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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lutwidge, Henry Thomas

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​LUTWIDGE. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 22; h-p., 31.)
Henry Thomas Lutwidgeis third son of the late Henry Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, co. Cumberland, by Jane, daughter of Rigby Molineux, Esq., of Preston; and nephew of Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, who commanded the Terrible at the occupation of Toulon in 1793, and had his flag on board the same ship at the reduction of Corsica in 1794. His grandfather, Thos. Lutwidge, Esq., an officer in King William’s army, and High-Sheriif for Cumberland in the 12th of George I., married Lucy, daughter of Sir Chas. Hoghton, Bart., of Hoghton Tower, by his wife. Lady Mary Skeffington, eldest daughter of Viscount Massereene. The Commander’s eldest surviving brother, the present Skeffington Lutwidge, Esq., of Holm Rook, is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Cumberland.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Terrible 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of his uncle, Rear-Admiral Lutwidge. Becoming Midshipman, in March, 1795, of the Barfleur 98, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, he served under that officer in the actions fought, 23 June, 1795, and 14 Feb. 1797, off Ile de Groix and Cape St. Vincent; after which, joining the Endymion 40, Capt. Sir Thos. Williams, he co-operated with the King’s troops in an attack made in June, 1798, upon the town of Wexford, where were destroyed 100 large boats and vessels, which the rebels had collected for their escape. He continued in the Endymion, cruizing intermediately with much activity, until July, 1800; and on 6 of the following Sept., being at the time on board the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Milbanke at Spithead, he was made Lieutenant into the Prevoyante store-ship, Capt. John Seater. His next appointments were, in the following Oct., and in May, 1801, and July, 1802, to the Lapwing, Resistance, and Hussar frigates, Capts. Edw. Rotheram, Henry Digby, and Philip Wilkinson, all on the Home station; where, in the early part of 1804, he was wrecked, off the coast of France. He was in consequence detained a prisoner of war until May, 1814; on 4 Aug. in which year he joined the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres. He left that frigate, after having served on the Irish and Lisbon stations, in Oct. 1814, and was lastly, from 2 Aug. 1821 until 31 Aug. 1822, employed in the Water Guard. He became a Retired Commander on the Junior List 26 Nov. 1830, and on the Senior 27 March, 1845.
​Commander Lutwidge married Mary, daughter of Taylor, Esq., of Osbaston Hall, co. Leicester.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lyde, George

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​LYDE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
George Lyde entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Wm. Cuming, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder. After sharing in the action fought off Cape Finisterre 22 July, 1805, he successively followed Capt. Cuming, in 1806, into the Isis 50, and Sampson 64 – escorting Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, in the latter ship, to the Rio de la Plata, and a convoy thence to the Cape of Good Hope. Returning to Europe in the early part of 1807, he served from May in that year until promoted to his present rank 9 Sept. 1814, chiefly as Master’s Mate, although for a short time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, Éclair 18, Capt. Chas. Kempthorne Quash, Bombay 74, Capts. Wm. Cuming, Norborne Thompson, and Geo. Parker, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, on the Home, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations. He has since been on half-pay. He had served in the Bombay from 19 Oct. 1808 until 20 April, 1814, and had passed his examination in 1809.
Lieut. Lyde married, 14 Dec. 1830, Catherine, youngest daughter of Commander Wm. West, R.N., who died in 1811. He has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lunn, John

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​LUNN. (Commander, 1844.)
John Lunn served as Midshipman of the Phoebe, of 46 guns and 300 men, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, and was in company with the Cherub 18 at the capture, 28 March, 1814, off Valparaiso, of the American frigate Essex, of 46 guns and 265 men, who struck her colours at the close of a warm action of two hours, in which the Phoebe lost 4 men killed and 7 wounded, and herself 24 killed and 45 wounded. In 1821, having passed his examination in 1817, and been appointed Mate of the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, he assisted in the boats of that ship at the capture of several pirates in the Mediterranean. His appointments in the capacity of Lieutenant, a rank he attained 12 June, 1829, were – 29 Nov. 1831, to the Caledonia 120, Capts. Jas. Hillyar, Thos. Brown, and Geo. Bohun Martin, in which ship he was for nearly six years employed in the Mediterranean, half the time under the flags of Sir Josias Rowley and Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and, 10 Aug. 1838, and 12 Oct. 1840, to the command of the Pluto and Locust steamers. In those vessels, with the exception of a short period which intervened between the paying off of the one and the commissioning of the other, he served uninterruptedly on the North America and West India and Mediterranean stations, until advanced to his present rank 19 Dec. 1844. Since 20 May, 1846, he has been in command of the Virago steam-sloop, of 300 horse-power, again in the Mediterranean. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lyall, George

