Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the phylogenetic order Procellariiformes .
27-490: Up and down! - up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow’s crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home, - A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea. O’er the deep! - o’er the deep! Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep, - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain! From "The Stormy Petrel" poem by Barry Cornwall Petrels are
54-634: A paraphyletic group of marine seabirds, sharing a characteristic of a nostril arrangement that results in the name "tubenoses". Petrels include three of the four extant families within the Procellariiformes order, including the Procellariidae (fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters), Hydrobatidae (Northern storm petrel), and the Oceanitidae (Austral storm petrel). The other Procellariiformes order are
81-524: A bed where none shall know. The world is cruel, the world is untrue; Our foes are many, our friends are few; No work, no bread, however we sue! What is there left for me to do, But fly, - fly From the cruel sky, And hide in the deepest deeps, - and die? By Barry Cornwall The Stormy Petrel A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on
108-532: A collection by Cornwall to a fellow author, Mrs. Ishimova , suggesting that she should translate some poems selected by him. William Makepeace Thackeray dedicated Vanity Fair to B. W. Procter. Wilkie Collins dedicated The Woman In White to B. W. Procter. Thomas Hardy became acquainted with Procter's widow, their friendship is mentioned several times in The Early Life of Thomas Hardy (1840-1891) . Lunacy Act 1845 The Lunacy Act 1845 or
135-484: A small property, and soon after entered into partnership with a solicitor; but in 1820 the partnership was dissolved, and he began to write under the pseudonym of " Barry Cornwall ". After his marriage in 1824 to Miss Skepper, daughter of Mrs Basil Montague, he returned to his profession as a conveyancer , and was called to the bar in 1831. In the following year he was appointed metropolitan commissioner of lunacy —an appointment annually renewed until his election as one of
162-553: A tragedy performed at Covent Garden with Macready , Charles Kemble and Miss Foote in the leading parts (1821), The Flood of Thessaly (1823) and English Songs (1832). He was also the author of Effigies poetica (1824), Life of Edmund Kean (1835), Essays and Tales in Prose (1851), Charles Lamb; a Memoir (1866), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works. A posthumous autobiographical fragment with notes of his literary friends, of whom he had
189-518: A wide range from William Lisle Bowles to Robert Browning , was published in 1877, with some additions by Coventry Patmore . The Mother's Last Song Sleep! - The ghostly winds are blowing! No moon abroad, no star is glowing; The river is deep, and the tide is flowing To the land where you and I are going! We are going afar, Beyond moon or star, To
216-628: The Commissioners in Lunacy constituted by the Lunacy Act 1845 . He resigned in 1861. Most of his verse was composed between 1815, when he began to contribute to the Literary Gazette , and 1823, or at latest 1832. His daughter, Adelaide Anne , was also a poet. His principal poetical works were: Dramatic Scenes and other Poems (1819), A Sicilian Story (1820), Marcian Colonna (1820), Mirandola ,
243-573: The Lunatic Asylums Act 1847 . Both of these versions were repealed by the County Asylums Act 1853. The importance of these two acts together is that they consolidated lunacy law in England. However, no legislation has ever combined the entirety of lunacy law. Both of these acts were the basis for lunacy law in England until 1890 when both of them were repealed by the Lunacy Act 1890 . When
270-835: The Lunatics Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) and the County Asylums Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. 126) formed mental health law in England and Wales from 1845 to 1890. The Lunacy Act's most important provision was a change in the status of mentally ill people to patients . Prior to the Lunacy Act, lunacy legislation in England was enshrined in the County Asylums Act 1808 , which established institutions for poor and for criminally insane, mentally ill people. The institutions were called asylums and they gave refuge where mental illness could receive proper treatment. The first asylum owing to
297-719: The albatross family, Diomedeidae. The word petrel (first recorded in that spelling 1703) comes from earlier ( ca. 1670) pitteral ; the English explorer William Dampier wrote the bird was so called from its way of flying with its feet just skimming the surface of the water, recalling Saint Peter 's walk on the sea of Galilee (Matthew xiv.28); if so, it likely was formed in English as a diminutive of Peter (< Old French : Peterelle (?) > Late Latin : Peterellus < Late Latin : Petrus < Ancient Greek : Πέτρος , romanized : Petros < Ancient Greek : πέτρα , romanized : petra = "stone"). All
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#1732854762474324-572: The Commission was to establish and carry out the provisions of the Act. The Act established the Commissioners in Lunacy to inspect plans for asylums on behalf of the Home Secretary (s.3). The Act required asylums, other than Bethlem Hospital , to be registered with the commission, to have written regulations and to have a resident physician (s.42). Under the Act, patients lost their right of access to
351-547: The County Asylums Act opened at Northampton in 1811. By 1827 however only nine county asylums had opened and many patients were still in gaol as prisoners and criminals. As a consequence of this slow progress the Lunacy Act 1845 created the Lunacy Commission to focus on lunacy legislation. The Act was championed by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury . Shaftesbury was the head of the commission from its founding in 1845 until his death in 1885. The Lunacy Commission
