The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXXIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTY-THIRD VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE BROKE, BART. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL, KNT. REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, &c.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE THOMAS MACKENZIE, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR GEORGE ROOKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL, AND LIEUTENANT OF THE ADMIRALTY OF ENGLAND, AND LIEUTENANT OF THE FLEETS AND SEAS OF THIS KINGDOM, &c. &c.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE BROKE, BART. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXXIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTY-THIRD VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE BROKE, BART. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL, KNT. REAR-ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, &c.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE THOMAS MACKENZIE, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR GEORGE ROOKE, KNT. VICE-ADMIRAL, AND LIEUTENANT OF THE ADMIRALTY OF ENGLAND, AND LIEUTENANT OF THE FLEETS AND SEAS OF THIS KINGDOM, &c. &c.
- INDEX
Summary
—— Or do the gods inspire
This warmth, or make we gods of our desire?
A gen'rous ardour boils within my breast,
Eager of action, enemy to rest:
This urges me to fight, and fires my mind,
To leave a memorable name behind.”
Dryden's Virgil. Æneid. lib. ix.ALTHOUGH ancestry alone, in the eye of the philosopher, can never dignify the man; as the concomitant of noble actions it does certainly add to the lustre they confer on the character of the individual that achieves them. Indeed, the contemplation of a long line of ancestry, rendered originally conspicuous, as it must have been, by qualities superlatively eminent in the parent stock, might be alone sufficient to induce in the various members of its dignified descent, an emulation worthy of the honours thus inherited. We shall, therefore, in our memoir of this gentleman, briefly state the antiquity of his family, as noticed in Sir Peter Leycester'sHistory of Cheshire :–
“This ancient family is descended from the Brookes of Leighton, in Nantwich hundred, in Cheshire, of which family I find one Adam, Dominus de Leighton, sub Henrico tertio, whose son was stiled William de la Brooke, of Leighton, (probably the William noticed by Camden, as master of Leighton, in 1249, being the 33d year of King Henry III.) and his son, Richard, stiled Ricardus de Doito, in an old deed in the 5th year of King Edward I. that is, Of the Brook, for Doet, in French, is a Brook in England; and under the said manor-house, in Leighton, a brook runneth, from whence their posterity assumed the surname of Del Brook. […]
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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. 1 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1815