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32 famous people found
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George DOWNING
Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy
1623 - 1684 -
John BYRON
Royal Navy officer
1723 - 1786 -
John BERKELEY
English royalist soldier
1602 - 1678 -
John HAWKINS
English naval commander and administrator
1532 - 1595 -
Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796 -
Charles CORNWALLIS
British Army officer and colonial administrator
1738 - 1805 -
George BINGHAM
British Army officer
1800 - 1888 -
Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
William BLIGH
Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator
1754 - 1817 -
Thomas GAGE
British general, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
1719 - 1787 -
Robert BLAKE
One of the most important military commanders of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century
1598 - 1657 -
William DE LA POLE
English commander in the Hundred Years' War and Lord High Admiral of England
1396 - 1450 -
Edward VERNON
Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station
1723 - 1794 -
Edward VERNON
English naval officer
1684 - 1757 -
Alexander Spotswood
British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia
1676 - 1740 -
William Henry Smyth
Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist
1788 - 1865 -
Harry Powlett
British nobleman and naval officer
1720 - 1794 -
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
Anglo-Irish politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India
1754 - 1826 -
John BERKELEY
English admiral
1663 - 1697