Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1873

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Eighteen candidates in the following order of merit were accepted after competitive examinations for entrance in the July 1873 intake term at Britannia.[1]

The source article did not mention the prior schooling of the successful candidates.

  1. Bertram Charles Pipe Wolferstan
  2. Robert Burlton Abdy
  3. Edgar St. George Silver
  4. Thomas Ulric Thynne
  5. Francis Chicheley Tattersall
  6. Charles Pellew Ogle
  7. Richard Henry Peirse
  8. Henry Dacres Kirwan (b 12 Mar 1861, Lt., )
  9. Henry Grant Monckton
  10. Alfred Cropley Harbord
  11. James M. Higgison (Naval Cadet "James M Higginson" at TNA, not in Navy List of June 1875)
  12. Edmund B. Falls (Naval Cadet "Edmund B Falls" at TNA, not in Navy List of June 1875)
  13. Annesley Bremridge Prance
  14. Charles William Barry Domvile
  15. Edmund Richard Sankey
  16. William Henry Eyre
  17. Henry David Hitchens
  18. Macleod Albert Cockcraft

The following candidates passed the test but were not accepted. They were welcome, by their age, to compete at the next examination:

  1. Harry Hampson Stileman
  2. William Omer Oliver
  3. Archibald Peile Stoddart
  4. Lawrence Percy Philips
  5. W. W. Hervett (not found at TNA or in Navy List of June 1875)

Footnotes

  1. "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 04, 1873; pg. 5; Issue 27733.
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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