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==Hydrographers of the Navy==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Hydrographer of the Navy" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Francis Beaufort|nick=Sir Francis Beaufort|appt=1829|end=1855}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Washington|nick=John Washington|appt=1855|end=1863}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=George Henry Richards|nick=Sir George H. Richards|appt=1863|end=1874}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick John Owen Evans|nick=Sir Frederick J. O. Evans|appt=1874|end=1884}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William James Lloyd Wharton|nick=Sir William J. L. Wharton|appt=1 August, 1884<ref>Wharton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/15/212.|D7587921}}  f. 211.</ref>|end=31 July, 1904<ref>Wharton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/15/212.|D7587921}}  f. 211.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Mostyn Field|nick=Arthur M. Field|appt=1 August, 1904<ref>Field Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 456.</ref>|end=1909}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Herbert Edward Purey-Cust|nick=Herbert E. Purey-Cust|appt=16 August, 1909<ref>Purey-Cust Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 277.</ref>|end=31 August, 1914<ref>Purey-Cust Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 277.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Franklin Parry|nick=Sir John F. Parry|appt=31 August, 1914<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 169.</ref>|end=1 September, 1919<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 169.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Frederick Charles Learmonth|nick=Frederick C. Learmonth|appt=1 September, 1919<ref>Learmonth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 346.</ref>|end=1924}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Percy Douglas|nick=Henry P. Douglas|appt=1 October, 1924|end=1 October, 1932}}
{{Tenure|rank={{ViceRN}}|name=John Augustine Edgell|nick=John A. Edgell|appt=1 October, 1932{{NLMay39|p. 532}}|end=1945}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt|nick=Arthur G. N. Wyatt|appt=1945|end=1950}}
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==Assistant Hydrographers==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Edward Purey-Cust|nick=Herbert E. Purey-Cust|appt=1 October, 1907<ref>Purey-Cust Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 277.</ref>|end=16 August, 1909<ref>Purey-Cust Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 277.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Edward Monro|nick=Charles E. Monro|appt=6 September, 1909|end=17 November, 1909|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Edward Monro|nick=Charles E. Monro|appt=14 December, 1909<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Friday, 14 January, 1910.  Issue '''39169''', col C, p. 4.</ref>|end=April, 1910}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Franklin Parry|nick=John F. Parry|appt=28 April, 1910<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 169.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Philip Nelson-Ward|nick=Philip Nelson-Ward|appt=11 December, 1912<ref>Nelson-Ward Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 190/378.</ref>|end=1916<ref>Nelson-Ward Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 190/378.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Ernest Clifford Hardy|nick=Ernest C. Hardy|appt=1 September, 1914|end=1 February, 1919}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Percy Douglas|nick=Henry P. Douglas|appt=1 February, 1919{{NLJan21|p. 1818}}|end=|note=this may be Naval Assistant to the Hydrographer}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Robert Woodyear Glennie|nick=Robert W. Glennie|appt=1 August, 1921<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>|end=1 September, 1924<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=1 September, 1924<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=23 February, 1928<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=24 January, 1930<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Augustine Edgell|nick=John A. Edgell|appt=29 May, 1931|end=1 October, 1932}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lambert Jackson|nick=Arthur L. Jackson|appt=1 October, 1932<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/113.|}} f. 110.</ref>|end=20 July, 1936<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/113.|}} f. 110.</ref>|note=vice Edgell}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Francis Bold Law|nick=Edward F. B. Law|appt=6 July, 1936|end=6 March, 1939}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lambert Jackson|nick=Arthur L. Jackson|appt=|end=10 February, 1942<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/113.|}} f. 110.</ref>|note=medically unfit at end}}
{{Tenure|rank={{ViceRN}} (retired)|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=14 January, 1942<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=14 June, 1945<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|note=serving in rank of Captain}}
</div name=fredbot:office1>

The overlap between Hardy and Nelson-Ward should be examined.

==Chief Civil Assistant to the Hydrographer==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:officeCCA otitle="Chief Civil Assistant to the Hydrographer" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Fleet Paymaster|name=George William Underhill|nick=George W. Underhill|appt=|end=18 June, 1897<ref>Frederick Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/38/411.|D7601148}} f. 483.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=George Charles Frederick|nick=George C. Frederick|appt=18 June, 1897<ref>Frederick Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/38/411.|D7601148}} f. 483.</ref>|end=}}
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==Naval Assistants to the Hydrographer==


There seem to have been multiple men in this role at any given time, and so we do not link them in chains of succession at the foot of each man's page.

