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About Richard Goodwin Keats
Admiral of the White Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland, serving from 1813 to 1816. In 1821 Keats was made Governor of Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, London. He held the post until his death at Greenwich in 1834. Keats is remembered as a capable and well respected officer, in particular due to his actions at the Algeciras campaign.
Everything about Richard Goodwin Keats →- Occupation
- privateer, naval officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 16, 1757
- Died
- April 5, 1834