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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
John Jervis GCB, PC [1] (Meaford Hall, Staffordshire, 9 de janeiro de 1735 — Brentwood, 13 de março de 1823), 1.º Conde de St Vincent, foi um almirante da Marinha Real Britânica e membro do Parlamento do Reino Unido.
A biography of John Jervis, a British naval officer who rose from a humble background to become a prominent admiral and politician. Learn about his early career, his actions in various wars, his promotion to admiral and his legacy.
Há 6 dias · Officer in the British navy, in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the English Channel. Was made Earl of St. Vincent in 1797, after leading the British fleet to victory over the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cape St. Vincent.
John Jervis, 1. er Conde de Saint Vincent (Meaford Hall, 9 de enero de 1735-Rochetts, 14 de marzo de 1823) fue un marino y militar británico, Almirante de la Marina Real y primer lord del Almirantazgo. Vida. Jervis nació en Meaford Hall, Staffordshire, en 1735.
8 de jun. de 2018 · Jervis, John, 1st earl of St Vincent (1735–1823). Promoted earl following his triumph over the Spanish fleet in February 1797, Jervis, son of a crooked Staffordshire lawyer, had an inauspicious start in life.
John Jervis was the second of four children of Swynfen Jervis of Meaford in Stone, Staffordshire. Jervis was educated at Burton-upon-Trent grammar school and at the Reverend Samuel Swinden’s academy in Greenwich from 1742.