{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=Llewellyn Styles Dawson|nick=Llewellyn S. Dawson|appt=1 October, 1876|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank=Staff {{CaptRN}} (retired)|name=Henry Rendle Harris|nick=Henry R. Harris|appt=3 February, 1874|end=7 November, 1893{{NMI|Monday, Oct 30, 1893; pg. 7; Issue 34095}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Pirie|nick=George Pirie|appt=7 November, 1893{{NMI|Monday, Oct 30, 1893; pg. 7; Issue 34095}}|end=1 July, 1894}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Morris Henry Smyth|nick=Morris H. Smyth|appt=1 July, 1894|end=1 July, 1897}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}} (retired)|name=Cecil Frederick Oldham|nick=Cecil F. Oldham|appt=1 July, 1897|end=4 September, 1904}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Woodyear Glennie|nick=Robert W. Glennie|appt=1 April, 1904<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>|end=1 February, 1905<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=Vivian Ronald Brandon|nick=Vivian R. Brandon|appt=12 June, 1906|end=26 September, 1906}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}} (retired)|name=Lewis Frederick Blackburn|nick=Lewis F. Blackburn|appt=8 July, 1907|end=15 January, 1909}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Guy Montagu Marston|nick=Guy M. Marston|appt=2 January, 1908|end=10 November, 1910}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Philip Colquhoun Pearson|nick=Philip C. Pearson|appt=11 February, 1908|end=11 October, 1914}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=Vivian Ronald Brandon|nick=Vivian R. Brandon|appt=18 March, 1909|end=11 May, 1909}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Vivian Ronald Brandon|nick=Vivian R. Brandon|appt=11 July, 1910|end=27 January, 1911}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Woodyear Glennie|nick=Robert W. Glennie|appt=7 November, 1913<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>{{NLDec13|p. 357}}|end=16 December, 1913<ref>Glennie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/26.|D7576527}} f. 26.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=1 March, 1914<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=17 February, 1915<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oswald Tylston Hodgson|nick=Oswald T. Hodgson|appt=21 February, 1915|end=28 January, 1916|note=temporary until 9 July, 1915}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}} (retired)|name=Arthur Ward Torlesse|nick=Arthur W. Torlesse|appt=24 February, 1917<ref>Torlesse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/547.| D7579004}} f. 1312.</ref>|end=1 May, 1919<ref>Torlesse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/547.| D7579004}} f. 1312.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Balfour Cloete|nick=Edward B. Cloete|appt=19 June, 1918|end=6 May, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oswald Tylston Hodgson|nick=Oswald T. Hodgson|appt=20 January, 1920|end=5 July, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Wills Tinson|nick=Charles W. Tinson|appt=28 October, 1925|end=4 August, 1926|note=became ill with career-ending lung condition}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alfred Frederick Bell Woodhouse|nick=Alfred F. B. Woodhouse|appt=14 March, 1928<ref>Woodhouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/28.|}} f. 28.</ref>|end=11 January, 1947<ref>Woodhouse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/28.|}} f. 28.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Horace Victor Silk|nick=Horace V. Silk|appt=8 February, 1929<ref>Silk Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/176.|}} f. 533.</ref>|end=1 January, 1934<ref>Silk Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/176.|}} f. 533.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Perfect Meredith Lewes|nick=Arthur P. M. Lewes|appt=4 August, 1926|end=19 April, 1934|note=temporarily, initially, while Tinson was ill}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Stewart Erskine Maxwell|nick=Patrick S. E. Maxwell|appt=11 July, 1931|end=15 April, 1936}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Sidney Arthur Geary Hill|nick=Sidney A. Geary Hill|appt=15 December, 1927<ref>Hill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/188.|D7603695}} f. 189.</ref>|end=5 August, 1943<ref>Hill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/188.|D7603695}} f. 189.</ref>|note=this was extended repeatedly}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Archibald Day|nick=Archibald Day|appt=28 December, 1936|end=11 January, 1937}}
{{Tenure|rank={{ViceRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=1 August, 1940<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=14 January, 1942<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|note=serving in rank of Commander}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Charles Holt Fforde|nick=Charles H. Fforde|appt=4 July, 1942<ref>Fforde Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/129.|}}  ff. 62, 182.</ref>|end=6 November, 1944<ref>Fforde Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/129.|}}  ff. 62, 182.</ref>|note=vice Henderson, Fforde died in this appointment}}

