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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Belches, Peter

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​BELCHES. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Peter Belches entered the Navy 2 Feb. 1812. While serving as Master’s Mate on board the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, he was severely wounded in a mistaken encounter with a British packet, 12 March, 1814, and was for some time, in consequence, confined to Plymouth Hospital. He passed his examination in 1818; was promoted, 17 April, 1827, into the Volage 28, Capts. Robt. Tait and Michael Seymour; and since March, 1828, has been on half-pay. He holds, at present, the appointment of Harbour Master of the port of Albany, in Western Australia. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bellamy, Joseph Hughes

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​BELLAMY. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Joseph Hughes Bellamy is eldest son of Geo. Bellamy, Esq., of Plymouth.
This officer entered the Navy 24 April 1815; passed his examination in 1822; obtained his commission 10 March, 1827; served, from 26 Oct. 1830, until superseded, 21 Dec. 1831, in the Revenge 78, Capts. Jas. Hillyar and Donald Hugh Mackay, on the Lisbon station; joined the Coast Guard, 31 May, 1838; and since 10 June, 1845, has been employed at Devonport on board the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manly Hall Dixon.
He married, in 1837, Mary, only daughter of Richard Newton, Esq. Agent – J. Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bell, Christopher

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​BELL, C.B. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 35.)
Christopher Bell is brother-in-law of Lieut. Chas. Cotesworth, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Clyde 38, Capt. Chas. Cunningham. He continued to serve in that frigate, in the Channel, North Sea, and off the Western Islands, for the space of six years, and on 20 Aug. 1799, when off the Cordovan light-house, assisted at the capture, after a gallant engagement of nearly two hours, of the French frigate La Vestale, of 36 guns and 230 men, of whom 10 were killed and 22 wounded, – the British losing only 2 killed and 3 wounded. He passed his examination in April, 1802; sailed in July following for the Jamaica station in the Chichester store-ship, Capt. Stevens; was there promoted, 20 Oct. in the same year, from the Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, into the Shark 18, Capt. J. B. Herring; and afterwards joined, 5 Oct. 1803, and 16 Sept. 1804, the Magnanime 18, Capt. Edw. Hawker, and La Pique 36, Capt. Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross. In command of the tender belonging to the latter ship, Lieut. Bell, on 26 March, 1806, aided in taking the two French 16-gun brigs Phaeton and Voltigeur; and, on 1 Nov. ensuing, as First of La Pique, with her barge and two other boats under his orders, he succeeded, without the loss of a man, in cutting out from the harbour of Cabaret, Porto Rico, a fine new Spanish brig, pierced for 12 guns, and completely destroying a 3-gun battery at its entrance. While subsequently employed ashore on the south side of St. Domingo, he received a severe wound in an attack made by the natives on his party, and in consequence, we believe, was presented with a gratuity rom the Patriotic Fund. We next find him appointed, 13 March, 1807, to the acting-command of the Shark receiving-ship at Port Royal, from which he was confirmed, 1 April, 1808, into the 14-gun brig Phipps. On 16 Nov. 1810, Capt. Bell, who had previously chased a lugger-privateer close under Calais, fell in with two others, one of which, ​Le Barbier de Séville of 16 guns and 60 men, on being brought to close action, was gallantly boarded, and in a few minutes carried, by Lieut. Robt. Tryon, at the head of a party of seamen, one of whom was killed, and the Lieutenant himself dangerously wounded. The enemy lost 6 killed and 11 wounded; and the prize, from the well-directed fire she had sustained, sank soon after the engagement. For this achievement Capt. Bell, as were his officers and crew, was honoured with the approbation of the Admiralty. He removed, 19 June, 1811, to the command of the Mosquito, a first-class sloop, but was superseded on advancement to Post-rank, 7 Feb. 1812, and not afterwards employed. His nomination to the C.B. took place 4 July, 1840, and his elevation to the rank he now holds 1 Oct. 1846.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1807, p. 156.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1841.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Belgrave, Thomas

