Hawke, Lord, an English admiral, born in London; entered the navy at an early age in 1747; defeated a French fleet off Finisterre and captured six ships of the line in 1759; defeated Admiral Conflans off Belleisle; was made a peer in 1776; (d. 1781).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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