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| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Nowell Salmon|Sir Nowell Salmon]]''' | | width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;" align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Nowell Salmon|Sir Nowell Salmon]]''' | ||
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Revision as of 13:07, 18 July 2011
Admiral of the Fleet THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Richard James Meade, Fourth Earl of Clanwilliam, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., Royal Navy (3 October, 1832 – 4 August, 1907) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
For services in Canton, Gilford was promoted to the rank of Commander on 26 February, 1858.[1]
Lord George Hamilton recounts an amusing incident from when a French squadron visited Portsmouth, and its officers were entertained by the Queen at Osborne:
He was very dark and swarthy, and he had a strain of foreign blood in him, his grandmother having been a Russian. He
also spoke French very well. One of the Queen's equerries, in his zeal to welcome all foreigners, seeing this dark, distinguished-looking Admiral standing alone, went up to him and had an animated conversation in French with him. Finally he said to him, "I hope you are enjoying your stay at Portsmouth," whereupon Lord Clanwilliam turned round and said, "Who the devil do you take me for? Don't you know that I am the Queen's Commander-in-Chief? " The Queen was immensely amused on learning how her injunctions to her suite
to make themselves pleasant to the foreign officers had been carried out.[2]
Clanwilliam was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet on 20 February, 1895.[3] In accordance with the provisions of the Order in Council of 22 February, 1870, he was placed on the Retired List on 3 October, 1902.[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 22104. p. 1028. 26 February, 1858.
- ↑ Hamilton. p. 125.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 26601. p. 1066. 22 February, 1895.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27483. p. 6568. 17 October, 1902.
Bibliography
- "Death of Lord Clanwilliam" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 5 August, 1907. Issue 38403, col F, pg. 11.
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/36.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/1.
Naval Offices | ||
Preceded by Arthur W. A. Hood |
Second Naval Lord 1879 – 1880 |
Succeeded by The Right Hon. Lord John Hay |
Preceded by Sir John E. Commerell |
Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies Station 1885 – 1886 |
Succeeded by Algernon McL. Lyons |
Preceded by Sir John E. Commerell |
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth 1891 – 1894 |
Succeeded by Sir Nowell Salmon |