Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1877

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There were forty-eight Naval Cadets in this term, the two most notable members being Prince Albert Edward Victor and Prince George (later George V of the United Kingdom), sons of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom).[1]

The successful candidates for Naval Cadetships at the examination held in June, 1877, were, in order of merit:[2]

  1. Angel Hope Freeman
  2. Lord Francis Granville Godolphin Osborne
  3. Charles Hamilton Askwith
  4. Walter John Wyndham Steward
  5. Francis James Patteson
  6. John Hercules Robertson
  7. Laurence Eliot Power
  8. Bertie Angelo Cator
  9. Augustus Richard Charles Warren
  10. Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot
  11. Edward Stafford Fitzherbert
  12. Robert Edmund Ross Benson
  13. Douglas Francis Robinson
  14. Charles Leopold Cust and Robert Graham Speirs Home
  15. above two tied
  16. Charles Joseph Thaddeus Dormer and Sidney Grenfell Maxwell
  17. above two tied
  18. Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss
  19. George Whiteside Hillyard
  20. Mark Edward Frederic Kerr
  21. Cecil Foley Lambert
  22. Arthur Parkinson James
  23. William Lowther Grant
  24. Francis Joseph Boord and Arthur Trevelyan Taylor
  25. above two tied
  26. Robert John Prendergast
  27. Hon. George Arthur Hardinge
  28. Richard Brian Bartelot England
  29. Henry Thompson
  30. Ralph Hudleston
  31. Arthur Cole Lowry
  32. Francis Fitzgerald Haworth-Booth
  33. Morgan Singer
  34. Thomas Shirley Gooch
  35. John Reginald Hargreaves and Stewart Carnac Weigall
  36. above two tied
  37. Heathcoat Salusbury Grant
  38. William George Christie Walter
  39. Edward Matthew Hale and Ralph George Loftus Tottenham
  40. above two tied
  41. W. O. Besson?
  42. Robert Keith Arbuthnot
  43. Eustace William Clitheroe
  44. Patrick Maxwell Stewart
  45. Allan Hamilton Ozzard
  46. Ralph Alexander Maude (b , Naval Cadet, removed misconduct in 1878)

The source article did not mention the prior schooling of the successful candidates.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wester Wemyss. Life and Letters. p. 26.
  2. ↑ "Naval Cadetships" (News). The Times. Saturday, 30 June, 1877. Issue 28982, col A, p. 14.

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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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