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​LYALL. (Lieut., 1825. f-p., 13; h-p., 21.)
George Lyall, born 6 Jan. 1799, is second son of the late Capt. Wm. Lyall, R.N., who fell into the hands of the enemy during his passage home in a packet from Halifax, suffered a consequent captivity of eight years, and died in June, 1814, three days only after his return to England. His brother, James, is a Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1833).
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 9 Dec. 1813; and embarked, 10 Dec. 1816, as Midshipman, on board the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, under whom he was for two years employed in the West Indies, and was often sent away in the boats for the purpose of cruizing after pirates and slavers. Joining, in Jan. 1819, the Active 46, to which ship, commanded by Capts. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon and Andrew King, he continued attached, in the capacity of Admiralty-Midshipman, until Sept. 1824, he partook of much special service, and was for several months engaged at the blockade of Algiers. On the date last mentioned (having passed his examination in 1822) he removed, as Mate, to the Dartmouth 42, Capts. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude and Henry Dundas, and was again ordered to the West Indies, where his conduct in boarding and carrying, in a boat with only 11 men, a piratical schooner off the north coast of Cuba, on which occasion he was slightly wounded in the left leg, procured him a commission dated 1 July, 1825. He remained in the Dartmouth until the following Dec.; and was then received as a Supernumerary into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence. He has not been afloat since July, 1826.
The Lieutenant married, 6 Nov. 1827, Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Robt. Lindsay, Esq., of Almeriecloss, Forfar, N.B., by whom he has issue five children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lushington, Stephen

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​LUSHINGTON, K.S.L., K.R.G. (Captain, 1829. f-p., 14; h-p., 17.)
Stephen Lushington, born 12 Dec. 1803, is second son of Sir Henry Lushington, Bart., of South-Hill Park, co. Berks, by Fanny Maria, eldest daughter of Matthew Lewis, Esq., Under-Secretary at War; and nephew of Stephen Lushington, Esq., D.C.L., the eminent civilian.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 Oct. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tagus 38, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, stationed in the Mediterranean; where and in South America he appears, from the spring of the following year until 1821, to have served as Midshipman in the Ganymede 25 and Owen Glendower 42, both commanded by Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. He then returned to the Mediterranean in the Hind 20, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, in the boats belonging to which ​vessel we find him actively employed in the suppression of piracy in the Archipelago until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 July, 1824. His next appointments were – 5 Feb. and 7 Dec. 1825, to the Zebra 18 and Cambrian 48, Capts. Edw. Rich. Williams and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, hoth in the Mediterranean, where he again performed good service against the pirates – and, 24 Oct. 1827, to the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington on the same station. Being advanced, 13 May, 1828, to the command of the Aetna bomhb, Capt. Lushington united in the following Oct. in the operations against Morea Castle, and so distinguished himself by his exertions and skill as to obtain the orders of St. Louis of France and the Redeemer of Greece. On 28 Oct. 1829 he was further rewarded with a Post-commission. His next appointment was, 19 Jan. 1839, to the Cleopatra 26, fitting for the West Indies, whence, after nine months of severe illness, he was ordered by Sir Thos. Harvey, the Commander-in-Chief, to be invalided, in Nov. 1840. He has been in command, since 11 Oct. 1845, of the Retribution steam-frigate and Vengeance 84, on the Home station.
Capt. Lushington married, 5 July, 1841, Henrietta, eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Henry Prescott, C.B., now a Lord of the Admiralty, by whom he has issue. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
​LUSHINGTON. (Captain, 1829.)
Stephen Lushington fought in the Cambrian at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827. On the death of Sir Robt. Oliver, in 1848, he was appointed to succeed that officer in the Superintendentship of the Indian Navy; and he was in consequence superseded in the command of the Vengeance.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Berners, John Bourchier, 2nd Lord

​Berners, John Bourchier, 2nd Lord (1467-1553).—Translator, b. at Sherfield, Herts and ed. at Oxf., held various offices of state, including that of Chancellor of the Exchequer to Henry VIII., and Lieutenant of Calais, where he d. He translated, at the King's desire, Froissart's Chronicles (1523-25), in such a manner as to make distinct advance in English historical writing, and the Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius (1534); also The History of Arthur of Lytell Brytaine (Brittany), and the romance of Huon of Bordeaux.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Besant, Sir Walter

