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

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Examinations at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth resulted in naval cadetships being rewarded to sixty-two of ninety-eight candidates, in the following order of merit.[1]


The marks after their names indicate their prior schooling:

  1. Lionel Barrington Simeon B
  2. Henry Compton Anderson Baynes N
  3. Cæsar Frederick de Merandol Malan E
  4. Hastings Rowley Lees B
  5. C. D. St. L. Sherrington E
  6. G. C. Cope E (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)
  7. Samuel George Pechell N
  8. Henry Chamberlain M
  9. Robert Henry Muirhead Collins E
  10. Thomas Charles St. Andrew St. John M
  11. George Eastman E (b 27 Dec 1852, Sub-Lt., ret 28 Apr 1875, 1883 Haslar "violent mania", d 31 Mar 1922)
  12. Waties Corbett B
  13. Hugh Percy Hamilton Benwell
  14. Salis Arthur Schwabe M
  15. Edward Leroux Wilson E
  16. George Edward Richards M
  17. Alexander Eckstein Stewart E
  18. Bertram Spencer
  19. William Blake Fisher N
  20. Francis Pringle Taylor E
  21. Henry Brooke Anson E
  22. Angus William Sholto Douglas E
  23. Francis Edgar Rowlatt Fielding B
  24. George Yeates Langtry Paterson M
  25. Uvedale B. Corbett B (initial only at TNA, not found in Navy List of October 1871)
  26. G. L. R. Hannan K (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  27. J. J. D. Jefferson (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  28. Robert Stevenson Dalton Cuming E
  29. George Harry Drury
  30. James Mallcott Richardson N
  31. Henry Parker German B
  32. Clement William Swetenham B
  33. James Cuddy E
  34. Harry Seawell Frank Niblett
  35. C. B. Boileau B (not found at TNA or in Navy List of October 1871)
  36. John O'Hara N
  37. Arthur P. W. Goldsmid M (initials only at TNA, not in Navy List of October 1871)
  38. Frederick Gordon McKinstry E
  39. Thomas Arthur Lee Knight
  40. Harry Edward Thomson K
  41. Edmund Arthur White K
  42. J. G. Boucher B (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)
  43. Robert Palmer B
  44. Arthur Charles Middlemass B
  45. John D. P. French E (initials only at TNA, not in Navy List of October 1871)
  46. Percy Moreton Scott E
  47. John Lionel Eagles B
  48. Arthur Barrow Codrington Forsyth B
  49. Henry Horace Hayes K
  50. Henry Arthur Knox B
  51. Henry William Target N
  52. Neville Parker
  53. F. J. Reid E (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)
  54. Walter Travers Warren
  55. J. C. Hibbert E (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)
  56. Arthur E. Edridge B (initial only at TNA, not in Navy List of October 1871)
  57. Edward Richard Boyle Stephens
  58. F. W. Woodland E (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)
  59. Charles Allan Fenwick Waters
  60. Edward Percy Ashe M
  61. Murray Norris Bivar Harris E
  62. J. E. Thompson (cannot find in Navy List of October 1871 or at TNA)

Gerald Lycidas King-Harman is also known to have entered with this term, by Service Record.

Passing Out

The Times reported on the certificates each cadet was awarded on passing out in December, 1867.[2] TODO: add that here

Footnotes

  1. "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 22, 1866; pg. 9; Issue 25583.
  2. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 20, 1867; pg. 10; Issue 25999.
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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.