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8. Patrick O’Brian, Beasts Royal (London, 1934), p. 15.
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9. William Winstanley, The New Help to Discourse. Or Wit & Mirth, Intermix’d With more serious Matters (London, 1716), pp. 204–7.
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10. O’Brian, Master and Commander, p. 319; The Reverse of the Medal (London, 1986), p. 31.
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11. Patrick O’Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation (London, 1991), p. 167.
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12. Patrick O’Brian, The Yellow Admiral (London, 1997), p. 49.
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XVI Triumph and Tragedy
1. John Forester, Novelist and Story-Teller: The Life of C.S. Forester (Lemon Grove, CA, 2000), i, pp. 356–7.
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2. T.W. Copeland et al. (eds), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 1958–70), i, pp. 270–1.
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3. Cunningham (ed.), Patrick O’Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography, pp. 150–1.
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XVII Melmoth the Wanderer
1. I am indebted to Sir Donnell Deeny for providing me with a copy of his reminiscences of Patrick and my mother. Patrick bestowed the name Mona Fitzpatrick on the charming little black-haired Irish girl liberated by Stephen Maturin in The Hundred Days, in a chapter written in January 1998.
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2. Patrick O’Brian, The Uncertain Land and Other Poems (London, 2019), p. 44.
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3. Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (London, 1897).
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APPENDIX A Collioure: History and Landscape
1. E.A. Thompson, The Goths in Spain (Oxford, 1969), pp. 218–22.
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2. Alain Ayats, Louis XIV et les Pyrénées Catalanes de 1659 à 1681 (Canet, 2002), p. 33.
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3. Virginie Raguenaud, The Colors of Catalonia: In the Footsteps of Twentieth-Century Artists (Boston, 2012). Another fine artist who painted in the locality was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who stayed in Collioure in 1924 and settled in neighbouring Port-Vendres in 1925. Cf. Robin Crichton, Monsieur Mackintosh: The Travels and paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Pyrénées Orientales 1923–1927 (Edinburgh, 2006).
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4. Ayats, Louis XIV et les Pyrénées Catalanes, pp. 232–4, 858. In the early 1930s, despite vigorous local protests, under direction of the infamous mayor, Léon Cristine, the philistine municipality sold land for development around the base of the glacis (Eugène Cortade, Le château royal de Collioure (Perpignan, 1968), pp. 54–6). After the last War, a successor administration saw fit to complete the desecration, bulldozing terraces into what remained of the splendid green rampart, in order to convert it into a car park.
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5. Ayats, Louis XIV et les Pyrénées Catalanes, pp. 677–80.
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APPENDIX B Patrick and His First Wife Elizabeth
1. Observer, 14 November 2004.
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2. King, Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed, pp. 79–81.
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3. Daily Telegraph, 28 February 2000. ‘For my part, I do not remember anything from that time that relates to their dispute. It was all kept from me …’ (Guardian, 27 November 2003).
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4. Mail on Sunday, 16 January 2000.
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5. Guardian, 27 November 2003.
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6. PRO.J77/3990.
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7. Tolstoy, Patrick O’Brian: The Making of the Novelist, pp. 198, 231.
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8. PH/WAR/3/101.
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9. PRO.J77/3990.
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10. Richard Blackmore, Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem in Ten Books (London, 1695).
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11. 18 June 1949 Elizabeth Russ Petition (PRO J77/3990).
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12. Ibid.
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APPENDIX C: Patrick’s Sailing
1. Tolstoy, Patrick O’Brian: The Making of the Novelist, pp. 157–60.
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2. John Scott Hughes, Famous Yachts (London, 1928), pp. 132–7.
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3. Cunningham (ed.), Patrick O’Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography, p. 16. The ambiguity of his assertion that his experience aboard the ocean-going yacht ‘allowed more ambitious sailoring later on’ may likewise be noted, the voyage or voyages aboard the Guinness yacht being the only unequivocal claim advanced in his nautical catalogue.
