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The Naval Chronicle Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
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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