Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands...
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Lieutenant-Colonel George Rodney, 2nd Baron Rodney (25 December 1753 – 2 January 1802), was a British soldier and politician. Rodney was the son of Admiral George Rodney...
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eleventh Baron, who succeeded in 2011. George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718–1792) George Rodney, 2nd Baron Rodney (1753–1802) George Rodney, 3rd...
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George Brydges Harley Dennett Rodney, 7th Baron Rodney (28 February 1857 - 29 December 1909) was a British Army officer notable for his service in the...
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Baron Rodney. Secondarily, it came to be used as a given name in the 18th century, originally in honour of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney...
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George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1719–1792) was a British naval officer. George Rodney may also refer to: George B. Rodney (1803–1883), American...
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1783–1784 by William Roscoe and others. It was named after George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, who, in 1782, secured a naval victory over the Comte de...
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and the King George V class, ordered in 1936. The ships were named after famous British admirals: George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, victor of the...
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Royal Navy in 1741. He served part of his time as midshipman with George Brydges Rodney in the Ludlow and became a lieutenant in 1746. He had opportunities...
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George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith, KCB, KC (17 February 1861 – 2 June 1942), known as Sir George Askwith between 1911 and 1919, was an English...
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General Godfrey Basil Mundy and Sarah Bridges (daughter of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney), Mundy joined the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth as a...
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grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1971. George Muff, 1st Baron Calverley (1877–1955) George Raymond Orford Muff, 2nd Baron Calverley (1914–1971)...
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George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (c. 1551 – 1617), was the son of Henry Tuchet, 10th Baron Audley (died 1563) and his wife, née Elizabeth Sneyd....
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George Harris, 1st Baron Harris GCB (18 March 1746 – 19 May 1829) was a British soldier. Harris was the son of the Reverend George Harris, curate of Brasted...
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Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke John Benbow Edward Boscawen George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe Samuel Barrington Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount...
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Charlotte (wife of George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney), and Angelina (wife of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet). His maternal grandfather was Capt. George Stoney of the...
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Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton (29 March 1892 – 18 April 1973), was a British historian, academic and Labour Party politician. Having served in the British...
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of Ceylon (1806–1833). John Rodney was born on 10 May 1765 the third son of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney and the eldest son to his second...
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of George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney), and Angelina (the wife of Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd Baronet). His paternal grandfather was Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet...
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Navy in Hong Kong. Rodney comes from Baron Rodney, in which the famous is George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney in the 18th century. United Centre Admiralty...
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Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley PC, JP (9 October 1850 – 30 March 1937), known as Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt, between 1906 and 1918, was a British businessman...
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Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, GCB, KBE, DSO (7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971), sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy...
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General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG (20 February 1864 – 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet...
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John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache. Louisa-Martha (1748–1814), married Hon. John Rodney, son of George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney Emily (died 1863)...
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partnership with his younger brother, Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley (the elder brother was Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland), he purchased The Sunday Times...
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families' permission, he married Jane Rodney, probably an illegitimate daughter of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. They had one daughter and eight...
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Chandos in one of his poems. He served as an early patron to his relative George Rodney, later to become famous for his victory at the Battle of the Saintes...
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1702–1709 Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet 1709–1715 George Dodington 1715–1720 George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe 1720–1762 vacant John Perceval, 2nd Earl...
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thirteen children. George Rodney (1608–1630) who married Anna Lake and had issue. He was the ancestor of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718 – 24 May...
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1781 George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney 6 November 1781 – 24 May 1792 Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe 9 June 1792 – March 1796 Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount...
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