Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1889

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The following candidates were accepted as Naval Cadets, having earned the following marks in examinations held on 28 November, 1888 and successive days.[1]

The article did not mention their prior schooling, but the prior education noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 29 Dec 1888, p. 1.

  1. Rupert Stanley Williams, 1321
  2. Audley Wells Morton, 1279
  3. Herbert Neville Garnett, 1262
  4. Reginald Gay Copleston, 1250
  5. Otto Herman Stahlknecht, 1240
  6. Henry George Robinson Bevan, (Stubbington House School) 1239
  7. Charles Stuart Pollock, 1205 (not found at TNA)
  8. Spencer Reginald Strettell Richards, 1203
  9. Charles Archibald Wise Wrightson, 1135
  10. Arthur Vyell Vyvyan, 1167
  11. Charles Horace McMullin, 1163
  12. Bernard John Hamilton Ward, 1135
  13. Eric Valentine Frederick Radclyffe Dugmore, 1125
  14. Francis Henry Grenfell, 1104 (b 8 Dec 1874, Capt ret, d 29 Apr 1946)
  15. Claud Denison Burney, 1097 (b 20 Dec 1874, Lt., CM dismissed drunk 22 May 1902, d accident 20 Dec 1903)
  16. Gerald Vivian Cuff Knox, 1096
  17. Neville Whitburn Martyn, 1092 (b 11 Jul 1875, Mid, d 3 Jan 1892 at RNH Malta typhoid fever)
  18. Henry Gerald Elliot Lane, 1091
  19. Charles William Bruton, 1078 (tie)
  20. Charles Laverock Lambe, 1078 (tie)
  21. Arthur de Kewer Livius May, (Stubbington House School) 1067
  22. William Charles Castle, 1063
  23. Thomas Charles Alfred Blomefield, 1055
  24. Robert Hugh Bogle, 1051 (b 15 Mar 1875, Lt. Cdr. ret, ret non-service 11 Mar 1909, d 9 May 1926)
  25. John [?] Woodmass, 1042
  26. David Monteith Hamilton, 1034
  27. Edward Louis Delmar Morgan, 1023 (b. , Lt., suicide 15 Aug 1900 by jumping from topmast of H.M.S. Majestic)[2]
  28. Alan John Alington, (Stubbington House School) 1011 (not found at TNA)
  29. Malcolm Alfred Kennard, (Stubbington House School) 991
  30. Quentin Charles Alexander Craufurd, 981
  31. Osmond James Prentis, 971
  32. Percy Crabtree, (Stubbington House School) 950
  33. Leslie Inglis, (Stubbington House School) 943 (b 5 Apr 1875, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria)
  34. Stanley Lyte Willis, (Stubbington House School) 933
  35. Lancelot Napier Turton, (Stubbington House School) 931
  36. Ernest Stevenson, 900
  37. Peter James Fonnereau, 898 (not found at TNA)
  38. Clement Henry Cox, (Stubbington House School) 892 (not found at TNA)
  39. Robert Atkinson Harden, 878 (not found at TNA)
  40. William Henry Ingilby, 868 (not found at TNA)
  41. George Evelyn Perreau, 864 (b 12 Sep 1875, Sub-Lt., ill, d 26 Jan 1897)
  42. Arthur Persse Pollok, 784 (b 26 Dec 1874, Mid, resigned 5 Apr 1893)
  43. Basil Edward Maynard Waters, 732
  44. Bernhard Alexander Pratt-Barlow, 726 (would not join until July, 1889)
  45. Cecil Henry Paulet, 636 (not found at TNA)

The source article did not contain information on prior schooling.

Additionally, Cyril Samuel Townsend (Stubbington House School) received a Service Cadetship with 743 marks.

Footnotes

  1. "Cadetships In The Navy." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 18, 1888; pg. 10; Issue 32572.
  2. Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle (Portsmouth, England), 18 Aug 1900 p. 8.
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