Admiral Richard Lestock (22 February 1679 – 17 December 1746) was a British officer in the Royal Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral. He fought...

Lestock is both a placename, a surname and a forename, and may refer to one of the following: As a surname Richard Lestock, Royal Navy officer As a forename...

offensive against Savoy. In his report, Mathews blamed his subordinate Richard Lestock for the failure and the issue was hotly debated in Parliament. At the...

February 1744. A British fleet watched them, under the command of Admiral Richard Lestock, until Sir Thomas Mathews was sent out as commander-in-chief and as...

communicate his intentions, and the rear squadron under Vice Admiral Richard Lestock, his rival and second-in-command, obtusely remained at the prescribed...

Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08718-7 Le Fevre, Peter & Harding, Richard (eds.) (2000). Precursors of Nelson: British Admirals of the Eighteenth...

to Italy in November and December 1741. It was not until Commodore Richard Lestock, commander of one of Vernon's divisions at Cartagena, returned to Europe...

Thomas Jennings Sandwich 90 Captain Anthony Hastings † Oxford 54 Captain James Wishart Cambridge 70 Captain Richard Lestock Ruby 50 Captain George Mees...

exacerbated by the fact that he was on bad terms with his second in command, Richard Lestock, on whom he relied to manage the fleet. The pivotal moment of his naval...

General James St Clair, to be escorted by a naval force under Admiral Richard Lestock. It was ready to sail by June 1746. However, it was decided that it...

1093/ref:odnb/20878. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Howe, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...

Rear Admiral James Wishart, September 1703 – October 1703 Commodore Richard Lestock, 1741 Admiral James Steuart: 1745–1747 Admiral Sir Edward Hawke: 1748–1752...

in the Battle of Toulon, and later gave damaging evidence against Richard Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter...

Admiral Sir George Byng, 1st Captain George Saunders, 2nd Captain Richard Lestock) Shrewsbury 80 (Vice-Admiral Charles Cornwall, Captain John Balchen)...

Flagship of Vice-Admiral George Rooke from 23 to 24 May 1692. Captain Richard Lestock was in command in 1693 into 1694 for service in the Mediterranean....

recalled from the Mediterranean in December 1741 and succeeded first by Richard Lestock and then Thomas Mathews. He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral...

transferring to the second-rate HMS Neptune, flagship of Vice-Admiral Richard Lestock, in March 1744 and returning to England. Promoted to captain on 6 May...

under Captain Sampson Bourne, HMS Weymouth 50 guns, under Captain Richard Lestock, HMS Anglesea 50 under Captain Thomas Legge, frigate Fowey of 40 guns...

health in 1742, leaving the fleet under the temporary command of Richard Lestock. Lestock was relieved of the command by the arrival of Vice-Admiral Thomas...

children Frances Maria Edgeworth (1799–1848) m. Lestock Wilson 1829 Harriet Edgeworth (1801–1889) m. Richard Butler 1826 Sophia Edgeworth (1803–1836) m. Barry...

Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 11. "Richard Braithwaite". more than Nelson. "Richard Brathwaite (c.1728–1805)". threedecks.org. Laughton...

several of the Mediterranean Fleet's commanders, Nicholas Haddock, Richard Lestock, and most significantly Thomas Mathews. Mathews was engaged in promoting...

called upon to give evidence at the court-martial of Vice-Admiral Richard Lestock during the recriminations after the battle. Promoted to rear-admiral...

Military offices Preceded by Richard Lestock Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station 1732–1736 Succeeded by Digby Dent Preceded by Digby Dent Commander-in-Chief...

later 1st Viscount Mountjoy. His mother was Mary, the eldest daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Baron Coote. Charles entered the navy at an early age, and was...

station, when he sat as a member of the courts-martial on Admirals Richard Lestock and Thomas Mathews. In 1747, appointed by the First Lord of the Admiralty...

Louisbourg and then home after a gale. She became the flagship of Admiral Richard Lestock later in 1746 and was present at the operations off Lorient from 20...

Mediterranean. Captain Parsons was killed on the 11 February 1706. Captain Richard Lestock took command on 29 April 1706 and she sailed for Home Waters in September...

leave the fleet, the command devolved for a short time on Rear-Admiral Richard Lestock, between whom and Barnett a difference of opinion gave rise to a correspondence...

with years and disappointments, resigned his command to Rear Admiral Richard Lestock. It was Vice Admiral Thomas Mathews, with a reinforcement of seven...