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The good soldier, a memoir of sir H. Havelock
The good soldier a memoir of sir H Havelock Author:William Owen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GOOD SOLDIEE: THE LIFE OF SIR H. HAVELOCK, OF LUCKNOW, BART., K.C.B. CHAPTER I. FEOM 1795 TO 1815. ANCESTRY.—BIRTH.—EARLY DAYS.—EDUCATION IN T... more »HB CHARTER HOUSE.—EARLY PIETY.—1AW STUDIES. The seal of the ancient corporation of Great Grimsby, an old Danish town in Lincolnshire, bears the figure of a man holding in his arms a boy, with the name of Havelock written over him. That man is Grime, by whom the town was founded, and whose name it preserves, .and the boy Hafluck is said to have been the lost child of a Norse sea king, and the founder of the Havelock family. We are told that, under the rough tutelage of Grime, young Hafluck became a great warrior; and the valor of his illustrious descendant, reproduced after an interval of many centuries, is regarded as an illustration of the maxim, fortes creantur fortibus ac tonis—' brave men descend from the brave and good.' From the early period when the name of Havelock appears to have been first introduced into England, the various branchesof the family have spread over the county of Durham, and for several generations have been settled in the town of Sunderland. As the object of this sketch is to place before the reader all available and important information respecting Sir Henry Havelock, rather than the history of his family, it will suffice to give the following brief record of his lineage, which has been written for the purpose of correcting the inaccuracies that have appeared in several recent notices. It has been stated that the family of Sir Henry Havelock originally belonged to Great Grimsby, but whether this be so or not the writer has no means of ascertaining. Sir. B. Burke, in giving the lineage of Sir Henry in his ' Peerage and Baronetage,' says, ' William Havelock, Esq., of Sunderland, was the sc...« less