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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barker, George (a)

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​BARKER. (Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 27; h-p., 49.)
George Barker entered the Navy, 1 June, 1771, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Barfleur, Capt. Milbanke, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Thos. Pye; removed in 1777 to the Resolution, Capt. Sir Chaloner Ogle, stationed off the coast of Portugal; served subsequently, in the Channel and West Indies, as Midshipman of the Vengeance, Capts. Mich. Clements and Hon. Fred. Maitland, Preston, Capt. Wm. Truscott, and Montagu, Capt. John Houlton; and, on 19 March, 1782, was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Dromedary, flag-ship in the Downs of Vice-Admiral Wm. Drake. After an interval of seven years, he next, between June, 1790, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 19 Dec. 1796, served, on the Newfoundland, Mediterranean, West India, and Home stations, in the Pegasus 28, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Wm. Domett, and St. Albans 64, and Pompée 74, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Vashon. He then joined the Incendiary 14, in which vessel he assisted at the destruction of the French store-ship Suffrein, off Ushant, 8 Jan. 1797; and, on 8 June, 1799, was confirmed in the command of the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Lord Keith, whom he presently accompanied into the Queen Charlotte 100. He left the latter ship, however, on 14 July in the same year; and was subsequently appointed – 21 Feb. 1801, to the Severn 44, on the West India station, whence he returned in Jan. 1803 – and, 19 Feb. 1806, to the Impress service at Bristol, which he continued to regulate until 18 July, 1810. He has since been on half-pay. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place 6 June, 1825; and to that of Vice-Admiral 12 Nov. 1840.
He married, 8 Jan. 1833, Mary Ann, daughter of J. Hunter, Esq., of Compton Terrace, Islington. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barker, John

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​BARKER. (Lieut., 1802. f-p., 21; h-p., 31.)
John Barker is brother of Lieut. Wm. C. Barker, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1795, as Fst-cl Vol., on board the Alcmene 32, Capt. Wm. Brown, stationed in the North Sea; and on removing, as Midshipman, to the Salisbury 50, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, was wrecked, on Isle la Vache, St. Domingo, 13 May, 1796. From Nov. in the latter year, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 29 April, 1802, he next served, on the West India and Home stations, in the Queen 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker, Renommée 44, Capts. Robt. Rolles and Wm. Sanderson, and Excellent 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford; and during that period, independently of other captures, assisted in making prize, 10 Oct. 1799, of L’Aréthuse, national corvette, of 18 guns. His subsequent appointments afloat appear to have been – 7 July, 1802, to the Hornet sloop, Capts. Robt. Tucker, Peter Hunt, and John Lawrence – and, 23 April, 1804, to the command of the Grenada brig, both on the Leeward Islands station. While in the latter vessel, which he left in April, 1808, Mr. Barker effected the capture, at various periods, of L’Intrépide, 'La Petite Aricère', La Princesse Murat, La Désirée, and Le Tigre privateers, carrying altogether 14 guns and 199 men. From Oct. 1808, until Dec. 1815, he was next employed, also in the West Indies, as Resident-Agent for transports and prisoners of war. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barnard, Edward (b)

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​BARNARD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Edward Barnard entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1822; passed his examination 26 Jan. 1829; and obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841. He has been for several years employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barker, Robert

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​BARKER. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
Robert Barker was born 20 June, 1788.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1801, as L.M., on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, employed off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean. From Feb. 1803 (previously to which period he had further served for a few months in the Dryad 36, Capt. Robt. Williams), until Jan. 1810, he appears to have been employed, chiefly in the East Indies, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Lieutenant (commission dated 17 Oct. 1809), on board the Russel 74, Capts. R. Williams, Wm. Warden, and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, flag-ship for some time of Vice-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury. He then joined the Piedmontaise 38, Capts. Chas. Foote, Chas. Rayley, and Henry Folkes Edgell; and while in that frigate assisted at the reduction, in Aug. 1810, of the Dutch Spice Islands. His next appointments were – 23 Dec. 1812, to the Despatch 18, Capt. Jas. Galloway, of which sloop, stationed off the coast of North America, he held for nearly two months the acting-command – and, 11 April, 1815, to the Superb 74, flag-ship of Hon, Sir Henry Hotham on the coast of France, where he cooperated with the Royalists in La Vendée, and was present at the surrender of Buonaparte. He has since been unemployed.
Lieut. Barker married, 14 March, 1821, Martha, daughter of Chas. Hamilton, Esq., by whom he has issue six children. Agents – Messrs. Chard. of( He married, 9 Sept. 1826, Judith Maria, daughter Chas. Palmer, Esq., of Coleshill.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Barker, William Collins

