Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1889

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Examinations held on 11 June and following days produced forty-eight successful naval cadet candidates with the following scores.[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. 29 Jun 1889 p. 5 and 10 Aug 1889, p. 4.

  1. Cecil Maxwell Lefroy, 1860
  2. William Northey, 1702 (not found at TNA)
  3. Stanley Mumford Evans, 1680 (not found at TNA)
  4. John Evelyn Bray, (Eastman's Academy) 1593 (Cdr., retired. Gunnery Officer retired 1912)
  5. Humphrey Hugh Smith, 1537
  6. Francis Herbert Mitchell, 1535
  7. John Francis Alexis Robbins, 1534
  8. George Donald Henry MacKinnon, 1513 (retired as Lt. Cdr. in 1913, died 1927)
  9. Edward Llewellyn Hughes, 1498 (b 3 Jun 1875, Capt. ret, ret 30 Jun 1912, )
  10. Edward Bathurst Compton, 1494 (b 14 Aug 1875, Capt., ret 8 May 1907, service w/ Downs Boarding Flotilla)
  11. Claude Alwin Rombulow-Pearse, 1417
  12. Ferris Nelson Grant, 1384 (b 4 Dec 1875, nav Lt. Cdr., retired defective vision 24 Mar 1905, d 9 May 1915)
  13. Arthur Charles Grieve, 1379 (b 9 Dec 1875, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria)
  14. Francis Rowland Scarlett, 1357
  15. John King Patrick Dooner, 1307 (b 25 Jun 1875, Cdr. ret, ret unfit 12 Feb 1904)
  16. Richard Markham Tyringham Stephens, 1276
  17. Evelyn Charles Henry Stuart, 1271 (b 21 Dec 1875, Cdr., ret unfit Jun 1903, d 16 Dec 1944)
  18. The Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward, 1266
  19. Albert Percy Addison, (Portsmouth Grammar School) 1261
  20. Sidney Edgar Deacon, 1258 (b 11 Sep 1875, Lt. Cdr., aviator, ret 15 Jan 1902, d 30 May 1941)
  21. James Gordon Lumsden, 1233 (b 19 Nov 1875, Mid, ret unfit 21 Apr 1894)
  22. John Copley Powles, 1235
  23. The Hon. Herbert Meade, 1220
  24. George Ainslie Rooke, 1212
  25. Edgar Stanley Willett, 1211 (not found at TNA)
  26. Bishop Octavius Maturin Davy, 1201
  27. Robert Maxwell Grenfell Knight, 1198 (b 9 Dec 1875, nav Cdr., ret 8 Dec 1904 unfit, minesweeping in WW1)
  28. Frank Larken, 1191
  29. Edward Oliver Gladstone, (Portsmouth Grammar School) 1164
  30. Frederick Holden Cleaver, 1160 (not found at TNA)
  31. Alfred Steenstrand, 1142 (not found at TNA)
  32. Walter Scott Gillett, 1139 (b 12 Oct 1875, nav Lt., ret unfit 11 Jan 1905, d 9 Feb 1907)
  33. Charles Donnison Roper, 1139
  34. Reginald Davie Scott, 1135 (b 13 Jan 1876, Lt., d 11 Apr 1900 at Esquimalt, after shot by confused sentry)
  35. Gerald Ducat, 1121
  36. Frederick William Templer Alexander, 1116 (not found at TNA)
  37. Stanley Venn Ellis, 1103
  38. Kenneth Alexander Haldane Jamieson, 1100 (b 20 Apr 1875, Mid, d 30 Nov 1893 skull fracture after thrown from horse)
  39. Francis William Hanan, 1077 (b 2 Aug 1875, nav Cdr. ret, ret 19 Jul 1909, minesweeping during WW1, d 1 Feb 1942)
  40. Henry Charles Clark, 1068 (not found at TNA)
  41. Cyril Thomas Hewlett-Cooper, 1056
  42. Henry Wise Parker, 1000
  43. David Thomas Norris, 992
  44. James Denham Douglas Stewart, 959
  45. George Thompson Crombie, 956 (b 12 Nov 1875, Mid, withdrawn 1 Aug 1894 health)
  46. Anselan John Buchanan Stirling, 954
  47. Howard James Lionel Walter Kox Willcox, (Portsmouth Grammar School) 922
  48. Percy Withers, 871

The source article did not contain information on prior schooling.

Additionally, Robert Nesham Bax and Ascough Guy Hawksworth Fawkes ("Aifscough"? b 2 Jul 1875, Mid, drowned 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria) obtained Service Cadetships at 924 and 759 marks, respectively.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Cadetships In The Navy." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 27, 1889; pg. 11; Issue 32736.

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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