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| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Robert Henry More-Molyneux|Sir Robert H. More-Molyneux]]'''
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Robert Henry More Molyneux|Sir Robert H. More-Molyneux]]'''
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| '''[[Royal Naval College, Greenwich|President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich]]'''<br>1903 &ndash; 1906
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| '''[[Royal Naval College, Greenwich|President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich]]'''<br>1903 &ndash; 1906
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| Succeeded by<br>'''[[Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe|Arthur D. Fanshawe]]'''
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Revision as of 10:29, 30 October 2010

Admiral SIR Robert Hastings Harris, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Royal Navy (12 October, 1843 – 25 August, 1926) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

On 19 February, 1901, Harris was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, vice Andoe.[1]

Harris was appointed President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich on 6 August, 1903 in succession to Admiral Sir Robert H. M. Molyneux.[2]

Footnotes

  1. London Gazette: no. 27288. p. 1350. 22 February, 1901.
  2. "New President of the Royal Naval College" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 25 July, 1903. Issue 37142, col F, pg. 7.

Bibliography

  • "Admiral Sir R. H. Harris" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 26 August, 1926. Issue 44360, col D, pg. 12.
  • Harris, Admiral Sir Robert Hastings (1913). From Naval Cadet to Admiral. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd..

Service Records


Naval Offices
Preceded by
Sir Harry H. Rawson
Commander-in-Chief on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station
1898 – 1901
Succeeded by
Arthur W. Moore
Preceded by
Sir Robert H. More-Molyneux
President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
1903 – 1906
Succeeded by
Arthur D. Fanshawe