Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1893

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Competitive examinations held on 6 December 1892 and the following several days produced the following fifty-six successful candidates for naval cadetships of the 168 candidates vying for places in the January, 1893 intake term at Britannia.[1]

The prior education noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 8 and 29 Jul 1893, p. 4.

  1. Charles Andrew Fountaine, (Stubbington House School) 1624 marks
  2. Norton Allen Sulivan, 1610
  3. Douglas Wellwood Clarke, 1572 (b 25 Feb 1879, Mid, resigned 25 Aug 1898)
  4. Guy Desmond Griffiths, (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) 1553 (b 29 Jan 1879, Mid, )
  5. The Hon. Arthur Stopford, (Stubbington House School) 1533
  6. Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, 1489
  7. John Francis Herbert Cole, 1475
  8. Walter Bousfield Watkins Grubb, 1468
  9. Ronald Howard, 1445
  10. Morris Edward Cochrane, (Stubbington House School) 1414
  11. Sidney Julius Meyrick, (Stubbington House School) 1400
  12. Andrew Cory, 1393
  13. Francis Alexander Waddilove Buller, 1388
  14. Guy Renton Livingstone, 1369
  15. Albert Edward Dixie, 1354
  16. David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 1326
  17. James Geoffry Penrose Ingham, 1324
  18. Arthur Vernon Ross, 1323
  19. Henry Evans Freke Aylmer, 1321
  20. Lionel Fitzgerald Maitland-Kirwan, 1303
  21. Theodore Evelyn Johnstone Bigg, 1297
  22. Arthur Leyborne Popham, 1264
  23. Geoffrey Tatton Bowles, 1253
  24. Frederick Edward Ketelbey Strong, 1236
  25. Robert John Howard, 1223
  26. Hugh Esterel Wright, 1219
  27. John Duncan Campbell Wallace, 1214
  28. John Graham Muriel McHardy, 1208
  29. Gerard Aylmer Wells, 1201
  30. Robert Alven Richards, 1189
  31. Frederick Pollet Norman, (Portsmouth Grammar School) 1188
  32. Hugh William Innes-Lillingston, 1187
  33. Raymond Fitzmaurice, (Stubbington House School) 1185
  34. The Hon. Thomas J. Wynn (Stubbington House School) (not found at TNA), 1167
  35. Arthur Temple Blackwood, 1165
  36. Hubert Henry de Burgh, 1153
  37. Rowland Edward Stokes-Rees, 1152
  38. Harold Needham Key, 1152
  39. Arthur Edward Bradshaw, 1151
  40. Edward Coverley Kennedy, 1151
  41. Edward Morden Bennett, (Stubbington House School) 1149
  42. Philip Robert Thresher, 1144
  43. Francis Clayton Harvey, (Stubbington House School) 1140
  44. Frederick Gerald Hingley, 1128
  45. Claude Hillersden Woodward, 1127
  46. Reginald St. Pierre Parry, 1107
  47. Vere Seymour, 1107
  48. Arthur Neville Gouldsmith, 1097
  49. Malcolm Kenneth Grant, 1093
  50. Gerard Clarence Pigou, 1093
  51. Arthur William Tomlinson, 1078
  52. John H. Humble-Crofts (Stubbington House School) (not found at TNA), 1077
  53. Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, (Stubbington House School) 1071
  54. Richard L. E. Moore (not found at TNA), 1070
  55. Henry Vincent Theodore Procter, 1070
  56. Thomas Norman James, (Stubbington House School) 1069

The Service Records of the following men suggest that they, too, were part of this term:

  1. Roger L'Estrange Murray Rede
  2. Frank Forester Rose
  3. Frederick Cathcart Guy St. Clair

A search of The National Archives for records in ADM 196/44 and 196/45 where the man in question had a date of entry of "January, 1893" or "15 January 1893" returned the following additional results, in alphabetical order.[2]

  1. Arthur Goodenough Craufurd
  2. Albert Reginald Wheler Sartorious

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 03, 1893; pg. 11; Issue 33838.
  2. ↑ Search query at TNA.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
1859-1869
Jun, 1859 | Dec, 1859
Jun, 1860 | Sep, 1860 | Dec, 1860 | Mar, 1861 | Jun, 1861 | Sep, 1861 | Mar, 1862 | Jun, 1862 | Sep, 1862 | Dec, 1862
Mar, 1863 | Jun, 1863 | Sep, 1863 | Jan, 1864 | Mar, 1864 | Aug, 1864 | Oct, 1864 | Jan, 1865 | Mar, 1865 | May, 1865 | Sep, 1865
Jan, 1866 | May, 1866 | Sep, 1866 | Jan, 1867 | May, 1867 | Sep, 1867 | Jan, 1868 | May, 1868 | Sep, 1868 | Jan, 1869 | May, 1869 | Sep, 1869
1870-1879
Jan, 1870 | Jul, 1870 | Jan, 1871 | Jul, 1871 | Jan, 1872 | Jul, 1872 | Jan, 1873 | Jul, 1873 | Jan, 1874 | Jul, 1874
Jan, 1875 | Jul, 1875 | Jan, 1876 | Jul, 1876 | Jan, 1877 | Jul, 1877 | Jan, 1878 | Jul, 1878 | Jan, 1879 | Jul, 1879
1880-1889
Jan, 1880 | Jul, 1880 | Jan, 1881 | Jul, 1881 | Jan, 1882 | Jul, 1882 | Jan, 1883 | Jul, 1883 | Jan, 1884 | Jul, 1884 | Jan, 1885 | Jul, 1885
Jan, 1886 | Jul, 1886 | Jan, 1887 | Jul, 1887 | Jan, 1888 | Jul, 1888 | Jan, 1889 | Mar, 1889 | Jul, 1889
1890-1899
Jan, 1890 | Jul, 1890 | Jan, 1891 | Jul, 1891 | Jan, 1892 | Jul, 1892 | Jan, 1893 | Jul, 1893
Jan, 1894 | Jul, 1894 | Jan, 1895 | Jul, 1895 | Jan, 1896 | Jul, 1896 | Jan, 1897 | May, 1897 | Sep, 1897
Jan, 1898 | May, 1898 | Sep, 1898 | Jan, 1899 | May, 1899 | Sep, 1899
1900-1906
Jan, 1900 | May, 1900 | Sep, 1900 | Jan, 1901 | May, 1901 | Sep, 1901 | Jan, 1902 | May, 1902 | Sep, 1902
Jan, 1903 | May, 1903 | Sep, 1903 | Jan, 1904 | May, 1904 | Sep, 1904 | Jan, 1905 | May, 1905 | Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1906
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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