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Lyons was born on 1 September 1787 and was baptized at Lyndhurst in Hampshire in autumn-winter 1788. [1] He was the eldest son and third of fifteen children of Captain John Lyons of Antigua JP, DL (20 October 1760 – 6 February 1816), who was a British owner of extensive sugar plantations, of 563 acres (228 ha) in total, in Antigua, [2] [1 ...
William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir William George Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when she searched for German capital ships in ...
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren, KB (10 March 1703 – 29 July 1752) was an Anglo-Irish naval officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of Westminster from 1747 to 1752. Warren is best known for his career in the Royal Navy, which he served in for thirty-six years and participated in numerous ...
Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Drake. The Channel Squadron [1] also referred to as the Western Squadron [2] (1512-1649) was a series of temporary naval formations first formed in under the English Tudor Navy Royal during the sixteenth century. Later during the Interregnum a channel squadron was formed as part of the Commonwealth Navy.
James Young (1762 – 8 March 1833) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, rising to the rank of vice-admiral of the white . Young was born in 1762, the son of a naval officer. He followed his father, and an older half-brother, into the navy and was promoted to commander early in ...
Vice Admiral Sir John Francis Coward, KCB, DSO (11 October 1937 – 30 May 2020) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 1992 to 1994. Naval career. Coward joined the Royal Navy in 1958. He served in the Falklands War in 1982 as Captain of HMS Brilliant.
Vice-Admiral John William Leopold McClintock CB DSO (26 July 1874 – 23 March 1929) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Naval career. Born the son of Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, McClintock joined the Royal Navy in 1887.
