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Description: | A half-length portait, slightly to the left, showing Keith in his captain's uniform of the 1767-74 pattern. He is wearing a grey wig; sky forms the background.
Basil Keith was the second son of Robert Keith (c. 1697?1774), a prominent diplomat, and the younger brother of Sir Robert Murray Keith (1730?95), an army officer and diplomat. Basil Keith joined the Navy, being promoted lieutenant on 13 November 1756 and serving in the ?Badger?. He became commander on 18 October 1758 and was appointed to the ?Dover?. Made captain on 11 April 1760, he commanded the ?Amazon?, the ?Levant?, the ?Preston? and the ?Pearl?. On 10 June 1772 he was made Knight Bachelor and appointed governor of Jamaica, arriving in the island to assume the post in January 1774. He died there in 1777 and a monument by Joseph Wilton (1722?1803) was erected at St Catherine's Parish Church in Spanish Town in his honour.
Depiction association: has also been called Mariot Arbuthnot and Sir Peter Denis. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Basil Keith paintings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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