George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
- George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle KG PC (8 April 1724 – 13 October 1772), styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British soldier nobleman.
Bury was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards in 1738. He became a captain-lieutenant of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons in 1741, and a captain-lieutenant of the Coldstreams on 7 April 1743. He was appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland in February 1745, and was promoted to captain and lieutenant-colonel on 27 May 1745. The next year, he was promoted colonel and made ADC to the King on 24 April 1746.
Bury was returned as Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1746. He was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Cumberland in 1748, a post he held until the Duke's death in 1765. On 1 November 1749, he was given the colonelcy of the 20th Regiment of Foot. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1754; his younger brother Augustus replaced him as MP for Chichester.
On 8 April 1755, he became colonel of the 3rd (The King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons. He was promoted major-general on 1 February 1756 and lieutenant-general on 1 April 1759. He was appointed Governor of Jersey on 26 January 1761 and sworn a Privy Counsellor on 28 January.
Keppel was the commander-in-Chief of the invasion and occupation of Havana and west Cuba in 1762. His younger brothers, Capt. Augustus and Col. William Keppel, both took part in the expedition as well. After a difficult siege, wherein the troops suffered heavily from yellow fever, Morro Castle was taken and Havana fell into British hands.
Keppel was made a Knight of the Garter in 1765 was appointed Keeper of Bagshot Park in 1766. In 1770, he married Anne Miller, daughter of Sir John Miller, 4th Baronet by whom he had a son, William Charles (1772–1849). He was made a general on 26 May 1772, and died in October of that year.
External links
* [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?ID=BHC0408 The Capture of Havana, 1762 Greenwich maritime museum]
References
*cite book | last=Doyle | first=James William Edmund | title=The Official Baronage of England | place=London | publisher=Longmans, Green | year=1885 | page=35 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=B-kIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23 | accessdate=2008-06-14
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