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TABLE 6. Fighting naval officers and the allied vocations of their close relations Continued. 



34. KEPPEL. A hyperkinetic naval fighter. Two of his brothers were army officers and one was 

 for a time in the navy. 



Maternal side: The mother's father was a member of Parliament and acquired the title of 

 Baron de Clifford; his son who succeeded to the title was also in Parliament. The 

 mother's mother (Sophia Campbell) was a very intelligent, lively woman, of great 

 personal courage. At the age of 80 years she discharged her pistols at thieves 

 climbing over the garden wall. 



Paternal side: The father was "master of the horse" at court and a member of Parliament. 

 The father's father was colonel of the King's Own regiment of dragoons and com- 

 manded the Cuban expedition sent in 1762 to reduce Havana. His brother, 

 Augustus Keppel, became a naval commander at 22 years, negotiated a treaty 

 with the piratical dey of Algiers, and was a brave naval fighter; in his later years 

 he became suspicious and quarrelsome. The father's father's father was, in 1748, 

 commander in chief of the British forces serving in the Low Countries and was 

 later ambassador to France; his wife was the sister of Charles Lennox, from whom 

 are descended the great Napier family of generals and admirals. Charles Lennox 

 was grandson of Charles II, King of England. 



Comment: On both sides are strains of courage. The paternal side (descended from Charles II) 

 includes more military men and Admiral Augustus Keppel. 



36. MACDONOUGH. Adventurous and belligerent naval commander; a brother was midship- 

 man in the navy. 



Maternal side: The mother's father, Samuel Vance, was a captain in the Delaware colonial 

 militia. 



Paternal side: The father distinguished himself in active service as major of the Delaware 

 battalion, 1776. In February 1777 he was elected member of the privy council 

 and speaker of the council of Delaware, 1784, 1787. He was made second justice 

 of the court of common pleas and orphan's court of New Castle county, Delaware. 



Comment: Macdonough was of belligerent blood from both sides; high intelligence and 

 leadership is obvious in the father. His energy is probably especially from the 

 paternal side. 



40. MARRY AT. Adventuresome, fearless, literary; of a literary fraternity. 

 Maternal side: Mother's father, a Hessian settler in Boston, England. 

 Paternal side: Father, parliamentarian; author of political pamphlets. 

 Comment: If the mother's father as an immigrant was nomadic, Marryat's reaction can be 

 easily understood. Literary taste and capacity are clearly shown in the paternal side. 



45. O'BRIEN. Naval fighter, of a fighting fraternity. 

 Maternal side: The mother's father was a sea captain. 



Paternal side: The father fought in the colonial army that took Louisburg. 

 Comment: This family history is a fragment, but probably there is a love of the sea on the 

 maternal side. 



46. PARKER (W. H.). Fond of adventure, of a fraternity of fighters and administrators. 

 Maternal side: Mother's father, a colonel of infantry (regulars) in the War of 1812. 

 Paternal side: Father, Commodore Foxhall A. Parker. 



Comment: Adventuresomeness and belligerency probably on both sides. 



47. PAULDINQ. Brave, adventurous, diplomatic. 



Maternal side: Mother's brother, John Ward, an officer in the Loyal America regiment during 



the Revolution; later settled in New Brunswick. 



Paternal side: Father, major of militia, one of the captors of Major John Andre". 

 Comment: There is a certain loyalty and willingness to fight for ideals on the mother's side; 



the father also was a fighter. 



49. PERKINS. Hyperkinetic, adventuresome, pertinacious. 



Maternal side: Mother's brother, a "remarkably efficient" captain. Mother's mother's 



father, a captain in the Revolutionary war. 

 Paternal side: Father, studied at Harvard Law School and for 16 years presided over the 



probate court of Merrimac county, New Hampshire. 

 Comment: So far as the record goes the fighters were on the maternal side only. 



