Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament...
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noted naval commander John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent, with remainder to his nephews William Henry Ricketts and Edward Jervis Ricketts successively,...
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John Jervis defeated a greatly superior Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. After the signing of...
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after John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent on 23 March 1802. It overlooks the coastline adjoining the following three bodies of water – Gulf St Vincent, Investigator...
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Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent (1 April 1767 – 25 September 1859) was an English peer. Jervis was born Edward Jervis Ricketts, the second...
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The Jervis Bay Territory (/ˈdʒɜːrvɪs, ˈdʒɑːr-/; JBT) is an internal territory of Australia. It was established in 1915 from part of New South Wales (NSW)...
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British colony of Jamaica, which was owned by Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent. "William Hopetoun Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk". University...
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tube was removed before the end of the war. St Vincent, named after Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735 – 1823), was ordered on...
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St Vincent (1767–1859) Jake Jervis (born 1991), English footballer John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735–1823), admiral in the Royal Navy John B....
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His Majesty's hired armed cutter Earl St Vincent. The first hired armed cutter Earl St Vincent (or Earl of St Vincent) served the British Royal Navy from...
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John Jervis (Earl of St. Vincent) for his victory over the Spanish fleet on February 14, 1797 at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal. He named St. Vincent's...
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is named after John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent in recognition for his Naval Accomplishments, most notably becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in...
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command under John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent. In May 1798, acting on his own initiative but with the support of Lord Spencer, the First Lord of the Admiralty...
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Admiral of the fleet Sir John Jervis, 1st Earl of St. Vincent (9 January 1735 – 14 March 1823) an admiral of the Royal Navy was the great-grandson of Sir...
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HMS Victory (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Sir John Jervis's flag. By the end of 1796, the British position in the Mediterranean had become untenable. Jervis had stationed his fleet off Cape St Vincent...
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Vincentia, New South Wales (category City of Shoalhaven)
after St Vincent County, which was named after John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent. John Jervis was created Earl of St Vincent as a result of his victory...
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Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet (redirect from George Grey,1st Baronet of Fallodon)
American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. He served as Flag Captain for John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent and later...
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Stone, Staffordshire (category Borough of Stafford)
Marshall, John (1823). "John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent". Royal Naval Biography. Vol. 1, part 1. London: Longman and company. pp. 12–32. Database of Public...
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Meaford, Ontario (redirect from St. Vincent Township, Ontario)
Meaford in 1865, after the birthplace of John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, for whom the township of St. Vincent is named; by then, the community was...
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account of his role prevailed, and the victory was well received in Britain; Jervis was made Earl St Vincent and Nelson, on 17 May, was made a Knight of the...
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Jervis Street Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Shráid Jervis) was a hospital in Jervis Street in Dublin, Ireland. The site of the hospital became the Jervis...
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Dai Llewellyn (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez, and John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent. Llewellyn grew up at the family homes of Gobion Manor and Llanfair Grange, both...
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Earl St Vincent was launched on the Thames in 1799. Between 1800 and 1813 she made seven voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), primarily to...
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of £35,000 in 1857 by Hon Edward Swynfen Parker Jervis, younger son of Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent and great nephew of Admiral of the...
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Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 24 September 1660 – 16 May 1667 Charles Paulet, Lord St John 20 December 1667 – 1675 Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough...
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midshipman in October 1798 where he followed Admiral Jervis, now Lord St. Vincent, into the ship-of-the-line HMS Ville de Paris. In January 1801 Maitland...
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Naval Gold Medal (category Decorations of the Royal Navy)
First of June Earl Howe. Commanded British fleet at the Glorious First of June John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent. Commanded British fleet at St Vincent Small...
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Assault on Cádiz (redirect from Blockade of Cadiz (1797))
fleet near Cape St. Vincent but failed to strike a solid blow against the Spanish Navy in the uneven struggle. Admiral Sir John Jervis sailed for Lisbon...
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Cecil Forester (MP) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
Forester (who married Hon. Mary Anne Jervis, a daughter of the 2nd Viscount St Vincent), Hon. Henrietta Weld-Forester (wife of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough)...
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84-gun ship of the line HMS Foudroyant in the lead under Captain John Jervis to give chase to the French fleet. The French convoy consisted of nineteen transport...
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