Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan

(1731-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804 DNB: Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731-1804), naval officer LBT ID: AdDunca1804 VIAF ID: 52566954 LOC ID: nr92034911	B/BAP: 1731-07-01 DIED: 1804-08-04
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British admiral; he was commander-in-chief in the North Sea (1795-1801), defeating the Dutch admiral De Winter off Camperdown in 1797.
REFERENCES TO Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 24 November 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 76 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) John Keats Found 1: ¶ 2