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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alleyn, Richard Israel

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​ALLEYN. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Richard Israel Alleyn entered the Navy, in Oct. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capts. Henry Nichols and Joseph Ellison, on the Channel station, where, and in the Mediterranean and West Indies, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the Boadicea 38, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Cormorant 24, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Haerlem and Africaine, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, Texel 64, Capt. Rich. Incledon, and Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell. While in the Cormorant, he was wrecked, we believe, off Damietta, on the Egyptian coast, 20 May, 1800. On 23 June, 1802, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Syren frigate, Capt. John Wentworth Loring; and, on the paying off of that vessel, was confirmed, by commission dated 13 Oct. in the same year. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and North America stations, to L’Egyptienne 44, Capts. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Hon. Chas. Paget Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew, Endymion 40, Capts. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel and Sir Wm. Bolton, Abercromby 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie and Hotspur 36 Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy. In the Endymion and Hotspur Mr. Alleyn served for several years as First Lieutenant; previously to which, on the evening of 8 March, 1806, he had commanded the boats of L’Egyptienne in conjunction with Lieut. Philip Cosby Haridfield, at the cutting out, under an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach an the harbour of Muros, in Spain. Having been unemployed since June, 1814, at which period he invalided from the Hotspur, Mr. Alleyn at length accepted the rank he now holds, 20 April, 1835. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alston, Edward Hughes

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​ALSTON. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edward Hughes Alston entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1826; passed his examination 15 Sept. 1835; obtained a commission 28 July, 1841; and from 6 Aug. following until the close of 1842, served in the Mediterranean on board the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard. He next joined, on 11 Dec. 1844, the Hydra steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, stationed off the coast of Africa, where he became First Lieutenant, 2 April, 1845, of the Banger 6, Capt. Jas. Anderson. Since 1846 he has been serving on the same station as Acting-Commander of the Pantaloon.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amsinck, Henry

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​AMSINCK. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 13; h-p., 23.)
Henry Amsinck entered the Navy, 6 Sept. 1811, at Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Niemen 38, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, under whom, on being transferred to the Hannibal 74, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 26 March, 1814, of La Sultane French frigate, of 44 guns and 330 men. Until officially promoted, 20 Jan. 1824, he afterwards served, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Bedford 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, Pomone 38, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, Albion, Queen, and Northumberland 74’s, Capts. Jas. Walker, Sir M. Seymour, and Thos. Harvey, Severn, Coast-Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M’Culloch, Northumberland and Albion again, Capts. T. Harvey, Thos. Jas. Maling, and Sir Wm. Hoste, Owen Glendower 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends, and Bann 20, Capts. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay and Geo. Woolcombe. The two last-mentioned ships were employed on the coast of Africa – the others chiefly on the Home station. Lieut. Amsinck, who returned to England in May, 1824, has since been on half-pay.
He married, 4 Jan. 1827, Charlotte Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev. Geo. Wilson, of Kirby Hall, CO. Norfolk. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, Saunderson

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​ALLEN. (Retired Commander, 1845.)
Saunderson Allen was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 5 Feb. 1808; and became a Retired Commander, 3 Feb. 1845.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ambrose, Prosper

