Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1866

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Eight-nine candidates presented themselves for the entrance examination, with forty-one failing and forty-eight passing in the following order of merit.[1]

Their prior schooling is indicated in parentheses when known.

  1. Augustus B. Todd (Rev. T. Knight's School) (not found at TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
  2. Cecil Frederick Oldham (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  3. William Moore
  4. Peter James Duff Hawker and Henry Pearson (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  5. above two tied
  6. J. B. Bennett (not found at TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
  7. Hugh Blencowe Rooper (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  8. Henry John May
  9. Conyers Lang (Stubbington House School)
  10. Gordon Sinclair Gunn (Eastman's Academy)
  11. William Des Vœux Hamilton
  12. Charles Henry Cross
  13. Francis Spring-Rice
  14. Algernon Evan-Thomas
  15. William Maitland-Dougall (Rev. T. Knight's School)
  16. J. W. H. Myers ("J W H Myers" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
  17. Hugh Robert Evans and Francis Sydney Jackson (Eastman's Academy)
  18. above two tied
  19. Augustus Henry Bampton V
  20. Percy Henry Bridson (Eastman's Academy) ("Brideson" in The Times)
  21. B. H. Wake ("B H Wake" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
  22. Rowland Edward Berkeley (Stubbington House School)
  23. Denis Donough Charles MacGillycuddy (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) ("D D C McGillicuddy" at TNA)
  24. W. G. C. Hodgson (Eastman's Academy) (not found anywhere)
  25. William D. S. Wemyss ("William D S Wemyss" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
  26. Frederick Alexander (Stubbington House School)
  27. A. J. Chancellor (not in TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
  28. Peyton Hoskyns (Eastman's Academy)
  29. Charles Bliss Parke Hume (Rev. T. Knight's School)
  30. Edward Freeland Tyacke (Eastman's Academy)
  31. Edward B. Scott (inits at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
  32. F. J. Montgomery (nowhere to be found)
  33. Henry Colley Hawker (Stubbington House School)
  34. Robert Leybourne Mundy
  35. George William Tyler (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  36. William Frederick Glascott Clarke
  37. E. D. Chambers (not in TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
  38. Nelson Styleman Girdlestone
  39. Henry Cuthbert Eagles Harston
  40. Hubert Gould William Thorold and W. S. Wyllie (not at TNA or Navy List of October 1871) (Rev. T. Knight's School)
  41. above two tied
  42. Henry Charles Akaster
  43. James Gordon Bremer
  44. R. J. Lucas (Eastman's Academy) (not at TNA or Navy List of January 1869)
  45. Edward O'Hara Tobin (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  46. Alexander Edward Cavan Gordon Grant
  47. Dacre Saumarez Lacy
  48. H. L. Hubbard (Rev. T. Knight's School) (not found at TNA or Navy List of January 1869)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Military And Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 12, 1866; pg. 14; Issue 25470.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
1859-1869
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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
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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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