Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (died 1786)

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

Royal Navy officer and politician (1725–1786)

Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, PC was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782. He saw action in command of various ships, including the fourth-rate Maidstone, during the War of the Austrian Succession. He went on to…