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William Penn (Royal Navy officer) Sir William Penn (23 April 1621 – 16 September 1670) was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which is now the US state of Pennsylvania .
William Taylor (1760 – 19 July 1842) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars . Entering the navy early in his life, Taylor served as a midshipman on Cook's third voyage of discovery. He was promoted shortly after his return to England and commanded ...
William Owen (Royal Navy officer, born 1737) Commander William Owen (1737 – 24 October 1778) was a Welsh naval officer. Born in Glan Severn, Montgomeryshire, Wales, of a family of gentry, he was youngest son of David Owen of Cefn Hafod, Montgomeryshire. [1]
William Peel (Royal Navy officer) Captain Sir William Peel VC KCB ( 2 November 1824 – 27 April 1858 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Staveley (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley GCB, DL (10 November 1928 – 13 October 1997) was a Royal Navy officer. Staveley saw service as a minesweeper commander on coastal patrol during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation before commanding a frigate and then an aircraft carrier and ...
George Seymour (Royal Navy officer) Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour, GCB, GCH, PC (17 September 1787 – 20 January 1870) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, Seymour commanded the third-rate HMS Northumberland under Admiral Sir John Duckworth at the Battle of San ...
2 November 1824. Born (Stanhope Gate, London) 1850. 1852. Travelled in the Middle East and wrote 'A Ride through the Nubian Desert'. 24 February 1857. Awarded the Victoria Cross for three acts of bravery at Inkerman and Sebastopol. June 1857. Opened a railway line between Potton and Sandy (in 1862 absorbed into the Bedford & Cambridge Railway ...
