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Also Known As Sir John Hawkyns
Born 1532 • Plymouth • England
Died November 12, 1595 (aged 63) • Atlantic Ocean? • Puerto Rico

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Sir Richard Grenville
English naval commander
Sir William Monson
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Baron Anson, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1745–46; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
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Robert Blake, portrait miniature by Samuel Cooper; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
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Richard Howe, Earl Howe
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Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, oil painting after a portrait by John Zoffany in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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