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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JOHN HARVEY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Edited by
James Stanier Clarke  and
John McArthur
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Well mote ye wonder how that noble Knight,

After he had so often wounded beene,

Could stand on foot now to renew the fight:

But had ye then him forth advauncing seene,

Some new-borne Wight ye would him surely weene;

So fresh he seemed, and so fierce in sight!

Spenser.

Amidst The Naval Heroes who gained such renown in the dreadful struggle between the Sons of Liberty, and the Slaves of Anarchy on the glorious first of June; the name of Harvey is gratefully recorded by his Country, and consecrated with peculiar esteem to the emulation of posterity.

This distinguished Officer was born at Elmton, in the parish of Eythorn, in Kent, on the ninth of July, 1740. O. S. He was the third son of Mr. Richard Harvey, a gentleman of the most amiable character, and Elizabeth daughter of Mr. Henry Nicholls, of Barham, in the same county: at the age of fifteen he went to sea with Captain Brett (1755), who then commanded the Falmouth of 50 guns. Mr. Harvey soon became noticed for his assiduity in the service; and on one occasion in particular, when only seventeen, displayed a quickness of mind and watchful observation, which distinguished his character in the subsequent events of his professional career.

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The Naval Chronicle
Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
 , pp. 241 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1800

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