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This category groups those men who attended Burney's Royal Naval Academy – a private preparatory school in Gosport for boys wishing to apply for entrance to the Royal Navy through competitive examinations for the training ship H.M.S. Britannia.

History

Dr. William Burney established the school as Dr. Burney's Academy in 1791. His sons, a grandson, and a Reverend F. G. Johnson served as headmaster of the school in succession until it closed in 1904.

Further Alumni

These men should be added to the category if and when they have articles created:

• Cornwallis Jasper Trower
• C. R. Roundell (May, 1868 entrant to Britannia)
• Herbert George Paris
• James Ellard
• Blair Onslow Cochrane
• Rudolph Edward de Lisle
• Hubert Gould William Thoreid
• Herbert Moultrie Heathcote
• Henry Pearson
• Denis Donough Charles MacGillycuddy
• George William Tyler
• Edward O'Hara Tobin
• Lionel Barrington Simeon
• Waties Corbett
• Francis Edgar Rowlatt Fielding
• Uvedale B. Corbett
• Henry Parker German
• Clement William Swetenham
• C. B. Boileau (Britannia entrant of September, 1866)
• J. G. Boucher (ditto)
• Arthur E. Edridge (ditto)
• Robert Palmer
• Arthur Charles Middlemass
• John Lionel Eagles
• Arthur Barrow Codrington Forsyth
• Henry Arthur Knox
• H. E. Urmston (September, 1869)
• Standert Edward Staunton
• James Grey Duberly
• Oliver Young
• John Samuel de Beauvoir Yelloby (Yelloly?)
• Edward Montaga Stopford

See Also