Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1867

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Thirty-nine of sixty-five candidates for First-Class Naval Cadetships were accepted following the qualifying examinations for the May 1867 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

The marks after their names indicate their prior schooling:

  1. Blair Onslow Cochrane B
  2. Thomas Francis Abbott K
  3. Walter Wilmot Madden K (may be A -- hard to read)
  4. Walter Lloyd Whately
  5. Poynings Henry More Molyneux E
  6. Rudolph Edward de Lisle B
  7. George Robert Bray E
  8. Alexander Waldegrave Pym E
  9. Spencer Bold Hesketh E
  10. John Windham
  11. George Hodgkinson M
  12. Arthur William Browne
  13. The Hon. Maurice Archibald Bourke B
  14. Hubert Gould William Thorold B (also mentioned as being part of May, 1866)
  15. Percy Clinton Raitt E
  16. Frederick Roope E
  17. Randolph Frank Ollive Foote
  18. Morris Henry Smyth M
  19. Charles William Thomas E
  20. Herbert Moultrie Heathcote B
  21. William Henry Ludlow Gale
  22. Thomas John Oswell
  23. Arthur Charles Woods E
  24. Duncan Macpherson E
  25. L. T. Hippisley (only initials at TNA)
  26. George Robert Berkeley Grimes E
  27. Arthur John Horsley
  28. Powlett Henry Edward Hungerford M
  29. Cecil George Frederick Boothby M
  30. Claude Hunter A
  31. Frederick Elton
  32. William Fossett Stewart
  33. Harry Robert Moore
  34. Ernest H. Peel (only middle initial at TNA)
  35. Griffith Grismond Philipps M
  36. J. W. Andrews E (not found except in this source)
  37. Horace Black M
  38. Richard Bingham Newland
  39. George Player Butler Fellowes M

Additionally, the service records of John Denison, Maximin Horace William Laborde and Lewis Dod Sampson make it clear that they, too, were members of this term.

And fourteen of nineteen candidates for Second-Class Naval (or Navigating) Cadetships were taken in, in order of merit:

  1. Andrew Stafford Mills V
  2. William Vickers Jacob E
  3. Henry Saunders Penn K
  4. Arthur Edward Saul
  5. Henry Joseph Keane
  6. Alfred Whitehouse
  7. George Rimell V
  8. Henry Maurice Wilton Pitt Johnson
  9. Charles Elwes Phipps E
  10. Arthur Richard Phipps Bawden
  11. Hugh Barrington Hawkshaw
  12. Sidney Hughes
  13. Arthur Roughton
  14. John Archer Cowan V

Footnotes

  1. "Royal Naval College." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 10, 1867; pg. 12; Issue 25781.
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