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21 Records
1762–1953 Date range
16 Named people
11 Places
Chronological records 1762 Robert Clive Plessey, 1st 1762
Plessey · Warfare / Military
Created Baron Clive of Plessey
1764 George Brydges Rodney Rodney, 1st 1764
Warfare / Military
Rodney is created a Baronet
1782 George Brydges Rodney Rodney, 1st 19 June 1782
Warfare / Military
Created Baron Rodney of Rodney Stoke, Somerset, by patent, and the House of Commons vote him a pension of 2000 pounds a year
1796 Samuel Hood Hood, 1st 1796
Whitley · Warfare / Military
Created Viscount Hood of Whitley
1797 John Jervis St Vincent 1797
St Vincent · Warfare / Military
Created Earl of St Vincent, after the Battle of St Vincent
1799 Horatio Nelson 1799
Bronte · Warfare / Military
Created Duke of Bronte by the King of Naples.
1809 Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st 4 September 1809
Talavera · Warfare / Military
Created Viscount Wellington of Talavera
1812 Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st February 1812
Rodrigo · Warfare / Military
Created Duque de Ciudad de Rodrigo
Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st February 1812
Wellington · Warfare / Military
Created Earl of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st 18 August 1812
Wellington · Warfare / Military
Created Marquess of Wellington
1852 Fitzroy Somerset Raglan, 1st 20 October 1852
Warfare / Military
Created Baron Raglan
1916 Sturdee 1916
Warfare / Military
Created Baron Sturdee
1919 Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, 1st 6 August 1919
Warfare / Military
Created Viscount Allenby, 1st
David Beatty Beatty, 1st 6 August 1919
Warfare / Military
Created Earl Beatty, 1st
Julian Hedworth George Byng Vimy, 1st 1919
Warfare / Military
Created Baron Byng of Vimy, 1st
Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st 1919
Bemersyde · Warfare / Military
Created Earl of Bemersyde, 1st
Horne Stirkoke, 1st 1919
Stirkoke · Warfare / Military
Created Baron Stirkoke, 1st
1925 John Rushworth Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st 1925
London · Warfare / Military
Created Earl Jellicoe, 1st
1926 Julian Hedworth George Byng Vimy, 1st 1926
Vimy · Warfare / Military
Created Viscount Byng of Vimy, 1st
1929 Robert Baden-Powell Baden-Powell, 1st 1929
Warfare / Military
Created Baron Baden-Powell, 1st
1953 Arthur Travers Harris Harris, 1st 1953
Warfare / Military
Created Baronet Harris, 1st
Names involved Arthur Travers Harris Harris, 1st Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st David Beatty Beatty, 1st Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby, 1st Fitzroy Somerset Raglan, 1st George Brydges Rodney Rodney, 1st Horatio Nelson Horne Stirkoke, 1st John Jervis St Vincent John Rushworth Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Julian Hedworth George Byng Vimy, 1st Robert Baden-Powell Baden-Powell, 1st Robert Clive Plessey, 1st Samuel Hood Hood, 1st Sturdee
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