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About Home Riggs Popham
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH FRS was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is known for his scientific accomplishments, particularly the development of a signal code that was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803.
Everything about Home Riggs Popham →- Occupation
- inventor, politician, diplomat, naval officer
- Position held
- member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 2nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- October 12, 1762, 1762
- Died
- September 11, 1820