CLINTON, Admiral George Second son of Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, by his second wife Susan Penniston of Oxfordshire, England. He became captain in the Navy, 1716; in 1732 he was Governor of New Foundland and Commodore of the squadron there; in 1737, Commodore of the Mediterranean fleet, and was commissioned as Governor of New York in 1741. He held that office until 1753, when he retired, it is reported, with ~80,000 sterling, accumulated in that office. On his return to England he became Governor of Greenwich Hospital and a member of Parliament. He died in 1761.