Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1866
From The Dreadnought Project
Eight-nine candidates presented themselves for the entrance examination, with forty-one failing and forty-eight passing in the following order of merit.[1]
The marks after their names indicate their prior schooling:
- E == Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea
- M == Montague Foster's, Stubbington-house, Fareham
- K == Reverend Thomas Knight's, St. Mary's Hall, Southsea
- V == Mr. Vickery's, Hope House, Southsea
- A == Reverend W. Allen's, Newtown Parsonage, Soberton
- N == North Grove House, Southsea
- B == Reverend E. Burney's, Royal Naval Academy, Gosport
- Augustus B. Todd K (not found at TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
- Cecil Frederick Oldham B
- William Moore
- Peter James Duff Hawker and Henry Pearson B
- above two tied
- J. B. Bennett (not found at TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
- Hugh Blencowe Rooper B
- Henry John May
- Conyers Lang F
- Gordon Sinclair Gunn E
- William Des Vœux Hamilton
- Charles Henry Cross
- Francis Spring-Rice
- Algernon Evan-Thomas
- William Maitland-Dougall K
- J. W. H. Myers ("J W H Myers" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
- Hugh Robert Evans and Francis Sydney Jackson E
- above two tied
- Augustus Henry Bampton V
- Percy Henry Brideson E ("Percy Henry Bridson" at TNA)
- B. H. Wake ("B H Wake" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
- Rowland Edward Berkeley F
- Denis Donough Charles MacGillycuddy B ("D D C McGillicuddy" at TNA)
- W. G. C. Hodgson E (not found anywhere)
- William D. S. Wemyss ("William D S Wemyss" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
- Frederick Alexander F
- A. J. Chancellor (not in TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
- Peyton Hoskyns E
- Charles Bliss Parke Hume K
- Edward Freeland Tyacke E
- Edward B. Scott (inits at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
- F. J. Montgomery (nowhere to be found)
- Henry Colley Hawker F
- Robert Leybourne Mundy
- George William Tyler B
- William Frederick Glascott Clarke
- E. D. Chambers (not in TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
- Nelson Styleman Girdlestone
- Henry Cuthbert Eagles Harston
- Hubert Gould William Thorold and W. S. Wyllie (not at TNA or Navy List of October 1871) K
- above two tied
- Henry Charles Akaster
- James Gordon Bremer
- R. J. Lucas E (not at TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
- Edward O'Hara Tobin B
- Alexander Edward Cavan Gordon Grant
- Dacre Saumarez Lacy
- H. L. Hubbard K (not found at TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
Footnotes
- ↑ Military And Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 12, 1866; pg. 14; Issue 25470.
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