Ralph Delaval
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Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval was a Royal Navy officer. He was a member of a junior branch of the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Delaval was born at Dissington Hall, Ponteland, an estat
c. 1692 portrait of Delaval
Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer at the Battle of Solebay during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he served
Ralph Delaval
…to 1693, are preserved in the archives of the New York Public Library. In 1693, Delaval, along with Henry Killigrew and Cloudesley Shovell replaced Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford as commander-in-chief. However, in the summer the French isolated and inflicted severe damage on the Smyrna convoy near Lagos, Portugal, for which…
Portrait by Thomas Gibson, c. 1715
The Battle of Solebay, where Russell saw action as a junior officer
Chippenham Park, Russell's home in Cambridgeshire
Painting by Godfrey Kneller showing Orford (left) with Admiral John Benbow and Admiral Ralph Delaval