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​BELGRAVE. (Lieut., 1843. f-p., 16; h-p., 1.)
Thomas Belgrave is eldest son of the Rev. Thos. Belgrave, Rector of North Kilworth, co. Leicester.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 March, 1830, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Curlew 10, Capts. Geo. Woollcombe and Henry Dundas Trotter, employed in suppressing the slave-trade on the west coast of Africa, where he witnessed the capture, in 1833, of the piratical schooner Panda. He next served, as Midshipman, in the Flamer steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Wm. Griffith Griffin, in the West Indies, Harrier 18, Capt. Wm. Henry Hallowell Carew, in South America, and North Star 18, Capt. Ootavius Vernon Harcourt, on the same station; passed his examination 2 Nov. 1836; and was subsequently employed as Mate, on the South American, Home, and Mediterranean stations, of the Samarang 28, Capt. Wm. Broughton, Dublin 50, Capt. Robt. Tait, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Rodney 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, and Lizard steamer, Lieut.-Commanders Walter Grimstone Bucknall Estcourt and Chas. Jas. Postle. He was in the Rodney at the blockade of Alexandria in 1840, and on board the Lizard when run down and sunk by the French steamer Véloce, 24 July, 1843. His appointments, since his promotion, which took place on 1 Nov. in the latter year, have been – 6 Dec. 1843, again to the Excellent – 30 Aug. 1844, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Eclair steam-sloop, Capt. W. G. B. Estcourt, on the coast of Africa – 7 Jan. 1845, in a similar capacity, to the Vindictive 50, flag-ship in North America and the West Indies of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen – and, 14 Aug. 1845, to the President 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father-in-law, Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, at the Cape of Good Hope.
Lieut. Belgrave married, 24 Sept. 1845, Charlotte, daughter of Rear-Admiral Dacres.
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A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS
A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS
BY MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D. PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE Author of "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary," "More Ghost Stories," etc
NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD 1919 (All rights reserved)
PREFACE
TWO of these stories, the third and fourth, have appeared in print in the Cambridge Review, and I wish to thank the proprietor for permitting me to republish them here.
I have had my doubts about the wisdom of publishing a third set of tales; sequels are, not only proverbially but actually, very hazardous things. However, the tales make no pretence but to amuse, and my friends have not seldom asked for the publication. So not a great deal is risked, perhaps, and perhaps also some one's Christmas may be the cheerfuller for a storybook which, I think, only once mentions the war.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lardner, Dionysius

​Lardner, Dionysius (1793-1859).—Scientific writer, s. of a solicitor in Dublin, and b. there, was intended for the law, but having no taste for it, he entered Trinity Coll., Dublin, and took orders, but devoted himself to literary and scientific pursuits, and became a contributor to the Edinburgh Review, and various Encyclopædias. In 1827 he was appointed Prof. of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in the Univ. of London (afterwards Univ. Coll.), and in 1829 began his great work, The Cabinet Cyclopædia, which was finished in 133 vols. 20 years later. In his literary undertakings, which included various other schemes of somewhat similar character, he was eminently successful, financially and otherwise. He lived in Paris from 1845 until his death.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Landor, Walter Savage

​Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864).—Poet and miscellaneous author, s. of a physician, was b. at Ipsley Court, Warwick, the property of his mother, and ed. at Rugby and Oxf., where he earned the nickname of "the mad Jacobin," and whence he was rusticated. His whole long life thereafter was a series of quarrels, extravagances, and escapades of various kinds, the result of his violent prejudices, love of paradox, and ungovernable temper. He quarrelled with his f., his wife, most of his relations, and nearly all his friends, ran through a large fortune, and ended his days in Italy supported by a pension granted by his brothers. Yet he was not devoid of strong affections and generosity. His earliest publication was Poems (1795); Gebir (1798), an epic, had ​little success, but won for him the friendship of Southey. In 1808 he went to Spain to take part in the war against Napoleon, and saw some service. His first work to attract attention was his powerful tragedy of Don Julian (1811). About the same time he m. Miss Julia Thuillier—mainly, as would appear, on account of her "wonderful golden hair"—and purchased the estate of Llantony Abbey, Monmouthshire, whence, after various quarrels with the local authorities, he went to France. After a residence of a year there, he went in 1815 to Italy, where he lived until 1818 at Como, which, having insulted the authorities in a Latin poem, he had to leave. At Florence, which was his residence for some years, he commenced his famous Imaginary Conversations, of which the first two vols. appeared 1824, the third 1828, fourth and fifth 1829. Other works were The Examination of W. Shakespeare touching Deer-stealing (1834), Pericles and Aspasia (1836), Pentameron (1837), Hellenics (1847), and Poemata et Inscriptiones (1847). He quarrelled finally with his wife in 1835, and returned to England, which, however, he had to leave in 1858 on account of an action for libel arising out of a book, Dry Sticks Fagoted. He went to Italy, where he remained, chiefly at Florence, until his death. L. holds one of the highest places among the writers of English prose. His thoughts are striking and brilliant, and his style rich and dignified.
Works ed. C.G. Crump, 10 vols.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Laing, Malcolm

​Laing, Malcolm (1762-1818).—Was a country gentleman in Orkney. He completed Henry's History of Great Britain, and wrote a History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms (1802). He was an assailant of the authenticity of the Ossianic poems, and wrote a dissertation on the Participation of Mary Queen of Scots in the Murder of Darnley. He did much to improve the agriculture of Orkney.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lamb, Lady Caroline

