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See also:COCKBURN, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE , See also:Bart. (1772-1853), See also:British 'See also:admiral, second son of Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Cockburn, Bart., and See also:uncle of See also:Lord See also:Chief See also:Justice Cockburn, was See also:born in See also:London. He entered the See also:navy in his ninth See also:year. After serving on the See also:home station, and in the See also:East Indies and the Mediterranean, he assisted, as See also:captain of the " Minerve " (38) at the See also:blockade of See also:Leghorn in 1796, and fought a gallant See also:action with the See also:Spanish See also:frigate " Sabina " (40) which he took. He was See also:present at the See also:battle of Cape St See also:Vincent. In 1809, in command of the See also:naval force on See also:shore, he contributed greatly to the reduction of See also:Martinique, and signed the See also:capitulation by which that See also:island was handed over to the See also:English; for his services on this occasion he received the thanks of the See also:House of See also:Commons. After service in the See also:Scheldt and at the See also:defence of See also:Cadiz he was sent in 1811 on an unsuccessful See also:mission for the reconciliation of See also:Spain and her See also:American colonies. He was made See also:rear-admiral in 1812, and in 1813–14, as second in command to See also:Warren, he took a prominent See also:part in the American See also:War, especially in the See also:capture of See also:Washington. See also:Early in 1815 he received the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Bath, and in the autumn of the same year he carried out, in the "See also:Northumberland " (74), the See also:sentence of See also:deportation to St See also:Helena which had been passed upon See also:Bonaparte. In 1818 he received the See also:Grand See also:Cross of his order, and was made a lord of the See also:admiralty; and the same year he was returned to See also:parliament for See also:Portsmouth. He was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:vice-admiral in 1819, and to that of admiral in 183'7; he became See also:senior naval lord in 1841, and held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in that capacity till 1846. From 1827 he was a privy councillor. In 1851 he was made admiral of the See also:fleet, and in 1852, a year before his See also:death, inherited the See also:family baronetcy from his See also:elder See also:brother, being himself succeeded by his brother See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, See also:dean of See also:York, who died in 1858.
See O'Byrne, Naval See also:Biography; W. James, Naval See also:History; See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine for 1853.
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