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'Keppel', (1725-1786), 1830. Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786) Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755-1778. He served during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War and was court-martialled and later aquitted following dispute at the Battle of Ushant. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]