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​AMBROSE. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 30; h-p., 21.)
Prosper Ambrose entered the Navy, 15 June, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Meleager .32, Capts. Geo. Cockburn and Chas. Ogle, and after serving for some time in the Centurion 50, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Horatio Nelson, became Midshipman, in 1797, of the Hyæna 24, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle and David Lloyd. After attending (in the Sheerness 44, Capt. John Surman Garden) the expedition to Holland under Sir Andrew Mitchell, he next successively joined the Guillaume Tell 80, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Lords Nelson and St. Vincent, Phoebe and Endymion frigates, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, and Neptune 98, flag-ship in the West Indies of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. He fought, while in the Phoebe, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and was present, in the Endymion, at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807. Being appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1809, of the Port d’Espagne 18, Capts. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and Colin and Donald Campbell, he assisted in that sloop at the proximate reduction of Martinique. His appointment to the Port d’Espagne being confirmed by commission dated 10 Feb. 1810, Mr. Ambrose, who appears to have officiated for some time as her Acting-Captain, subsequently became Lieutenant, in Dec. 1810, Feb. 1812, and Aug. 1813, of the Tweed 18, Capt. Thos. Edw. Symonds, Egmont 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Hope, and Guildford prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Coett – all on the Home station. From 28 Feb. 1814, to 8 June, 1816, he was next employed as an Agent for Transports afloat; after which he served in the Coast Guard for a short time during the year 1822, and was in charge, from 14 May, 1831, to 1 July, 1834, of the Platform Semaphore at Portsmouth. He has been occupied, since 2 Nov. 1840, as Admiralty- Agent in a Contract Mail Steamvessel.
During the late war Lieut Ambrose was also employed in the gun-boat service at Gibraltar.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Amphlett, William

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​AMPHLETT. (Lieut., 1844. f-p., 12; h-p., 0.)
William Amphlett entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 25 July, 1842; and after intermediately serving as Mate, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, of the Inconstant 36, Capt. Fred. Thos. Michell, and Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Dec. 1844, and at once appointed to the Actaeon 26. Capt. Geo. Mansel, now employed on the coast of Africa.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pavan

From volume 2 of the work.
*The treble sings D, the alto F.
Sir John Davies, in his 'Orchestra' (1596) has the following curious verses, in which the motions of the sun and the moon are compared to dancers of Pavans and Galliards:
'For that braue Sunne the Father of the Day, Doth loue this Earth, the Mother of the Night; And like a reuellour in rich array, Doth daunce his galliard in his lemman's sight, Both back, and forth, and sidewaies, passing light.'
'Who doth not see the measures of the Moone, Which thirteene times she dannceth euery yeare? And ends her pauine thirteene times as soone As doth her brother.'
There are numerous specimens extant of Pavans by instrumental composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, and in almost every case the Pavan is followed by a Galliard, the two thus anticipating the Saraband and Gigue of the later Suite. Thus Morley ('Introduction,' Part 3) after speaking of Fantaisies, says, 'The next in grauity and goodnes vnto this is called a pauane, a kind of staide musicke, ordained for grau dauncing, and most commonlie made of thr straines, whereof euerie straine is plaid or sung ​twice, a straine they make to containe 8, 12, or 16 semibreues as they list, yet fewer then eight I haue not seene in any pauan.… After euery pauan we vsually set a galliard.' And Butler ('Principles of Music,' 1636), speaking of the Doric mode, has the following: 'Of this sort are Pavins, invented for a slow and soft kind of Dancing, altogether in duple Proportion. Unto which are framed Galliards for more quick and nimble motion, always in triple proportion, and therefore the triple is oft called Galliard-time and the duple, Pavin-time.' Amongst the best known of these forerunners of the Suite, we may mention John Dowland's 'Lachrymae or Seauen Teares, figured in seauen passionate Pauans with diuers other Pauans, Galliards, and Almands' (1605); and Johann Ghro's 30 Pavans and Galliards 'nach teutscher art gesetzet' (1604).
The Spanish Pavan, a variety of the original dance which came from Spain (where it was called the Grand Dance), was of a more elaborate character than the original. Judging from the frequent occurrence of its air in the early English Lute and Virginal Books, it must have become very popular in England. The following is the tune which Tabourot gives for it: it is not the same as that which is found in the English books.
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* ↑ In the Cambridge University Library is a MS. volume of airs and dances (in Lute Tablature) by Dowland and Holborne in which there occurs a 'Padovana de la Milanessa.'
* ↑ Pantagruel, Bk. v, published 1562.
* ↑ Bésard, in the Preface to his 'Thesaurus Harmonious Divini Laurencini Romani' (Cologne, 1608), after praising the sweetness and elegancy of the English music of his day, makes particular mention ol the Pavans, adding that the word 'Pavana' is nothing else than the Italian 'Paduana.' He also mentions that the French often call their Passomezzos, Pavans.
* ↑ In Starter's 'Friesche Lust Hof' (1634), it is called 'Engelsche indraeyende Dans Londesteyn.'
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Peace, Albert

