1 Author’s Original Version. This article was published in Historical Research, 88 (2015), 272-90, published by Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.12089 Religion, politics and patronage in the late- Hanoverian Navy, c. 1780-c. 1820 1 Author: Dr Gareth Atkins Affiliations: Research Fellow and Director of Studies in History Magdalene College Cambridge Postdoctoral Fellow, Bible & Antiquity Project Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities University of Cambridge Work address: Magdalene College Cambridge CB3 0AG Work telephone: (01223) 746540 E-mail address: ga240@cam.ac.uk 1 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n° 295463.