The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF EARL HOWE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES KNOWLES, BART
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALEXANDER ARTHUR HOOD LORD BRIDPORT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE BRYDGES, LORD RODNEY, K.B.
- HITORICAL MEMOIR OF NAVAL TRANSACTIONS, DURING THE PRESENT WAR, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1793
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- INDEX
- STATE OF THE ROYAL NAVY OF Great Britain, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR 1799
- THE Marine List OF SHIPS LOST, DESTROYED, CAPTURED, AND RECAPTURED, &c.
- APPENDIX. No. IV
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALEXANDER ARTHUR HOOD LORD BRIDPORT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF EARL HOWE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES KNOWLES, BART
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALEXANDER ARTHUR HOOD LORD BRIDPORT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE BRYDGES, LORD RODNEY, K.B.
- HITORICAL MEMOIR OF NAVAL TRANSACTIONS, DURING THE PRESENT WAR, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1793
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- INDEX
- STATE OF THE ROYAL NAVY OF Great Britain, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR 1799
- THE Marine List OF SHIPS LOST, DESTROYED, CAPTURED, AND RECAPTURED, &c.
- APPENDIX. No. IV
Summary
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty, and sted couch of war,
My thrice driven bed of down.
Shakespear.The gallant achievements of a distinguished officer, grown old in the noblest service of his country, claim the grateful attention of those whose security has been preserved by his valour. A review of his professional life serves to animate the mariner, who is commencing his career in the same path of glory; and is also calculated to extend its general utility: since a consciousness of the difficulties, which others have encountered with success, must prove of essential benefit in abating the dread of a threatening barrier, which too often disheartens those, who feel
“how hard it is to climb
The steep, where Fame's proud temple beams afar.”
Lord Bridport was the son of the late worthy vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, near Axminster, and of Buckleigh in Somersetshire, and is the younger brother of Lord Hood, but senior in point of rank, having entered into the service before him. He received, we believe, his principal education under the immediate eye of his parent.
His Lordship entered early into the service, and had little but his own merit, and diligence, to trust to in the future prospects of his life.
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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. 265 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1799