Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral

Admiral is in Navy.

In 1745 Admiral Edward Vernon (age 60) was appointed Admiral.

In 1778 Augustus Keppel 1st Viscount Keppel (age 52) was appointed Admiral.

On 14 May 1857 Admiral George Francis Seymour-Conway (age 69) was appointed Admiral.

Culture, Military, Navy, Admiral England

In 1386 Richard Fitzalan 9th Earl of Surrey 11th Earl of Arundel (age 40) was appointed Admiral England.

In 1447 William "Jackanapes" de la Pole 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 50) was appointed Admiral England.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Blue

In 1666 Admiral Jeremy Smith was appointed Admiral of the Blue.

Evelyn's Diary. 31 May 1672. I received another command to repair to the seaside; so I went to Rochester, Kent [Map], where I found many wounded, sick, and prisoners, newly put on shore after the engagement on the 28th, in which the Earl of Sandwich (deceased), that incomparable person and my particular friend, and divers more whom I loved, were lost. My Lord (who was Admiral of the Blue) was in the "Prince", which was burnt, one of the best men-of-war that ever spread canvas on the sea. There were lost with this brave man, a son of Sir Charles Cotterell (age 57) (Master of the Ceremonies), and a son (age 32) of Sir Charles Harbord (his Majesty's (age 42) Surveyor-General), two valiant and most accomplished youths, full of virtue and courage, who might have saved themselves; but chose to perish with my Lord, whom they honored and loved above their own lives.

In 1805 Admiral Peter Rainier (age 63) was promoted to Admiral of the Blue in the celebratory promotions following the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

On 31 Jul 1810 Philip Yorke 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (age 53) was appointed Admiral of the Blue.

On 07 Nov 1860 Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet (age 72) was appointed Admiral of the Blue.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Fleet

In 1310 Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 60) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet.

In 1337 Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh (age 50) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet from the mouth of the Thames westward, Constable of the Tower of London, Lord Chamberlain of the Household and Seneschal of Ponthieu.

In 1403 Thomas Beaufort 1st Duke Exeter (age 25) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet.

In 1417 Walter Hungerford 1st Baron Hungerford (age 38) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet.

In May 1418 Edward Courtenay (age 33) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet.

Before 1683 George Legge 1st Baron Dartmouth (age 35) was appointed Admiral of the Fleet.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Irish Fleet

In Feb 1397 John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset (age 24) was appointed Admiral of the Irish Fleet, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the North

In 1294 John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 29) was appointed Admiral of the North.

In 1315 John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 50) was appointed Admiral of the North.

On 20 May 1388 John Beaumont 4th Baron Beaumont (age 27) was appointed Admiral of the North.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Northern Fleet

In May 1397 John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset (age 24) was appointed Admiral of the Northern Fleet.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Red

In 1864 Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet (age 75) was appointed Admiral of the Red.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the Sea

Chronicle of Gregory 1403-1419. 1405. Ande that year Syr Thomas (age 16) the kyngys son was Amerelle of the See, and he wente unto Flaundrys and brent bothe in Cachante and in Flaundrys, ande londyd at Scluse [Map] and gaffe there to a strong sawte. Alle so he toke carrekys of Jene and brought them unto Wynchylse [Map], and they were brent thorowe mysse governaunce and moche of the goode ther ynne.

Around 1440 John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset (age 37) was appointed Admiral of the Sea.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Admiral of the White

On 16 Mar 1666 Thomas Allin 1st Baronet (age 54) was appointed Admiral of the White.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, First Lord of the Admiralty

In 1690 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 34) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1693 Anthony Carey 5th Viscount Falkland (age 36) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1710. John James Baker. Known as "Whig Junto". From www.tate.org ... This is a portrait of a political group named the Whig Junto and a Black servant, whose identity is unknown. It is the only known portrait of the Junto, which was an ideologically close-knit group of political peers who formed the leadership of the Whig party in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The members of the group are shown gathered together on a grand terrace, while a vista onto a garden is revealed by the Black servant, who holds back a heavy velvet curtain. The grand architectural setting is imagined, and is deliberately evocative of power and status. The picture was commissioned by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (age 57), who stands on the right, as if welcoming the company. It is not known if Orford had a Black servant in his household or whether the individual was included to emphasise Orford's wealth and social standing. At the time, Britain was profiting heavily from the trade of enslaved people from West Africa. The presence of Black servants, many of whom were enslaved, in both aristocratic and merchant households had come to symbolise property and wealth. This reflected the dehumanising view of enslaved Black people held by the British elite.

The scene conjures one of the Junto's country house meetings where, in between parliamentary sessions, policy and party strategy were formulated. From left to right the sitters round the table can be identified as Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (age 34); Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (age 61); John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1C 1697) (age 58); Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (age 48); and William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (age 38). The lavish surroundings probably represent Orford's house, Chippenham, where Junto meetings sometimes took place. It was also ideally located for the nearby Newmarket horse races, which the members of the Junto frequently attended when parliament was not sitting.

