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| Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Wilson]], wrote on 13 March, 1887:
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| :… I understand I am to be called Assistant Director of Torpedoes, Captain Fisher being called Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes, instead of only Director of Naval Ordnance. I made a slight protest, but was told it was all settled and could not be altered. It is rather as if they had offered me a situation as cook and then made me scullery-maid. They are going to be very liberal in the matter of pay, however, as they propose to give me £950 a year, and I was rather glad to see that in explaining the matter to get the money out of the Treasury the Admiralty were obliged to say that, although I was called Assistant Director, I should have the greater part of the work of the Director …<ref>Quoted in Bradford. ''The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson''. p. 107.</ref>
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| ==Assistant Directors of Torpedoes==
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| *Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Baronet]], 7 March, 1887 - 31 December, 1888.
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