Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1873

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Twenty-two candidates received Naval Cadetsghips after passing examinations, in the following order of merit.[1]

The source article did not mention the prior schooling of the successful candidates.

  1. Reginald Ambrose Cave-Browne-Cave
  2. George John Scott Warrender
  3. George Sarsfield Walsh
  4. Charles McCrea
  5. Hugh Frederick Daubeny
  6. Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy
  7. Henry Walter Sharp
  8. Gerald Charles Adolphe Marescaux
  9. Lionel George Spiridione Hancock
  10. Henry Loftus Tottenham
  11. Robert Charles Evershed
  12. Charles Wilson Fowler
  13. Edward Harrington Martin
  14. Maurice Charles Knight
  15. Alexander Fonnereau Crookshank
  16. Oswald Dundas Grimston
  17. Lord Charles Fitzgerald
  18. James de Courcy Hamilton
  19. Beauchamp St. John Moubray
  20. William Stone Hensley
  21. Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper
  22. Roderick Lombard Mayne

Additionally, Robert Percival Adams is indicated as being in this term, at lowest seniority, in the Navy List of June 1875.

Footnotes

  1. "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Wednesday, 4 December, 1872. Issue 27551, col F, p. 7.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
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1870-1879
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Jan, 1875 | Jul, 1875 | Jan, 1876 | Jul, 1876 | Jan, 1877 | Jul, 1877 | Jan, 1878 | Jul, 1878 | Jan, 1879 | Jul, 1879
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1900-1906
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From September 1903 entries were also made to the Royal Naval College, Osborne under the Selborne Scheme. The Britannia was closed in July 1905 after the May entry, which was sent to Bermuda with the January entry. The following two terms under the old scheme were sent straight to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.