Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1893

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Competitive examinations on 13-14 June produced the following list of successful candidates for cadetships, presented here in order of merit.[1]

The prior education (and marks obtained) noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 16 Dec 1893, p. 1 and 30 Jun 1894, p. 4.

  1. Leslie Drew Fisher
  2. Joseph Charles Walrond Henley
  3. George Lawrence Massey, (Eastman's Academy) 1724 marks
  4. Cyril St. Clair Cameron, (Eastman's Academy) 1632
  5. Eric Walter Harbord, (Stubbington House School) 1613
  6. Ruric Henry Waring, (Stubbington House School) 1594
  7. Edward Astley Astley-Rushton, (Eastman's Academy) 1529
  8. Reginald Ernest Marcon "Marion" in the source
  9. Francis George Gillilan Chilton
  10. Charles Stuart Forbes, (Stubbington House School) 1506
  11. Charles Rodney Blane "Bland" in the source
  12. William Henry Philpot Bourne, (Stubbington House School) 1435
  13. Henry Coulson Bridges, (b 8 Mar 1879, Sub, resigned commission urgent private affairs)
  14. Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn
  15. Wion de Malpas Egerton
  16. Hugh Seymour
  17. Charles Ewer Cundall
  18. John Claud Cole-Hamilton
  19. Henry George Homer Adams, (Stubbington House School) 1385
  20. Alexander Robinson Palmer, (Eastman's Academy) 1365
  21. "Ward" (I have no good guess)
  22. Longuet Macdonald Darbyshire, (Stubbington House School) 1359
  23. Charles Wolfran Round-Turner
  24. Archibald Campbell Goolden
  25. Henry Percy Smyth-Osbourne
  26. George Johnstone
  27. John Leslie Whitehead Allison, (Stubbington House School) 1317 (b 24 Jun1 879, Lt., ret o/r 6 Nov 1911)
  28. Arthur Edwin Hale Ley, (Stubbington House School) 1306 (b 18 Jun 1879, Sub, resigned 18 May 1900)
  29. Stanley Tunstal Haverfield Wilton (b 4 Jun 1879, gunnery Capt, d 30 Nov 1930)
  30. Godfrey Francis William Grayson, (Stubbington House School) 1296
  31. Robert Candlish Hocking
  32. Arthur Vivian Whitehead, (b 9 Apr 1879, Mid, withdrawn 24 Jun 1898, essentially weak)
  33. Arthur Milward Stancomb
  34. Edmund Laurence Braithwaite Lockyer
  35. George Percy Legard, (b 15 Aug 1879, Lt., resigned Jan 1909)
  36. "Judd" (I have no good idea)
  37. Percival Scott Rickcord, (Stubbington House School)1250
  38. Henry Gerard Laurence Oliphant, (Stubbington House School) 1248
  39. Marcus Knox Johnson ("Johnston" in the source, b 25 Feb 1879, Sub, d 13 Jun 1901)
  40. Philip Henry White, (b 14 May 1879, torpedo Lt., ret 14 Oct 1911, ww1 paravanes, d 3 Dec 1916)
  41. Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson, (b 23 Mar 1879, ret navigating Capt, ret 11 Apr 1913, ww1, d 9 Jun 1951)
  42. Archibald Charles Cole, (Eastman's Academy) 1227, (b 14 Apr 1879, ret navigating Cdr., ret 1911, ww1 ww2, d 4 Mar 1949)
  43. Malcolm Henry Somerled Macdonald, (b 18 Aug 1879, ret torpedo Capt, ret 18 Aug 1929, ww2)
  44. William Henry Strickland Ball, (Stubbington House School) 1218
  45. Charles Henry Davey ("Davy")
  46. Cospatrick Philip Brooke Dundas, (Eastman's Academy) 1212, (b 30 Mar 1879, Mid, withdrawn Feb 1898)
  47. "C. Johnston" (I have no good guess)
  48. Thomas Bodley Scott, (Eastman's Academy) 1209
  49. Arthur Gardiner Muller
  50. Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar
  51. Geoffrey Mackworth ("Macworth")
  52. John Smythe Harris, (b 28 Jan 1879, ret Cdr., ret age 28 Jan 1924, ww2)
  53. Arthur Leslie Gresson, (Stubbington House School) 1169
  54. John Arthur Fellows, (Stubbington House School) 1166
  55. Edward Roynon-Jones, (Stubbington House School) 1164
  56. Francis Mary Hodgson, 1163, (b 28 Oct 1879, ret navigating Capt, ret o/r 28 Apr 1826)
  57. William Cadman
  58. John Hugh Bainbridge
  59. James Jones, (Eastman's Academy) 1150 (this name only listed in Hampshire Telegraph ad of 16 Dec 1893, p. 1., b 24 Nov 1879, Lt. Cdr., d 22 Apr 1939)

The Service Records of the following men may indicate that they were also part of this term, seemingly receiving Service Cadetships and similar:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval Cadetships". Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, (Portsmouth, England) 8 July, 1893. p. 5.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
1859-1869
Jun, 1859 | Dec, 1859
Jun, 1860 | Sep, 1860 | Dec, 1860 | Mar, 1861 | Jun, 1861 | Sep, 1861 | Mar, 1862 | Jun, 1862 | Sep, 1862 | Dec, 1862
Mar, 1863 | Jun, 1863 | Sep, 1863 | Jan, 1864 | Mar, 1864 | Aug, 1864 | Oct, 1864 | Jan, 1865 | Mar, 1865 | May, 1865 | Sep, 1865
Jan, 1866 | May, 1866 | Sep, 1866 | Jan, 1867 | May, 1867 | Sep, 1867 | Jan, 1868 | May, 1868 | Sep, 1868 | Jan, 1869 | May, 1869 | Sep, 1869
1870-1879
Jan, 1870 | Jul, 1870 | Jan, 1871 | Jul, 1871 | Jan, 1872 | Jul, 1872 | Jan, 1873 | Jul, 1873 | Jan, 1874 | Jul, 1874
Jan, 1875 | Jul, 1875 | Jan, 1876 | Jul, 1876 | Jan, 1877 | Jul, 1877 | Jan, 1878 | Jul, 1878 | Jan, 1879 | Jul, 1879
1880-1889
Jan, 1880 | Jul, 1880 | Jan, 1881 | Jul, 1881 | Jan, 1882 | Jul, 1882 | Jan, 1883 | Jul, 1883 | Jan, 1884 | Jul, 1884 | Jan, 1885 | Jul, 1885
Jan, 1886 | Jul, 1886 | Jan, 1887 | Jul, 1887 | Jan, 1888 | Jul, 1888 | Jan, 1889 | Mar, 1889 | Jul, 1889
1890-1899
Jan, 1890 | Jul, 1890 | Jan, 1891 | Jul, 1891 | Jan, 1892 | Jul, 1892 | Jan, 1893 | Jul, 1893
Jan, 1894 | Jul, 1894 | Jan, 1895 | Jul, 1895 | Jan, 1896 | Jul, 1896 | Jan, 1897 | May, 1897 | Sep, 1897
Jan, 1898 | May, 1898 | Sep, 1898 | Jan, 1899 | May, 1899 | Sep, 1899
1900-1906
Jan, 1900 | May, 1900 | Sep, 1900 | Jan, 1901 | May, 1901 | Sep, 1901 | Jan, 1902 | May, 1902 | Sep, 1902
Jan, 1903 | May, 1903 | Sep, 1903 | Jan, 1904 | May, 1904 | Sep, 1904 | Jan, 1905 | May, 1905 | Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1906
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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