Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of March, 1865

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Examinations at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth on 1–3 March resulted in naval cadetships being rewarded to fifty-three of eighty candidates in two classes, in the following order of merit.[1]

Each man's preparatory education is noted.

First Class Cadets

  1. William Heron Coombs (Eastman's Academy) (listed in The Times as "W. Coombes")
  2. Walker Stuart King (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  3. The Hon. Francis Horace Pierrepont Cecil
  4. Edward John Sanderson (Eastman's Academy)
  5. Alexander William Chisholm-Batten
  6. Leonard G. E. Childers (initials only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  7. Percy Hockin
  8. Herbert Dampier Phelps (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  9. Mitford William Pye
  10. George Drury
  11. Charles Edward Pyne
  12. The Hon. Harry de Vere Pery (North Grove House School)
  13. A. A. Ashington (initials only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  14. G. Gisborne (Eastman's Academy) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  15. William Henry Callwell (North Grove House School)
  16. Blanchard Reginald Toogood Coward
  17. Edward Dowling Hodgson
  18. F. H. Thomson (Rev. T. Knight's School) (initials only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  19. George Albert Smith (Eastman's Academy)
  20. Arthur William Blacker Kirwan
  21. D. G. A. King (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  22. Henry Dawson Archdall (Eastman's Academy) ("Archidall" in The Times)
  23. H. E. H. Hayes (Rev. T. Knight's School) (not specifically found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  24. Frederick George Stopford
  25. Arthur Tilson Shaen Carter (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  26. George H. Whalley (Eastman's Academy) (initials only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  27. R. S. Hancock (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  28. Francis Hall Logan
  29. H. St. J. Maule (Eastman's Academy) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  30. Francis Theophilus Brooke (Rev. T. Knight's School)
  31. Lennard Edward Dick
  32. T. J. Foster (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  33. William Queade Johnston
  34. F. L. Butt (North Grove House School) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  35. Andrew Francis Balfour
  36. John D'Oyley Harris (Eastman's Academy)
  37. Andrew Leslie Murray
  38. Frederick Bushby Warren
  39. Joseph Edward Gregory
  40. Charles John Graves-Sawle (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  41. John H. Kerr (North Grove House School) (initial only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  42. Reginald Ashley Stock
  43. The Hon. G. M. Bennet (initials only at TNA, missing from Navy List of October 1871)
  44. C. W. Vipan (North Grove House School) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)

Second Class Cadets

  1. John Marsh Girdlestone (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) ("Gurdlestone" in The Times)
  2. Frederick John Lobb (Mr. Vickery's School)
  3. Ernest James Fleet
  4. Charles Duke Anderson Morshead (North Grove House School)
  5. George Pirie
  6. Robert John Moleworth Bunbury (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) ("R. S. M. Banbury" in The Times)
  7. Edward Sherington Davenport
  8. Eaton Wallace Petley
  9. Alfred Fitzalan Howard Drayson (Mr. Vickery's School)

Footnotes

  1. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 10, 1865; pg. 12; Issue 25129.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
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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
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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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