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​BARKER. (Lieut., 1802. f-p., 23; h-p., 29.)
William Collins Barker, born 20 July, 1779, is brother of Lieut. John Barker, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 March, 1795, as L.M., on board the Alcmene 32, Capt. Wm. Brown, attached to the fleet in the North Sea. On 13 May, 1796, having been transferred as Midshipman to the Salisbury 50, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, he was wrecked, on Isle la Vache, St. Domingo; but he continued to serve, on the Jamaica station, until Oct. 1800, in the Queen 98, flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker, and during that period was much employed in the boats, and was twice wounded. On his subsequent removal to the Wasp 16, Capt. Chas. Bullen, we find Mr. Barker landing, as Acting-Master ​of that vessel, and effecting the destruction of a native town in Cape Bay, Sierra Leone, where 1000 of the enemy were killed and 3000 wounded. Shortly after the latter event, which took place in Dec. 1801, he obtained an order to act as Lieutenant of the Wasp, and, on 25 March, 1802, he was confirmed in that rank by the Admiralty. The Wasp being paid off in the following August, Mr. Barker was next, from 25 May, 1803, to 16 April, 1806, employed on the river Thames, under the orders of Capt. Richbell, in raising seamen for the service. He then, for 10 years, commanded the Enterprize, receiving-ship off the Tower; and, on 12 Feb. 1814, when the late Custom-house was consumed by fire, he proved the great instrument, through his own exertions and those of his ship’s company (as appears by the ‘Times’ newspaper of 17 of that month, and the Wharfingers’ Memorial to the Admiralty of 12 April following), of saving from otherwise inevitable destruction the warehouses belonging to the Crown on Brewer and Galley Quays, &c., and the vast amount of property there deposited. For a few months in 1817, at the request of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, he afterwards held charge of the Batavier, lying at Blaockwall, for the superintendence of foreign seamen. He next, from 4 May, 1818, until 6 July, 1821, commanded the Perseus receiving-ship at Deptford; but was then superseded by Capt. Jas. Couch, with whom however he continued to serve until the following Sept. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Barker married in Nov. 1803, and has issue five children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hemmans, Samuel Hood

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​HEMMANS. (Lieutenant, 1813.)
Samuel Hood Hemmans entered the Navy, 10 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Boreas 22, Capt. Robt. Scott, which vessel, after having effected the capture of La Victoire privateer, of 8 swivels and 28 men, was lost, together with her Commander ​and all but 68 of her crew, on the Hannois rocks, near Guernsey, 5 Dec. 1807. Mr. Hemmans, who previously to that catastrophe had attained the rating of Midshipman, was subsequently, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Feb. 1813, employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations, in the Resolution and Pompée 74’s, Capts. Geo. Burlton and Geo. Hope, Victory 100, flagship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, and Volage 22, and Resistance 36, Capts. Philip L. J. Rosenhagen, Chas. Hole, Wm. Hamilton, and Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. Being then appointed to the Undaunted 38, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Chas. Thurlow Smith, he assisted in that frigate in conveying Napoleon Buonaparte from Frejus to Elba in 1814, and was present in her at the capture of the Tremiti islands in 1815. He afterwards joined – 22 Sept. 1815, the Bulwark 74, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley in the river Medway – 27 Feb. 1818, the Curlew 10, Capts. Wm. Walpole and Geo. Cornish Gambier, under the former of whom he was actively employed, in Jan. 1820, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where Ras-al-Khyma, their principal resort and head-quarters, was taken, the fortifications destroyed, all their vessels burnt or sunk, and a large quantity of treasure seized – 7 Feb. 1824, the Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, fitting for the South American station, whence he returned to England and was paid off 25 Oct. 1827 – and 6 April, 1829, the Herald yacht, Capt. Geo. Berkeley Maxwell, which vessel, employed in attendance on various diplomatic personages, be left about Aug. 1830. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hemmans has for some time, we believe, filled the post of Emigration Agent at Greenock. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hemsworth, William Glassford