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Index
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Adventures of Gerard (Doyle) 204
Ainsworth, Harrison 121, 203
Alderson, Andrew 498n
Aldington, Toby Low, Lord 324, 354, 378, 384, 400, 403, 404, 413–14, 418–19, 423, 432, 444
Alhambra 95
Allan Quatermain (Haggard) 127
Aloujes, René 69
Amory, Mark 462
Andorra 62, 64–5, 66–70, 120
André Deutsch 333
Andromeda la Dea (yacht) 454, 459–60
Anson, Commodore George 110, 131 and note, 132–3, 165
Antibes 286
Appledore, Kent 311, 342, 394, 475
Aragon, Louis 154
Ariège 168
The Artificial Clock-maker. A Treatise of Watch and Clock-work (Derham) 440
The Ascent of Everest (Hunt) 102
Ashdown Forest 191, 332
Ashgrove, Somerset 308
Auersperg, Princess 240, 336
Austen, Jane 173n, 279, 314, 366n, 371, 381, 412, 413 and note, 415, 416n, 472, 502n
Avignon 266–7
Azéma, M. 110, 122
Azéma, Mme 115, 122
Azzopard-Vinour, Youg 522
Balearic Islands 459
Baltika (ship) 146
Banks, Joseph 362, 364, 372
Banks, Sir Joseph 348, 358–9 and note, 362, 364, 365
Bantam Press 368
Banyuls, Danielle 150, 155
Barbosa, Arthur 230
Barcelona 212, 221, 268, 270, 286
Bardot, Brigitte 287n
Barnes and Noble 437
Barrington, Jonah 169–71, 172, 185 and note, 188, 193–4
Barton St David, Somerset 216, 308
Bath 216
Bayley, John 319, 343, 390–1, 421, 445
BBC 327, 368, 421, 462n, 471, 482, 484, 489, 490–1, 497–9 and note, 506, 509
Beatson, Robert 131
Becker, Stephen 89–90
Belem (re-named Fantôme II) 517–18, 549–51, 553, 555
Belfast 500, 512
Bell & Hyman 47
Bell, Mark 498
Belloc, Hilaire 103
Bengal Lancer (Yeats-Brown) 259
Bennett, Kate 379
Bennett, Stuart 370–2, 379, 392, 420, 446
Berger, Knute 456–7
Berkley Publishing Corporation 402n
Bernardi, François 4 and note, 20, 56, 76
Bernardi, Robert 68
Binyon, T.J. 136, 305–8, 325, 421
Birkbeck College, London 554
Blackmore, R.D. 121
Blaise, St 73
Blane, Gilbert 359n
Bloom, Claire 103
Bodard, Lucien 197
Bog of Allen 254
&n
bsp; Bonehill, Captain Ralph 143
Boskenna 108
Boston University 425
Boswell, James 413, 475n
Boutet, Odette Bernardi 4, 20, 56, 63–4, 76, 77–8 and note, 79, 80, 119, 288–9, 405, 495, 496
Bradbury, Edward 29
Braine, Sir Bernard 417–18, 418–19
A Breed of Heroes (Judd) 462
Brereton, Captain F.S. 127
Brereton, Michael 212
Brigstocke, Admiral Sir John 504, 516, 517
British Library 207, 210n, 365, 415–16, 427, 445, 503, 516, 552
British Museum 35, 87
Broeder, Bob 13–14, 15–16, 70–1, 84, 105, 186
Brooks’s Club, St James’s Street 349 and note, 357, 407, 421, 423, 462, 504, 510, 524
Buckingham Palace 464
Buddug (dog) 8, 14, 57, 58, 64, 66, 68, 69, 78, 85, 90, 94, 108, 111
Burke, Helen Lucy 520, 522
Burkett, Mary 101, 103–4, 122, 287–8, 289
Burney, William 105, 136, 216
Burton, Naomi 79, 125, 152
Burton, Richard 103
Byatt, A.S. 421, 443
Byron, Admiral John ’Jack’ 139, 140, 141
Byron, Lord 139, 173n, 493
Cadène (electrician) 56
Cadiz 94–5
Camargue 346–7
Camden, William 104
Camelford, Lord 286, 291, 304
Camps, Hélène 5, 297, 408, 445, 491
Camps, Michel 320, 445
Camps, Pierre 297, 320, 445
Canford School, Dorset 265
Cape St Vincent 97
Cardinal Vaughan School, Holland Park 13, 15, 70–1, 102, 118
