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... Memoir of Howard is that in the Biographia Britannica , which exhausts the older sources of information ; the memoir in Campbell's Lives of the Admirals ( i . 392 ) is a condensed version of it . The notice in Collins's Peerage ( edit ...
... Memoir of Howard is that in the Biographia Britannica , which exhausts the older sources of information ; the memoir in Campbell's Lives of the Admirals ( i . 392 ) is a condensed version of it . The notice in Collins's Peerage ( edit ...
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... Memoirs , i . 29 ) . His servants used to wash him in his drunken stupors , as he de- tested soap and water when sober . Com- plaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to rheumatism , and had vainly tried every remedy ...
... Memoirs , i . 29 ) . His servants used to wash him in his drunken stupors , as he de- tested soap and water when sober . Com- plaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to rheumatism , and had vainly tried every remedy ...
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... Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith , K.C.B. , ' 2 vols . 8vo , London , 1839. 4. Jack Ashore , ' 3 vols . 12mo , London , 1840. 5. The Centiad : a Poem in four books , ' 12mo , London , 1841 . 6 Howard married , first , on 22 July 1851 ...
... Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith , K.C.B. , ' 2 vols . 8vo , London , 1839. 4. Jack Ashore , ' 3 vols . 12mo , London , 1840. 5. The Centiad : a Poem in four books , ' 12mo , London , 1841 . 6 Howard married , first , on 22 July 1851 ...
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... memoir , his father's Course of Lectures on Painting , ' 1848. He also drew on stone the plates for Sir William C. Harris's ' Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa , ' 1840 , and made some designs for church and ...
... memoir , his father's Course of Lectures on Painting , ' 1848. He also drew on stone the plates for Sir William C. Harris's ' Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa , ' 1840 , and made some designs for church and ...
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... ( Memoirs , iii . 202 ) that in 1784 , when General Henry Seymour Conway [ q . v . ] resigned the office of commander - in- chief with a seat in the cabinet ( to which he had been appointed under the Rocking- ham administration ) , George ...
... ( Memoirs , iii . 202 ) that in 1784 , when General Henry Seymour Conway [ q . v . ] resigned the office of commander - in- chief with a seat in the cabinet ( to which he had been appointed under the Rocking- ham administration ) , George ...
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