Lord Anson
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Empires, Dynasties, British Empire, Ships, Naval History, Aristocracy, Aristocrats, Nobles
- Curriculum: British History, 18th Century European History
Article abstract: Through his achievements on active service at sea and at the Admiralty ashore, Anson was instrumental in making British naval predominance one of the major legacies of the wars of the mid-eighteenth century.
Early Life
George Anson was born on April 23, 1697, in his family’s country house at Shugborough, Staffordshire, the second son of a gentry family with strong legal connections. Little is known of his boyhood or early education. In 1712, at the age of fifteen, he entered the Royal Navy as a volunteer in time to see action in the...
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