where did captain james cook grow up?
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 He spent most of his early life in Richmond and at Kew Palace , where he was educated by private tutors . At the age of thirteen , he joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman , and was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780 . His experiences in the navy seem to have been little different from those of other midshipmen , though in contrast to other sailors he was accompanied on board ships by a tutor . He did his share of the cooking and got arrested with his shipmates after a drunken brawl in Gibraltar ; he was hastily released from custody after his identity became known . 

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 At the age of thirteen Jervis ran away and joined the navy at Woolwich , London . After a short time he returned home as he had heard his family were very upset at his disappearance . Lady Jane Hamilton ( mother of Sir William Hamilton ) and Lady Burlington became aware of Jervis ' desire to join the navy and lobbied his family on his behalf . Eventually they introduced the Jervis family to Admiral George Townshend who agreed to take the boy aboard one of his ships . 

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 George grew into a healthy but reserved and shy child . The family moved to Leicester Square , where George and his younger brother Prince Edward , Duke of York and Albany , were educated together by private tutors . Family letters show that he could read and write in both English and German , as well as comment on political events of the time , by the age of eight . He was the first British monarch to study science systematically . Apart from chemistry and physics , his lessons included astronomy , mathematics , French , Latin , history , music , geography , commerce , agriculture and constitutional law , along with sporting and social accomplishments such as dancing , fencing , and riding . His religious education was wholly Anglican . At age 10 George took part in a family production of Joseph Addison 's play Cato and said in the new prologue : " What , tho ' a boy ! It may with truth be said , A boy in England born , in England bred " . Historian Romney Sedgwick argued that these lines appear " to be the source of the only historical phrase with which he is associated " . 

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 James , the second surviving son of King Charles I and his wife , Henrietta Maria of France , was born at St. James 's Palace in London on 14 October 1633 . Later that same year , he was baptised by William Laud , the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury . He was educated by private tutors , along with his brother , the future King Charles II , and the two sons of the Duke of Buckingham , George and Francis Villiers . At the age of three , James was appointed Lord High Admiral ; the position was initially honorary , but would become a substantive office after the Restoration , when James was an adult . 

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 Of humble origin , uneducated , and fatherless from a young age , he watched over his family 's flock of sheep before apprenticing to a shipbuilder near his home in present @-@ day Maine . He moved to Boston to start a business building ships and soon began to embark on treasure @-@ hunting expeditions to the West Indies . He became famous in London and Boston for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon , a feat that earned him instant wealth and a knighthood . 
