George Anson, Baron Anson
1697–1762
Naval officer and politician. Circumnavigated the globe, 1740–4. Created Baron Anson of Soberton, 1747. First lord of the Admiralty, 1751–6, 1757–62. Admiral of the fleet, 1761.
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Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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