From volume 2 of the work.
​PEACE, Albert Lister, Mus. Doc., is a native of Huddersfield. He exhibited in his childhood precocity hardly exceeded by that of Crotch or even Mozart; naming with unerring accuracy individual notes and combinations of notes when sounded, before attaining his fifth year. At the age of nine he was appointed organist of the parish church of Holmfirth, and subsequently of other churches in that neighbourhood. In 1866, at the age of 21, he removed to Glasgow, to fill the office of organist to Trinity Congregational church, and soon afterwards, along with other posts, that of organist to the University. In 1870 he graduated as Bachelor, and in 1875 as Doctor of Music in the University of Oxford.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pearsall, Robert

From volume 2 of the work.
​PEARSALL, Robert Lucas, born at Clifton, March 14, 1795, of an old Gloucestershire family. He showed much talent for poetry and music at an early age, but was educated for the bar, to which he was called in 1821, and at which he practised till 1825. He then left England for the continent, and after some time settled at Mayence, where, during four years he took a brilliant part in literary, artistic, and archæological life, including music, in which he was the pupil of Panny, whose instructions in composition he pursued with characteristic ardour. In 1829 he returned to England, but after a year went back to the Continent and settled with his family at Carlsruhe, he resuming his intellectual pursuits, and composing and practising much music. The next few years were spent in travelling to Munich, Vienna, Nuremberg, and other towns, for musical and archæological purposes. In 1836 he revisited England, and hearing, apparently for the first time, some madrigals sung at London and Bristol, was so much inflamed by this new experience as to write a treatise on that style of music, which he published in Germany. A year later he sold his family property of Willsbridge, and again quitted England for Wartensee, on the Lake of Constance, where he purchased the castle. In 1847 he returned for a short visit, and then left his native country for the last time. Thenceforward till his death, Aug. 5, 1856, he resided at his castle en grand seigneur, eager to the last on all intellectual and artistic subjects, but especially on music. He wrote a great number of psalms, motets, anthems, and other church music, amongst them a Requiem, on which he set much store, treatises on music, and a 'Catholisches Gesangbuch' (1863), founded on that of St. Gall, and still in use. The bulk of this is however still in MS. His published works contain 47 Choral Songs and Madrigals, for 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 voices, including 'The Hardy Norseman,' and 'Oh, who will o'er the downs so free'—the fresh and spirited strains of which will keep Pearsall's memory green for many a long year among the part-singers of England. But besides these well-known songs the collection embraces madrigals such as 'Great God of Love,' and Lay a garland,' both for 8 voices, which may be pronounced to be amongst the most melodious and pure specimens of 8-part writing ever penned by an Englishman, and certain to be popular abroad if published there.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Peerson, Martin

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Paxton, Stephen

From volume 2 of the work.
​PAXTON, Stephen, a composer of vocal music in the latter part of the 18th century, produced several graceful and elegant glees, 9 of which, with 2 catches, are printed in Warren's Collections. The Catch Club awarded him prizes for the following glees; 'How sweet, how fresh,' 1779; 'Round the hapless Andre's urn,' 1781; 'Blest Power,' 1784; and 'Come, O come,' 1785; and for a catch, 'Ye Muses, inspire me,' 1783. He published 'A Collection of two Songs, Glees and two Catches,' and 'A Collection of Glees.' Two masses by him are printed in Webbe's Collection. He died in 1787 [App. p.745 "Aug. 18, 1787, aged 52, and was buried in St. Pancras old churchyard"].
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Peabody Concerts

From volume 2 of the work.
[ F. H. J. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pedalier

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

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Aubert, Pierre

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Audran, Edmond

From volume 4 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Auer, Leopold

From volume 1 of the work.
​AUER, Leopold, born May 28, 1845, at Veszprem in Hungary, an eminent violin -player, was a pupil of Dont at the Vienna Conservatorio and afterwards of Joachim. From 1863 to 1865 he was leader of the orchestra at Düsseldorf, ​from 1866 to 1867 at Hamburg, and since 1868 he has lived at St. Petersburg as solo-violinist to the court, though frequently visiting London.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Aubert, Jacques

