George Bridges Rodney, first baron Rodney

(1718-1792)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792 NRA: Rodney George Brydges (1719-1792) 1st Baron Rodney Admiral DNB: Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792), naval officer and politician LBT ID: GeRodne1792 VIAF ID: 56931719 LOC ID: n50050410	B/BAP: 1718-02-13 DIED: 1792-05-24
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Read admiral (1759) and MP; he fought in Seven Years' War, defeated the Spanish off Cape Vincent (1780) and the French under De Grasse off Dominica in 1782.
REFERENCES TO George Bridges Rodney, first baron Rodney: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Recollections of Corston,” 28 December 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 24 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: VIII James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 7