378-477: The Lunacy Act was passed in 1845, there were many questions raised about what to do with children in poor mental health. Insane children were more common than is commonly appreciated. The confusion arose because the Act gave no age limits on patients in the asylums. Some of the inspections conducted by the Lunacy Commission involved inspecting workhouses where the commission would often find mentally unhealthy children and press for them to be removed. However, many of
405-493: The asylums and helped establish the public network of the county asylums. Like the Lunacy Act, there had been several drafts of this act passed before 1845 and several afterward as well. The most notable of these were the County Asylums Act 1808 and the Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 ( 16 & 17 Vict. c. 97). The Lunacy Act itself was amended several times after its conception, including by the Lunatic Asylums, etc. Act 1846 and
432-411: The base of the wave to the billow’s crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home, - A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o’er the waves on their stormy wing! O’er the deep! - o’er the deep! Where
459-580: The courts to challenge their detention. Detention could only be reviewed by the commissioners or county visitors. The commission had many roles in carrying out the act. It established a network of public county institutions. It monitored the conditions in the asylums and the treatment of the patients. It made a point of reaching out to patients in workhouses and prisons and getting them to the proper institutions where they could be treated. It also focused on "single lunatics" who were not connected with any prisons or workhouse but needed psychiatric care. It monitored
486-514: The highest possible praise to his friend's Dramatic Sketches when he said that had he found them as anonymous manuscript in the Garrick Collection he would have had no hesitation about including them in his Dramatic Specimens . He was perhaps not an impartial critic. "Barry Cornwall's" songs have caught some notes from the Elizabethan and Cavalier lyrics, and blended them with others from
513-402: The land where the sinless angels are! I lost my heart to your heartless sire ('T was melted away by his looks of fire), Forgot my God, and my father's ire, All for the sake of a man's desire; But now we'll go Where the waters flow, And make us
540-574: The leading poets of his own time; and his dramatic fragments show a similar infusion of the early Victorian spirit into pre- Restoration forms and cadences. The results are varied, and lack unity, but they abound in pleasant touches, with here and there the flash of a higher, though casual, inspiration. Rather unknown outside Britain in his times and largely considered to be imitator of greater romantic authors, Barry Cornwall however inspired Alexander Pushkin to some translations and imitations in 1830. Just hours before his last duel in 1837 Pushkin sent
567-523: The members of the order are exclusively pelagic in distribution—returning to land only to breed. The family Procellariidae is the main radiation of medium-sized true petrels , characterised by united nostrils with medium septum, and a long outer functional primary feather. It is dominant in the Southern Oceans , but not so in the Northern Hemisphere. It includes a number of petrel groups,
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#1732854762474594-507: The relationships between which have finally been resolved to satisfaction. The families Oceanitidae and Hydrobatidae are the storm petrels , small pelagic petrels with a fluttering flight which often follow ships. The family Pelecanoididae is the four species of diving petrels , genus Pelacanoides . These are auk -like small petrels of the southern oceans. Barry Cornwall Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall ) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874)
621-414: The roaring sea, - From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scattered abroad like weeds; The strong masts shake like quivering reeds; The mighty cables and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, - They strain and they crack; and hearts like stone Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down! - up and down! From
648-404: The treatment and mental condition of patients whom the commission could not remove from prisons and workhouses. The Lunacy Act 1845 was passed through Parliament simultaneously with the County Asylums Act 1845. The two acts were dependent on each other. The Lunacy Act established the Lunacy Commission and the County Asylums Act set forth most of the provisions as to what was to be monitored within
675-460: The whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep, - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Which bringeth him news of the storm unheard! Ah! thus does the prophet of good or ill Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still; Yet he ne’er falters, - so, petrel, spring Once more o’er the waves on thy stormy wing! By Barry Cornwall Charles Lamb gave
702-420: Was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. Born at Leeds , Yorkshire , he was educated at Harrow School , where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel . On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne , Wiltshire , remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to London to study law . By the death of his father in 1816 he became possessed of
729-453: Was made up of eleven Metropolitan Commissioners. The commission was monumental as it was not only a full-time commission, but it was also salaried for six of its members. The six members of the commission that were full-time and salaried were made up of three members of the legal system and three members of the medical community. The other five members of the commission were all honorary members that simply had to attend board meetings. The duty of
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