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​HEMSWORTH. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 19; h-p., 28.)
William Glassford Hemsworth entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Formidable 98, Capt. Rich. Grindall, with whom he cruized in the Channel and West Indies until Sept 1802. He re-embarked, 22 May, 1805, on board the Brilliant 28, Capts. Robt. Barrie, Rich. Budd Vincent, and Smyth, in which vessel he served for two years and a half on the Irish and Guernsey stations, and was on one occasion wounded while in charge of some French prisoners. From Nov. 1807 until Aug. 1808, Mr. Hemsworth officiated, we find, as Midshipman of the Neptune 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, both in the Channel and West Indies. In June, 1809, he joined the Ajax 74, Capts. Robt. Waller Otway, Robt. Clephane, and Sir Robt. Laurie, on the Mediterranean station, where (besides commanding, as Master’s Mate, a boat in an attack on a French brig of war in the Piombino passage, and participating in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British with a slender force beat back a powerful division of the French Toulon fleet) he received a slight injury in a spirited but unfortunate attempt made by the boats of a squadron under Capt. Fras. Wm. Fane upon the enemy’s shipping in the Mole of Palamos, on which occasion the British sustained a loss, out of 600 teamen and marines, of at least 200 killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. He also, we understand, contributed to the capture, 31 March, 1811, of Le Dromadaire store-ship, of 20 guns and 150 men. Being discharged from the Ajax in Dec. 1811, Mr. Hemsworth, during the next two years served, in the Mediterranean, off Lisbon, and at Spithead and Plymouth, on board the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, Andromeda 24, Capt. Rich. Arthur, and Puissant and Saturn 74’s, Capts. Benj. Wm. Page and J. Nash. He then proceeded to the East Indies in the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, and on 28 Feb. 1815, after having further served for a short time on board the Hecate 18, Capt. John Allen, was there appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Wellesley 74, Capt. Mich. Matthews. He was officially promoted on 20 of the following Sept., and in July, 1816, he returned home in the Salsette 36, Capt. John Bowen. His appointments have since been – in 1840, to an Agency for Transports Afloat – 17 Nov. 1842, to the post of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and, 9 July, 1844, to the command of the Crescent receiving-ship at Rio de Janeiro, where he is at present employed. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Henderson, David

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​HENDERSON. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
David Henderson entered the Navy, 16 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Speedy brig, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle, on the Newfonndlaiid station; removed, in March, 1808, to the Thetis 38, Capt. Geo. Miller, with whom he visited St. Helena, and cruized in the Bay of Biscay; became Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in March, 1809, and April, 1813, of the Comet sloop, Capts. R. H. Muddle, Wm. Shepheard, and Geo. Wm. Blarney, again at Newfoundland; and was next, in March, 1814, transferred to the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Spithead. He went on half-pay on the receipt of his commission, which bears date 3 March, 1815, and he has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Henderson married, 23 Feb. 1819, Anne, daughter of the late G. Brettell, Esq., of Baker Street. He was left a widower 18 July, 1836.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Henderson, John (c)

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​HENDERSON. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
John Henderson (c) entered the Navy, 1 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Majestic 74, Capt. Geo. Hart, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell on the North Sea station, where, and on the Baltic, he served in the same ship, chiefly as Midshipman, until Jan. 1810. He then in succession joined the Impérieuse 38, Capts. Thos. Garth and Hon. Henry Duncan, Rodney 74, and Ville de Paris 110, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, Cossack 22, Capts. Thos. Garth and Geo. Price, Vigo 74, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Nicoll Morris, Illustrious 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, Ariel 16, Capt. Dan. Ross, and St. Lawrence 98, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen, on the Mediterranean, Baltic, Portsmouth, African, and Canadian Lake stations. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 March, 1815, and on leaving the St. Lawrence was appointed to the Prince Regent 56, in which vessel, commanded by Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, he remained on the Lakes of Canada until Nov. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hemer, Robert

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​HEMER. (Lieut., 181.5. f-p., 27; h-p., 15.)
Robert Hemer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ajax 74, Acting-Capt. John Pilfold, under whom he fought at the ensuing battle of Trafalgar. In Dec. 1806, after having served for some time off Cadiz as Midshipman of the Prince 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, he accompanied the latter officer into the Dreadnought 98, bearing afterwards the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby, in the Channel, where he continued until 26 July, 1809; on which date he was taken prisoner in an attempt to cut out a brig lying inside the ILe d’Aix. On his restoration to liberty at the peace of 1814, he joined the Telegraph 12, Capt. Timothy Scriven, and cruized for a period of nearly 12 months on the Channel and American stations. In the capacity of Lieutenant, a rank he attained 9 Feb. 1815, Mr. Hemer’s appointments, we find, were, in succession – 20 Sept. 1827, to the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 19 Sept. 1829, to the Coast Guard- 13 June, 1839, to the command of the Lively Revenue vessel – and 2 July, 1844, again to a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Henderson, John (d)

