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- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD COCHRANE, K.B. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY, &C
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. GEORGE EDGCUMBE, EARL OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF JAMES HAWKINS WHITSHED, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM ROWLEY, K.B. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- INDEX
MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. GEORGE EDGCUMBE, EARL OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD COCHRANE, K.B. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY, &C
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. GEORGE EDGCUMBE, EARL OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF JAMES HAWKINS WHITSHED, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM ROWLEY, K.B. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- INDEX
Summary
“To ‘waken memory o'er the silent tomb.”
— Anon.The Edgcumbe family, which is of great antiquity in Devonshire, derives its name from the beautiful manor of Edgcumbe, situated in that county.
George, Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, the subject of this memoir, was the second son of Richard, who was created Baron of Mount Edgcumbe, by George the IId. on the 20th of April, 1742. Having made choice of a maritime life, he went to sea, when very young, as midshipman on board one of the ships stationed in the Mediterranean, under the orders of Admiral Haddock. As early as the 19th of August, 1744, having passed through the subordinate ranks of lieutenant and commander, he was made post captain in the Kennington, of 20 guns; and, towards the end of the following year, he was promoted to the command of the Salisbury, of 50 guns, in which he remained till the conclusion of the war. On the 30th of January, 1747, while on a cruise, in the latitude of 47 deg. 47 min. 106 leagues to the westward of Scilly, he had the good fortune to fall in with, and capture, the Jason, a French East India ship, of 30 guns, and 180 men, bound from Port l'Orient to Pondicherry. Besides a cargo of stores and ammunition, the Jason had eight cases of silver on board, which materially enhanced her value to the captors.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 177 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1809