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Cover Clapperton, Hugh (1788–1827)

Clapperton, Hugh (1788–1827)  

Maker: G. Manton

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Hugh Clapperton (1788–1827) by G. Manton Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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Clapperton, Hugh (1788–1827), naval officer and traveller in Africa  

Christopher Fyfe

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Clapperton, Hugh (1788–1827), naval officer and traveller in Africa, was born at Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the youngest son of George Clapperton, a surgeon, and his first wife, the daughter of John Johnstone. His mother died when he was a child, and his father remarried. Feckless (he fathered altogether twenty-one children), negligent of his medical practice, and, as a result, impoverished, his father left him to the charge of a spiteful stepmother who cared only for her own children. His schooling was neglected, and he learned little more than to read and write. Eventually the town schoolmaster gave him lessons in practical mathematics and navigation, and he taught himself to draw....

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Cochrane, Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis (1758–1832)  

Maker: Robert Field

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Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane (1758–1832) by Robert Field, 1809 Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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Cochrane, Sir Alexander Inglis (1758–1832), naval officer and politician  

Stephen Howarth

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Cochrane, Sir Alexander Inglis (1758–1832), naval officer and politician, was born Alexander Forrester Cochrane on 22 April 1758, the ninth of eleven children (all sons) of Thomas Cochrane, eighth earl of Dundonald (bap. 1691, d. 1778), and his second wife, Jean (1722/3–1808)...

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Cover Cochrane, Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775–1860)

Cochrane, Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775–1860)  

Maker: Peter Eduard Ströhling

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Thomas Cochrane, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775–1860) by Peter Eduard Ströhling, exh. RA 1807 private collection; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London

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Cochrane, Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), naval officer  

Andrew Lambert

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Cochrane, Thomas, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), naval officer, born at Annesfield, Hamilton, Scotland, on 14 December 1775, was the eldest son of Archibald Cochrane, ninth earl of Dundonald (1748–1831), and his first wife, Anne Gilchrist (1755–1784), second daughter of Captain James Gilchrist...

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Cover Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963)

Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963)  

Maker: Yousuf Karsh

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Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963) by Yousuf Karsh, 1943 © Karsh / Camera Press, London; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

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Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), naval officer  

Michael Simpson

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Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), naval officer, was born at 42 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, on 7 January 1883, the third of the five children of Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909), then a professor of anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and his wife, ...

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Cover Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804)

Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804)  

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Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804) by Henry Pierre Danloux, 1792 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804), naval officer  

P. K. Crimmin

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Duncan, Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804), naval officer, was born on 1 July 1731 at the town house of the Stewarts of Grandtully, Seagait, Dundee, the third of seven children of Alexander Duncan (1703–1765) of Lundie, Forfarshire, provost of Dundee (1744–6), and Helen Haldane (...

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Elliot, Sir George (1784–1863), naval officer and politician  

J. K. Laughton

revised by Andrew Lambert

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Elliot, Sir George (1784–1863), naval officer and politician, was the second son of Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, first earl of Minto (1751–1814), and his wife, Anna Maria (1752–1829), daughter of Sir George Amyand, bt. He was born on 1 August 1784, the younger brother of ...

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Elphinstone, George Keith, Viscount Keith (1746–1823)  

Maker: John Hoppner

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George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith (1746–1823) by John Hoppner, c. 1799 The Royal Collection © 2004 HM Queen Elizabeth II

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Elphinstone, George Keith, Viscount Keith (1746–1823), naval officer and politician  

C. H. H. Owen

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Elphinstone, George Keith, Viscount Keith (1746–1823), naval officer and politician, was born on 7 January 1746 at Elphinstone Tower, Airth, near Stirling, the fourth son and seventh child of the eight children of Charles Elphinstone, tenth Lord Elphinstone (1711–1781), and Lady Clementina Fleming (1719–1799)...

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Gordon, Sir James Alexander (1782–1869), naval officer  

J. K. Laughton

revised by Roger Morriss

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Gordon, Sir James Alexander (1782–1869), naval officer, eldest son of Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire, and his wife, a daughter of Major James Mercer, of Auchnacant, Aberdeenshire, was born at Kildrummy Castle, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire. He entered the navy in November 1793 on the ...

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Hamilton, Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple- (1890–1974), naval officer  

Ian McGeoch

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Hamilton, Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple- (1890–1974), naval officer, was born in London on 27 March 1890, the younger son and youngest of three children (the middle child, a daughter, died two months after he was born) of Colonel the Hon. North de Coigny Dalrymple (1853–1906)...

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Hay, Lord John (1793–1851), naval officer and politician  

J. K. Laughton

revised by Andrew Lambert

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Hay, Lord John (1793–1851), naval officer and politician, third son of George Hay, seventh marquess of Tweeddale (1753–1804), and his wife, Hannah Charlotte Maitland (d. 8 May 1804), daughter of James Maitland, seventh earl of Lauderdale, was born in Scotland on 1 April 1793. In December 1804 he was nominally entered on the books of the ...

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Hay, Sir John Charles Dalrymple, third baronet (1821–1912), naval officer and politician  

Andrew Lambert

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Hay, Sir John Charles Dalrymple, third baronet (1821–1912), naval officer and politician, was born at 113 Princes Street, Edinburgh, on 11 February 1821, eldest surviving son of Sir James Dalrymple Hay, second baronet (1788–1861), and his wife, Elizabeth, née Maxwell (d. 1821)...

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Hope, Sir James (1808–1881), naval officer  

J. K. Laughton

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Hope, Sir James (1808–1881), naval officer, born on 3 March 1808, was the son of Rear-Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope (1767–1818), who as a captain commanded the Defence at Trafalgar, and his first wife, Lady Jemima Hope Johnstone, fifth daughter of James Hope Johnstone, ...

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Inglis, Charles (1731?–1791)  

Maker: Sir Henry Raeburn

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Charles Inglis (1731?–1791) by Sir Henry Raeburn, c. 1783 [retouched c.1795] Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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Inglis, Charles (1731?–1791), naval officer  

P. K. Crimmin

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Inglis, Charles (1731?–1791), naval officer, was the fourth of five sons of Sir John Inglis of Cramond, second baronet (1683–1771), and Anne (d. 1772), daughter of Inglis's stepfather, Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, and Susan, daughter of the fourth earl of Haddington...