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    Admiral Sir George Elliot KCB FRS (1 August 1784 – 24 June 1863) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
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  • George Elliot may refer to: George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) (1784–1863), British naval officer and Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire...
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  • (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) (1784–1863), British Royal Navy admiral George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1813) (1813–1901), British Royal Navy admiral...
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    John Elliot (Royal Navy officer) and Captain Sir Henry Martin, 1st Baronet (Comptroller of the Navy). Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal Society...
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    Matthew Buckle (category Royal Navy admirals)
    Admiral Matthew Buckle (1716 – 9 July 1784) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, the Downs from 1778 to 1779. Promoted to captain...
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  • Vice-Admiral The Hon. Josceline Percy CB (29 January 1784 – 19 October 1856) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who went on to be Commander-in-Chief...
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  • Anthony James Pye Molloy (c. 1754 – 25 July 1814) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary...
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    George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president...
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    The rank of admiral is currently the highest rank to which an officer in the Royal Navy can be promoted, admiral of the fleet being used nowadays only...
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    William George Keith Elphinstone (1782–1842), British Army officer Lieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson, (1913–1942), Royal Navy officer, posthumously...
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    William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart (category Peers of the United Kingdom created by George III)
    the peerage on his father's death. William's first-born son, William Cathcart, entered the Royal Navy but died of yellow fever in 1804 while in command...
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    Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (category Royal Navy admirals of the fleet)
    first-rate HMS Royal George, flagship of Admiral Edward Vernon, in August 1745. Promoted to commander on 5 November 1745, Howe was commanding officer of the sloop...
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    by the marriage. The elder son, Amherst Morris(died 1802), entered the Royal Navy, and was first lieutenant of the frigate HMS Nymphe, serving under Captain...
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    who have held general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian...
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    (born 1940), retired major general of the United States Air Force John Buford (1826–1863), United States Army cavalry officer John Bush (Royal Navy officer)...
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    son of the second Baronet of Maryland, was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. George Wilfrid Eden (1903–1986), son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Eden...
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  • (1967–1970) Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days) George Augustus Stewart Cape (1867–1918), British Army...
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    John Hindmarsh (category Royal Navy rear admirals)
    was born on 27 June 1753 and baptised at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington. He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and eventually became a warrant officer of...
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    received 800 lashes for striking a superior officer. Flogging was an even more common punishment in the Royal Navy and it came to be associated with the stereotypical...
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    Richard Clement Moody (category Royal Engineers officers)
    Commander of the Royal Engineers. He was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; and the Commanding Executive Officer of Malta during...
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    Bermuda's role as the primary Royal Navy base in the Western Hemisphere ensured that the naval and military officers quickly introduced the newly formalised...
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    Thomas Lipson (category Royal Navy officers)
    Thomas Lipson (ca.1784 – 25 October 1863) was an officer in the Royal Navy, who, after a successful if unspectacular career in the Royal Navy, was appointed...
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  • Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730) 1784 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710) 1787 – Charles de Rohan...
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  • Banffshire (1935–1945) George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton (1760–1844), Whig MP for Thetford (1782–1784) and Cambridge University (1784–1811) Lord John FitzRoy...
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    Richard Dale (category Continental Navy officers)
    (November 6, 1756 – February 26, 1826) was an American naval officer who fought in the Continental Navy under John Barry and was first lieutenant for John Paul...
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    William Jardine (24 February 1784 – 27 February 1843) was a Scottish physician, opium merchant and trader who co-founded the Hong Kong based conglomerate...
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  • served 1766–1794; Lord George Seymour-Conway 1784–1790 and 1796–1801; Henry-Seymour-Conway (later Lord Henry Seymour) 1766–1784; Lord Robert Seymour 1771–1790...
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    1944. John Forbes Kerry (born 1943), United States Secretary of State (2013–2017), senator from Massachusetts (1985–2013) Elliot Forbes (1917–2006), conductor...
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  • Emir of Kabul, King of Kandahar (b. 1793) June 24 – Sir George Elliot, British admiral (b. 1784) June 26 – Andrew Hull Foote, American admiral (b. 1800)...
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  • minister (d. 1770) May 16 – George Nevill, 14th Baron Bergavenny (d. 1723) May 21 – John Rous, Royal Navy officer during King George's War and the Seven Years'...
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