Cloudesley Shovell

Sir Cloudesley Shovell (c. November, 1650 – 22 or 23 October 1707), English admiral, was baptised at Cockthorpe in Norfolk, in 1650. Rising through the officer ranks he became a popular British hero, whose celebrated naval career was brought to an end in a disastrous shipwreck in the Isles of Scilly. Member of Parliament for Rochester, Kent, from 1695 until his death.

Family

The unusual Christian name of Cloudesley was derived from his maternal grandmother, who was Lucy Cloudisley daughter of Thomas Cloudisley. His father, John Shovel a gentleman, died in 1753 when Cloudesley was three. He left £100 to each of three sons, Nathaniel, Thomas and Cloudesley. Cloudesley's widowed mother, Anne Jenkinson, remarried to John Flaxman.

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Cloudesley married Elizabeth Hill and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne. Elizabeth married first the first Baron Romney.

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