George Wellesley
Admiral Sir George Greville Wellesley GCB (2 August 1814 – 6 April 1901) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of Acre during the Oriental Crisis in 1840 and, as Captain of HMS Cornwallis in the Baltic Fleet, he took part in the Bombardment of Sveaborg in August 1855 during the Crimean War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron but was relieved of the latter post by a court-martial after an incident in which an armoured frigate, which had been under his command at the time, ran aground at Pearl Rock off Gibraltar in July 1871. He was appointed First Naval Lord in November 1877 and in that capacity he secured a considerable increase in naval construction, for ex
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1887 Golden Jubilee HonoursAdmiral-superintendent, PortsmouthAngela PeryAnne Wellesley, Countess of MorningtonApril 1901Astley Cooper KeyChannel FleetCharles Cadogan, 1st Earl CadoganEarl of MorningtonEdward FanshaweFirst Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval StaffGarret Wesley, 1st Earl of MorningtonGeoffrey HornbyGeorge Greville WellesleyHMS Cornwallis (1813)Hastings YelvertonHenry Trotter (Indian Army officer)List of Lords Commissioners of the AdmiraltyList of Royal Navy admirals (1707–current)North America and West Indies StationRodney MundyWellesley, George
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George Wellesley
Admiral Sir George Greville Wellesley GCB (2 August 1814 – 6 April 1901) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of Acre during the Oriental Crisis in 1840 and, as Captain of HMS Cornwallis in the Baltic Fleet, he took part in the Bombardment of Sveaborg in August 1855 during the Crimean War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron but was relieved of the latter post by a court-martial after an incident in which an armoured frigate, which had been under his command at the time, ran aground at Pearl Rock off Gibraltar in July 1871. He was appointed First Naval Lord in November 1877 and in that capacity he secured a considerable increase in naval construction, for ex
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