Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Edward Pellew – Partisan and Patriarch
- 2 ‘My Dear Indefatigable’
- 3 The Fortunate Few
- 4 ‘Never Was Such an Action Known’
- 5 The Nature of Patronage
- 6 ‘Boys Grown to Manhood’
- 7 Diversity and Responsibility
- 8 Friends, Family and the Falmouth Connection
- 9 ‘Faithful and Attached Companions’
- 10 ‘No State in Life More Honourable’
- Appendix The Spencer–Pellew Correspondence of February 1799
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - ‘Boys Grown to Manhood’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Edward Pellew – Partisan and Patriarch
- 2 ‘My Dear Indefatigable’
- 3 The Fortunate Few
- 4 ‘Never Was Such an Action Known’
- 5 The Nature of Patronage
- 6 ‘Boys Grown to Manhood’
- 7 Diversity and Responsibility
- 8 Friends, Family and the Falmouth Connection
- 9 ‘Faithful and Attached Companions’
- 10 ‘No State in Life More Honourable’
- Appendix The Spencer–Pellew Correspondence of February 1799
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Hornblower's Historical ShipmatesThe Young Gentlemen of Pellew's <I>Indefatigable</I>, pp. 107 - 132Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016