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A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through Flanders, the Rhenish provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France. ... In two volumes. Vol. I (+ II). London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street 1828.. 1 (weißes) Blatt; 1 Frontispiz; XXXII; 582 Seiten, 17 Abbildungen auf Tafeln, sowie zahlreiche weitere im Text; 1 (weißes) Blatt + 1 (weißes) Blatt; 1 mehrf. gef. Tafel als Frontispiz; XII; 742 Seiten, 18 Abbildungen auf Tafeln, sowie zahlreiche weitere im Text; 1 Blatt (Errata); 1 (weißes) Blatt. 13, (davon 1 gefaltete) Aquatinta-Tafeln, 15 Holzschnitt-Tafeln und 9 gestochene Pläne, insgesamt mit 70 Abbildungen, allen, davon sind 33 Textillustrationen ! Zwei dekorative Halblederbände der Zeit über je 5 (falschen) Bünden mit dezenter Rückenvergoldung, Blindprägung und je zwei verschiedenfarbigen, goldgeprägten Titelrückenschildern. Mit Lederecken und allseitig marmoriertem Schnitt. (22,3 x 14,8 cm) 8°.

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Ein Besuch bei Goethe im Jahre 1828. Erstausgabe. 1st edition. Abbey (Travel) 25. Cat. Russica G 1064. Die Einbände mit leichten Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, etwas berieben und bestoßen, besonders an den Kapitalen und Ecken. Innen vereinzelt etwas fleckig, dort mehr, wo einzelne der Seidenpapierchen fehlen, wie bei den Frontispizen, die eigentlich den Abklatsch der Abbildungen auf die gegenüberliegende Seite verhindern sollen. Alles in allem jedoch noch schöne und dekorative Ausgabe mit interessanten Abbildungen in verschiedenen Techniken. Auf den Innendeckeln je ein größeres Exlibris "Brisbane of Brisbane, Curacao", auf den fliegenden Vorsätzen recto ein weiteres Exlibris "Brisbane", ebenfalls - jedoch hier größer wiedergegeben - mit dem Motto "Certamine Summo" (Mit größtem Eifer). Die große Reise des bekannten englischen Allgemeinmediziners und Gynäkologen Granville (* Mailand 1783 - 1872 Dover +) führte von Flandern über die Rheinprovinzen, durch Preußen nach Rußland und letztlich zum Ziel, dem Hof und St. Peterburg. Zurück ging es durch Polen, Schlesien, Sachsen, weitere deutsche Kleinstaaten und über Frankreich zurück nach England. Auf der Rückreise besuchte der vielfältigst, u.a. besonders an Balneologie interessierte Arzt am 2. Januar 1828 auch Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und Weimar (vergl. Band II, S. 674 ff) mit dem er u.a. über Übersetzungen und europäische Sprachen im Allgemeinen, sowie den Faust im Speziellen sprach, von dem er beeindruckt und mit zwei Goethe zeigenden Medaillen beschenkt schied. Der Dichterfürst seinerseits war jedenfalls weniger an Granville's Hobby-Erkenntnissen über Mumien, als an Berichten aus erster Hand über St. Petersburg interessiert. In seinem Tagebuch vom 02.01.1828 heißt es darüber lapidar: "... Meldete sich A . B. Granville. M. D. de la societe Royale de London et de l'Academie Imperiale des sciences de Petersbourgh. Medicin de S. A. R. le Duc de Clarence, Grand Admiral d' Angleterre. Das Portefeuille für Eisenach aufgesucht. Herr und Frau von Hopffgarten von Eisenach zum Besuche. Des Herrn Granville Versuche über die ägyptischen Mumien. Mittag Dr. Eckermann. ..." Siehe auch "Goethes Leben von Tag zu Tag" Band VIII, S. 14. Auf Seite 674 eine Abbildung des Goethe-Hauses in Weimar. [Sankt Peterburg; St. Petersburg] Anmerkungen zum Autor: "Augustus Bozzi Granville b.1783 d.3 March 1872 MD Pavia(1802) LRCP(1817) FRS(1818) Augustus Bozzi Granville, M.D., was born at Milan in 1783, and was the third son of Carlo Bozzi, the postmaster-general in that city. He was educated in the first instance by the Bamabite fathers at Milan, then at the collegiate school of Merate, and in 1799, on the advice of the celebrated Rasori, a friend of his family, applied himself to the study of physic, and was entered at the university of Pavia. He spent three years there, attended the lectures of Rasori, Joseph Frank, Spallanzani, Scarpa, and Volta, and graduated doctor of medicine 28th August, 1802. After travelling for some time in Greece and other eastern parts, he visited Spain and Portugal, and at Lisbon, in March,1807, joined the British squadron in the capacity of assistant-surgeon. In due course he rose to the rank of surgeon, and continued in the navy until 1813, when he retired on half-pay. Dr. Granville had a natural aptitude for acquiring languages and having made good use of the opportunities of doing so, which his travels had afforded him, was by this time master of many