Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1876

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These candidates were successful, in order of merit, at the competitive examination for naval cadetships in the July 1876 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

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

  1. Montague Edward Browning
  2. Ernest Charles Hogg
  3. Hugh Le Despencer Stapleton
  4. Alexander Trant Luard (middle initial "J" given at TNA)
  5. Harvey Stuart Boldero
  6. John Francis Lea
  7. Drury St. Aubyn Wake
  8. Francis George Eyre
  9. Charles Chadwick
  10. Herbert Orpen and Edward Winthrop
  11. above two tied
  12. Arthur Henry Christian
  13. Arthur George Cawston
  14. Osprey George Valentine Spain
  15. John William Bushnell
  16. Henry MacInnes
  17. William Henderson Boys
  18. Edward Keppel Hill
  19. Armine W. Pearse (only middle initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  20. Claude William Manners Plenderleath
  21. Ernest E. Anson (only middly initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  22. John E. Lloyd (only middle initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  23. Arthur Henry Limpus
  24. Godfrey Michell Courage and C. Gaitshell (Gartshell? gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  25. above two tied
  26. The Hon. Stanhope Hawke
  27. Algernon H. Petre (only middle initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878) and Gilbert Richard West
  28. above two tied
  29. Francis E. Prideaux-Brune (only middle initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  30. Alastair Erskine Graham Moir
  31. William Peel Hillyar
  32. Knightley Owen Burne (only middle initial at TNA)
  33. William A. C. Cockburn (only initials at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  34. Gerald Oliver
  35. Edward Walrond de Wells Bruce
  36. Henry Ashwin
  37. John M. Uniacke (only middle initial at TNA, gone from Navy List by July 1878)
  38. Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey
  39. William Coldingham Masters Nicholson

Not mentioned in the story on examinations were Frederick Claude Coote Pasco, who joined Britannia on 31 August and William Graveley Van Ingen, who joined from Canada on 1 September, perhaps making them technical members of this term.

The following examination candidates were unsuccessful, but invited to try again at the next examination:

  1. I. M. M. Erskine
  2. H. D. C. Jones
  3. F. W. Ferguson
  4. R. E. M. Margesson
  5. O. H. Olivier
  6. N. C. I. Gardyne

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 29, 1876; pg. 11; Issue 28668.

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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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