George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith

George Elphinstone, later Viscount Keith, was a British admiral of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In 1795 he commanded the fleet that, with troops under James Craig, took the Cape from the Dutch, and in 1796 he captured a Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay. He later commanded in the Mediterranean and the Channel and oversaw Napoleon's transfer to St Helena in 1815.