tongues. In addition to other avocations at this time, he acted occasionally as translator and interpreter to the Foreign Office, as courier and as foreign correspondent. Having determined to practise as a physician in London, he, with the consent of his family, assumed the maternal surname of Granville in addition to that of Bozzi, by which he had previously been known. By the advice of his friend, Sir Walter Farquhar, he applied himself to midwifery, and in 1816 proceeded to Paris, where he remained for eighteen months, studying midwifery under Capuron and Deveux at the Maternité, and the diseases of women and children at the Hôpital des Femmes and the Hôpital des Enfants. Returning to London, he settled in Savile-row, and on the 22nd December, 1817, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and in 1818, a fellow of the Royal Society. Through the recommendation of Sir Walter Farquhar and several distinguished persons, English and foreign, to whom he had become known in the course of his travels abroad, he soon got into practice as an accoucheur, and for several years enjoyed a considerable business in that department. Twice had he to visit Russia in his medical capacity, first in 1827, in charge of the countess Woronzow to St. Petersburg; and secondly in 1849, to attend the princess Tczernicheff, the wife of the Russian Minister of War at St. Petersburg, in her confinement. In 1835, Dr. Granville's attention was attracted to the mineral waters, first of Germany and then of England, the more important of which in both countries he personally visited and minutely examined. Becoming convinced of their value in the treatment of disease, he devoted himself, with characteristic energy and determination, to making them more generally known and appreciated in this country than they then were. His work, The Spas of Germany became, in some sort, the text-book for those seeking information on the subject, and its author the great authority to whom invalids in England resorted for guidance in the selection of a spa suited to their individual cases. In 1841, appeared his work on the English Waters and Health resorts, The Spas of England and Principal Sea Bathing Places in three volumes. Very early in the course of his investigations, Dr. Granville formed a high opinion of the value of the Kissingen waters, and from the year 1840 down to 1868, was in the habit of spending about three months of every year, from June to September, as a practising physician at Kissingen, after which he returned to London for the remainder of the year. In 1858, he paid a flying visit to Vichy and its springs, and on his return to London sent to the press a sketch of their chemical and physical characters, and of their efficacy in the treatment of various diseases. Dr. Granville retained his activity and energy to an unusually late period of his life. In 1863, he completed his eightieth year, and until then had not felt that he was an old man. But from that date, age seemed to creep upon him fast. His intellect was undimmed, but his bodily strength became enfeebled, though he was able to continue his summer visits to Kissingen as late as the year 1868, when he had a most brilliant season, surrounded by numbers of his old patients, all of whom seemed to have gone to Kissingen to consult him for the last time. On his return to England, he determined never to leave it again, and having finally relinquished practice, he commenced writing his autobiography. In 1871, he left London to spend the winter at Dover, and died there 3rd March, 1872, aged eighty-nine. Dr. Granville was a man of good natural abilities which he cultivated in a manner calculated to lead to success in the course of life to which he devoted himself. He had travelled much, he spoke many modern languages, he was easy and entertaining in conversation, and he sought society and entered largely into it. As a physician, his attentions to his patients were unremitting, he was full of resources, and had great confidence in his own powers, a feeling which he had the faculty of imparting to others; he was a good nurse and a better cook, qualities which did him good service on many occasions, and contributed, in no slight degree, to the entire trust reposed in him by many of his patients. His autobiography, an interesting work, The Autobiography of A. B. Granville, M.D., F.R.S., being eighty-five years of the Life of a Physician edited by his daughter, appeared in two volumes, 8vo., in 1874. Dr. Granville was a voluminous writer, his pen, indeed, was seldom idle. The following is, I believe, a complete list of his more important writings :— A Report of the Practice of Midwifery at the Westminster General Dispensary during 1818; with New Classification of Labours and the Diseases of Women and Children. 