Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1900

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Sixty-four candidates were accepted as Naval Cadets in the January, 1900 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia with the following marks received in the competitive entrance examination.[1]

  1. Evan Bruce-Gardyne, 2945 marks
  2. Francis Charles Cadogan, 2853 (b 1 Jan 1885, ret Cdr., WW1 WW2)
  3. Horace Walker, 2834
  4. Arthur Lucius O'Brien, 2808
  5. Crossley Swithinbank, 2759 (b 16 Nov 1884, Lt., resigned 3 Nov 1911)
  6. Richard Hugh Loraine Bevan, 2752
  7. Geoffrey Nepean Biggs and Philip Percival Willis-Fleming (b 30 Mar 1885, Mid, d at sea c. 30 Apr 1902), 2702
  8. above two tied
  9. John Cronyn Tovey, 2697
  10. Robert Craigie Hamilton, 2694 (b 4 Feb 1886, torpedo Lt.-Cdr., CM 31 Jul 1916 indecency with boys)
  11. Ralph Lyall Clayton, 2671
  12. Hugh Alexander Williamson, 2660
  13. John Paget Gibbs, 2605
  14. William Malcolm Martyn Robinson, 2580
  15. Frederick Neville Eardley-Wilmot, 2553
  16. Walter Cecil Tancred, 2625
  17. Archibald Seaburne May, 2485
  18. Frederic Giffard, 2479
  19. William Hewlett, 2478 (b 29 Aug 1884, Lt., resigned 3 Oct 1909 to avoid CM)
  20. Edward Balfour Cloete, 2471
  21. John Henry Dacres Cunningham, 2459
  22. Richard Lloyd Edwards, 2451
  23. John Arthur Mansfield Sturges, 2445 (b 28 Jun 1885, PT Cdr., )
  24. Francis Noel Shearme, 2414 (b 20 Dec 1884, nav Cdr., )
  25. Gerald Berkeley Villiers, 2389 (b 14 Jun 1885, ret signal Capt., WW1 WW2)
  26. Martin Edward Scobell Boissier, 2377 (b 27 Aug 1884, ret signal Capt., WW1 WW2)
  27. Salisbury Hamilton Simpson, 2367
  28. Reginald Anstey Yonge, 2356
  29. Basil d'Auvergne Collings, 2346 (b 24 Sep 1884, nav Lt. Cdr., )
  30. Alan George Despard Twigg, 2340
  31. Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot, 2337
  32. Andrew Wilmot Vere-Hopegood, 2336 (b 1 Oct 1884, Lt., retired unfit 5 Nov 1908, d 27 Dec 1910))
  33. Frank Noel Stagg, 2335
  34. Graham Cunningham Glen, 2333
  35. Edward Osborne Broadley, 2325
  36. Charles James Alexander, 2317 (b 29 Mar 1885, Sub-Lt., resigned 9 Nov 1906 to avoid CM)
  37. Melvill Willis Ward, 2308
  38. Christopher Hooper Philips, 2302
  39. Herbert Call, 2301
  40. Kenneth Faviell Sworder, 2300
  41. Edmond Poole Gabbett, 2284
  42. Horatio Victor Muriel McHardy, 2279
  43. Geoffrey Alfred Luscombe, 2276
  44. Charles Everard Hughes White, 2273
  45. Eric Marsland Groves, 2271 (b 10 Sep 1884, ret Lt. Cdr., retired unfit 10 Nov 1910)
  46. Ronald Mountstevens Fraser, 2256
  47. George Wilson, 2251
  48. Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, 2247
  49. Charles Fenwick Stow, 2240
  50. Henry Richard Sawbridge, 2232
  51. Douglas Faviell, 2223
  52. Robert Raymond Hallowell-Carew, 2206
  53. Henry Barlow Bartley Denniss, 2190
  54. John Fenwick Hutchings, 2187
  55. Harold Gordon Cooper Franklin, 2179
  56. Lancelot Arthur Wetherell Spooner, 2175
  57. Victor Richard Williams, 2165 (b 28 Sep 1884, ret Lt. Cdr., retired unfit rectal disease 6 Feb 1913, d 27 Apr 1917)
  58. Frank Leslie Gilliat (b 16 Mar 1885, acting Sub-Lt., withdrew 6 Mar 1905) and Andrew Johnstone, 2160
  59. above two tied
  60. Harold Robert Priston, 2154
  61. Philip Hastings Irwin, 2133
  62. Henry Noel Marryat Hardy, 2128
  63. Arthur Gerald Onslow and James Cantrell Johnstone Soutter, 2123
  64. last two tied

A Colonial Cadetship was given to Archer Harry Bosanquet Bisset with 1474 marks.

Footnotes

  1. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 20, 1899; pg. 7; Issue 36017.
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