George Delaval

[2] On his return as Captain Delaval in May 1700, he took command of the newly commissioned 4th rate man of war HMS Tilbury.

In 1707 he was envoy to Lisbon and, in 1708, concluded an agreement with Ismail Ibn Sharif, the Sultan of Morocco, not to molest each other's ships.

[1] Delaval was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for West Looe, Cornwall at the 1715 general election.

[5] He retained the services of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh and began an ambitious rebuilding of Seaton Delaval Hall.

The site of the accident was marked by the erection of an obelisk, the base of which survives to the west of the hall, next to the turning to New Hartley.