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Jan 18, 1781 Died on 21 Mar 1840 (aged 59)
Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Also a naval reformer.
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About John Phillimore
- Sir John Phillimore CB (18 January 1781 – 21 March 1840) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- He was involved in several notable actions during his active career, taking part in both Battles of Copenhagen, sending Sir Hyde Parker's famous signal to Nelson in the first, and fighting off Danish gunboats in the second.
- He went on to win a hard-fought victory over a French frigate in 1814 and reaped the rewards.
- He was at times a controversial figure, causing a scandal when he thrashed the naval historian William James with a stick for apparently badly representing Phillimore's conduct, and on another occasion inviting rebuke from the Navy Board for his request for more paint for his ship.
- He nevertheless became an aide-de-camp to the young Queen Victoria, and took important steps to reform how the lower ranks and ordinary seamen were treated in the Navy.
