Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1869
From The Dreadnought Project
Competitive examinations undertaken by over eighty candidates in early December 1868 produced thirty-eight successful Naval Cadets in the following order of merit.[1]
- Henry Seymour Lake
- Robert Lascelles Gambier Noel
- Henry Bradwardine Jackson
- Arthur Thomas Stuart
- Francis John Foley
- Arthur Mostyn Field
- Arthur Henry Holland
- Edward William Lloyd
- William Henry Pellew Mugford
- William Grimston
- E. R. H. Hall (not found at TNA)
- William Gautress Raymond
- John Innes Pocock
- Frederick Henry Peere Williams Freeman
- George Charles Frederick
- Francis Herbert Biddulph
- Wilford Frederick Forrest
- James Alexander Gardner
- Henry Edward Goldfinch
- Walter Russell Baskerville Mellor
- James William Combe
- A. O. Milne (not found at TNA unless this is Archibald Berkeley Milne of May 1869)
- George Frederick Glennie
- R. H. H. Sadler (not found at TNA)
- William Hewetson
- Archibald Thomas Carter
- Pieter Gerhard Voltelin Van der Byl
- Charles Elsden Gladstone
- Frederick Rigaud Gransmore
- Walter Bathurst
- Edward John Hill
- Henry Edward Kellett
- Joseph Milner
- Oliver Adrian Stokes
- B. H. Carew (not found at TNA)
- St. John Radcliffe Hall Parlby
- Charles Fitzroy MacLean Somerset
- J. I. P. Brooks XXX
Two Navigating Cadets were also accepted in this order of merit:
- John Davis Moulton (ultimately, a Staff Captain)
- Charles Henry Wells
Lastly, eight boys were named in the "Competitive Class for Navigating Cadets", whatever that might mean:
- Henry Francis Popham Sill (listed in The Times as "H. P. Sill")
- Herbert John Dockrell
- Charles Walter Hammond Seddon
- William Segar Bastard
- H. G. Brimsmead (not found at TNA)
- William Ames Patterson (listed in The Times as "W. R. Patterson")
- Alexander Leeper
- Herbert Neville Rolfe
Footnotes
- ↑ "Royal Naval College." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 09, 1868; pg. 9; Issue 26303.
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