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​HENDERSON. (Lieutenant, 1822. f-p., 16; h-p., 24.)
John Henderson (d) entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Experiment packet, Lieut.-Commander Fegen, employed on the Falmouth station. On being appointed, early in 1809, Midshipman of the Mercurius sloop, Capt. Thos. Renwick, we find him, in the course of that year, cruizing in the North Sea and Baltic, then visiting the north coast of Spain, and finally attending the expedition to the Walcheren. From Feb. 1810 until Sept. 1815 Mr. Henderson, besides making a voyage to Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope, served on the stations above alluded to, principally as Master’s Mate, in the Impétueux 74, Capts. John Lawford, David Milne, Chas. Inglis, and Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, and Niger 38, Capt. Peter Rainier. He was then employed for nearly two years in North America as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie, and was afterwards appointed, in a similar capacity – 10 Aug. 1817, to the Ramillies 74, Capt., Thos. Boys, on the Home station – 12 Sept. 1818, to the Severn frigate, Coast Blockade depot, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – and, 11 Feb. 1821, to the Fury bomb, Capt. Wm. Edw. Parry, whom he accompanied in his second north-west passage explorative mission, returning with him to England in the autumn of 1823. Since that date Mr. Henderson, who had been advanced to his present rank on 26 Dec. in the preceding year, has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hempsted, Edmund

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​HEMPSTED. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Edmund Hempsted entered the Navy in 1831; passed his examination 2 May, 1838; and was employed, as Mate, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Pacific stations, in the Howe 120, Capts. Sir Watkin Owen Pell, Robt. Smart, and Thos. Forrest, bearing the flag for some time of Sir Fras. Mason, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and America 50., Capt. Hon. John Gordon. He obtained his commission 1 Dec. 1845, and has been since serving, also in the Pacific, as Additional of the Collingwood 80, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Precentor

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Preciosa

From volume 3 of the work.
​PRECIOSA. A play in 4 acts by P. A. Wolff, with overture and music by Weber; music completed July 15, 1820. Produced in Berlin, Mar. 14, 1821, at the Royal Opera-house. In Paris, in 1825, at the Odéon, adapted and arranged by Sauvage and Cremont; and April 16, 1858, at Théâtre Lyrique, reduced to one act by Nuittes and Beaumont. In London, in English, at Covent Garden, April 28, 1825.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pratt, John

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Preambulum

From volume 3 of the work.
​PREAMBULUM. See Prelude.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pratten, Robert

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Praeger, Ferdinand

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Predieri, Luc-Antonio

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Preface4

PREFACE.
The general aims and intentions of the Dictionary of Music and Musicians were stated in the Preface to Volume I., and need not be repeated here. The work now appears before the public in a complete form. The large demand for it, which has gone on steadily increasing, not only in this country and the United States of America, but on the Continent of Europe, shows that on the whole the book has fulfilled the intentions with which it started. Shortcomings there will always be in a work of this description, arising from inexperience, from the progress of the general subject, or from deaths of old musicians and arrivals of new ones; but it is hoped that these have been met by the Appendix promised at the outset. For this very important part of the undertaking the Editor has secured the able co-operation of the gentleman whose name appears on the title-page of Volume IV., and who has been of signal assistance to him in a very trying portion of his work. To Mr. Fuller Maitland, and to all the other contributors to the Dictionary, who have so successfully and so cheerfully laboured throughout the long course of its publication, the Editor here returns his heartfelt thanks for their valuable assistance; and embraces the opportunity to express his pride and pleasure at having had the aid of so distinguished an array of workers. To the publishers he offers his sincere acknowledgements for much patience, and many a friendly act.
It would be invidious to single out special articles in addition to those already mentioned, where all have been written with such devotion and intelligence; but the Editor cannot help mentioning, amongst many others, the long articles on Schumann, Spontini, and Weber, by Dr. Spitta of Berlin; on Sonata, Symphony, and Variations, by Dr. Hubert Parry; on Song, by Mrs. Edmond Wodehouse; on Scotish Music, by Mr. J. Muir Wood; on Wagner, by Mr. Dannreuther; on the Organ, by Mr. E. J. Hopkins; the Piano by Mr. Hipkins; the Violin by Mr. Payne; and those on Schools of Composition, and other historical subjects, by Mr. W. S. Rockstro.
A copious Index of the whole four volumes has been prepared by Mrs. Wodehouse, and will shortly be published in a separate volume.
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