==Directors of Navigation==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:office3 otitle="Director of Navigation" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Philip Nelson-Ward|nick=Philip Nelson-Ward|appt=11 December, 1912<ref>Nelson-Ward Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 378.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Alexander Webster|nick=John A. Webster|appt=8 August, 1916<ref>Schofield.  p. 190.</ref>|end=1 August, 1919}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Ernest Troyte Harper|nick=John E. T. Harper|appt=1 August, 1919<ref>Harper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 507.</ref>|end=15 November, 1921<ref>Harper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 507.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Parland Loder-Symonds|nick=Frederick P. Loder-Symonds|appt=15 November, 1921<ref>Loder-Symonds Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/186.|D7602972}} f. 212.</ref>|end=30 November, 1923<ref>Loder-Symonds Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/186.|D7602972}} f. 212.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Charles Strutt|nick=Arthur C. Strutt|appt=30 November, 1923{{INF}}|end=30 November, 1925}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alfred Headley Norman|nick=Alfred H. Norman|appt=30 November, 1925|end=30 November, 1927}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Oswald Henry Dawson|nick=Oswald H. Dawson|appt=30 November, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 384.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Kenelm Everard Lane Creighton|nick=Kenelm E. L. Creighton|appt=January, 1930<ref>Creighton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/141.|}}  f. 345.</ref>|end=11 January, 1932<ref>Creighton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/141.|}}  f. 345.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wittewronge Clayton|nick=John W. Clayton|appt=1933<ref>"Rear-Admiral J. W. Clayton" (Obituaries).  ''The Times''.  Saturday, 17 May, 1952.  Issue '''52314''', col E, pg. 8.</ref>|end=2 October, 1935<ref>Superseded that day.  Benn Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/66.|D7605153}} f. 424.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Gordon Benn|nick=William G. Benn|appt=2 October, 1935<ref>Benn Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/66.|D7605153}} f. 424.</ref>|end=2 July, 1938<ref>Benn Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/66.|D7605153}} f. 424.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Eric Morgan|nick=Charles E. Morgan|appt=18 June, 1938<ref>Morgan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/139.|}} f. 504.</ref>|end=October, 1940<ref>Morgan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/139.|}} f. 504.</ref>|note=vice Benn}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ronald George Bowes-Lyon|nick=Ronald G. Bowes-Lyon|appt=15 October, 1940<ref>Bowes-Lyon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/174.|}} f. 174.</ref>|end=12 August, 1942<ref>Bowes-Lyon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/174.|}} f. 174.</ref>|note=vice Morgan}}
</div name=fredbot:office3>

==Superintendents of Charts==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:office4 otitle="Superintendent of Charts" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Charles Learmonth|nick=Frederick C. Learmonth|appt=24 April, 1908<ref>Learmonth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 346.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Percy Douglas|nick=Henry P. Douglas|appt=11 July, 1910|end=11 February, 1915}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=17 February, 1915<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>|end=1 September, 1917<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Augustine Edgell|nick=John A. Edgell|appt=1 September, 1917|end=1 November, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Dodd Nares|nick=John D. Nares|appt=1 November, 1920<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 1818}}|end=1 March, 1923<ref>Nares Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/385.|D7603169}} f. 435.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Augustine Edgell|nick=John A. Edgell|appt=1 March, 1923|end=1 April, 1925}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Edmund Blechynden Haselfoot|nick=Francis E. B. Haselfoot|appt=1 April, 1925<ref>Haselfoot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/100.|}}  f. 220.</ref>|end=26 April, 1927<ref>Haselfoot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/100.|}}  f. 220.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Stewart Erskine Maxwell|nick=Patrick S. E. Maxwell|appt=26 April, 1927|end=8 February, 1929}}
</div name=fredbot:office4>

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{ClowesVII}}
*Day, Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald (1967).  ''The Admiralty Hydrographic Service 1795-1919''.  London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office.
*Schofield, Vice-Admiral B. B. (1977).  ''Navigation and Direction: The Story of HMS Dryad''.  Havant: Kenneth Mason Publications Ltd.  ISBN 0859370879.
{{refend}}

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