Chamier, FREDERIC

Chamier, FREDERIC, an English novelist, born in 1796, entered the navy in 1809, and retiring in 1833, was promoted to be captain in 1856. He had settled near Waltham Abbey, and turned his attention to literary pursuits. Marryat's success in depicting sea-life led Chamier to try the same field, in which he was not without success, though in invention and humour he falls short of his model. His best romances, now almost forgotten, are Life of a Sailor (1832), Ben Brace (1836), The Arethusa (1837), Jack Adams (1838), and Tom Bowline (1841). He also wrote a continuation of James's Naval History (1837), and a somewhat prejudiced Review of the French Revolution of 1848 (1849). He died 1st November 1870.