Admiral Richard, Earl of Howe' mb-code U1553220 Side view of the skull

Side view of the skull of a seal 'from the South Seas' in the collections of the British Museum

The driver was not sheltered by a hood or a windsreen

outside the Mayfair Hotel

possibly snow or ash

Built by John Smeaton 1n 1756-59

Admiral Richard, Earl of Howe' mb-code U1553220 Side view of the skull'Admiral Richard, Earl of Howe', 1794, (c1920). Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, British admiral, (1726 1799) commanded the English fleet that decisively defeated the French in the Battle of Ushant (the Glorious First of June) in 1794. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume III, Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s).