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L' amiral britannique Augustus Keppel ( 25 avril 1725 – 2 octobre 1786) 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 ...
Augustus Keppel may refer to: Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786), Admiral Royal Navy. Augustus Keppel Stephenson (1827-1904), Treasury Solicitor. Augustus Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle (1794-1851), MP for Arundel. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Admiral Augustus Keppel achieved it by a spectacular trial. Court-martialled for his inconclusive engagement with the French off Ushant at the request of his subordinate officer Sir Hugh Palliser, his honourable acquittal in February 1779 was jubilantly celebrated throughout England.
Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle (2 June 1794 – 15 March 1851), styled Viscount Bury from 1804 until 1849, was an English nobleman. Life [ edit ] Bury was commissioned an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 7 April 1811.
Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1725-86. A three-quarter-length portrait to left wearing flag officer's undress uniform, 1767–83. His outstretched right hand rests on his sword and his left hand is positioned in his breeches pocket. He stands against a coastal background to denote his naval career. The portrait shows the sitter with his hair ...
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 ...
Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel PC (25 April 1725 – 2 October 1786) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence. During the final years of the latter conflict he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. A member of a leading Whig aristocratic family (which had come to England with William of Orange in 1688), Augustus Keppel was ...
