Richard Goodwin Keats
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Admiral of the White Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland, serving from 1813 to 1816.
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HMS London, which Keats captained from 1793 to 1794
Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo on fire at the Second Battle of Algeciras due to Keat's efforts
HMS Superb (right) under Keats at the Battle of San Domingo
1870 painting of the evacuation of La Romana's division
British forces evacuating Walcheren on 30 August 1809
HMS Bellerophon, which brough Keats to Newfoundland
Memorial to Keats at the Greenwich Hospital's chapelAwards 1
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Admiral of the White Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland, serving from 1813 to 1816. In 1821 Keats was made Governor of Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, London. He held the post until his death at Greenwich in 1834. Keats is remembered as a capable and well respected officer, in particular due to his actions at the Algeciras campaign.
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