​Lamb, Lady Caroline (1785-1828).—Novelist, dau. of 3rd Earl of Bessborough, m. the Hon. William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne and Prime Minister. She wrote three novels, which, though of little literary value, attracted much attention. The first of these, Glenarvon (1816), contained a caricature portrait of Lord Byron, with whom the authoress had shortly before been infatuated. It was followed by Graham Hamilton (1822), and Ada Reis (1823). Happening to meet the hearse conveying the remains of Byron, she became unconscious, and fell into mental alienation, from which she never recovered.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

​Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838).—Poetess, dau. of an army agent, was b. in London. She was a prolific and, in her day, remarkably popular writer, but she wrote far too easily and far too much for permanent fame. Many of her poems appeared in the Literary Gazette, and similar publications, but she pub. separately The Fate of Adelaide (1821), The Improvisatrice (1824), The Troubadour (1825), The Venetian Bracelet (1829), etc. She also wrote a few novels, of which Ethel Churchill was the best, and a tragedy Castruccio Castracani (1837). She m. a Mr. Maclean, Governor of one of the West African Colonies, where, shortly after her arrival, she was found dead from the effects of an overdose of poison, which it was supposed she had taken as a relief from spasms to which she was subject. She was best known by her initials, L.E.L., under which she was accustomed to write.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lane, Edward William

​Lane, Edward William (1801-1876).—Arabic scholar, s. of a prebendary of Hereford, where he was b., began life as an engraver, but going to Egypt in search of health, devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages and manners, and adopted the dress and habits of the Egyptian man of learning. He pub. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), which remains a standard authority, and a translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1838-40) (Arabian Nights). What was intended to be the great work of his life, his Arabic Lexicon, was left unfinished at his death, but was completed by his nephew, Prof. S.L. Poole. L. was regarded as the chief European Orientalist of his day.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Langhorne, John

​Langhorne, John (1735-1779).—Poet, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Kirkby Stephen; having taken orders, he was for two years a curate in London, and from 1776 Rector of Blagdon, Somerset, and Prebendary of Wells. He is chiefly remembered as being the translator, jointly with his brother, Rev. William L., of Plutarch's Lives, but in his day he had some reputation as a poet, his chief work in poetry being Studley Park and Fables of Flora. In his Country Justice (1774-77) he dimly foreshadows Crabbe, as in his descriptive poems he dimly foreshadows Wordsworth. He was twice married, and both of his wives d. in giving birth to a first child.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lanier, Sidney

​Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881).—Miscellaneous writer, s. of a lawyer of Huguenot descent, was b. at Macon, Georgia. He had a varied career, having been successively soldier, shopman, teacher, lawyer, musician, and prof. His first literary venture was a novel, Tiger Lilies (1867). Thereafter he wrote mainly on literature, his works including The Science of English Verse (1881), The English Novel (1883), and Shakespeare and his Forerunners (1902); also some poems which have been greatly admired, including "Corn," "The Marshes of Glynn," and "The Song of the Chattahoochee"; ed. of Froissart, and the Welsh Mabinogion for children. He worked ​under the shadow of serious lung trouble, which eventually brought about his death.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Molyneux, William Hargraves

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​MOLYNEUX. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 21.)
William Hargraves Molyneux entered the Navy, 23 Nov. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daphne 20, Capts. Philip Pipon and Jas. Green, fitting for the Baltic, where he served at the siege of Danzig, and came into boat-contact with the enemy’s privateers off the island of Rugen. Rejoining Capt. Pipon, in Sept. 1813, on board the Tagus 38, he assisted, on 6 of the ensuing Jan., while cruizing among the Cape de Verde Islands, in company with the Niger 38, at the capture of the French 40-gnn frigate Cérès; and he subsequently, on visiting the Pacific, fell in with Pitcairn’s Island – the first time it had been touched at since settled on by the mutineers of the Bounty. In the early part of 1816 we find him sailing in the Magicienne 36, Capt. John Brett Purvis, for the East Indies, with the flag of Sir Rich. King, whom he there followed, in Oct. 1817, into the Minden 74. He was promoted, on his return home, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 31 Oct. 1820; and was subsequently appointed – 7 Nov. 1822, to the Jupiter 60, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, under whom he escorted Lord Amherst, Governor-General of India, to Bengal – 4 June, 1824 (six months after the latter ship had been paid off), to the Niemen 28 Capts. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, Wm. Pitt Canning, and Chas. Simeon, in which vessel he was for three years employed on the Halifax station – 19 Jan. 1836 as First, to the Melville 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Peter Halkett, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies, whence he returned to ​England and was paid off in Aug. 1837 – and, 1 Nov. 1841, in a similar capacity, to the Alfred 50, equipping at Sheerness for the broad pendant of Commodore John Brett Purvis. He was advanced to his present rank on 23 of the month last mentioned; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Molyneux married, 8 June, 1837, Martha Maria, only daughter of the late Admiral Sir Andw. Mitchell, K.B., by whom he has issue two sons and a daughter.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Montagu, George

