Frederick Marryat Quotes
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
Marryat, Frederick. Jacob Faithful. Saunders and Otley, 1834.
What is extremely ironic is that Heriot and the English thought tobacco was very healthy for the user. Between this error and the addictive properties of tobacco, more people have been killed by tobacco than any other substance on earth. Heriot also discovered the potato, and was the first man to introduce it to England. Prior to that, this staple of the European diet was unknown in Europe.
Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.