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Keppel, Augustus, Viscount

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Son of the Earl of Albemarle; entered the navy, and was in several engagements between 1757 and 1778; when encountering the French off Ushant he quarrelled with his second-in-command and let them escape; was court-martialled, but acquitted; he was afterwards First Lord of the Admiralty (1725-1786).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Keppel, Augustus, Viscount'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​k/keppel-augustus-viscount.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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