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    Admiral of the Blue Edward Boscawen, PC (19 August 1711 – 10 January 1761) was a British admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for the borough...
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  • Edward Boscawen (1711–1761) was a British Royal Navy admiral and MP for Truro. Edward Boscawen may also refer to: Edward Boscawen (Truro MP, born 1628)...
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  • Boscawen may refer to: Boscawen (surname) Boscawen, New Hampshire, a town in the United States Truro Boscawen (electoral division), an electoral division...
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    George Henry Boscawen, 2nd Earl of Falmouth (1811–1852) Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (1819–1889) Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount...
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    naval Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over two days...
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  • and clergyman Charles Boscawen (1627–1689), English politician Edward Boscawen (1628–1685), English politician Edward Boscawen (1711–1761), British admiral...
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    5th Duke of Beaufort, and Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen. He was the brother of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, General...
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  • Thumbnail for FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
    5th Duke of Beaufort and his wife Elizabeth (daughter of Admiral Edward Boscawen), Somerset was educated at Westminster School and was commissioned...
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    reworked to Sir William Symonds' design. She was named for Admiral Edward Boscawen. Boscawen served at the Cape of Good Hope Station from May 1856 to March...
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    expedition ended in disastrous defeat. In further action, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide on 8 June 1755, capturing it and two...
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  • Navy. She was sold in March 1745, becoming the privateer Boscawen; named after Edward Boscawen, the captain of Dreadnought. Although the Navy Board had...
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    Admiral Edward Hawke detached a fast squadron to North America in an attempt to intercept them. In a second British action, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired...
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    Charles Lawrence, James Wolfe and Edward Whitmore, and command of naval operations was assigned to Admiral Edward Boscawen. The chief engineer was John Henry...
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    incorporated as a town by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for Edward Boscawen, the British admiral who distinguished himself at the 1758 Siege of...
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    British garrison. With the arrival of a naval squadron under Admiral Edward Boscawen, carrying troops and artillery, the British went on the offensive,...
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    June 1751 17 November 1756 5 years, 148 days 17 Boscawen, EdwardVice-Admiral The Honourable Edward Boscawen (1711–1761) 17 November 1756 6 April 1757 140 days...
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  • Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Boscawen, after Admiral Edward Boscawen, whilst another ship was planned: HMS Boscawen (1763) was a 4-gun cutter purchased...
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    Earl of Falmouth (category Boscawen family)
    was for Edward Boscawen, 4th Viscount Falmouth. It became extinct in 1852. Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth (bef. 1636–1665) Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl...
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    Gentlemen-at-Arms in the reign of George III. Boscawen was the third and youngest, but only surviving son of Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711–1761) by his marriage to Frances...
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    Lord Vere Beauclerk Lord Anson Sir William Rowley Edward Boscawen Sir William Rowley Edward Boscawen John Forbes Earl Howe Sir Charles Saunders Augustus...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford
    Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC (1653 – 26 November 1727) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior...
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    1719 at St Clere, Kemsing, Kent. In 1742 she married Admiral The Hon. Edward Boscawen (1711–1761). When his navy work took him away from home, his wife would...
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  • Sir Edward Boscawen Frederick, 9th Baronet CVO (29 June 1880 – 26 October 1956) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer, and a Royal...
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    Lord Vere Beauclerk Lord Anson Sir William Rowley Edward Boscawen Sir William Rowley Edward Boscawen John Forbes Earl Howe Sir Charles Saunders Augustus...
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  • Edward Boscawen (1628 – 28 October 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1659 and 1685. Boscawen was the son...
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    these and eventually turned the tables on the French. British Admiral Edward Boscawen besieged Pondicherry in the later months of 1748, but lifted the siege...
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    1702 until 1720 when he was raised to the peerage. Boscawen was the eldest son of Edward Boscawen (1628–1685), MP and merchant, by his wife Jael Godolphin...
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    of fourteen. Queen Victoria and her son the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) occasionally intervened in his career: the Queen thought that there...
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    1746 to help him. In July of that year La Bourdonnais and British Admiral Edward Peyton fought an indecisive action off Negapatam, after which La Bourdonnais...
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    the Pitt–Newcastle ministry was created in June 1757. In July 1758, after Edward Hawke had decided to strike his flag and return to port over a misunderstanding...
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