Keppel, Augustus, Viscount, son of the Earl of Albemarle; entered the navy, and was in several engagements between 1757 and 1778; when encountering the French off Ushant he quarrelled with his second-in-command and let them escape; was court-martialled, but acquitted; he was afterwards First Lord of the Admiralty (1725‒1786).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kepler's Laws * Ker, Dr. John