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{{Infobox Military Person
|name= Myles Standish
|image=[[Image:MylesStandish.gif]]
|caption= Myles Standish from 1625-1634?
|nickname= Captain Shrimp
|rank= [[Captain (United Kingdom)|Captain]]
|branch= [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|serviceyears= British Army 1601-1618, Plymouth Colony 1620-1656
(contracted; show full)k], Borsconge [Burscough], Wrightington, Maudsley [Mawdesley], Newburrow [Newborough], Crawston [Croston] and the Ile of man [ [[Isle of Man]] ] and given to me as right heire by lawful Decent but Surruptuously Detained from my great Grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standosh [Standish] of Standish. March the 7th 1655 by me Standish.” These lands now make up the Lancashire towns of [[Chorley]] and [[Ormskirk]].

Myles Standish was the deputy governor.

==Notable descendants==

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*[[James Danforth Quayle]] 44th Vice President of the United States
*[[Julia Child]] American entrepreneur and chef of French and French-influenced cuisine|title=Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts 
|work=New England Historic Genealogical Society
*[[Julia Child]] American entrepreneur and chef of French and French-influenced cuisine]],<ref>Fitch, Noel Riley. ''Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child''; New York: Doubleday, 1999; pp. 10.</ref
*[[Deborah Sampson]] Female member of the [[Continental Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]
|title=Genealogical Library of the General Society Mayflower Descendants ⏎
*[[Lafayette S. Foster]] US Senator, 57th [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate]]
*[[Frances Folsom Cleveland]] First Lady, wife of US President [[Grover Cleveland]]

==External links==
*http://www.mylesstandish.org/
*[http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/MylesStandish.php Myles Standish] from MayflowerHistory.com
*[http://www.duxbury.plus.com/standish/Mylespt1.htm Myles Standish article] by Helen Moorwood
*http://www.standish-history.org.uk/history.php?year=1620
*http://www.standish.org.uk/history.php?org=st_family
*[http://www.sail1620.org/discover_biography_myles_standish_born_where_the_state_of_the_question_part_1.shtml ''Myles Standish''] by Dr Jeremy Bangs, PhD.

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{{succession box | before = None | title = [[Military Commander/Plymouth Colony]] | years=1620-1653 | after = Captain [[Thomas Willett]]}}((end box}}

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[[Category:1580s births]]
[[Category:1656 deaths]]
[[Category:Mayflower passengers]]
[[Category:People from Chorley]]
[[Category:Plymouth, Massachusetts]]

[[fr:Myles Standish]]