HMS Grenville, was a schooner (later re-rigged as a brig) built in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and originally named Sally. The ship was purchased and renamed...
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Romney R. (1970). "Grenville, Thomas (1719-47)". In Sedgwick, R. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer...
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Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (category British MPs 1747–1754)
Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick, he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the...
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List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century (redirect from List of colonial governors in 1754)
Jonathan Law, Governor (1741–1750) Roger Wolcott, Governor (1750–1754) Thomas Fitch, Governor (1754–1766) William Pitkin, Governor (1766–1769) Jonathan Trumbull...
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Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) (category British MPs 1747–1754)
pennant in the fifth-rate HMS Penzance in February 1752. He went on to be treasurer of Greenwich Hospital in February 1754 and Comptroller of the Navy...
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (category British MPs 1747–1754)
Years' War. Pitt married Lady Hester Grenville (1720–1803), daughter of the 1st Countess Temple, on 16 November 1754 by Francis Ayscough under special licence...
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Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton (category British MPs 1747–1754)
Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter to HMS Ruby. On 11 April 1746 Ruby, with HMS Defiance and HMS Salisbury, was dispatched...
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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (category British MPs 1754–1761)
Newcastle, but later joined William Pitt the Elder in opposition to George Grenville. He held the offices of Clerk of the Household to the Prince of Wales...
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(1762–1814), Captain Alexander Hood (1758–1798) and Captain Arthur Hood (1754–1776). The story of his entry into the navy is recounted by Edmund Lodge...
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paid". Sphinx was paid off at Spithead on 7 November 1754. Jervis was assigned to the 20-gun HMS Seaford in December of the same year, and then from the...
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