Edmund Nagle
| Sir Edmund Nagle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1757 Bloomfield, County Cork |
| Died | 14 March 1830 East Molesey, Surrey |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
|
| Years of service | 1770–1830 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars • Action of 21 October 1794 Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, KCB (1757 – 14 March 1830) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who is best known for his capture of the French frigate Révolutionnaire at the Action of 21 October 1794 and his close association with King George IV as a courtier from 1820 to his own death.
Edmund Nagle was born in 1757 at Bloomfield, County Cork in the Kingdom of Ireland. His father, Edmund Nagle Sr. died when his son was only six and Nagle was raised by relatives including the politician and philosopher Edmund Burke. In 1770, Nagle entered the Navy in the frigate Juno and was present at the British occupation of the Falkland Islands the following year. He served in the American Revolutionary War without seeing extensive action, on Greenwich, Syren, Polecat, and Warwick until he was captured in 1782 when commanding the small brig Racoon. He was recaptured in September by Warwick, and at the end of the war entered the reserve after briefly commanding Hound and Grana.
Nagle returned to active service in 1793 at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars and commanded first Active and then Artois with a detached squadron of frigates from the Channel Fleet commanded by Commodore Sir Edward Pellew. It was with this force that Artois was cruising off the French Channel coast when the French frigate Révolutionnaire was discovered. The squadron gave chase, Nagle catching the larger French ship and fighting her until support arrived. Révolutionnaire surrendered, and in 1794 Nagle was made a Knight Bachelor for his service in capturing her. He remained in command of Artois until 1797, when the frigate was wrecked on the French coast in pursuit of an enemy ship.
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