Jonathan Faulknor The Elder
Jonathan Faulknor (d. 24 June 1795) was another son of Samuel Faulknor. He was promoted to lieutenant on 24 August 1753, and to commander on 28 September 1758, and commanded the bomb ketch Furnace, under Commodore Keppel, in the Gorée expedition. On 9 July 1759, he appears as captain of the 20-gun ship Mercury in the West Indies. In 1767 he was appointed to command of the 74-gun ship Superb, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir John Moore. Faulknor was next appointed to the 74-gun Royal Oak in 1777; and in 1778 sailed under the flag of Admiral Keppel, as second captain of the 104-gun Victory. In 1782 he was appointed to the 98-gun Princess Royal, and sailed with Lord Howe's fleet to the relief of Gibraltar. He afterwards continued in the Princess Royal as a guardship at Portsmouth; and was appointed to the 74-gun Triumph on the same service. Faulknor was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral of the white on 24 September 1787; rear-admiral of the red on 21 September 1790; vice-admiral of the blue, 1 February 1793; vice of the white, 12 April 1794; vice of the red, 12 July 1794; and finally admiral of the blue on 1 June 1795. On receiving his last promotion, he travelled to London from his home in Havant to be presented to the King. On the morning of 23 June 1795 he was struck with a fit of apoplexy, and died the next day.
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