8vo. Lond. 1819. Observations, Practical and Political, on the Plague and Contagions. 8vo. Plate. 1819. An Historical and Practical Treatise on the Internal Use of Prussic Acid in Pulmonary Consumption and other Diseases. 12mo. Lond. 1820. An Essay on Egyptian Mummies, with Observations on the Art of Embalming among the Egyptians. 4to. Lond. 1825. A Letter to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, on the Danger of Altering the Quarantine Laws of this Country in reference to Plague. 8vo. Lond. 1825. St. Petersburg: a Journal of Travels to and from that Capital, through Flanders, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Saxony, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1828. Reform in Science; or, Science without a Head. 8vo. Lond. 1830. The Catechism of Health; or, Simple Rules for the Preservation of Health, and the Attainment of a Long Life. 16mo. Lond. 1831. Graphic Illustrations of Abortion, with Prolegomena of the Development and Metamorphoses of the Human Ovum. Large 4to. Lond. 1833. The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century; being a Statistical Summary of its Labours during the last Thirty-five Years, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1836. The Spas of Germany. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1837. Counter-Irritation, its Principles and Practice Illustrated by One Hundred Cases. 8vo. Lond. 1838. Medical Reform: being the subject of the First Annual Oration at the British Medical Association. 8vo. Lond. 1838. The Spas of England and principal Sea-Bathing Places. 3 vols, post 8vo. Lond. 1841. Kissengen, its Sources and Resources. 12mo. Lond. 1846. Two Letters to the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the necessity of Establishing a Northern Kingdom of Italy. 8vo. Lond. 1848. On Sudden Death. Post 8vo. Lond. 1854. The Mineral Springs of Vichy. A sketch of their Chemical and Physical Characters and of their efficacy in the treatment of various Diseases. 8vo. Lond. 1859. The Sumbul, a new Asiatic Remedy. 8vo. Lond. 1858. William Munk (Volume III, page 174)" ex: Munk's Roll : Volume III : Augustus Bozzi Granville "Augustus Bozzi Granville, geboren als Augusto Bozzi (* 7. Oktober 1783 in Mailand; † 3. März 1872 in Dover) war ein italienischstämmiger britischer Allgemeinmediziner, Gynäkologe und Autor. Er war der dritte Sohn des Carlo Bozzi, Generalpostmeister der österreichischen Provinz Lombardei, der aus einer alten und angesehenen lombardischen Familie stammte und seit seinem Aufenthalt auf Korsika dort persönliche Verbindungen zur Familie Bonaparte hatte. Seine Mutter war die Engländerin Rosa Granville, deren Namen er später in London seinem eigenen anfügte.[1] Nach dem Unterricht ab seinem sechsten Lebensjahr bei den Barnabiten in Mailand und seinem Schulabschluss am Collegio de Merati studierte er Medizin an der Universität Pavia.[2][3] Er war überzeugter Republikaner und italienischer Patriot und widersetzte sich den Franzosen unter Napoleon Bonaparte. Deshalb hatte er als Student in Pavia sogar als politischer Gefangener im Gefängnis gesessen. Nach seinem Studium schloss er sich einer fahrenden Theatertruppe an und sang zur Gitarre. Auf Korfu traf er mit William R. Hamilton zusammen, dem Attaché des britischen Botschafters Lord Elgin in Konstantinopel. Mit Hamilton reiste er nach Griechenland. Anschließend verpflichtete er sich als Arzt bei der türkischen Kriegsmarine, wechselte dann zur britischen Royal Navy und fuhr auf verschiedenen Schiffen im Mittelmeer, nach Westindien und Südamerika, wo er auf Simón Bolívar traf. Für ihn überbrachte Granville 1811 Dokumente an Sir Robert Peel in London. zu dieser Zeit erkrankte er an Malaria und Gelbfieber. In London heiratete er eine Engländerin und konvertierte vom Katholizismus zur anglikanischen Glaubensgemeinschaft. Im Jahr 1813 schied er aus der Royal Navy aus. Über persönliche Empfehlungen aus dem gesellschaftlich hochstehenden Umkreis seines Freundes William R. Hamilton gelang ihm der Zugang in das medizinische Establishment in London. Doch solle er sich an der Frauenklinik l'Hospice de la Maternité in Paris weiterbilden und sich dann in London als Frauenarzt niederlassen, wurde ihm empfohlen. Granville befolgte diesen Ratschlag und hörte auch 1816 Vorlesungen bei Georges Cuvier und Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Im Jahr 1818 wurde er Arzt an der Westminster Dispensary und 1829 Präsident der Westminster Medical Society. Granville untersuchte Gesundheitsstatistiken und Todesursachen bei der Arbeiterschaft und setzte sich hartnäckig für die notwendigen Reformen ein. In seinem Londoner Exil kämpfte er auch für die Unabhängigkeit des unter fremden Mächten aufgeteilten Italiens (siehe hierzu: Geschichte Italiens). Granville war ein gebildeter und vielgereister Mann. So war er auch zweimal bis nach Sankt Petersburg gekommen und hatte über seine Reisen das Buch St. Petersburgh. A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France (London 1828) geschrieben. Auf einer Reise besuchte er am 2. Januar 1828 auch Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Er war über Jahrzehnte im damaligen "Weltbad" Bad Kissingen (Bayern) einer jener britischen Ärzte, die in den Sommermonaten für einige Wochen im Kurort praktizierten, damit die zahlreichen englisch-sprachigen Kurgäste ohne Sprachschwierigkeiten behandelt werden konnten. In dieser Zeit schrieb er auch sein Buch Die Heilquellen in Kissingen (Leipzig 1850). In den Jahren von etwa 1855 bis 1865 fungierte er zugleich als Sekretär jenes Kirchenkomitees, das damals für Bau und Verwaltung der neuen anglikanischen Kirche in Bad Kissingen verantwortlich war. Granville soll 1821 die erste medizinische Autopsie an einer antiken ägyptischen Mumie - Irtyersenu (etwa 600-550 v. Chr.) aus Theben - vorgenommen haben, wie er in einem Vortrag am 14. April 1825 der Royal Society of London beschrieb, der anschließend unter dem Titel An essay on Egyptian mummies (Verlag W. Nicol, London 1825) veröffentlicht wurde. Damals glaubte der Gynäkologe Gebärmutterkrebs als Todesursache festgestellt zu haben. Heutige Wissenschaftler glauben Granville widerlegt und Tuberkulose als Ursache festgestellt zu haben, wie 2009 weltweit gemeldet wurde. Neben seiner ärztlichen und wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit veröffentlichte er mehr als 220 Bücher und Schriften, die in sieben Sprachen übersetzt wurden. Im Jahr 1874, also zwei Jahre nach seinem Tod, wurde seine Autobiografie Autobiography of A. B. Granville veröffentlicht. ..." ex: wiki zum Vorbesitzer: "BRISBANE, or BIRSBANE, a surname belonging to an ancient family which appear to have possessed Bishoptoun in Renfrewshire, holding of the lordship of Erskine, with lands in the counties of Stirling and Ayr, long prior to the date of any charters they have preserved, and now represented by the line of Brisbane of Brisbane in Ayrshire, and Mackerstoun in Roxburghshire. One of the earliest of the family known in history is supposed to have been William Brisbane, who, in 1332, was chancellor of Scotland [Hailes~ez_rsquo~ Annals.] In Brisbane house in the parish of Largs, Ayrshire, is preserved an old oaken chair, with the date 1357 and the arms are three cushions or woolsacks, which should seem to have been adopted from the office of chancellor. But if Crawford be correct in his History of Renfrewshire, where he mentions Bishoptoun as ~ez_lsquo~the ancient inheritance of the Brisbanes, the chief of that name,~ez_rsquo~ in his reference to ~ez_lsquo~Allanus de Brysbane, filius Whelhelmi de Brysbane,~ez_rsquo~ who obtained, shortly after 1334, from Donald earl of Lennox, a grant of the lands of Macherach and Holmedalmartyne in Stirlingshire, there were Brisbanes of Brisbane even before the time of this chancellor. Thomas and Alexander Brisbane, brothers, are witnesses to a charter, granted 9th September 1361, by Thomas earl of Mar, and confirmed by King David the Second. Thomas Brisbane is witness to a charter by Robert duke of Albany, dated at Perth, 22d September 1409. Previous to that year the family had acquired the ten pound land of Killincraig and Gogo in the parish of Largs. To these, several other lands that belonged to the archbishop of Glasgow and the abbey of Paisley, were afterwards added, and in 1595 the estate of Largs was erected into the barony of Gogoside, and the town into a burgh of barony called the Newton of Gogo. In 1650, this barony, with the lands of Noddesdale and others, was erected into the barony of Noddesdale. Soon after, having acquired the property of Over Kelsoland, which had for a long period belonged to the family of Kelso, the whole estate was, in 1695, by a crown charter erected into the barony of Brisbane, which thenceforth became the usual territorial designation of the family. Matthew Brisbane of Bishoptoun, the fifth proprietor of Bishoptoun in a direct descent, fell at Flodden, 9th September 1513, and was succeeded by his brother, John Brisbane, whose son, also named John, was slain at the battle of Pinkie, 10th September 1547. His son John Brisbane of Bishoptoun, on November 9, 1555, with Thomas Brisbane his servant, William Brisbane, servant of Lord Sempill, and six others, found John Lord Erskine, his superior in the lands of Bishoptoun, as surety or bail for their appearance, to take their trial at the next assizes at Renfrew, for ~ez_lsquo~hamesucken at the monastery of Paisley,~ez_rdquo~ and mutilating John Hamilton of his arm. Robert Brisbane of Bishoptoun married, in 1562, Janette, daughter of James Stewart of Ardgowan and Blackhall, a neighbouring family, descended from King Robert the Third, and died in 1610. His elder son, John Brisbane of Bishoptoun, who succeeded him, and died in 1635, married, first Anna, daughter of the laird of Blair, and, secondly, a daughter of Lord Sempill. His eldest son, John Brisbane of Brisbane, had a son, John, who died before his father, without male issue, on which he entered into a contract of marriage, 26th June 1657, between Elizabeth, his eldest daughter and his nephew James Shaw of the Shaws of Ballygellie in Ireland, by which the estate was settled on the heirs male of that marriage, James Shaw assuming the name and arms of Brisbane. On the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Shaw accordingly became James Brisbane of Brisbane, In 1671 he acquired the lands of Over Kelsoland, already mentioned, now forming part of the estate of Brisbane, and about the same period he disposed of the estate of Bishoptoun to different people, to be held in feu of himself and his heirs. There is a letter of remission to this James Brisbane, from James the Seventh of Scotland, dated 26th February, 1686, for fines imposed on him for any irregularity committed by his wife in attending conventicles. He had issue John, his heir, two other sons, and a daughter. John Brisbane of Brisbane, the eldest son, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall, and had two sons and four daughters. James, his heir and successor, died without issue. Thomas, his second son, married, in 1715, Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Ladykirk, by whom he had two sons, of whom John, the second son, entered the navy, and distinguished himself in the American war. He attained the rank of admiral, and died in 1807. He married a daughter of Admiral Young, and, besides daughters, had several sons. John Douglas, the eldest, was drowned on board of one of the French prizes, after Rodney~ez_rsquo~s action in 1782. Thomas-Stewart Brisbane rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, and was killed at St. Domingo, in 1795, while commanding a corps with great distinction. A third son, William Henry Brisbane, a naval captain, was poisoned by the French prisoners at Gibraltar in 1796. A fourth son, Sir Charles Brisbane, entered the navy under the auspices of his father, with whom he served in Sir George Rodney~ez_rsquo~s fleet, and was wounded in the memorable engagement of the 12th April 1782. He served with distinction under Hood and Nelson in 1794-5. He was made lieutenant in 1793, commander in 1795, and post-captain in 1796. On his own responsibility, having a squadron under his command sent to reconnoitre the Dutch island of Curaçao in the West Indies, and to ascertain the disposition of the inhabitants, he assaulted it, and carried it by coup de main, on the 1st January 1807, being himself the first to scale the walls of Fort Amsterdam. For this gallant exploit he received the gold medal, and was knighted. He was nominated knight of the Bath in 1815, and advanced to the rank of rear-admiral in 1819. This gallant officer died in 1829, leaving by his wife, daughter of Sir James Patey, two sons, one in the army and another in the navy, besides two daughters. Sir James Brisbane, youngest son of Admiral John Brisbane above-mentioned, was also a gallant naval officer who attained the rank of admiral. By his wife, only daughter of John Ventham, Esq. he left one son, James Stewart, a commander R.N., and two daughters. Admiral John Brisbane had also six daughters, five of whom were married. The third, Mary, was the mother of Lord Corehouse, and of the wives of Dugald Stewart and Cunninghame of Lainshaw, and of Count Purgstall in Styria. The fourth, Helen, became the lady of Sir Charles Douglas, a distinguished admiral. Thomas, eldest son of Thomas, the second son of John Brisbane of Brisbane, and elder brother of Admiral John, above mentioned, succeeded his uncle James in the family estates, and was served heir to him on the 15th September, 1770. He married Eleanora, daughter of Sir Michael Bruce of Stenhouse, baronet, and had, with a daughter, Mary, two sons, viz., Thomas, his successor, and Michael, who went out to India, and died there in the service of the Honourable East India Company. Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, a general in the army, succeeded his father on his death in 1812, and in 1819 he married Anna Maria, only daughter of Sir Henry Hay Makdougall, baronet of Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, a kinsman of Sir Walter Scott, and representative of one of the most ancient families in Scotland, and on his death he succeeded, in right of his wife, to his extensive and valuable domains, when he assumed the name of Makdougall before his own, being authorized by sign manual, dated 14th August 1826. This distinguished officer and astronomer entered the army as an ensign in 1790, when he joined the 38th regiment in Ireland, where he remained till the breaking out of the war in 1793, when he was promoted to a captaincy in the 53d. In the spring of that year he proceeded with his regiment to Flanders, and was present with it in all the duke of York~ez_rsquo~s campaigns, at the storming of the French entrenched camp at Famars, the sieges of Valenciennes, Dunkirk, Nieuport, Nimeguen, and the sorties from that fortress; also, in the actions of Aswin, Fremont, Chateau-Cambresis, &c., and in that of Tournay, where he was wounded, as well as in the affairs of Boxtel, Buren, Culemburg, and Gilder-Matrin. In the spring of 1795, he returned to England with his regiment, in which he obtained a majority by purchase, and embarked in the expedition under Sir Ralph Abercrombie for the West Indies. In 1796 he served at the reduction of St. Lucia, the siege and sortie of Mornoe-Fortune, and the affairs of Chabot, Castries, and Bigie; also in the reduction of the island of St. Vincent, and in the whole of the Caraib war. In 1797 he was at the taking of the island of Trinidad, and commanded his regiment at the siege of Porto Rico. In 1800 he became, by purchase, lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, and in 1801 he joined it in Jamaica, and commanded it till its return to England in 1805. On its being ordered to India, he, under medical advice, as labouring under a severe liver complaint, and being unable to effect an exchange into the guards or cavalry, was compelled for a time to retire on half pay. After serving two years as adjutant general in the Kent district, he embarked for the Peninsula in 1812, and thenceforth he commanded a brigade in the duke of Wellington~ez_rsquo~s army, taking part in almost all the battles fought in Spain, the Pyrenees, and the south of France. He wears a cross and one clasp for Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse, where he was again wounded. In 1813 he received the thanks of parliament for his gallant conduct in the field of Orthes. The next year he went with the detachment of the Peninsular army that was ordered to North America, and commanded a brigade at the affairs of Plattsburgh, Richlieu, &c. In 1815 he obtained the grand cross of the Bath, while still serving in America. On the return of the Emperor Napoleon from Elba in March of that year, Sir Thomas was recalled, and after the battle of Waterloo joined the army in Paris with twelve brigades, comprising nearly ten thousand men, which, on being reviewed, drew from the duke of Wellington the exclamation, "Had I had these regiments at Waterloo, I should not have wanted the Prussians." Sir Thomas Brisbane remained in France during the whole period that the Allies occupied the French soil, and in the interim was unanimously elected corresponding member of the Institute of France. In 1829 he was appointed to the staff in Ireland, and he commanded the Munster district until the end of that year, when he was appointed governor of New South Wales; on this occasion he was presented with the freedom of the city of Cork. In 1824 he received the degree of doctor of laws from the university of Edinburgh. At the close of 1825 he returned from New South Wales, and in the following year he was appointed by the duke of York colonel of the 34th regiment. In 1828 he was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Astronomical Society, for the services he had rendered to science, and for having founded an observatory in New South Wales, which has since been adopted by the government, and is now in active operation. In 1831 he became a knight grand cross of the Guelphs of Hanover. In 1832 he received the honorary degree of doctor of civil law from the university of Oxford, and the same year was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1833 he received the degree of A.M. at Cambridge, when he was nominated president of the British Association for the following year. In 1836 Sir Thomas was created a baronet of the United Kingdom, and in 1837 he received the grand cross of the order of the Bath. In 1841 he became a general in the army. