MARRYAT, Fnrur.aet: ( 1792-1848). An sailor and novelist, horn in London. July 10. 1792. (hi school he entered the navy as midshipman. In 1812 he attained his lieu tenancy. In 181.1 ho was fighting on the Ameri can coast. Ili; health g:IVe way and he went home. lb. was made eontinander in 1815. In 1s211 he was in the sloop nearcr on the Saint Ilch•na station. .\ flex an able service he signed in 1830. During his naval eareer :\larryat s 'yeti at great personal risk more than a dozen lives. Ile was rewarded on this score and elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. mainly because he had adapted Popluun's signal system to the mi.rcatit ile marine. lie also decorated by the King of France for rendered to seience and BaVigifion." i\Tartyat wrote easily and made money quickly, but he was somewhat lavish. and toward 1844 was in straitened eir cmmtslauces. l'pon the Admiralty's refusal to let rei;nter the service he burst a blood vessel.
and six months later, when almost well. he was mortally shocked by hearing that his con Freder ick Intl been lost in the :1 renger. Ile died Au gust 9, 1848, at Langhain. Among his numerous tales arc the avowedly autobiographical Frank J/ildrnay (1829); theta Peter Simple (1834); .11r. Midshipman Easy (183(i) ; The Phantom Ship (1839); Pour Jack (1840); and The Priva teer's Man (1846). In fun and humor ..)larryitt is the Dickens of the sea. Consult: Life and Letters, by his daughter, Florence Marryat (Lon don, 1872) ; and Life, by Hannay (ib., 1889).
MARS (Lat., also I/orors, or Merrspiter, like Jupiter, Ck 'Apns, -in's, of unknown derivation). With the ancient Greeks and 1Zomans the god of war and tumult of battle. The Greek and Roman conceptions differ radically.