From volume 1 of the work.
​AUBERT, Jacques ('le vieux'), an eminent French violinist and composer, born towards the end of the 17th century. He was violinist in the royal band, the orchestra of the Opera, and the Concerts Spirituels. In 1748 he was nominated leader of the band and director of the Duc de Bourbon's private music. He died at Belleville near Paris in 1753.
The catalogue of his published compositions contains five books of violin sonatas with a bass; twelve suites en trio; two books of concertos for four violins, cello and bass; many airs and minuets for two violins and bass; an opera and a ballet. All these works are of good, correct workmanship, and some movements of the sonatas are certainly not devoid of earnest musical feeling and character.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Augener

From volume 4 of the work.
​AUGENER. The music-publishing business of Augener & Co. was founded at 86 Newgate Street, London, in 1855. Later on branch warehouses were established at 1 Foubert Place, 22 Golden Square, and 81 The Quadrant, Regent Street. By a recent change of partnership (26 February, 1887) the warehouse in the Quadrant has been transferred to Mr. Wesley S. B. Woolhouse, the general business with this exception remaining Mr. George Augener's.
Augener & Co.'s Catalogue contains upwards of 6000 works, of which nearly 1000 are cheap volumes; among these is a comprehensive ​collection of pianoforte classics edited by Professor Ernst Pauer, as well as an important series of educational works edited by him, by Mr. John Farmer, and other well-known musicians.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Attey, John

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

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

From volume 1 of the work.
​AUBADE. A French term (from aube, the dawn), answering to nocturne or serenade. It was originally applied to music performed in the morning, and apparently to concerted music (Littré); but is now almost confined to music for the piano, and an Aubade has no distinct form or character of its own. Stephen Heller and Schulhoff have written pieces bearing this title.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beales, Charles

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​BEALES. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
Charles Beales was born 27 Jan. 1788.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1801, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Clyde 46, Capt. Chas. Cunningham, stationed in the Channel and off Guernsey; attained in Oct. following the rating of Midshipman; and in that capacity, and as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, served successively in the Diligence 16, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, Princess of Orange 74, Capts. C. Cunningham and Thos. Rogers, Nassau 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, and Kent 74, Capt. T. Rogers, employed on the North Sea, Channel, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the latter slhip 26 Nov. 1808, and was subsequently appointed, 22 Dec. 1809, and 30 April, 1814, to the Tribune 36 and Liffey 50, Capts. Geo. Reynolds and John Hancock, with whom he served, in the North Sea and West Indies and on the coast of Spain, until 28 July, 1815. The particulars of a gallant cutting-out affair, which took place at Noli, on the coast of Italy, 1 Aug. 1808, and in which Mr. Beales participated, will be found in our memoir of Commander Wm. Chasman. He also, we find, assisted in the Kent’s boats at the capture of two gun vessels in July, 1809. The Tribune, while he was in her, effected, on 12 May, 1810, after a smart action of two hours and a quarter, and a loss of 9 men killed and 15 wounded, the defeat, off the Norwegian coast, of four Danish man-of-war brigs, carrying altogether 74 guns. Not having been employed since 1815, Lieut. Beales accepted the rank he now holds 13 April, 1846.
He married Miss Moon, and has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beauclerk, Frederick Charles Peter

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​BEAUCLERK, Lord. (Commander, 1834.)
The Right Honourable Lord Frederick Charles Peter Beauclerk, born 28 June, 1808, is second son of the late Duke of St. Albans, by Maria Janetta, only daughter of John Nelthorpe, Esq., of Little Grimsby House, co. Lincoln. He is next brother of the present Duke, elder brother of the preceding officer, and nephew of the late Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, from the R.N. College, in 1823, as Midshipman, on board the Victor 18, Capt. Thos. Prickett, stationed off the coast of Africa; served in the Asia 84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his first commission 13 Sept. in the same year; and on 8 Dec. following was appointed to the Southampton 52, Capts. Peter Fisher and John Milligan Laws, on the East India station. In the latter ship his lordship continued to serve until 1832, when he removed for a short time to the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Parker, and on 3 Aug. assumed the Acting-Command of the Zebra 18, which sloop he brought home and paid off in the spring of 1833. He attained his present rank 6 Jan. 1834, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beale, Robert Beale

