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WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL (1844– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:CLARK See also:RUSSELL (1844– )  , See also:British author, was See also:born at the Carlton See also:House Hotel, New See also:York, on the 24th of See also:February 1844, the son of See also:Henry See also:Russell, .author of " Cheer, Boys, Cheer," and other popular songs . He went to school at See also:Winchester, and then at See also:Boulogne, joining the See also:merchant service at thirteen, and serving for eight years . This apprentice-See also:ship to a seafaring See also:life was turned to See also:account in a See also:series of stories which have fascinated two generations of boy readers . See also:John Holdsworth, See also:Chief See also:Mate (1874), immediately made his reputation . Other successful stories were: The See also:Wreck of the Grosvenor (1875), in which he pleaded for better See also:food for See also:English See also:seamen; The Frozen Pirate (1877), An Ocean Tragedy (1881), The Emigrant Ship (1894), The Ship, Her See also:Story (1894), The Convict Ship (1895), What Cheer ! (1895), The Two Captains (1897), The See also:Romance of a See also:Midshipman (1898), The Ship's See also:XxIII . 25Adventure (1899), Overdue (1903), Abandoned (1904), His See also:Island Princess (1905) . He joined the See also:staff of the See also:Newcastle Daily See also:Chronicle, and afterwards became a See also:leader writer on the Daily See also:Telegraph, but the See also:double labour of journalism and novel-See also:writing threatened his See also:health, and he resigned in 1887 . Many of the papers which he contributed to the Daily Telegraph were collected in See also:volume See also:form in See also:Round the See also:Galley . See also:Fire and other volumes . He also wrote a Life of See also:Lord See also:Collingwood (1891), and, with W . H .

Jacques, See also:

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

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