras. Vere Cotton, with whom he served for about two years and a half on the African and North America and West India stations – 2 Sept. 1832, again as Senior, ​to the Tyne 28, Capt. Geo. Hope, in South America – and next, as a Supernumerary, to the Dublin 50 and President 52, flag-ships on that station of Rear-Admirals Sir Graham Eden Hamond and Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross. He was presented with a second promotal commission 23 Nov. 1841; and, from 12 Dec. 1844 until advanced to his present rank 27 June, 1846, was employed on particular service in the Rattler steam-vessel.
Capt. Smith is married and has issue.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Donne, John

​Donne, John (1573-1631).—Poet and divine, s. of a wealthy ironmonger in London, where he was b. Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he was sent to Oxf. and Camb., and afterwards entered Lincoln's Inn with a view to the law. Here he studied the points of controversy between Romanists and Protestants, with the result that he joined the Church of England. The next two years were somewhat changeful, including travels on the Continent, service as a private sec., and a clandestine marriage with the niece of his patron, which led to dismissal and imprisonment, followed by reconciliation. On the suggestion of James I., who approved of Pseudo-Martyr (1610), a book against Rome which he had written, he took orders, and after executing a mission to Bohemia, he was, in 1621, made Dean of St. Paul's. D. had great popularity as a preacher. His works consist of elegies, satires, epigrams, and religious pieces, in which, amid many conceits and much that is artificial, frigid, and worse, there is likewise much poetry and imagination of a high order. Perhaps the best of his works is An Anatomy of the World (1611), an elegy. Others are Epithalamium (1613), Progress of the Soul (1601), and Divine Poems. Collections of his poems appeared in 1633 and 1649. He exercised a strong influence on literature for over half a century after his death; to him we owe the unnatural style of conceits and overstrained efforts after originality of the succeeding age.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Doran, John

​Doran, John (1807-1878).—Miscellaneous writer, of Irish parentage, wrote a number of works dealing with the lighter phases of manners, antiquities, and social history, often bearing punning titles, e.g., Table Traits with Something on Them (1854), and Knights and their Days. He also wrote Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1855), and A History of Court Fools (1858), and ed. Horace Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III. His books contain much curious and out-of-the-way information. D. was for a short time ed. of The Athenæum.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dodsley, Robert

​Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764).—Poet, dramatist, and bookseller, b. near Mansfield, and apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, but not liking this employment, he ran away and became a footman. While thus engaged he produced The Muse in Livery (1732). This was followed by The Toy Shop, a drama, which brought him under the notice of Pope, who befriended him, and assisted him in starting business as a bookseller. In this he became eminently successful, and acted as publisher for Pope, Johnson, and Akenside. He projected and pub. The Annual Register, and made a collection of Old English Plays, also of Poems by Several Hands in 6 vols. In addition to the original works above mentioned he wrote various plays and poems, including The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (1741), and Cleone (1758)
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Doddridge, Philip

​Doddridge, Philip (1702–1751).—Nonconformist divine and writer of religious books and hymns, b. in London, and ed. for the ministry at a theological institution at Kibworth, became minister ﬁrst at Market Harborough, and afterwards at Northampton, where he also acted as head of a theological academy. D., who was a man of amiable and joyous character, as well as an accomplished scholar, composed many standard books of religion, of which the best known is The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745). In 1736 he received the degree of D.D. from Aberdeen. He d. at Lisbon, whither he had gone in search of health. Several of his hymns, e.g., Ye Servants of the Lord, O Happy Day, and O God of Bethel, are universally used by English-speaking Christians, and have been translated into various languages.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dodd, William

​Dodd, William (1729-1777).—Divine and forger, ed. at Camb., became a popular preacher in London, and a Royal Chaplain, but, acquiring expensive habits, got involved in hopeless difficulties, from which he endeavoured to escape first by an attempted simoniacal transaction, for which he was disgraced, and then by forging a bond for £4200, for which, according to the then existing law, he was hanged. Great efforts were made to obtain a commutation of the sentence, and Dr. Johnson wrote one of the petitions, but on D.'s book, Thoughts in Prison, appearing posthumously, he remarked that "a man who has been canting all his days may cant to the last." D. was the author of a collection of Beauties of Shakespeare, Reflections on Death, and a translation of the Hymns of Callimachus.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dobell, Sydney Thompson

​Dobell, Sydney Thompson (1824-1874).—Poet, b. at Cranbrook, Kent, s. of a wine-merchant, who removed to Cheltenham, where most of the poet's life was passed. His youth was precocious (he was engaged at 15 and m. at 20). In 1850 his first work, The Roman, appeared, and had great popularity. Balder, Part I. [1854), Sonnets on the War, jointly with Alexander Smith (q.v.) [1855), and England in Time of War (1856) followed. His later years were passed in Scotland and abroad in search of health, which, however, was damaged by a fall while exploring some ruins ​at Pozzuoli. D.'s poems exhibit fancy and brilliancy of diction, but want simplicity, and sometimes run into grandiloquence and other faults of the so-called spasmodic school to which he belonged.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of

​Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of (1638-1706).—Poet, was one of the dissolute and witty courtiers of Charles II., and a friend of Sir C. Sedley (q.v.), in whose orgies he participated. He was, however, a patron of literature, and a benefactor of Dryden in his later and less prosperous years. He wrote a few satires and songs, among the latter being the well-known, To all you Ladies now on Land. As might be expected, his writings are characterised by the prevailing indelicacy of the time.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dixon, William Hepworth

​Dixon, William Hepworth (1821-1879).—Historian and traveller, b. near Manchester, went to London in 1846, and became connected with The Daily News, for which he wrote articles on social and prison reform. In 1850 he pub. John Howard and the Prison World of Europe, which had a wide circulation, and about the same time he wrote a Life of Peace (1851), in answer to Macaulay'sMacaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord onslaught. Lives of Admiral Blake and Lord Bacon followed, which received somewhat severe criticisms at the hands of competent authorities. D. was ed. of The Athenæum, 1853-69, and wrote many books of travel, including The Holy Land (1865), New America (1867), and Free Russia (1870). His later historical works include Her Majesty's Tower, and The History of Two Queens (Catherine of Arragon and Anne Boleyn). Though a diligent student of original authorities, and sometimes successful in throwing fresh light on his subjects, D. was not always accurate, and thus laid himself open to criticism; and his book, Spiritual Wives, treating of Mormonism, was so adversely criticised as to lead to an action. He wrote, however, in a fresh and interesting style. He was one of the founders of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and was a member of the first School Board for London (1870). He was called to the Bar in 1854, but never practised.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge

​Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898).—Mathematician and writer of books for children, s. of a clergyman at Daresbury, Cheshire, was ed. at Rugby and Oxf. After taking orders he was appointed lecturer on mathematics, on which subject he pub. several valuable treatises. His fame rests, however, on his books for children, full of ingenuity and delightful humour, of which Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-glass, are the best.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dixon, Richard Watson

​Dixon, Richard Watson (1833-1900).—Historian and poet, s. of Dr. James D., a well-known Wesleyan minister and historian of Methodism, ed. at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Oxf., took Anglican orders, was Second Master at Carlisle School, Vicar of Hayton and Warkworth, and Canon of Carlisle. He pub. 7 vols. of poetry, but is best known for his History of the Church of England from the Abolition of Roman Jurisdiction (1877-1900).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Jacobs, Joseph

See also Joseph Jacobs on Wikipedia.
​Jacobs, Joseph (1854).—Writer on folk-lore and Jewish history. English Fairy Tales (1890), Celtic Fairy Tales (1891), Indian Fairy Tales (1892), Reynard the Fox (1895), Jews of Angevin England (1893), Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain (1895); has ed. various English classics, e.g., Caxton's "Æsop" and Howell's "Familiar Letters," and many modern works, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Jerome, Jerome Klapka

See also Jerome K. Jerome on Wikipedia.
​Jerome, Jerome Klapka (1860).—Novelist, playwright, etc. On the Stage and Off (1885), Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1889), Three Men in a Boat (1891), Sketches in Lavender (1897), Paul Kelver (1902), Tommy & Co. (1904). Plays, The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1907), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Jessop, Rev. Augustus, D.D.

