Digby Dent (Royal Navy officer, died 1761)

Commodore Digby Dent (c. 1700 - 5 June 1761) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.

Digby Dent
Commodore Digby Dent by Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Bornc. 1700
Died5 June 1761
Allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch Royal Navy
RankCommodore
Commands heldHMS Kinsale
HMS Hampton Court
Jamaica Station
HMS Queenborough
Battles/warsWar of Jenkins' Ear
Third Carnatic War

Born the son of Commodore Digby Dent (died 1737), Dent was promoted to post captain on 9 June 1738 on appointment to the command of the fifth-rate HMS Kinsale.[1] He transferred to the command of the third-rate HMS Hampton Court in 1739 and saw action in operations against Santiago de Cuba during the War of Jenkins' Ear.[1] Promoted to commodore, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1747[2] and Comptroller of the Navy in 1756[3] before taking command of the sixth-rate HMS Queenborough in July 1758 and seeing action at the Battle of Negapatam in August 1758 during the Third Carnatic War.[1]

Dent married Sophia Pitt Drake.[4]

gollark: Are you trying to golf it or something?
gollark: Move it to just after the %?
gollark: Yes, 1.1 isn't part of the formatting code so it just prints the float then that.
gollark: Writing a bare metal microkernel in Haskell is not very practical.
gollark: > I never tried it. It's nice that it has these safety features but I prefer C++ still. > If I want to be sure that my program is free of bugs, I can write a formal specification and do a > correctness proof with the hoare calculus in some theorem proofer (People did that for the seL4 microkernel, which is free from bugs under some assumptions and used in satellites, nuclear power plants and such)Didn't doing that for seL4 require several hundred thousand lines of proof code?

References
  1. "Digby Dent". Three Decks. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. Cundall, p. xx
  3. Clowes, William (1898). "The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present". Sampson Low Marston. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  4. "Commodore Digby Drake". Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

Sources
Military offices
Preceded by
Cornelius Mitchell		 Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station
1747		 Succeeded by
Charles Knowles
Preceded by
Charles Saunders		 Comptroller of the Navy
1756		 Succeeded by
George Cockburne
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