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Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet.
British naval officer and colonial governor (1757-1830)
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About Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet, GCB was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the siege of Pondicherry in India during the American Revolutionary War. After taking command of the fifth-rate HMS Success he captured and then destroyed the Spanish frigate Santa Catalina in the Strait of Gibraltar in the action of 16 March 1782 later in that War.
Everything about Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet →- Occupation
- politician, naval officer
- Position held
- member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 2nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- January 18, 1757
- Died
- September 6, 1830, August 31, 1830