A St. Helena Who's who: Or, a Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon |
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1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 53rd Regiment 66th Foot 66th Regiment Antommarchi appointed Arnott August Balcombe became Blakeney Boys Burton Colonel Colonel Lascelles command Council Count Bertrand Countess Bertrand Crokat dined with Napoleon Dodgin Doveton Emmett Emperor England Ensign exhumation Fehrzen Francis Plain Frédéric Masson Gorrequer Gourgaud Governor Helena Helena Station Hélène Henry Ibbetson interview with Napoleon John John Mansel joined July June left St left the Island letter Lieutenant Longwood Lord Amherst Lowe Papers Lowe's Lt.-Colonel Lutyens Major Mansel Mason's Stock House Miss Montholon Muster Rolls Napo Nicholls Northumberland O'Meara October Orderly Officer Peninsular War Phaeton Placed on half-pay Poppleton portrait presented to Napoleon published Rear-Admiral Reardon received by Napoleon Record Office Retired Robt saw Napoleon Secretary Shortt Sir George Bingham Sir George Cockburn Sir Hudson Lowe Sir Pulteney Malcolm Sir Thomas Reade sketch of Napoleon Stock House Stokoe visit to Napoleon wife William Balcombe Wortham Younghusband
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Page 53 - I say unto you that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Page 107 - ... ignorant, and, it is said, quite illiterate. * Richard Torbett. A merchant, and " a respectable shopkeeper", as Lowe called him, in St. Helena. He lived near Longwood, on a property which contained Geranium Valley, where Napoleon was buried. He supplied Napoleon two bottles of water a day from his spring. The Council of St. Helena granted him an indemnity of £650, and an annual subsidy of £50, so long as the body of the Emperor should remain in the tomb. Eventually, this was commuted for a...
Page 109 - The Rev. Bowater Vernon was the Chaplain in St. Helena during the whole of the captivity. He was born in 1789 in Jamaica, where his father, Captain Bowater Vernon, was ADC to the Governor. He avoided the friction in the Island, caused by his senior the Rev. Richard Boys, who was Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company from 1811 to 1830.
Page 67 - Salem to his memory, it is recorded that he was " celebrated for his learning, distinguished for his valour, esteemed for his piety, a soldier by nature, a gentleman by birth, a friend to all, an enemy to none.
Page 43 - Mémoires sur la non-existence de communication normale des vaisseaux lymphatiques et des veines , suivis du rapport fait à l'Académie des sciences, pour le prix de physiologie expérimentale, décerné à M.
Page 48 - Was responsible to the British Government for the safe custody of Napoleon.
Page 54 - Mr. Boys was only to be well known to be heartily and fully loved ; for, for a long while, we had been greatly prejudiced against him, by the scandalous reports we were in the habit of hearing from many quarters, and we only regretted we did not know him before. But, however, we soon became on the strictest terms of brotherly love and intimacy ; and he became a Father in Christ to all the young Christians in the...
Page 69 - ... the French at Longwood, or a conversation concerning official matters at Plantation House, he was always at hand with his notebook, and the minutes thus made formed the basis of the lengthy reports addressed to Lord Bathurst by Sir Hudson Lowe. It is no exaggeration to say that we owe it entirely to the industry of Gorrequer that we possess such a complete record of the captivity of Napoleon in St. Helena.
Page 142 - I have the honour to remain your most obedient and humble servant ORTHO PENHALE (Master) Ghost.