Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of September, 1867

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Forty-five naval cadets and nine navigating cadets of ninety-nine candidates of the August testing were accepted, in the following order of merit.[1]

I'm apparently having trouble precisely identifying eight men in the list below, whose names are given simply as offered in the article in The Times. Their apparent absence in The Navy List of June, 1875 imples that they lasted a short time in the service.

These marks indicate candidates who prepared for the examination at the following schools:

Naval Cadets

  1. John Anthony Beaufoy Milton (resigned as Lt. in 1882)
  2. +Pascoe G. Froude (Midshipman at TNA, also lacking middle name)
  3. Clarence E. H. Messum (Midshipman "C E H Messum" at TNA died 23 May 1871 in Immortalité)
  4. *George Talbot Wingfield (Capt., died July 1936)
  5. +Albert W. McG. Finlay
  6. *William Francis Tunnard
  7. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cuninghame Graham (resigned as Lt., July 1886, died 8 June 1917 as Cdr.)
  8. Wittingham Franklin (not found at TNA)
  9. William Charles Franklin (not found at TNA)
  10. ++Edward Lewis Lang
  11. Henry Belam (retired Cdr. 30 Nov 1893, dead 9 Jan 1909)
  12. ++Charles Lenny Daniel (unable to pass exams, 1875)
  13. Henry Montgomery Braithwaite (dismissed service as Lt. by C.M. 1881 due to outstanding debts)
  14. William Wyatt Smythe
  15. Arthur Jabez Loane
  16. +William Willison (not found at TNA)
  17. Edward Hallands Marsh (died of alcoholism as Lt., 1881)
  18. *James Knowles (retired as Cdr. in 1903, made Capt. 31 Dec 1908, died 21 Jan 1909)
  19. Frederick Estcourt Poulter (retired O.R. as Lt. 1881, Cdr. 3 Aug 1898, died 12 Apr 1907)
  20. Hubert Edward Madden Bourke (retired O.R. 1880 as Lt.)
  21. *Henry Walter Hennell (not found at TNA)
  22. Frederick Willoughby Shortland (retired Cdr. 1898, died 21 Dec 1931)
  23. ++Moultrie Bickerton Fowke (retired age 25 Feb 1899 as Cdr., died 21 Nov 1927)
  24. *Algernon R. A. Mends (naval cadet "A R A Mends" at TNA left service in 1869)
  25. Robert James Yardley (left service as Midshipman)
  26. Robert Acheson Cromie Montagu (retired O.R. 1881)
  27. Henry Jocelyn Davison (Cdr. in 1895, then unclear)
  28. Hercules F. A. Robinson
  29. Alfred Reginald Arthur Stock
  30. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (died as Capt. 21 Jan 1928)
  31. Watkin Owen Spencer Pell (b. 1853, son of Admiral Watkin Owen Pell, died 1907; not found at TNA)
  32. ++Wilfred Powell (resigned as Midshipman, Aug 1873)
  33. William H. Milner
  34. The Hon. Edward Robert Gifford (drowned as Sub Lt. in loss of Eurydice in May 1878)
  35. *Frank Foster Bone (retired age 1898 w/ rank of Cdr.)
  36. Patrick Cecil Dudgeon (retired w/ rank of Cdr. May 1903, died 13 Oct 1922)
  37. W. R. H. Edwards
  38. + Joseph Grant George Bickford (lkeft service somehow as Acting Sub Lt in Sep 1875)
  39. William Ainger (died in service of diabetes as Cdr., 4 Sep 1892)
  40. +George Harry Miller
  41. Edward Powell Smythies (retired age as Lt. Feb 1899, died 14 Apr 1930)
  42. *Walter William Harris FitzSimons (discharged unable to pass exams, Mar 1875)
  43. Charles Sinclair Elliot
  44. Henry Edward Rooper (died in Flying Fish of accidental fall of pistol as Lt., 3 Nov 1886)
  45. +Edward Thompson (not found at TNA)

Navigating Cadets

  1. Douglas Minto Allen (dismissed service, Jan 1869)
  2. Francis Thomas Barr (retired Capt., died of diabetes 1926)
  3. *Michael Stephens Beatty
  4. *Frederick Thomas Boxer
  5. *Henry James
  6. Robert Wallace Glasspole
  7. *Arthur George Frederic Sandys Hill
  8. Frederick Wetherall Edward Houghton
  9. James Tait

Passing Out

On Christmas Day 1868, The Times printed details on how these Cadets passed out.[2] TODO: add that stuff here

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Royal Naval College." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 28, 1867; pg. 10; Issue 25901.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 25, 1868; pg. 10; Issue 26317.

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
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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
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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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