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Description. When George III was asked by Lord Eglinton to sit for the most fashionable portrait painter of the day, Joshua Reynolds, he replied: ‘Mr Ramsay is my painter, my Lord.’. Reynolds tried to gain royal notice with two speculative ventures – a portrait of George III as Prince of Wales (OM 1011, 401034) and an oil sketch for a ...
(Augustus KEPPEL 1st Viscount) Born April 2, 1725; Deceased October 3, 1786 - Elvedon Hall, Elvedon, Suffolk, England,aged 61 years old Parents. William Anne VAN KEPPEL 1702-1754; Anne LENNOX 1703-1789 Siblings. George KEPPEL 1724-1772; Augustus KEPPEL 1725-1786; William KEPPEL 1727-1782; Frederick KEPPEL 1728-1777; Caroline KEPPEL ca 1734 ...
See also Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer . KEPPEL, AUGUSTUS KEPPEL, Viscount (1725–1786), British admiral, second son of the second earl of Albemarle, was born on the 25th of April 1725. He went to sea at the age of ten, and had already five years of service to his credit ...
Augustus Keppel (1725–1786), naval officer, joined the navy at the age of ten and had risen to the rank of commander by the time he was nineteen. Promoted to Commodore in 1748, Keppel served as commander of the Mediterranean fleet and of the British North American naval contingent in the Seven Years War. He also had a long parliamentary career, serving as the member for Windsor and then ...
Commodore Augustus Keppel. Commodore Keppel was one of fifteen children of the second Earl of Albemarle. After a circumnavigation of the world in 1740, Keppel had a meteoric career in the Royal Navy. As early as 1749, he was promoted to commodore. He invited the young Reynolds to accompany him to the Mediterranean, as a result of which the ...
18 October 1827. London. Died. 26 September 1904. (1904-09-26) (aged 76) Sir Augustus Frederick William Keppel Stephenson, KCB, KC (18 October 1827 in London – 26 September 1904) [1] [2] was a Treasury Solicitor and the second person to hold the office of Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales. [3]
L'amiral britannique Augustus Keppel est un officier de marine et parlementaire britannique. Il exerce des fonctions de commandement dans la Royal Navy pendant la guerre de Sept Ans et la guerre d'indépendance américaine. En 1782, il devient le Premier Lord de l'Amirauté et est à cette occasion fait vicomte Keppel et membre du Conseil privé du roi.