​Besant, Sir Walter (1836-1901).—Novelist and historian of London, b. at Portsmouth and ed. at King's Coll., London, and Camb., was for a few years a professor at Mauritius, but a breakdown in health compelled him to resign, and he returned to England and took the duties of Secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund, which he held 1868-85. He pub. in 1868 Studies in French Poetry. Three years later he began his collaboration with James Rice (q.v.). Among their joint productions are Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), and the Golden Butterfly (1876), both, especially the latter, very successful. This connection was brought to an end by the death of Rice in 1882. Thereafter B. continued to write voluminously at his own hand, his leading novels being All in a Garden Fair, Dorothy Forster (his own favourite), Children of Gibeon, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men. The two latter belonged to a series in which he endeavoured to arouse the public conscience to a sense of the sadness of life among the poorest classes in cities. In this crusade B. had considerable success, the establishment of The People's Palace in the East of London being one result. In addition to his work in fiction B. wrote largely on the history and topography of London. His plans ​in this field were left unfinished: among his books on this subject is London in the 18th Century.
Other works among novels are My Little Girl, With Harp and Crown, This Son of Vulcan, The Monks of Thelema, By Celia's Arbour, and The Chaplain of the Fleet, all with Rice; and The Ivory Gate, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Master Craftsman, The Fourth Generation, etc., alone. London under the Stuarts, London under the Tudors are historical.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bishop, Samuel

​Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795).—Poet, b. in London, and ed. at Merchant Taylor's School and Oxf., took orders and became Headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School. His poems on miscellaneous subjects fill two quarto vols., the best of them are those to his wife and dau. He also pub. essays.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Black, William

​Black, William (1841-1898).—Novelist. After studying as a landscape painter, he took to journalism in Glasgow. In 1864 he went to London, and soon after pub. his first novel, James Merle, which made no impression. In the Austro-Prussian War he acted as a war correspondent. Thereafter he began afresh to write fiction, and was more successful; the publication of A Daughter of Heth (1871) at once established his popularity. He reached his highwater-mark in A Princess of Thule (1873). Many other books were added before his death in 1898, among which may be mentioned In Silk Attire (1869), The Strange Adventures of a Phæton (1872), Macleod of Dare (1878), White Wings (1880), Shandon Bells (1882), Yolande (1883), Judith Shakespeare (1884), White Heather (1886), Stand Fast Craig-Royston! (1890), Green Pastures and Piccadilly, Three Feathers, Wild Eelin (1898).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Blackie, John Stuart

​Blackie, John Stuart (1809-1895).—Scholar and man of letters, b. in Glasgow, and ed. at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edin., after which he travelled and studied in Germany and Italy. Returning to Scotland he was, in 1834, admitted to the Scottish Bar, but did not practise. His first work was his translation of Faust (1834), which won the approbation of Carlyle. From 1841-52 B. was Prof. of Humanity (Latin) in Aberdeen, and from 1852-82, when he retired, of Greek in Edinburgh. His ​literary activity was incessant, his works consisting of translations of Æschylus and of the Iliad, various books of poetry, including Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece, and treatises on religious, philosophical, and political subjects, among which may be mentioned Self-Culture (1873), Horæ Hellenicæ, and a life of Burns. He was an enthusiastic champion of Scottish nationality. Possessed of great conversational powers and general versatility, his picturesque eccentricity made him one of the most notable members of Scottish society. It was owing to his efforts that a Chair of Celtic Language and Literature was established in Edinburgh University.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Berkeley, George

​Berkeley, George (1685-1753).—Philosopher, eldest s. of William B., a cadet of the noble family of Berkeley, b. at Kilcrin near Kilkenny, and ed. at the school of his native place and at Trinity Coll., Dublin, where he graduated and took a Fellowship in 1707. His earliest publication was a mathematical one; but the first which brought him into notice was his Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, pub. in 1709. Though giving rise to much controversy at the time, its conclusions are now accepted as an established part of the theory of optics. There next appeared in 1710 the Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, which was followed in 1713 by Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in which he propounded his system of philosophy, the leading principle of which is that the world as represented to our senses depends for its existence on being perceived. Of this theory the Principles gives the exposition and the Dialogues the defence. One of his main objects was to combat the prevailing materialism of the time. A theory so novel was, as might be expected, received with widespread ridicule, though his genius was realised by some of the more elect spirits, such as Dr. S. Clarke. Shortly afterwards B. visited England, and was received into the circle of Addison, Pope, and Steele. He then went to the Continent in various capacities, and on his return was made Lecturer in Divinity and Greek in his university, D.D. in 1721, ​and Dean of Derry in 1724. In 1725 he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for training ministers for the colonies, and missionaries to the Indians, in pursuit of which he gave up his deanery with its income of £1100, and went to America on a salary of £100. Disappointed of promised aid from Government he returned, and was appointed Bishop of Cloyne. Soon afterwards he pub. Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher, directed against Shaftesbury, and in 1734-37 The Querist. His last publications were Siris, a treatise on the medicinal virtues of tar-water, and Further Thoughts on Tar-water. He d. at Oxford in 1753. His affectionate disposition and genial manners made him much beloved. As a thinker his is the greatest name in English philosophy between Locke and Hume. His style is clear and dignified.
The best ed. of B. is Prof. A.C. Fraser's, with Life (4 vols., 1871, and new, 1902); there is also a small work by the same (1881).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bird, Robert Montgomery

