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Richard Lestock, the Glossary

Admiral Richard Lestock (22 February 1679 – 17 December 1746) was an officer in the Royal Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.^[1]

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British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance
Royal Navy officers who were court-martialled

Admiral (Royal Navy)

Admiral is a senior rank of the Royal Navy, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-9, outranked only by the rank of admiral of the fleet.

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Admiral of the Blue

Admiral of the Blue was a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, immediately outranked by the rank Admiral of the White (see order of precedence below).

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. Richard Lestock and Admiralty (United Kingdom) are Royal Navy admirals.

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Admiralty Board

The Admiralty Board is the body established under the Defence Council of the United Kingdom for the administration of the Naval Service of the United Kingdom.

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Alicante

Alicante (Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain.

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Almería

Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia.

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Apothecary

Apothecary is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Battle of Cape Passaro

The Battle of Cape Passaro, also known as Battle of Avola or Battle of Syracuse, was a major naval battle fought on 11 August 1718 between a fleet of the British Royal Navy under Admiral Sir George Byng and a fleet of the Spanish Navy under Rear-Admiral Antonio de Gaztañeta.

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Battle of Cartagena de Indias

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (lit) took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain.

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Battle of Málaga (1704)

The battle of Málaga, also known as the battle of Vélez-Málaga, was a major fleet action which took place during the War of the Spanish Succession between an Anglo-Dutch fleet and a French naval force on 24 August 1704.

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Battle of Toulon (1744)

The Battle of Toulon, also known as the Battle of Cape Sicié, took place on 21 and 22 February 1744 NS near the French Mediterranean port of Toulon.

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Chaloner Ogle

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Chaloner Ogle KB (1681 – 11 April 1750) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Richard Lestock and Chaloner Ogle are Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Charles Stewart (Royal Navy officer)

Vice-Admiral Charles Stewart (1681 – 5 February 1741) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Nine Years' War, and the Wars of the Spanish Succession, Quadruple Alliance and Austrian Succession. Richard Lestock and Charles Stewart (Royal Navy officer) are Royal Navy admirals and Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Charles Wager

Admiral Sir Charles Wager (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. Richard Lestock and Charles Wager are Royal Navy admirals.

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Chigwell

Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England.

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Cloudesley Shovell

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell (c. November 1650 – 22 or 23 October 1707) was an English naval officer.

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Commander

Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank as well as a job title in many armies.

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Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth

The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years.

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Commodore (rank)

Commodore is a senior naval rank used in many navies which is equivalent to brigadier or brigadier general and air commodore.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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Edward Vernon

Admiral Edward Vernon (12 November 1684 – 30 October 1757) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Richard Lestock and Edward Vernon are Royal Navy admirals.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Fire ship

A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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Frigate

A frigate is a type of warship.

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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, (27 January 1663 – 17 January 1733), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a Royal Navy officer and statesman. While still a lieutenant, he delivered a letter from various captains to Prince William of Orange, who had just landed at Torbay, assuring the Prince of the captains' support; the Prince gave Byng a response which ultimately led to the Royal Navy switching allegiance to the Prince and the Glorious Revolution of November 1688. Richard Lestock and George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington are British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

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George Grenville

George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the early reign of the young George III.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Guard ship

A guard ship is a warship assigned as a stationary guard in a port or harbour, as opposed to a coastal patrol boat, which serves its protective role at sea.

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Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland

Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC (28 September 1705 – 1 July 1774) was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755.

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HMS Barfleur (1697)

HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 10 August 1697.

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HMS Boyne (1692)

HMS Boyne was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21 May 1692.

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HMS Cambridge (1666)

HMS Cambridge was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Deptford Dockyard.

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HMS Exeter (1697)

HMS Exeter was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May 1697.

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HMS Fowey (1705)

HMS Fowey was a 32-gun fifth rate built at Chatham Dockyard in 1703/05.

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HMS Grafton (1709)

HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Humber (1693)

HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.

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HMS Kingston (1697)

HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Frame in Hull and launched on 13 March 1697.

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HMS Neptune (1683)

HMS Neptune was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Panther (1703)

HMS Panther was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 15 March 1703.

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HMS Royal Oak (1674)

HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674.

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HMS Solebay (1694)

HMS Solebay was a member of the standardized 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th century.

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HMS Somerset (1698)

HMS Somerset was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 31 May 1698.

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HMS Weymouth (1693)

HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 8 August 1693.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jamaica Station (Royal Navy)

The Jamaica Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed at Port Royal in Jamaica from 1655 to 1830.

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John Campbell (8 March 1708 – 28 December 1775) was a Scottish author.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.

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Magistrate

The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law.

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Mediterranean Fleet

The British Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Menorca

Menorca or Minorca (from smaller island, later Minorica) is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Nicholas Haddock

Admiral Nicholas Haddock (1686 – 26 September 1746) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Commander-in-Chief of Britain's naval forces in the Mediterranean between 1738 and 1742. Richard Lestock and Nicholas Haddock are 1746 deaths, British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, Royal Navy admirals and Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Nore

The Nore is a long bank of sand and silt running along the south-centre of the final narrowing of the Thames Estuary, England.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Port Royal

Port Royal is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Public inquiry

A public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body.

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Purser

A purser is the person on a ship principally responsible for the handling of money on board.

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Quebec City

Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Richard Avery Hornsby

Captain Richard Avery Hornsby (died 1818) was an 18th-century British military figure, famous for successfully taking on a boat full of French pirates in 1744.

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River Medway

The River Medway is a river in South East England.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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Siege of Toulon (1707)

The siege of Toulon took place between 29 July to 21 August 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when a combined Savoyard-Imperial army supported by a British naval force, attacked the French base at Toulon.

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Skagerrak

The Skagerrak is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Thomas Mathews

Thomas Mathews (October 16762 October 1751) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of admiral. Richard Lestock and Thomas Mathews are British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, Royal Navy admirals, Royal Navy officers who were court-martialled and Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lestock

Also known as Lestock, Richard.

, Lisbon, London, Lorient, Magistrate, Mediterranean Fleet, Mediterranean Sea, Member of parliament, Menorca, Middlesex, Nicholas Haddock, Nore, Pamphlet, Port Royal, Portsmouth, Privateer, Public inquiry, Purser, Quebec City, Richard Avery Hornsby, River Medway, Royal Navy, Ship commissioning, Siege of Toulon (1707), Skagerrak, Sweden, Thomas Mathews, United Kingdom, West Indies.

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See also

British military personnel of the War of the Quadruple Alliance

Royal Navy officers who were court-martialled

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