Thirty-seven of sixty candidates for Naval Cadetships were accepted after competitive examinations.[1]
Those with marked with an asterisk have names I have not completely discovered. I presume this list is in order of merit in entrance exam scoring, but it was not explicitly stated.
The source did not contain information on their previous schooling.
- George Cartwright
- George Langford
- Francis Edward Janverin Tottenham
- Walter Pigot
- Henry James Daniel Laxton
- Robert Horace Walpole
- William Hughes Hallett Montresor
- Arthur C. A. Baron*
- Lord Muskerry
- Frederick Sidney Pelham
- Frederic Edward Errington Brock
- Frederick Palmer Graves
- George Sackville Sinclair Wemyss
- Arthur Henry Loring
- George Hext
- Louis R. Northey*
- Arthur Horatio Shirley
- Alexander Meldrum
- R. de la P. B. Pierce*
- W. M. Innes*
- Frederick Slight
- John Martin Stokes
- Philip Arthur Bentley
- Wilson Noble Hoare
- A. R. Newburgh*
- Joseph Hugh Pennyfather Thackwell
- Henry Evans
- Charles Goodhart May
- Charles Holcombe Dare
- Bernard Dickinson
- Gilbert de Hoghton
- Reginald Purves Cochran
- James Augustus Paterson Robeson
- Ian Mackenzie Fraser
- Mortimer Keppel Wodehouse
- Mansel Young
- Walter W. Pownall*
The Service Record of Keppel Wade clearly indicates that he, too, was in this term.
- ↑ "Military And Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 26, 1868; pg. 7; Issue 26213.
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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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