Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
EXMOUTH, LORD, i. 291-308.
his birth and childhood, 292-3.
enters the navy, 294.
under Burgoyne in America, 294.
returns to England, 295.
made Post-Captain, 296.
marries, 296.
in the _Winchelsea_ and _Salisbury_, 297.
turns farmer, 297.
appointed to the _Nymphe_, 297.
is knighted, 298.
clears the Channel, 299.
cuts down and refits the _Indefatigable_, 299.
his gallant rescue of the _Dutton's_ crew at Plymouth, 300.
made a Baronet, 300.
his coat of arms, 300.
assists in preventing the French descent upon Ireland, 300.
desires to attack Brest, 301.
quells a mutiny at Bantry Bay, 301.
rests at Trefusis, 302.
made Colonel of Marines, and elected M.P., 302.
blockades the French at Corunna and Ferrol, 302.
helps to save Pitt's administration, 302.
promoted Rear-Admiral of the White, 302.
made Commander-in-Chief, in India, 302.
returns to England, 303.
blockades the Dutch fleet in the Scheldt, 303.
Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, 303.
made Baron Exmouth, 303.
his offspring, 303 _note_.
goes again to the Mediterranean in 1815, 304.
saves Marseilles, i. 304.
undertakes the siege of Algiers, 304-6.
liberates the Christian and
other slaves, 306.
his later honours, 307.
is appointed to the naval command at Plymouth, 307.
his last days and death, 308.
his portraits, 308.
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Fairfax in Cornwall, i. 93, 172.
FALMOUTH family (see _Boscawen_).
Haven, i. 99, 194, 292.
the town arms, ii. 116.
its rise and progress, ii. 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 135.
old maps of, ii. 126 _note_.
origin of St. Charles Church there, ii. 128.
Killigrew monuments in the church, ii. 132.
Faraday, his connexion with Davy, i. 267.
Farningham, i. 146.
Fauntleroy's Bank, i. 164.
Felton, Dr., his opinion of George Grenville as a poet, ii. 84.
Fentongollan, i. 99, 192, 205.
Ferguson, Professor, his opinion of Davy, i. 257.
Fermor, Jane, ii. 124.
Fielding at Ralph Allen's, i. 9.
Fleming, maiden name of Martyn's mother, ii. 224.
Flores, in the Azores, ii. 21 and _note_.
Flushing, i. 292, 296, 297.
Foote, Edward, i. 313.
Eleanor, i. 313, 314.
Henry, i. 314.
John, the dramatist's grandfather, i. 314.
John, mayor of Truro, 314 _note_.
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