by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 19, 2021
Edward Kittoe 1768-1823. He was christened at St. Lawrence, Kent on 30 July 1768, the son of George Kittoe and of his wife, Margaret Read. His brother, George Kittoe, became the master-attendant of the dockyard in English Harbour, Antigua, where he was infamously...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 30, 2020
Alexander Robert Kerr c1770-1831. He was the son of Lieutenant Robert Kerr, who died as the lieutenant of Greenwich Hospital on 15 March 1804, being at 80 years the oldest lieutenant in the Navy, and having held that rank for 57 years. Kerr joined the service in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 23, 2019
Lord Mark Robert Kerr 1776-1840. He was born on 12 November 1776, the third son of General William Kerr, 5th Marquis of Lothian, and of his wife, Elizabeth Fortescue of Dromiskin, the daughter of the M.P. Chichester Fortescue. He was a first cousin of the Duke of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 1, 2018
Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet 1774-1834. He was born at Maypowder, Dorset on 28 November 1774, the elder son of Admiral Sir Richard King and of his wife, Susannah Margaret Coker. He was the brother-in-law of Admiral Sir Charles Rowley. King first went to sea in 1789...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 19, 2018
Philip Gidley King 1758-1808. He was born at Launceston, Cornwall, on 23 April 1758, the son of a draper, Philip King, and his wife, Utricia Gidley. Upon joining the navy in December 1770 aboard the sloop Swallow 14, Commander James Shirley, King went out with her to...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 25, 2018
William Knell Died c1798. Knell was commissioned lieutenant on 21 August 1778. On 14 March 1779, whilst commanding the cutter Rattlesnake, he fell in with two French privateer cutters off the Isle of Wight and after a three hour engagement received the surrender of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 15, 2018
James Kempthorne 1737-1808. He was born on 25 July 1737 at Cury, near Helston in Cornwall, the son of Edward Kempthorne and his wife, Margaret Tregidgeon. Kempthorne joined the service from the merchant marine at the age of twenty as an able seaman, and he was...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 9, 2018
Sir Richard Goodwin Keats 1757-1834. He was born on 16 January 1757 at Chalton, Hampshire, the elder son of the curate, Reverend Richard Keats, sometime headmaster of Blundell’s School in Tiverton rector of Bideford, and personal chaplain to the Duke of Clarence, and...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 11, 2017
George Augustus Keppel @1760- 1782. He was one of several illegitimate children of Lieutenant-General Hon. William Keppel and of the actress Hannah Haughton, and was acknowledged as a nephew by the general?s brother, Admiral Viscount Keppel. Keppel was commissioned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Aug 2, 2017
James King 1750-84. He was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and baptised on 13 July, the second son of the Reverend James King, a local curate, and of his wife, Anne Walker. His younger brother was Walker King, the bishop of Rochester from 1809. After an education at...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 29, 2017
Charles Knatchbull 1747-1826. He was born on 23 May 1747, the son of the Reverend Wadham Knatchbull, a prebendary of Durham and rector of Chilham, Kent, and his wife, Harriet Parry. In May 1769 Knatchbull was appointed a midshipman aboard the Dunkirk 60, Captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 30, 2016
Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill 1730 -1805. He was born in Belfast, the second son of Charles Brice, an army captain of Castle Chichester near Kilroot in Ireland, and of his wife Jane Robinson. Brice entered the navy on 29 October 1746 aboard the sloop Speedwell, Commander...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 24, 2016
Richard Kempenfelt 1718-82. He was born in October 1718 in Westminster, the son of the Swedish-born Magnus Kempenfelt, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the army and governor of Jersey in the 1720’s, and of his wife, Anne Hunt. He was the brother of Gustavus Kempenfelt,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 19, 2016
William Hancock Kelly 1751-1811. Baptised on 6 August 1751, he was the son of Arthur Kelly of the village of Kelly, Devon, and of his wife Mary Tucker of Coryton Park, Kilmington, Devon. Kelly was commissioned lieutenant on 16 May 1776 and commanded the brig Hope 14...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 7, 2016
George Keppel Died 1804. He was the illegitimate son of the Earl of Albemarle, the nephew of Admiral Viscount Keppel, and the cousin of Admiral Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley. Keppel was commissioned lieutenant on 14 May 1774 and promoted commander on 18 March...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 27, 2016
Hon. Augustus Keppel 1st Viscount 1725-86. He was born on 25 April 1725, the second son of the Whig aristocrat and diplomat Willem Anne Van Keppel, the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, and of his wife Lady Anne Lennox, the daughter of the 1st Earl Richmond, who in turn was the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2016
Sir John Knight 1747-1831. He was born in Dundee in February 1747, the son of Rear-Admiral John Knight who died in 1788, and of his wife, Jean Hay. In 1758 Knight entered aboard the Tartar 28, his father’s command, remaining with him until 1762 and serving in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 30, 2015
Sir Richard King 1st Baronet 1730-1806. Born on 10 August 1730 at Gosport, he was the third but sole surviving son of Curtis King, a sailing master and master-attendant at Deptford, and of his wife Mary, sister to Commodore Curtis Barnett. In 1738 King entered the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 20, 2015
Sir Charles Henry Knowles 2nd Baronet 1754-1831. He was born 24 August 1754 in Kingston, Jamaica, the second but only surviving son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, who was the illegitimate son of the Earl of Derby and governor of that island. His mother, Maria...
