Admiral Sir James Scott, KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (18 June 1790 – 2 March 1872), was a British officer in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. He served in the Napoleonic Wars

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, War of 1812

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, and the First Opium War

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Scott joined the Royal Navy in August 1803 on board HMS Phaeton under Captain George Cockburn

George Cockburn

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet GCB was a British naval commander of the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries. He held important commands during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and eventually rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord.-Naval...

. On 3 May 1819, he married Caroline Ann. He was promoted to Captain on 8 January 1828. He wrote the three-volume Recollections of Naval Life (1834). On 29 June 1841, Scott was nominated a CB. He was promoted to Admiral on 10 February 1865. He was made a KCB on 10 November 1862. He died at Cheltenham

Cheltenham

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, England, on 2 March 1872.