See also Augustus Jessopp on Wikipedia.
​Jessop, Rev. Augustus, D.D. (1824).—Historian. One Generation of a Norfolk House (1878), History of the Diocese of Norwich (1879), Arcady for Better or Worse (1881), The Coming of the Friars (1885), Random Roaming (1896), Before the Great Pillage (1901), ed. works by Donne, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Johnston, Mary

See also Mary Johnston on Wikipedia.
​Johnston, Mary.—American Novelist. The Old Dominion, By Order of the Company, Audrey, Sir Mortimer, The Goddess of Reason.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Hutton, Rev. William Holden, B.D.

See also William Holden Hutton on Wikipedia.
​Hutton, Rev. William Holden, B.D. (1860).—Historian. The Misrule of Henry III., The Church of the Sixth Century, Short History of the Church in Great Britain, The English Church (1625-1714), and Lives of Simon de Montfort, Laud, Sir T. More, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Jacobs, William Wymark

See also W. W. Jacobs on Wikipedia.
​Jacobs, William Wymark (1863).—Novelist. Many Cargoes (1896), The Skipper's Wooing (1897), A Master of Craft (1900), At Sunwich Port (1902), Odd Craft (1903), Dialstone Lane (1904), Short Cruises (1907), Salthaven (1908). Plays (with Louis N. Parker), Beauty and the Barge, The Monkey's Paw, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Hutton, Edward

See also Edward Hutton (writer) on Wikipedia.
​Hutton, Edward (1875).—Writer on Italian Art, etc. Italy and the Italians (1902), The Cities of Umbria (1905), The Cities of Spain (1906), Sigismondo Malatesta (1906), Giovanni Boccaccio (1910), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Hyde, Douglas, LL.D.

See also Douglas Hyde on Wikipedia.
​Hyde, Douglas, LL.D.—Irish scholar. Beside the Fire, Love Songs of Connacht (1894), Three Sorrows of Story-telling (1895), Story of Early Irish Literature (1897), A Literary History of Ireland (1899), and various works in Irish; has ed. various Irish texts, and made translations into English.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/James, William, LL.D., etc.

See also William James on Wikipedia.
​James, William, LL.D., etc. (1842).—Psychologist. Principles of Psychology (1890), Human Immortality (1897), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Pragmatism (1907), and The Meaning of Truth (1909).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/James, Henry

​James, Henry (1843).—American novelist and critic. A Passionate Pilgrim (1875), The American (1877), The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), A Bundle of Letters (1879), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), A London Life (1889), Terminations (1896), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Two Magics (1898), The Sacred Fount (1901), The Ambassador (1903), The American Scene (1907), The High Bid (1909); in criticism, French Poets and Novelists (1878), Partial Portraits, etc.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Need, Henry

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​NEED. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Need is eldest surviving son of the late Lieut.-General Sam. Need, of Fountain Dale, Notts, Colonel of H.M. 9th Lancers; and brother of Lieut. Chas. Need, of the 7th Native Infantry.
This officer entered the Navy 16 March, 1833; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; was subsequently employed, as Mate, in the Melville 72, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, on the East India station; and for his services in that capacity, while attached to the Druid 44, Capt. Henry Smith, in the operations of May, 1841, against Canton, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Oct. in the same year. His appointments have since been – 15 March, 1843, to the Harlequin 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings, again in the East Indies, whence he returned in the early part of 184.5 – and, 6 Dec. in the latter year, to the Terrible steam-frigate, of 800 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay, under whom he is now employed, as Senior-Lieutenant, on particular service.
He married, 23 Dec. 1845, Jane, eldest daughter of Jas. M‘Dowell, Esq., of Portland Place, London, and East Bridgeford, Notts. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Need, Walter

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​NEED. (Commander, 1847.)
Walter Need entered the Navy 1 1 Dec. 1824; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 10 April, 1839, and 20 May, 1841, to the Belleisle 72, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, and Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, both in the Mediterranean, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1843 – 4 Jan. 1845, as Senior, to the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, fitting for the coast of Africa, where he was superseded in the latter part of the same year – and, 4 ​Feb. 1847, in a similar capacity, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, employed on the Home and Mediterranean stations. He attained his present rank 12 Oct. 1847.