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​BEALE. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Robert Beale Beale is brother of Lieut. W. Y. Beale, of the 10th Foot, who was killed at the storming of the tête-du-pont by the Sikh army in 1846.
This officer served throughout the whole of the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including the capture of St. Jean d’Acre, as Midshipman of the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Stopford, from whom he elicited unqualified approbation. He passed his examination 21 Feb. 1843; and – after an intermediate attachment to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Larke 18, commanded on the coast of Africa by Capt. John Wm. Douglas Brisbane, and Queen 110, and Trafalgar 120, flag-ships at the Nore of Sir John Chambers White and Sir Edw. Dumford King – was promoted to his present rank 4 April, 1846. He has been serving, since 15 of the following May, in the Dido 18, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beatty, Daniel McNeale

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​BEATTY. (Lieut., 1806. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Daniel M‘Neale Beatty entered the Navy, 24 March, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sappho of 18 guns and 120 men, Capt. Geo. Langford; in which sloop he escorted, as Midshipman, the Hon. Mr. Pierrepont, as Ambassador to the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, then besieged by the French army in Stralsund – accompanied, in Aug. of the same year, the expedition to Copenhagen – and, on 2 March, 1808, assisted at the capture, off Flamborough Head, after a close action of half an hour, of the Admiral Yawl Danish brig, of 28 guns and 83 men – a service for which Capt. Langford was advanced to Post-rank. Mr. Beatty next served for two years on board the Zenobia 18, Capt. Alex. Rich. Mackenzie, during which period, in Aug. 1809, he was actively employed, with the light squadron under Sir Edw. Owen, in co-operation with the troops at the bombardment of Flushing. He then joined the Alexandria 32, Capts. John Quilliam and Robt. Cathcart, on the Baltic station, where he was twice engaged with the Danish gunboats, took part in several cutting-out affairs, and, while affording protection to convoys, came into frequent collision with the enemy’s row-galleys; and on removing, in Feb. 1813, to the Dannemark 74, Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, was employed, until the conclusion of the war, in blockading the Texel and Cherbourg squadrons, and at the Cape of Good Hope. For a few months in 1815 Mr. Beatty served as Master’s Mate in the Royal Sovereign 100, and Tonnant 80, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, lying at Plymouth. He afterwards became attached, in July, 1816, to the Severn 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer; and for his conduct at the battle of Algiers, where he was wounded, was promoted on 16 Sept. in the same year to the rank of Lieutenant. Since that period, with the exception of a brief employment in the Coast Guard, and a command, from 20 March, 1830, to Oct. 1831, and from 9 April, 1832, to Sept. 1833, ​of the Hornet and Swallow Revenue-vessels, Mr. Beatty has been unemployed.
He married in 1829.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beauclerk, Amelius Wentworth

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​BEAUCLERK, Lord. (Commander, 1846.)
The Right Honourable Lord Amelius Wentworth Beauclerk, born 16 Aug. 1815, is fifth son of the late Duke of St. Albans, and a younger brother of Commander Lord F. C. P. Beauclerk, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 17 May, 1830; passed his examination 3 Oct. 1836; and served as Mate, on the Lisbon and India stations, of the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, Wellesley 72, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Gordon Bremer, and Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse. For his services during the campaign in China, where he fought at the capture of Amoy and the storming of Chinghae, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Oct. 1841. His appointments in that capacity were – 26 Nov. 1842, and 9 Feb. 1844, to the Gorgon steam-sloop, and Curaçoa 24, Capts. Chas. Hotham, Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley, and Wm. Broughton, both on the South American station. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.