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Sir Thomas has a son, Thomas Australia Brisbane, born in 1824, and two daughters." ex: The Scottish Nation (online) "... Two engraved bookplates in each: Brisbane of Brisbane (Curacao). Ownership inscritpion on the title page of each volume. - C. J. Brisbane of Brisbane, April 9th, 1874, sent from London. [I suspect that the owner was a descendant of Sir Charles Brisbane KCB (c. 1769 - 1829), an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence, and with distinction under Lords Hood and Nelson. He took part in the capture in 1796 of three Dutch East Indiamen in Saldanha Bay, the capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806 and then in 1807 the island of Curaçao was captured under his command. He was made governor of St. Vincent in 1808, and served as such until his death in 1829.]." ex: web "Description Arms: Sa. a chev. checquy or, and gu. between three cushions of the second. Crest: A stork's head erazed, holding in her beak a serpent waved ppr. Supporters: Two Talbots ppr. Motto: Above the crest, Certamine summo. = Contest All ( Let me know if my Latin translation is inaccurate !!!) Estates: Brisbane, in Ayrshire ; and Makerstoun, on the banks of the Tweed, in Roxburghshire. Source : Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and northern Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but uninvested with heritable honours. - John Burke Esq. - MDCCCXXXV. (1835) The oldest representation of these Arms appears on a wooden chair (Still in existence - Last known owner H. Monroe) dated 1357 and believed to have belonged to William Brisbane who was made Chancellor of Scotland in 1332. The three cushions may be an allusion to this office. At one time these arms were known to have a Gold Medal Hanging Between the two top Cushions, but as the line of General Sir Thomas Brisbane 'who received the medal from the King' died out, it does not seem appropriate to use it. Also this same Man was amongst other things the captain of the ship that first landed at a cove in Australia with a fresh water stream which they named after their Captain and hence the name of the city that grew there. Interestingly, many members of the family "Brisbin" in America have asked for details of this coat of arms, but it seems that their name originated during the American war of Independence when two rebel sons wishing to differentiate themselves from their British father, changed the spelling and went to war against their own heritage. Does this Bar the line from using the Arms ??? NEW Henry Shaw received land in the late 16th century on Ballygally Bay (Ireland) and went there to build a new home. For some reason, he went back to Scotland. His son James Shaw came to Ireland probably about 1620. He was married to Isabella Brisbane and adopted the Brisbane name. He completed the castle his father had begun in 1625. Over the entrance are the crests of the Shaw and Brisbane families with the following inscription: J. S. 1625 I. B. God's providence is my inheritance The castle still stands and is now a hotel (I must visit to confirm)" ex: web "BRISBANE, Sir CHARLES (1769?-1829), rear-admiral, fourth son of Admiral John Brisbane, who died 1807, was in 1779 entered on board the Alcide, commanded by his father, was present at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, and the relief of Gibraltar in January 1780, and afterwards in the West Indies. In the end of 1781 he was placed on board the Hercules with Captain Savage, and was present in the action of Dominica, 12 April 1782, where he was badly wounded by a splinter. He continued serving during the peace, and after the Spanish armament in 1790 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 22 Nov. In 1793 he was in the Meleager frigate, in which he went out to the Mediterranean, and was actively employed on shore at Toulon, and afterwards in Corsica, both at San Fiorenzo and at the siege of Bastia, under the immediate orders of Captain Horatio Nelson, and like