, English admiral. Governor of Newfoundland (1749-52); M.P. (1751); reduced Martinique and took St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent (1762); commander in chief at Jamaica (1771-74) and Leeward Islands (1779); admiral (1778); captured Spanish convoy off Cape Finisterre (1780), and off Cape St. Vincent took seven ships out of eleven (1780); seized Dutch settlements in West Indies (1781); captured seven ships and de Grasse himself in brilliant victory off Dominica (Apr. 12, 1782); raised to peerage, pensioned, lived in retirement.