American educator and author, born in Roxbury, MA, on the 1st of October 1850. Graduated from Harvard in 1870; assistant professor of the English branches at the United States Naval Academy (1871); full professor of the same branches (1873); on special duty at the Paris Exposition of 1878, he brought home an exhaustive report on the European naval colleges; was placed in charge of the library and war records of the Navy Department in Washington (1882–83); after 1885 lectured on international law at the Newport Naval War College, and on naval history at the Lowell Institute, Boston. He published History of the Naval Academy (1876); The Blockade and the Cruisers (1883); The Boys of 1812 (1887); and contributed to several other important works.
