Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1890

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Examinations held on 26 November and successive days produced the following sixty-two successful candidates for naval cadetships in the January, 1890 term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

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. 3 May 1890, p. 4.

  1. Harold Gordon Jackson, 1770
  2. Claude Seymour, (Eastman's Academy) 1767
  3. Alan Geoffrey Hotham, 1707
  4. Oliver Elles Leggett, 1704
  5. Oliver Backhouse, 1680
  6. Herbert Frederick Guinness, 1672 (b 22 Jan 1876, Lt. Cdr., resigned 10 Jan 1898, emergency list, wartime service, d 30 May 1922)
  7. Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster, 1659
  8. Francis Richard Martin White, 1636 (b 4 Jul 1876, gun Capt. ret, ret o/r 18 Jan 1910, m/s trawler work in war, d 9 Apr 1929)
  9. Henry Peel Ritchie, 1603
  10. Henry Needham, 1584 (not found at TNA)
  11. Percy Johnson, (Eastman's Academy) 1572
  12. Arthur Lucas Ashby, 1523
  13. The Hon. Ralph Cecil North Gathorne-Hardy, 1514 (b 19 Mar 1876, Cdr., d 30 Dec 1911 septic wound rt hand)
  14. Herbert Reginald Norbury, 1494
  15. Henry Edgar Grace, 1485
  16. Sir August Bernard Tellessen Cayzer, Bart., 1460 (b 21 Jan 1876, Lt. Cdr., resigned 18 Oct 1904, emergency list, d 28 Feb 1943)
  17. Hugh John Orr, 1448 (Colonial Hugh JAMES Orr? else not found at TNA)
  18. Seymour Fisher Rowe, 1448
  19. John Frederick Knox, 1435 (b 25 Mar 1876, nav Capt. ret, ret o/r 14 Feb 1911, war service)
  20. Philip Henry James, 1430 (b 2 Aug 1875, Mid, dismissed service by CM 2 Jun 1898 falsifying accounts)
  21. Perceval Drought Lock, 1408 (b 26 Aug 1876, nav Lt., resigned Jul 1905 to avoid CM)
  22. Frank Edward Mervyn Roe, 1383
  23. Evelyn Leonard Beridge Boothby, 1374
  24. Basil Geoffrey Spicer Simson, 1366
  25. Arthur John Ross, 1360 (not found at TNA)
  26. Percy Beauchamp Astley Cooper, 1348
  27. William Armitage Cooke-Hurle, 1338
  28. Arthur Francis Thomas, (Eastman's Academy) 1338 (not found at TNA)
  29. Denis Granville Thynne, 1329
  30. John Kiddle, (Eastman's Academy) 1327
  31. Edmund Henry Jellicoe, 1323
  32. Gerard J. B. Rogers, 1317
  33. Casper Boucher Ballard, (Eastman's Academy) 1316
  34. Walter Hose, 1316
  35. Frederick Noel Fargus, 1311
  36. George Vincent Wallace Carey, 1303
  37. Cecil George Chichester, 1301
  38. Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, (Eastman's Academy) 1293
  39. Dennis Augustus Hugo Larking, 1281
  40. George Douglas Jephson, 1280
  41. Basil Vernon Brooke, 1258
  42. Sandford Grant Radcliffe Nevile, 1254
  43. Henry Winchester Richards, 1243 (b 26 Jan 1876, Mid, resigned 16 Jan 1894)
  44. Harold Goodwin Innes, 1243
  45. Humphrey Finch Dawson, 1242
  46. Michael Henley Wilding, 1235
  47. William Munro Kerr, 1230
  48. Ernest Augustus Taylor, 1217
  49. Herbert Marsden Lanyon, 1216 (b 14 Aug 1876, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 loss of Victoria)
  50. Henry Percy Valentine Hickman, 1208
  51. Reginald Charles Lloyd Owen, 1206
  52. Francis Oswald Barker, 1205 (not found at TNA)
  53. Archibald Thomas Stewart, 1203
  54. Frederick Parland Loder-Symonds, 1197
  55. Arthur Bromley, 1194
  56. Cecil Rice Nicholl, (Eastman's Academy) 1194
  57. Stanley Ray Miller, 1188
  58. Eustace John Smith, 1183 (not found at TNA)
  59. Montagu Hotham Lubbock, 1181 (b 11 May 1876, Lt., retired unfit July 1904, d 22 Jul 1926)
  60. Lockhart Leith, 1175
  61. Basil James Snowdon, 1153 (b 8 May 1876, nav Cdr., ret 28 Aug 1913 to avoid CM)
  62. Harry Rowlandson Godfrey, 1143

The Eastman's advertisement also mentions Leslie Menzies (b 18 May 1876, Cdr., ret 8 Oct 1903 unfit, boom defence, d 7 Dec 1927) as being 63rd in rank with 1127 marks.

Additionally, Philip Francis Knox (not found at TNA) gained a Colonial Cadetship with 682 marks.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 17, 1889; pg. 7; Issue 32884.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
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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.
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