Thomas Pye
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Sir Thomas Pye was an admiral of the Royal Navy who served during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence. He was briefly Member of Parliament for Rochester, and served as commander of several of the navy's principal stations and ports.
Pye in a memorial he dedicated to his father Henry c. 1762, at All Saints' Church, Faringdon
Admiral Thomas Mathews, 1743, by Claude Arnulphy. Pye served under Mathews in the Mediterranean during the 1740s
The Battle of Ushant, by Théodore Antoine Gudin. The battle led to a bitter dispute between Keppel and Palliser, with Pye presiding over Keppel's court martial
Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)
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Rochester was a parliamentary constituency in Kent. It returned two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one seat.
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