Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (9 January 1735–14 March 1823) was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Jervis was born at Meaford, Staffordshire, and entered the Navy in 1749. He reached the rank of Lieutenant in 1755 and took part in the conquest of Quebec in 1759. In 1760 he was promoted to Post-Captain, and commanded various ships in the Mediterranean and the English Channel. HMS Alarm, under his command from Febru...
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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (9 January 1735–14 March 1823) was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Jervis was born at Meaford, Staffordshire, and entered the Navy in 1749. He reached the rank of Lieutenant in 1755 and took part in the conquest of Quebec in 1759. In 1760 he was promoted to Post-Captain, and commanded various ships in the Mediterranean and the English Channel. HMS Alarm, under his command from February 1769, was saved from being wrecked in a storm off Marseille on 1 May 1770 by the French harbourmaster Georges René Le Peley de Pléville, and Jervis returned to Marseille in her to give him a letter of thanks from the Lords of the Admiralty. Jervis served as Captain throughout the War of American Independence, and fought in the Battle of Ushant in 1778.
Jervis was made a Knight of the Bath after his capture of the French ship Pégase in 1782, and the following year he entered Parliament, representing Launceston (and later Yarmouth and...
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