Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XV. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF WILLIAM DOMETT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY EDWYN STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BERRY, KNT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN GEORGE DUFF, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CUTHBERT LORD COLLINGWOOD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, And Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EARL OF NORTHESK, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, And one of the three Flag Officers who commanded the British Fleet in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY EDWYN STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XV. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF WILLIAM DOMETT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY EDWYN STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BERRY, KNT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN GEORGE DUFF, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CUTHBERT LORD COLLINGWOOD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, And Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EARL OF NORTHESK, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, And one of the three Flag Officers who commanded the British Fleet in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar
- INDEX
Summary
“So Mild, So Gentle, So Compos'd A Mind,
To Such Heroic Warmth, And Courage Join'd!
He, Too, Like Sydney, Nurs'd In Learning's Arms,
For Nobler War, Forsook Her Softer Charms!”
Lord Littleton.The union of scholastic acquisitions with personal courage, imparts an exalted interest to public character. This union, though it has never been ostentatiously displayed, is eminently conspicuous in the subject of the present memoir.
The Hon. Henry Edwyn Stanhope, at a very early age, commenced his education in a school at East Hill, Wandsworth, which was then regarded as a seminary of the first respectability. Having imbibed the rudimental branches of learning, he was thence removed to Winchester College; where, under the tuition, and indeed particular favour, of the learned and Rev. Dr. Wharton, he attained the head of that institution. He was next placed under the private superintendance of the Rev. Monsieur de Giffendier, preparatory to his being entered at the University of Oxford.
He had passed but a short time at that national seat of instruction, when, evincing an unusual activity of mind, he was, at the suggestion of the late Earl of Besborough, equipped for the sea service. He accordingly embarked at Sheerness, in May 1768, on board the Rose, of 20 guns, commanded at that time by Captain (now Admiral) Caldwell, and sailed for the American station.
Soon after his arrival at Boston, he was removed to the Romney, then bearing the broad pendant of Commodore (now Admiral Lord) Hood, as Commander in Chief.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 89 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1806