Cardonnet (Catalan miner) 116
Carlyle, Thomas 150, 468
Caroline (tortoise) 297, 333
Carton House, County Kildare 256
The Castle of otranto (Walpole) 335
Catriona (Stevenson) 128, 132
Cautionary Verses (Belloc) 103
Century Hutchinson 368
Certot, Pierre 111
Challoner Club, Knightsbridge 268, 343
Chapman, Ian 393
Charles O’Malley (Lever) 280
Charrière, Henri 234, 252, 257, 260, 261
Château Royal 62, 71, 75, 170, 193, 441
Château Saint-Elme 287, 434
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 462–3
Chaucer, Geoffrey 363, 381
Chekhov, Anton 376
Chelsea Registry Office 156–7
Choux, Mimi 71
Christine (curvaceous French girl) 170
Christopher, Jack 122
The City under the Sea (film, 1954) 110 and note
Clark, Sir Kenneth 292
Clonmacnois 163, 254
Cobbett, William 268
Cochrane, Lord 208–9
Collingwood, Admiral Cuthbert 327 and note, 330
Collins, Sir William 227
William Collins, Sons 219, 227, 230 and note, 260, 263, 264, 289, 290, 324, 333, 336, 349, 350, 358, 392, 393–4, 448, 466, 508
Collins’s Children’s Books Department 244
Collioure 3–10, 19, 20, 25, 28, 32, 37–8, 41, 45, 53, 55–6, 61–2, 68, 71–6, 80, 89, 90, 103, 107–9, 112, 128, 137, 144, 156, 160, 168, 169–71, 172, 175–6, 177, 184, 185, 188, 201, 202, 212–14, 235, 247, 248–9, 250, 257, 264, 287, 294, 319–20, 334–5, 365, 367–9, 386, 395, 400, 411, 420–1, 427, 430, 435, 438, 459, 462, 473–5, 488, 491–2, 494–5, 501, 512–13, 513, 518–19, 522–4, 526–31
A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland … (Sanderson) 23
Constable & Co 357
Cooke, Rachel 533
Copenhagen 146
Cordoba 95
The Cornhill magazine 275n
Cornwall 108, 132, 134, 169, 170, 172
Correch d’an Baus 10n, 128, 137, 248–9, 385, 440, 445, 466, 468, 519–20
Corunna 98
Côte Vermeille 4, 76
Cottage Economy (Cobbett) 268
Country Contentments (Markham) 28
Cousteau, Jacques 378
Cowgill Committee 418, 423
Cowley, Abraham 104
Cox, Francis 546
Craven, Lady 261
Croagh Patrick 253–4 and note
Cronkite, Walter 452, 514, 520
Crowborough 113, 191, 331, 332
Crowe, Russell 447
Crowe, Admiral William J. 470
Cullis, Michael 391
Culm valley, Devon 177
Culme-Seymour, Admiral Sir Michael 349
Cunningham, Arthur 207, 210n, 365, 415, 427, 445, 515
Currarevagh House, County Galway255 210n
Curtis Brown (New York) 79, 99, 125, 152, 205, 208, 224, 249
Curtis Brown, Spencer 27, 28, 38, 40, 45, 46, 47, 53, 61, 110, 125, 135, 195
Curtis-Raleigh, Nigel 353, 366–7
Cushman, John 267
Cwm Croesor 2, 11, 27, 32–6, 43, 55, 77, 141, 248, 268, 432–3
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand) 441
Daily Telegraph 431, 500, 501, 509, 545n
Daily Telegraph Television & Radio 498n
Daniel-Rops, Henri 163
Davies, Judge Michael 354, 404, 405n
de Beauvoir, Simone 204, 219, 239–40, 257, 260, 261, 333, 334, 341–2, 365, 523
de Bordas, Pierre 361 and note, 416
de Bordas, Rirette 361, 416, 519
de Custine, Marquis 296
de Salis, Charles 146, 284–5, 292, 311, 312
de Salis, Mary 146, 284, 311, 312
Deeny, Sir Donnell 511–12
Delcos, Dr 56–7
Derham, William 440
Devon 7, 11, 12, 14, 60, 107, 127, 548–9
Devonshire, Duke of 462, 463, 471
Dibdin, Charles 523
Dictionary of Quotations 378n
Dover 108
Dowling, Christopher 491
Doyle, A. Conan 204
Dublin 144, 238, 239, 254–5, 256, 473, 488, 489–90, 499, 500, 504–5, 510, 518, 520, 521–2, 551
Duncan, Bryony 193
Duncan, Ronald 193
Dundas, George Heneage Lawrence 193 and Note, 223
Dunsany, Lord 30–1 and note
Duthuit, Claude 281
Duthuit, Marguerite Matisse 281, 311
Eastbourne 312–13
Elizabeth II 415, 465
Emery, Vice Admiral George W. 450, 504
Emma (Austen) 371 and note, 372, 415
Encamp 66–7
Encyclopaedia Britannica 392
Ennis 239
Erlanger, Philippe 163
Eton 419, 447
Evans, Sarah Wynn 324
Evening Standard 469
Exmoor Staghounds 196
The Experienced English Housekeeper (Raffald) 478
Faber Book of Tales of the Sea 406
Falconer, William 105, 136, 216
Farnol, Jeffrey 129, 391
Farrell, J.G. 391 and note
Feast of St Vincent 75
Fenton, Ben 500–1 and note, 503, 506, 509, 535
Festival of Britain (1951) 19
Figueras 91
Fitzgerald, Penelope 421
Fitzpatrick, Mona 512
Ford Field Cottage, Crowborough 201–2
Forest of Dean 265–6
Forester, C.S. 132, 205, 225, 230, 322, 403, 443, 524
Forestry Commission 154
Forster, Hugh 392
Franco, General 92
Fron Wen 33n, 36 and note, 373, 433
Gadds Cottage, Suffolk 533–4, 536, 538, 541, 542, 545, 546, 547
Galway 254, 255
Gareg 36
Garfield, Leon 207
Garnett, Richard 207
Geneva 446
Gentleman’s Magazine 131
George VI 56
Germa, M. 73
Gibbs, Tony 225, 228
Gibraltar 94, 329
Gill, Daphne
521–2
Golding, William 524
Goldsmith, Dr 128–9, 130
Goldwyn, Samuel Jr 447, 458
Gordon, Giles 368
Gorer, Geoffrey 166
Granada 93
Gray, Charles 422n
Green, George 172–3
Green Mansions (Hudson) 84
Green, Vivien 499n
Greene, Graham 400
Greenway, Walter 22, 36, 77
Greenwich Hospital 215, 219, 469–71, 523
Gregory, Susan 143–4, 161–3, 167
Guernica 98
Guinness, Sir Alec 258
Guinness, Sir Arthur 517, 550, 553, 555
Guttridge, Peter 549n
Haggard, H. Rider 19, 127, 203
The Half-Mad Lord (N. Tolstoy) 305, 320, 496
Hall, Herbst 453
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 103
Harcourt, Brace & Co. 41, 42, 79, 89, 125, 152, 432
Hardy, Robert 470, 497
HarperCollins 411, 415, 432, 516
Harper’s Bazaar 103
Harvill Press Ltd 382
Hastings, Max 469
Hatchard’s bookshop, Piccadilly 421
Heap’s Bookshop, Bath 216
Helsinki 146
Heneage, Timothy 193 and note, 223
Henry Esmond (Thackeray) 84
Hermitage, St Petersburg 172
Heston, Charlton 407, 441, 445, 458
Heston, Lydia 458
Heywood Hill 415, 447
Hightower, John B. 450
Hill, Rear-Admiral J. Richard 258
Hill, Robert 205
Hillary, Edmund 102
Histoire Générale des Voyages (Prévost) 299 and note
History of Civilization (Christopher) 122
History of Philosophy (Stanley) 105
History of Rome (Dr Goldsmith) 128–9, 130
History of The most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (Camden) 104
HMS Manxman 175
HMS Rose 452
HMS Vanguard 94
HMS Victory 218, 516–18
Hodder & Stoughton 102
Hodder-Williams, Paul 102
Hodder-Williams, Susan 101–3, 118
Hodgkin, Marni 205, 207, 218
Homes and Gardens 5–6
Horace 519–20
Horowitz, Mark 230n, 427–30, 435
Horta de Sant Joan 270
House & Garden 99n, 258
Huber, Francis 351 and note
Hudson, W.H. 84
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