Sir Basil Keith (1734 – 15 November 1777) was a British naval officer and Governor of Jamaica. He was born the second son of diplomat

Robert Murray Keith Robert Murray Keith (died 1774) was a British diplomat. He was descended from a younger son of the 2nd Earl Marischal. Keith was minister in Vienna in 1748 and from 1753 Minister-plenipotentiary. In 1757, he transferred to St. Petersburg (arriv ...

and the younger brother of Lieutenant-General Robert Keith. Keith joined the Navy, and was promoted lieutenant in 1756 while serving in . He was raised to commander in 1758 and appointed to . He was finally promoted captain in 1760 and given command in turn of , , and .

He was knighted on 10 June 1772 and appointed Governor of Jamaica in February 1773, taking up his post in January 1774. He died in Jamaica in 1777 and a large marble monument by sculptor

Joseph Wilton Joseph Wilton (16 July 1722 – 25 November 1803) was an English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and the academy's third keeper. His works are particularly numerous memorialising the famous Britons ...

was erected in his honour in 1780 at St Catherine's Parish Church (St Jago de la Vega church) in the old capital of Spanish Town.

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