WILLIAM

See also:

• CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- )
• CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752—1818)
• CLARK, JOHN BATES (1847— )
• CLARK, JOSIAH LATIMER (1822—1898)
• CLARK, SIR ANDREW
• CLARK, SIR JAMES (1788—1870)
• CLARK, THOMAS (1801—1867)
• CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)
• CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE (1821—1878)

CLARK

See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL (1844– )

RUSSELL (1844– )  , British author, was born at the Carlton House Hotel, New York, on the 24th of February 1844, the son of Henry Russell, .author of " Cheer, Boys, Cheer," and other popular songs . He went to school at Winchester, and then at Boulogne, joining the merchant service at thirteen, and serving for eight years . This apprentice-ship to a seafaring life was turned to account in a series of stories which have fascinated two generations of boy readers . John Holdsworth, Chief Mate (1874), immediately made his reputation . Other successful stories were: The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1875), in which he pleaded for better food for English seamen; The Frozen Pirate (1877), An Ocean Tragedy (1881), The Emigrant Ship (1894), The Ship, Her Story (1894), The Convict Ship (1895), What Cheer ! (1895), The Two Captains (1897), The Romance of a Midshipman (1898), The Ship's XxIII . 25Adventure (1899), Overdue (1903), Abandoned (1904), His Island Princess (1905) . He joined the staff of the Newcastle Daily Chronicle, and afterwards became a leader writer on the Daily Telegraph, but the double labour of journalism and novel-writing threatened his health, and he resigned in 1887 . Many of the papers which he contributed to the Daily Telegraph were collected in volume form in Round the Galley . Fire and other volumes . He also wrote a Life of Lord Collingwood (1891), and, with W . H .

Jacques,

Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England (New York, 1890) .