​Bird, Robert Montgomery (1803-1854).—Novelist, an American physician, wrote three tragedies, The Gladiator, Oraloosa, and The Broker of Bogota, and several novels, including Calavar, The Infidel, The Hawks of Hawk Hollow, Peter Pilgrim, and Nick of the Woods, in the first two of which he gives graphic and accurate details and descriptions of Mexican history.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Beresford, James

​Beresford, James (1764-1840).—Miscellaneous writer and clergyman. He made translations and wrote religious books, but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work, The Miseries of Human Life (1806-7.)
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, Juliana

​Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, Juliana (b. 1388?).—Writer on heraldry and sports. Nothing of her real history is known, but statements more or less mythical have gathered round her name. The work attributed to her is The Boke of St. Albans (1486). It consists of four treatises on Hawking, Hunting, The Lynage of Coote Armiris, and The Blasynge of Armis. She was said to be the dau. of Sir James B., and to have been Prioress of Sopwell Nunnery, Herts.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bickerstaffe, Isaac

​Bickerstaffe, Isaac (c. 1735-1812?).—Dramatic writer, in early life a page to Lord Chesterfield when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, produced between 1756 and 1771 many dramatic pieces, which had considerable popularity, the best known of which are Love in a Village (1762), and The Maid of the Mill. Owing to misconduct he was dismissed from being an officer in the Marines, and had ultimately, in 1772, to fly the country. The remainder of his life seems to have been passed in penury and misery. The date of his death is unknown. He was alive in 1812.
# Adventure/"Going West"

"GOING WEST"
by HUGH PENDEXTER
"GOING WEST," as used by the men overseas to mean death, is of peculiarly American origin, aboriginal American origin. The Karok Indians of California believed the spirit of the good Karok went to the "happy western land." The Cherokee myths picture the west as the "ghost country," the twilight land where go the dead. The Shawnee tell of the boy who "traveled west" to find his sister in the spirit land. The Chippewa believed the spirit "followed a wide, beaten path toward the west." The spirit world of the Fox Indians is at the setting of the sun. And so on, in the theology of many Indian Nations we find the "West" as the storied abode of the great majority—who have passed over.
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# Adventure

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## Novels

* Adventure, a novel by Jack London

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## Poems

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parker, Charles (b)

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​PARKER. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 12; h-p., 27.)
Charles Parker (b) was born 31 March, 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 20 Jan. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Childers sloop, of 14 12-pounder carronades and 65 men; and on 14 March following was present in a gallant action of six hours, which terminated in that vessel beating off, on the coast of Norway, with a loss to the British of 2 men killed and 8 (including himself in the hand and stomach) wounded, the Danish man-of-war brig Lougen, of 20 18-pounder guns and 160 men. In consideration of the injury he sustained on the occasion he was voted by the Patriotic Society a sum of 15 guineas. In Nov. of the same year, after he had been for six months borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Texel 64 and Royal William, flag-ships of Admirals Vashon and Montagu at Leith and Spithead, he became Midshipman of the Dotterel sloop, successively commanded, on the Channel and Lisbon stations, by Capts. Anthony Abdy, Thos. Goldwire Muston, John Smith Cowan, A. Abdy, Thos. Hanloke, and Wm. Westcott Daniel. In that vessel, in 1809, he witnessed the destruction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Basque Roads. Quitting her in Dec. 1811 he served during the next three years off the Western Islands and in the West Indies on board the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland. On his return to England in the spring of 1815 in the Palma 38, Capt. Jas. Andrew Worth, he was received first on board the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth, and then on board the Boyne 98, flagship of Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean; where, on following that nobleman, as Master’s Mate, into the Queen Charlotte 100, he was afforded an opportunity of assisting in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; for his conduct on which occasion, particularly in steering the explosion vessel under the lighthouse battery, he was rewarded with a commission bearing date 17 Sept. in the same year. His last appointments were – 4 Oct. 1817, for a few months, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. John Gedge, on the Yarmouth station – and, ​8 Dec. 1821, as Senior-Lieutenant, to the Redwing 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, with whom, until superseded at his own request in March, 1814, he served off Milford, made a voyage to the Havana, and was employed off Jersey and Yarmouth. Lieut. Parker married 3 Dec. 1827, and has issue one daughter.