Augustus Keppel, viscount Keppel

(1725-1786)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786 NRA: Keppel Augustus (1725-1786) Viscount Keppel Admiral DNB: Keppel, Augustus, Viscount Keppel (1725-1786), naval officer and politician LBT ID: LdKeppe VIAF ID: 57972733 LOC ID: n82159744	B/BAP: 1725-04-25 DIED: 1786-10-02
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Naval officer in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, when he was first lord of the Admiralty.
REFERENCES TO Augustus Keppel, viscount Keppel: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 23 December 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1808-09 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ 17 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 2