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

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Examinations held on 9 June and successive days produced the following successful candidates for naval cadetships for the July 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. 11 Jul 1891 p. 4 and 26 Sep 1891, p. 4.

  1. John Arthur Lambert Hay, 1615
  2. Arthur Edward Silvertop, 1590
  3. Alan James Mackenzie-Grieve, 1545
  4. The Hon. Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1540
  5. Henry Priaulx Cayley, 1500
  6. Geoffrey Hopwood, 1491
  7. Claud Hamilton Sinclair, 1490
  8. Charles Talbot Hardy, 1468
  9. George Frederic Stewart Bowles, 1455
  10. Maurice Dorsett Evans, (Stubbington House School) 1441
  11. Thomas Fison Brayshay, 1418 (b 6 Oct 1877, ret nav Cdr., ret unfit 15 Jan 1909, shore service, d Sep 1948)
  12. William Robert Wildman Kettlewell, 1410
  13. Arthur Corry Gotto, 1407n (b 28 Jan 1877, gun Lt., d 19 Sep 1906 coaling accident Queen)
  14. Henry Francis Donhoff Jelf, 1404
  15. Edward Laton Frewen, (Stubbington House School) 1390 (b 3 Oct 1877, nav ret Capt., ret o/r 25 Oct 1911, war service, d 16 May 1941)
  16. Ernest Edward Alexander Betts, 1369
  17. Wilfred Tomkinson, (Stubbington House School) 1354
  18. Cecil Horace Pilcher, (Stubbington House School) 1344
  19. Paul Weston Tindal-Atkinson, 1324 (b 25 Jan 1877, nav Lt., d 11 Jul 1900 dysentery at Durban)
  20. Mark Goodwin Newton, 1316
  21. John Moore Casement, 1307
  22. Walter Pulteney Koe, 1295
  23. Ambrose Maynard Peck, 1276
  24. John Fenwick Warton, 1263
  25. Laurence Richard Oliphant, 1235
  26. Robert Lewis Way, 1234
  27. James Lewis Soltan Kirkness, 1223
  28. Harold Owen Reinold, 1210
  29. Reginald Wilberforce Long-Innes, 1207 (b 23 May 1877, Mid, d 7 May 1897)
  30. Ralph Collins, 1206
  31. Henry Karslake Kitson, 1200
  32. George Knightley Chetwode, (Stubbington House School) 1200
  33. Frederic Charles Dreyer, 1199
  34. Archibald Vesey Courage, 1184 (b 31 Jul 1877, Cdr., resigned 18 Apr 1901 urg priv affairs, emergency, service, d 7 Feb 1953)
  35. Henry Chapman Alcock, 1169
  36. Lionel John Garfit Anderson, 1160
  37. Robert Gordon Hobson, 1149 (b 13 Apr 1877, Cdr., ret 23 Oct 1908 non-service, emergency service, dismissed with disgrace 17 Oct 1918)
  38. Ernest Wigram, 1145
  39. Theodore John Hallett, 1143
  40. Louis Herbert Crozier, 1123
  41. Harold Franc Sadleir, 1123 (b 30 Jan 1877, Lt. Cdr., CM drunk 21 Feb 1906, retired, war service, d 25 Oct 1951)
  42. Francis Robert Wrottesley, 1123
  43. Harold Victor Dundas, 1112
  44. Richard Thompson Dickson, 1094 (b 6 Mar 1877, nav Lt., drunk CM 18 Jan 1905, Insane)
  45. Harvey Goodwin, 1092 (not found at TNA)
  46. Richard Horne, 1090
  47. Hugh Trevor Prichard, 1088
  48. John Colin Howard Lindsay, 1083
  49. Charles F. B. Lethbridge, 1083
  50. Sydney Harold Tennyson, 1069
  51. Arthur Kemmis Betty, 1068
  52. Julian Herbert Woodbridge, 1068
  53. Cecil C. Collard, 1067
  54. Seaburne Rayner, 1067 (b 14 Jun 1877, Mid, resigned 30 Jul 1896)
  55. Leonard Rothwell Greene, 1067 (b 11 Oct 1877, Sub-Lt., resigned to avoid CM misappropriation Mar 1899)
  56. William Lutley Williams Williams-Mason, 1057
  57. John Russell Dodington, 1054
  58. Hugh Bowring Mulleneux, 1038
  59. Reginald James Newall Watson, 1037

Edward John Howard (b 10 Feb 1877, Mid, d 4 Aug 1896 fall from futtock during target practice Active) also won a Service Cadetship with 720 marks.

Footnotes

  1. "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 02, 1891; pg. 8; Issue 33366.
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