He commanded the third-rate HMS Lancaster at the siege of Louisbourg in June 1758 during the French and Indian War.
Robert Man was born in 1721 and baptised at St Mary's, Chatham on 2 July of that year.
He is listed in three ships commanded by his father, Captain Robert Man (1675-1745), these being a mixture of the usual fiction and fact.
[2] Whilst in command of Cornwall, he took on board the orphaned son of his cousin, another Captain Robert Man (1720-1762), and did much to promote his career.
[3] Man became commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station in 1769[4] and established a naval hospital at Antigua.