William Congreve, 1st baronet
1743–1814
Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, and superintendent of military machines. Created baronet, 1812.
Sources
Burke’s peerage 1849
ODNB s.v. Congreve, William (1772–1828)
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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