Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1880

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Twenty-seven candidates for naval cadetships were accepted for the January, 1880 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

  1. Norman Craig Palmer
  2. Gordon Colquhoun Fraser
  3. John Edwin Russell Oldnall (died as Lt. Nov 1891, thrown from his horse)
  4. Cecil Irby Prowse
  5. Charles FitzGerald Sowerby
  6. Thomas Legge Barnardiston
  7. Charles George Bolton (recorded as "Charles Bolton" in The Times, died as Lt. 28 Oct 1900)
  8. Alfred Richard Lane Hayward (withdrawn from service in 1885 as Midshipman)
  9. Aylmer Charles Lockhart Cameron (died as Lt. in Malta of "Typhilitis" 23 Jul 1893)
  10. Edward Guy Wright Davy
  11. Victor Albert Stanley
  12. William Edmund Goodenough
  13. Harold K. Gregson
  14. George Cuthbert Cayley
  15. Louis Wentworth Pakington Chetwynd (recorded in The Times as "Lewis Wentworth Chetwynd", died as retired Capt. 18 Apr 1914)
  16. Ernest Clifford Hardy
  17. Henry Durand Baker (discharged 1887 for twice failing to pass exams)
  18. Leonard Coryton Lister
  19. William A. Rushworth
  20. Edward Francis Bruen
  21. Cole Cortlandt Fowler
  22. Thomas Webster Kemp
  23. Frederick Charles Ashley Ogilvy
  24. Robert A. Sinclair
  25. Clement Cooper Horne (retired Capt., suicide while of unsound mind 18 Nov 1919)
  26. Philip Harvey Munro (drowned as Lt. in the loss of H.M.S. Victoria, 1893)
  27. John Hamilton Fildes (died as Sub Lt. at Montevideo 20 June, 1890)

Fives candidates were unsuccessful, but would be entitled to a second try.

  1. Arthur Osborne D'Arcy would be accepted in July 1880
  2. Charles J. I. Ker
  3. Henry Arthur Beverley Shrubb would be accepted in July 1880
  4. Adrian George Allgood would be accepted in July 1880
  5. Charles E. Elers (may be Charles Blois Miller, who was accepted in July 1880)

Footnotes

  1. "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Dec 06, 1879; pg. 5; Issue 29744.
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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.