Sir Home Riggs Popham

(1763-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Popham, Home Riggs, Sir, 1762-1820 NRA: Popham Sir Home Riggs (1762-1820) Knight Rear Admiral DNB: Popham, Sir Home Riggs (1762-1820), naval officer LBT ID: HoPopha1835 VIAF ID: 5735194 LOC ID: n86084617	B/BAP: 1763 DIED: 1835-03-22
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Controversial naval officer who invented the semaphore used at Trafalgar; he was MP for Yarmouth (1804-06), Shaftesbury (1806-07), and Ipswich (1807-12).
REFERENCES TO Sir Home Riggs Popham: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1806 Verse 2: p. 108a p. 108a Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 52