Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (died 1810)

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Royal Navy officer (1748–1810)

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was a Royal Navy officer. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age, eventually rising from midshipman to lieutenant in the American…