Admiral of the Blue George Churchill was an English naval officer, who served as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1699 to 1702 and sat on the Lord High Admirals Council from 1702 to 1708. He was Member of Parliament for St Albans from 1685 to 1708, then Portsmouth from 1708 until his death in 1710.
Churchill's birthplace, Minterne Magna, Dorset
Arabella Churchill; George and his brothers owed their early success to her relationship with James
Prince George of Denmark, George Churchill's close friend and patron
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Admiral Sir Charles Wager was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. Despite heroic active service and steadfast administration and diplomatic service, Wager can be criticized for his failure to deal with an acute manning problem.
Britannia under sail with other men-of-war, in a 1683 painting by Isaac Sailmaker
Sketch of Gibraltar by an officer of Admiral Rooke's fleet on 1 August 1704
Wager's Action off Cartagena, 28 May 1708