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​MANCHESTER, Duke of, formerly Viscount Mandeville. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 11; h-p., 24.)
His Grace George, Duke of Manchester, born 9 July, 1799, is eldest son of William, fifth Duke of Manchester (Governor of Jamaica, Collector of the Customs for the port of London, and Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of co. Huntingdon), by Lady Susan Gordon, third daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon. The Duke, who succeeded his father 18 March, 1843, is brother-in-law of the Marquess of Tweeddale, a General Officer in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 Feb. 1B12, as a Volunteer, on board the Antelope 50, Capt. Jas. Carpenter, bearing the flag at Newfoundland of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. In Feb. 1813 he joined the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King in the Mediterranean, where, in Jan. 1814, he became Midshipman of L’Aigle 36, Capt. Sir John Louis, with whom, it appears, he continued to serve in the Scamander and Forth frigates, on the Home and Halifax stations, until transferred, in Sept. 1818, to the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, then at Jamaica. He was promoted, 20 Nov. 1818, to a Lieutenancy in the Confiance sloop, Capt. Alex. Montgomerie, also in the West Indies, on which station he removed, 2 Feb. 1819, to the Sybille 44, flagship of Sir Home Popham. His last appointments were, 22 March and 30 Oct. 1821, to the Medina 20 and Rochfort 80, Capts. Robt. Hockings and Chas. Marsh Schomberg. He attained his present rank 19 July, 1822.
Prior to his accession to the Dukedom his Grace (who is Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Armagh) sat in the House of Commons for Huntingdonshire. He married, 8 Oct. 1822, Mellicent, only daughter and heir of the late General Robt. Bernard Sparrow, of Brampton, in Northamptonshire, by his wife, the Lady Olivia Acheson, eldest daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Gosford, and has issue four sons. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Monday, Edward

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​MONDAY. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 32.)
Edward Monday was born 13 May, 1782.
This officer entered the Navy, 7 Dec. 1798, as Ordinary, on borad the Hazard sloop, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and K. J. Neve; and while in that vessel, in which he remained until Aug. 1805, he was continuously employed on the Irish and Channel stations – chiefly in the capacities of Midshipman and Master’s Mate; in which latter he assisted, in June, 1803, in cutting out a French brig and chasse-marée from under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries and musketry in Hodierne Bay. After serving for short periods, as Midshipman, in the Ville de Paris and Hibernia, flag-ships of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis and Earl St. Vincent, as Acting-Lieutenant in the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western, and again, as Midshipman, in the Hibernia, he was nominated, in Oct. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Phoenix 36, Capts. Zachary Mudge, Jas. Bowen, Wm. Henry Webley, and Chas. John Austen; under whom, the appointment being confirmed on 7 of the following month, he continued (with the exception of a brief attachment, from Dec. 1808 until March, 1809, to the Alert sloop, Capt. Williams) to serve, until wrecked, during a hurricane near Smyrna, 20 Feb. 1816. He comanded her boats, during that period, at the capture of El Cupido Spanish schooner from Buenos Ayres, bound to Corunna, carrying 1 large gun on a circular slide and 17 men, in Dec. 1806; in conjunction with those of the Jalouse, at the very gallant capture, with a loss to the British of 1 man killed and another wounded, of Le Charles French brig privateer of 14 guns and 90 men, under a heavy fire of grape and musketry, 29 Jan. 1810; at the reduction of Fort Pulo Kissa, in the Eastern Archipelago, in March, 1811; together with the boats of a squadron, in an attack on Sambas, a piratical settlement on the coast of Borneo, in Jan. 1813; and at the capture of two piratical proas in the Grecian Archipelago in 1815. He also, in 1811, took, by escalade, with a party of seamen and marines, Fort Concordia, on the island of Timor, mounting 26 pieces of cannon; and in 1812 he was employed in the boats of a squadron at the reduction of Palambang. During four months of 1812-13 Mr. Monday (by whom all the above services, with the exception of the capture of El Cupido, were performed in the capacity of First-Lieutenant), acted as Captain of the Phoenix. After nearly 32 years of half-pay he was advanced to the rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846!
Commander Monday is married, and has issue six children.