Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1891

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The following candidates were accepted as naval cadets for the January, 1891 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. 18 Jul 1891, p. 4.

  1. Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 1846
  2. Arthur Pringle, (Stubbington House School) 1677 (b 24 Feb 1877, gunnery Lt., d 28 Apr 1902 in derrick accident in Formidable)
  3. William Rawdon Napier, 1656
  4. George Harold de Peyster Chance, 1607
  5. Alexander Hahnemann Quicke, 1576
  6. Hugh Schomberg Currey, (Stubbington House School) 1501
  7. Arthur Tudor Darley, (Stubbington House School) 1475
  8. Herbert Laurence Edwards, 1474
  9. Alan Montagu Yeats-Brown, 1466
  10. Oswald William Ormsby, 1451
  11. Charles Edward Lloyd Thomas, (Stubbington House School) 1423
  12. John Hutchings, 1390
  13. Edward Harry John Grogan, (Stubbington House School) 1375 (b 14 Nov 1876, Lt. Cdr., ret. unfit 18 Mar 1902, transport duties during War)
  14. Arthur Henry de Kantzow, 1358 (b 20 Jul 1877, torpedo Cdr., ret. unfit 15 Apr 1905, wartime service trawlers/M.Ls., d 6 Mar 1928)
  15. George Plunkett England, 1368
  16. Thomas Joseph Croker, 1368 (b 29 Oct 1876, torpedo ret. Capt., d 16 Mar 1956)
  17. George William McOran Campbell, 1344
  18. Robert William Macfie, 1342 (not found at TNA)
  19. John Edgar Gordon, 1339 (b 20 Mar 1877, acting Sub-Lt., resigned 11 Dec 1897)
  20. George William McOran Campbell, 1331
  21. Dennis Cecil Barnard, 1316 (not found at TNA)
  22. James Sandbach Parker, 1295
  23. Sydney Robinson, 1290 (b 18 Sep 1876, nav Cdr. ret, shore service in war, ret 18 Sep 1921)
  24. Clifford Edward Constable, 1278 (b 20 Aug 1876, acting Sub-Lt., resigned o/r 23 Feb 1898)
  25. Wilmot Lawrence L. Palk, 1276
  26. Thomas Hector Molesworth Maurice, 1269
  27. Laurence James Peter Scarlett, 1269 (b 27 Apr 1877, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria)
  28. William Charles O'Grady Cochrane, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1260
  29. John Hamilton Colt Ogilvy, 1259 (b 24 Mar 1877, ret Cdr., ret 18 Mar 1903, war service w/ Inspector of Steel)
  30. Charles Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley, 1254
  31. Hugh Justin Tweedie, 1254
  32. Hugh Edward Holme, 1251
  33. Charles White, 1240
  34. John Octavius Tyler, 1236 (not found at TNA)
  35. George Henry H. Wilkins, 1233
  36. Jan Alastair Campbell, 1228 (not found at TNA)
  37. Bertie Lockton Hird Greenfield, 1227 (b 6 Sep 1876, ret nav Cdr., ret o/r 19 Feb 1909)
  38. William Edward Prowse, 1224 (b 21 Jul 1876, ret Cdr., )
  39. Robert Henry Coppinger, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1210
  40. Walter Fitz Landers, 1208 (not found at TNA)
  41. Norman Hunter Carter, 1193
  42. Louis H. D'Oyly Moule, 1189
  43. Fraser Sumner Stooks, 1189 (b 13 Nov 1876, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria)
  44. Henry Arden Franklyn, 1187 (not found at TNA)
  45. Claude Lionel Cumberlege, 1160
  46. John Henry Florence Carey, 1146 (b 15 Jun 1877, Lt., drunken CM 30 Jul 1909, ret 26 Aug 1909, d 14 Jan 1934)
  47. Francis Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1145 (b 3 Aug 1876, Sub-Lt., d Jan 1898 in capsized boat at Hamilton Bermuda)
  48. William Werden Wilson, 1144
  49. Edward Percy W. Stroud, 1143
  50. Ronald Evered Chilcott, 1119
  51. Alfred Bell Humphery, 1114
  52. Leopold George Darker Way, 1113
  53. Fitzroy Henry Hall, 1104
  54. Andrew William Kerr, 1084
  55. Henry Graham Sherbrooke, 1079
  56. Charles Lionel Brendon, 1068
  57. The Hon. G. H. Edwardes, 1067

The Service Records of Charles Lionel Brendon, Leonard Laurence Peel Willan, William Gilbert Howard and George Henry Holden Holden also seem to indicate they were part of this term.

Footnotes

  1. "Cadetships in the Royal Navy" (News). The Times. Tuesday, 16 December, 1890. Issue 33196, col B, p. 10.
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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.