The portrait is dated 1710, before the crushing electoral defeat of the Whigs in October of that year. It shows the political allies while in power, when Sunderland was Secretary of State, Wharton Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Somers Lord President of the Privy Council, Devonshire Lord Steward and a member of the Privy Council, and Orford First Lord of the Admiralty. On the surface the portrait shows a relaxed gathering of fellow connoisseurs, seated round a table consulting antique medals and books of prints. Fittingly, Somers and Halifax sit at the centre of the company, holding a book and handling a medal respectively. Both were known collectors and antiquarians - Somers was one of the founders of the Whig Kit-Cat Club, a convivial drinking and dining club, but which also had a political propagandist agenda; he had also purchased the Resta collection of drawings from Italy in 1709. Halifax had a celebrated library and a collection of antique medals (sold in 1740), to which those being consulted presumably allude. Behind this exterior of cultural appreciation, however, the portrait advertises Whig policy in 1709-10, which supported the continuation of war against France in opposition to Tory calls for peace. The two visible prints are friezes from Trajan's column showing episodes from the Dacian wars, with the Roman army crossing the Danube. The viewer is invited to make parallels between the valour and victories of the Roman emperors and the current military greatness achieved for Britain by the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns. The globe, showing the Pacific, presumably alludes to Whig foreign policy ambitions beyond Europe. By defeating France in Europe, they aimed to gain commercial access to Spanish American trade routes. It reflects the competitive European colonial pursuit of new markets, including the selling of enslaved West African people to Spanish territories overseas.

John James Baker (or Backer, or Bakker) is thought to have been Flemish, from Antwerp. He was Godfrey Kneller's (age 63) (1646-1723) long-time studio assistant and drapery painter, and this is his largest, most ambitious and complex work. The symbolic programme was presumably devised by Orford in discussion with Baker. The Duke of Devonshire was not a regular member of the Junto, although an increasingly important Whig peer, but his inclusion here is presumably because of his kinship relationship with Orford. The picture is thus a demonstration of Orford's private as well as professional networks, and also his pride and ambition. It would have been displayed at Chippenham in the newly appointed, fashionable interiors, alongside other works that Orford commissioned to advertise his public achievement and the private and professional networks that sustained his power and influence.

In 1756 Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple (age 44) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty which office he held until 1757.

In 1782 Augustus Keppel 1st Viscount Keppel (age 56) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1800 William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans (age 32) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1859 Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke of Somerset (age 54) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

On 27 Mar 1905 Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell 3rd Earl Cawdor (age 58) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

Culture, Military, Navy, Lord Admiral of all England Ireland and Aquitaine

In 1435 John Holland 2nd Duke Exeter (age 39) was appointed Lord Admiral of all England Ireland and Aquitaine.

Close Rolls Edward IV Edward V Richard III 1476-1485. 25 Jul 1483. John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) was appointed Lord Admiral of all England Ireland and Aquitaine. King Richard III of England (age 30). Westminster Palace [Map]. Grant for life to the king's kinsman Henry, duke of Norfolk, of the office of admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine, with certain specified powers and the accustomed fees. By p.s.

Culture, England, Military, Navy, Lord of the Admiralty

In 1673 George Carteret 1st Baronet (age 63) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

From 1682 to 1684 Henry Savile (age 40) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In Mar 1689 Michael Wharton was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1693 Henry Killigrew (age 41) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1725 George Oxenden 5th Baronet (age 30) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1727 Thomas Lyttelton 4th Baronet (age 41) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty in which post he served until 1741.

In 1730 Thomas Winnington (age 33) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1765 Charles Townshend 1st Baron Bayning (age 35) was appointed Lord of the Admiralty which position he held until 1770.

The Times. 20 Feb 1891. We regret to announce that EARL BEAUCHAMP (deceased), Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, died suddenly yesterday at Madresfield Court, his Worcestershire seat. He was taken ill while at luncheon, after a journey to a neighbouring town, and died before medical aid could be obtained, the cause of death being heart disease. His death will be felt as a serious loss, both in the English Church and in the Conservative party. A strong and moderately "high" Churchman, he took a leading position in his own diocese and in the Church at large in the promotion and defence of Anglican interests and; though he did not come prominently before the public as a politician, he exercised for many years considerable influence in the councils of the Tory' leaders. Frederic Lygon was the second son of the fourth Earl Beauchamp by Lady Susan Caroline Eliot, daughter of the secoud earl of St. Germans. He was born in 1830, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls, and the received tho degree of D.C.L. from his University in 1870. As the Hon. Frederick Lygon, he entered Parliament as member for Tewkesbury in 1857, for which place be sat till 1863, when be was elected for West Worcestershire. At his elder brother's death, without issue, in 1866, he succeeded to the peerage as sixth Earl. Both as a member of the House of Commons and as a peer he hold posts in Conservative Governments. In 1859 he was for a short time a Lord of the Admiralty. During the whole of Mr. Disraeli's Ministry which lasted from 1874 to 1880 he was Lord Steward of the Queen's Household. On the return of the Conservatives to power in 1885 he ras Paymaster-General of the Forces for the few months that the Government lasted, and he returned the same post when the general election put an end to Mr. Gladstone's short-lived Administration in 1886. He did not, however, remain in the Goverornent for a year, as he resigned in June, 1887. Since 1876 he had been Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire. The deceased earl was twice married, 1st, in 1868, to Lady Mary Catharine, only daughter of the sixth Earl Stanhope (she died in 1876), and, secondly, to Lady Emily Annora Charlotte (age 37), daughter of the third Earl Mdanvers (age 66). He is succeeded by his eldest son, William, Viscount Elmley, who was born in 1872.