Graves Thomas Graves

Graves, Thomas Graves, first Lord, a distinguished British admiral, was second son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves, of Thancks, Cornwall, and was born in 1725. He served under his father at the attack on Cartagena by Admiral Vernon, and in the Eemney, 50, in the action of February, 1743, as-well as in Anson's victory and Hawkes victory in 1747. Promoted to be captain in 1755, he acted with vigour against the privateers until he was made Governor of Newfoundland, in which position he drove off the French under M. de Ternay. In 1779 he reached flag-rank, and in 1781

fought a gallant but indecisive action with the Comte de Grasse in Lynn Haven Bay. On his way home, in the following year, his flagship, the Ramillies, 74, suffered so severely that she had to be abandoned and destroyed, and several other vessels of the fleet Were lost, owing to the frightful nature of the weather encountered. He was afterwards port-admiral at Portsmouth, and in 1794, under Earl Howe, w-as second in command at the great victory of June 1st, and was severely wounded.

He was rewarded with an Irish peerage. He died an Admiral of the White in 1802.