him sustained the loss of an eye from a severe wound in the head inflicted by the small fragments of an iron shot. He afterwards served for a short time in the Britannia, bearing the flag of Lord Hood, by whom he was specially promoted to the command of the Tarleton sloop 1 July 1794, and served in her during the remainder of that and the following year in the squadron acting in the Gulf of Genoa, under the immediate orders of Nelson (Nelson Despatches, ii. 59 n, 105). In the autumn of 1795 he was sent from Gibraltar to convoy two troopships to Barbadoes. On his way thither he fell in with a Dutch squadron, which he kept company with, sending the transports on by themselves, till, finding that the Dutch were bound to the Cape of Good Hope, he made all haste to carry the intelligence to Sir George Elphinstone, the commander-in-chief on that station. His acting in this way, on his own responsibility, contrary to the orders under which he had sailed, had the good fortune to be approved of; and after the capture of the Dutch ships in Saldanha Bay, 18 Aug. 1796, he was promoted by Sir George to the command of one of them; but he had previously, 22 July, been promoted by Sir John Jervis, the commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, under whose orders he had sailed, and he also received the thanks of the admiralty. He continued on the Cape station in command of the Oiseau frigate, and was in her at St. Helena when a dangerous mutiny broke out on board. This was happily quelled by his firm and decisive measures, and he was shortly afterwards recalled to the Cape to take command of the Tremendous, Rear-admiral Pringle's flagship, on board which also the mutinous spirit had threatened extreme danger. In the course of 1798 he returned to England with Pringle in the Crescent frigate, and in 1801 was appointed to the Doris frigate, one of the squadron off Brest, under Admiral Cornwallis. During the short peace he commanded the Trent frigate and the Sanspareil in the West Indies. He was afterwards moved into the Goliath, in which on his way home he was nearly lost in a hurricane. In 1805 Brisbane was appointed to the Arethusa frigate, which he took to the West Indies. Early in 1806 he had the misfortune to run the ship ashore amongst the Colorados rocks, near the north-west end of Cuba, and she was got off only by throwing all her guns overboard. In this defenceless condition she fell in with a Spanish line-of-battle ship off Havana; but fortunately the Spaniard, ignorant of the Arethusa's weakness, did not consider himself a match for even a 38-gun frigate, and ran in under the guns of the Moro Castle. Having refitted at Jamaica, the Arethusa was in August again off Havana, and on the 23rd, in company with the Anson of 44 guns, captured the Spanish frigate Pomona, anchored within pistol-shot of a battery mounting eleven 36-pounders, and supported by ten gunboats. The gunboats were all destroyed and the battery blown up, apparently by some accident to the furnaces for heating shot, by which the Arethusa had been set on fire, but without any serious consequences (James, Naval History (1860), iv. 169), though she had two men killed, and thirty-two, including Captain Brisbane, wounded. On 1 Jan. 1807 Brisbane, still in the Arethusa, with three other frigates, having been sent off Curaçao, reduced all the forts and captured the island without serious difficulty or loss. The fortifications, both by position and armament, were exceedingly strong, but the Dutch were unprepared for a vigorous assault, and were, it was surmised, still sleeping off the effects of a new year's eve carousal, when, at earliest dawn, the English squadron sailed into the harbour. For his success on this occasion Brisbane was knighted, and he, as well as the other three captains, received a gold medal (ibid. iv. 275). He continued in command of the Arethusa till near the end of 1808, when he was transferred to the Blake, of 74 guns, but was almost immediately afterwards appointed governor of the island of St. Vincent, which office he held, without any further service at sea, till his death in December 1829. On 2 Jan. 1815 he had been nominated a K.C.B., and attained his flag rank on 12 Aug. 1819. He married Sarah, daughter of Sir James Patey, knight, of Reading, and left several children. [Ralfe's Nav. Biog. iv. 84; Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biog. ii. (vol. i. pt. ii.) 730 ; Gent. Mag. (1830), c. i. 642.] J. K. L." ex: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 06 Brisbane, Charles by John Knox Laughton