Alexander Graeme
{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral (1741–1818)}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Alexander Graeme
|birth_date=9 December 1741
|death_date={{Death date and age|df=yes|1818|8|5|1741|12|9}}
|birth_place= Graemeshall, Orkney
|death_place= Edinburgh
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
|serviceyears= {{circa}}1760–1818
|rank= Admiral
|commands=HMS Egmont
HMS Kingfisher
HMS Sphinx
HMS Diamond
HMS Pearl
HMS Tartar
HMS Preston
HMS Glory
Nore Command
|branch=Royal Navy
|battles={{Tree list}}
- Seven Years' War
- Invasion of Martinique
- American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
- Occupation of Rhode Island
- Action of 11 November 1779
- Battle of Dogger Bank{{WIA}}
- French Revolutionary Wars
- Napoleonic Wars
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File:The grave of Admiral Alexander Graeme, Greyfriars Kirkyard.JPG
Admiral Alexander Graeme (9 December 1741 – 5 August 1818) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
Naval career
Born at Graemeshall in Orkney,{{cite web|url=http://inchbrakie.tripod.com/abookofthegraemes/id64.html|title=The Graemes of Graemeshall in Orkney|accessdate=19 December 2015}} Graeme became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Kingfisher in February 1776 and saw action at the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet in June 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.Williams 2008, p. 75 He went on to be commanding officer of the sixth-rate HMS Tartar in July 1779, in which he took part in the action of 11 November 1779, seizing the Spanish 38-gun frigate Santa Margarita off Cape Finisterre.Allen, p. 255 After that he became commanding officer of the fourth-rate HMS Preston, in which he lost his arm during an action off Dogger Bank, in November 1781 and then became commanding officer of the second-rate HMS Glory in January 1795.{{cite web|url=http://www.robertwhitton.eu/person.php?id=11518&fam=1&pat=Graeme|title=Alexander Graeme|publisher=Robert Whitton|accessdate=1 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102010700/http://www.robertwhitton.eu/person.php?id=11518&fam=1&pat=Graeme|archive-date=2 January 2015|url-status=dead}} He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in June 1799 and retired as Admiral of the White.
Graeme lived his later life at 87 Princes Street in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1816-17
Graeme died in Edinburgh on 5 August 1818 aged 76 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of Edinburgh.{{cite web|url=http://blogarchive.rmg.co.uk/memorials/m555/|title=Alexander Graeme|publisher=Maritime Memorials|accessdate=19 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222081851/http://blogarchive.rmg.co.uk/memorials/m555/|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite book| last = Allen| first = Joseph| year = 1853| title = Battles of the British Navy| publisher =H.G. Bohn| volume=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Thomas|title=America's First Flag Officer - Father of the American Navy |year=2008|publisher=AuthorHouse|location=Bloomington, Indiana|isbn=978-1-4343-8653-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oU1bBv_9D-sC&pg=PA75}}
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{{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, The Nore | years=1799–1803 | before=Sir Thomas Pasley| after=Lord Keith}}
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Category:Military personnel from Orkney
Category:Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard
Category:Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War
Category:Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars