Keppel

Keppel, SIR HENRY, British admiral, a younger son of the fourth Earl of Albemarle, was born 14th June 1809. He saw service as captain during the war against China in 1842, and in the campaign against the pirates of the East Indian Archipelago shortly afterwards. During the Crimean war he commanded a vessel in the Baltic and Black Seas, and finally the operations of the naval brigade before Sebastopol. In 1857 he took an important part in the destruction of the Chinese fleet in Fatsian Bay. He was promoted to be vice-admiral in 1867, full admiral in 1869, a G.C.B. in 1871, and admiral of the fleet in 1877. Sir Henry Keppel has written Expedition to Borneo with Rajah Brooke's Journal (3d ed. 1847), Visit to the Indian Archipelago (1853), and A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns (1899).