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H was promoted to be lieutenant on 3 Nov. 1790; on 5 Sept. 1794 to command the Actif sloop in the West Indies; and on 16 Dec. of the same year to be post-captain, as a tribute to the memory of his father. In January 1795 he was chosen by his uncle as his flag-captain in the Prince of Wales, in which capacity he was present in the action off Lorient, in the operations on the coast of Bretagne in the following winter, and in the West Indies, including the reduction of Trinidad, when he was sent home with despatches. He afterwards commanded the Southampton and the Amphitrite in the West Indies and off Cadiz; the Agamemnon in Sir Robert Calder's action off Cape Finisterre; the Canada in the West Indies; and the Leviathan and Royal Sovereign in the Mediterranean. He became a rear-admiral on 4 Dec. 1813; from 1816 to 1819 was commander-in-chief in the West Indies; vice-admiral 27 May 1825; K.C.B. 6 June 1833, and admiral 10 Jan. 1837. He died at Deal on 17 Feb. 1837. He married in 1797 his first cousin, daughter of William Wyborn Bradley of Sandwich, and had issue one daughter.

 HARVEY, MARGARET (1768–1858), poetess, daughter of John Harvey, surgeon, of Sunderland, was born in 1768. The early years of her life were passed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she published by subscription ‘The Lay of the Minstrel's Daughter; a poem in six cantos,’ 1814, 8vo. Her ‘Monody on the Princess Charlotte’ was published in 1818. About this time she removed to Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, where she assisted in keeping a ladies' school, and published ‘Raymond de Percy, or the Tenant of the Tomb, a romantic melodrama’ (Bishop Wearmouth, 1822). In the preface she invokes the spirit of Garrick. The piece was performed at Sunderland in April 1822. She wrote some other minor poems. She died at Bishop Wearmouth on 18 June 1858 (Gent. Mag. 1858, ii. 202). Miss Harvey's sister Jane was a painter of miniatures on ivory; Andrew Morton, the portrait-painter (1802–1845), was her pupil.

 HARVEY, RICHARD (d. 1623?), astrologer, was baptised 15 April 1560 at Saffron Walden, where his father, John Harvey, was a ropemaker, and was a brother of Gabriel Harvey [q. v.] and of John Harvey (d. 1592) [q. v.] He entered as a pensioner at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, on 15 June 1575; proceeded B.A. 1577–8; commenced M.A. 1581, and was elected fellow of his college. His brother Gabriel says that he read a philosophical lecture at Cambridge with applause. His first book made some stir. It was called ‘An Astrological Discourse upon the great and notable Conjunction of two Superiour Planets, Saturne and Jupiter, which shall happen on the 28 day of April 1583 … with a briefe Declaration of the Effectes which the late Eclipse of the Sunne 1582 is yet hereafter to woorke: written newly by R. H. London, 1583’ (two editions), dedicated to John (Aylmer), bishop of London. Harvey here defends judicial astrology in reply to his brother Gabriel, and foretells that on Sunday, 28 April 1583, ‘about high noone there shall happen a conjunction of two superior planets, which conjunction shall be manifested to the ignorant sort by many fierce and boysterous winds then sodenly breaking out,’ and ‘will cause great abundance of waters and much cold weather, much unwonted mischiefes and sorow.’ With this work Harvey printed ‘A Compendious Table of Phlebotomie or Bloudletting,’ of eight pages, containing an ‘auncient commendation of Phlebotomie.’ The prediction failed, and Harvey was much ridiculed. He was mocked in the tripos verses at Cambridge. ‘The whole universitie hyst at him,’ writes his own and his brother Gabriel's enemy, Nashe (Pierce Penniless, 1592), ‘Tarleton at the Theater made jests of him,’ and Elderton denounced him in ‘hundreds of ballets.’ Thomas Heath [q. v.] wrote a reply.

In 1590 Harvey published, with a dedication to the Earl of Essex, ‘A Theologicall Discovrse of the Lamb of God and his enemies.’ The work comprised the substance of sermons which, according to Nashe, had been preached three years earlier. Harvey announced that he ‘newly published’ the volume to explain his attitude to the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy. Having denounced ‘Martinisme’ and ‘Cartwrightisme,’ he seemed disposed to take a middle line between the bishops and their opponents, and to reserve his severest language for the ‘poets and writers’ who had taken part in the dispute. He is charged by Nashe with ‘misterming’ the poets ‘piperly makeplaies and make-bates.’ Harvey plunged more boldly into the ‘Marprelate’ strife with an anonymous tract entitled ‘Plaine Percevall, the Peacemaker of England, sweetly indevoring with his blunt persuasions to botch up a reconciliation betwixt Mart-on and Mart-other,’ 1590? Here he veered to the puritan side of the controversy, and made specially