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See also:MARRYAT, See also:FREDERICK (1792-1848) , See also:English sailor and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Westminster on the loth of See also:July 1792. He was the See also:grandson of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Marryat (physician, author of The See also:Philosophy of Masons, and writer of See also:verse), and son of See also:Joseph Marryat, See also:agent for the See also:island of See also:Grenada, who wrote See also:pamphlets in See also:defence of the Slave See also:Trade. His See also:mother was a Bostonian of See also:German extraction. See also:Young Marryat distinguished himself as a boy by frequently See also:running away to go to See also:sea; and at last, at the See also:age of fourteen, he was allowed to enter the See also:navy. His first service was under See also:Lord Cochrane (afterwards tenth See also:earl of See also:Dundonald) in the famous " Imperieuse," and no See also:midshipman ever had a livelier See also:apprenticeship to the sea. During his two and a See also:half years of service under Cochrane, the young midshipman witnessed more than fifty engagements, and had much experience of service on the See also:coast of See also:Spain in the See also:early See also:stage of the See also:Peninsular See also:War, in the attack on the See also:French See also:squadron in the Roads (See also:April 1809) and in the Walcheren expedition. Before the See also:general See also:peace of 1815 he had served in See also:North See also:America and the See also:West Indies and gained a wide knowledge of conditions of See also:life on See also:board See also:ship under various commanders. In 1815 he was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:commander. After holding various commands he commissioned the " Larne," 20, for the See also:East Indies and was See also:senior See also:naval officer at See also:Rangoon during the Burmese War from May to See also:September 1824. In_ the early See also:part of the next See also:year he commanded an expedition up the See also:Bassein See also:River, in which Bassein was occupied and the Burmese stores seized. His services were acknowledged by a nomination as C.B. in 1826. He frequently received See also:honourable mention for his behaviour in See also:action, and in 1818 he received the See also:medal of the Humane Society for " at least a dozen " gallant rescues. Marryat's honours were not confined to gallant exploits. He adapted See also:Sir See also:Home See also:Popham's See also:code of signals to a code for the See also:Mercantile Marine, for which he was made F.R.S. in 1819, and received the See also:Legion of See also:Honour from See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe in 1833. A pamphlet written to propose a substitute for the See also:system of See also:impressment in 1822 is said to have offended See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV.
Marryat brought ripe experience and unimpaired vivacity to his See also:work when he began to write novels. See also:Frank Mildmay, or the Naval Officer, was published in 1829, and The King's Own followed in 183o. The novels of the sea See also:captain at once won public favour. The freshness of the new See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field which was opened up to the See also:imagination—so full of vivid See also:lights and shadows, See also:light-hearted fun, grinding hardship, stirring See also:adventure, heroic action, warm friendships, See also:bitter hatreds—was in exhilarating contrast to the See also:world of the See also:historical romancer and the See also:fashion-able novelist, to which the mind of the general reader was at that date given over. He had an admirable See also:gift of lucid, See also:direct narrative, and an unfailing fund of incident, and of See also:humour, sometimes bordering on See also:farce. Of all his portraits of adventurous sailors, " See also:Gentleman Chucks " in See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Simple and " Equality See also:Jack " in Mr Midshipman Easy are the most famous, but he created many other types which take rank among the characteristic figures in English fiction. Marryat's first See also:attempt was somewhat severely criticized from an See also:artistic point of view, and he was accused of gratifying private grudges by introducing real personages too thinly disguised; and as he attributed some of his own adventures to Frank Mildmay he was rather shocked to learn that readers identified him with that disagreeable See also:character. The King's Own was a vast improvement, in point of construction, upon Frank Mildmay; and he went on, through a See also:quick See also:succession of tales, See also:Newton See also:Forster (1832), Peter Simple (1834), See also:Jacob Faithful (1834), The Pacha of Many Tales (1835), Japhet in See also:Search of a See also:Father (1836), Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), The Pirate and the Three Cutters (1836), till he reached his high-See also:water See also:mark of constructive skill in Snarley-yow, or the See also:Dog Fiend (1837). The best of his books after this date are those written expressly for boys, the favourites being Masterman Ready (1841), The Settlers in See also:Canada (1844), and The See also:Children of the New See also:Forest (1847). Among his other See also:works are The Phantom Ship (1839); A See also:Diary in America (1839); 011a Podrida (184o), a collection of See also:miscellaneous papers; Poor Jack (1840); Joseph Rushbrook (1841); See also:Percival See also:Keene (1842); See also:Monsieur See also:Violet (1842); The See also:Privateer's
See also:Man (1844) ; The See also:Mission, or Scenes in See also:Africa (1845); The Little See also:Savage (1848-1849), published posthumously; and Valerie, not completed (1849). His novels See also:form an important See also:link between See also:Smollett and See also:Fielding and See also:Charles See also:Dickens.
Captain Marryat had retired from the naval service in 183o, becoming See also:equerry to the See also:duke of See also:Sussex. He edited the See also:Metropolitan See also:Magazine from 1832 to 1835, and some of his best stories appeared in that See also:paper. He spent a See also:great part of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Brussels, where he was very popular. He visited Canada during See also:Papineau's revolt and the See also:United States in 1837, and gave a disparaging See also:account of See also:American institutions in a Diary published on his return to See also:England. While at New See also:York he wrote a See also:play, The Ocean Waif, or Channel Outlaw, which was acted, and is forgotten. His versatility is further shown by the fact that he See also:drew rough caricatures and other sketches with some spirit. Some See also:capital snatches of verse are scattered throughout his novels, the best being " See also:Poll put her arms akimbo " in Snarleyyow, and the " See also:Hunter and the Maid " in Poor Jack. In 1843 he settled at See also:Langham See also:Manor, See also:Norfolk. He indulged in costly experiments in farming, so that in spite of the large income earned by his books he was not a See also:rich man. He died at Langham on the 9th of See also:August 1848, his See also:death being hastened by See also:news of the loss of his son by shipwreck.
His daughter, See also:Florence Marryat, herself a novelist, published his Life and Letters in 1872. See also See also:David See also:Hannay, Life of Marryat (1889). (D.
End of Article: MARRYAT, FREDERICK (1792-1848)
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