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For his service in the Naval Brigade before Sevastopol he was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} dated 2 ...>'''Sir James Drummond as Fourth Naval Lord'''|'''[[Fourth Sea Lord|Junior Naval Lord]]'''<br>1868|Succeeded by<br>'''[[John Walter Tarleton|Sir John W. Tar

...nior flag officer or senior Captain of distinction, based first at [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich|Greenwich]], Devonport, and then at Portsmouth. Branch ...Henry J. May]] started giving these lectures from 1898.<ref>Lambert. "The Naval War Course". pp. 221-222.</ref> On 2 June, 1900, the Board of Admiralty o

...esn't seem to have followed this up.</ref> and went on leave to obtain his naval outfit, which he did at, "Gieve the outfitter at Portsmouth who put him up For the record he was a Naval Cadet and not a Midshipman. He joined the ''Calcutta'' on 29 July.<ref>Mac

...resented a hypothetical Hostile Fleet attacking British trade routes.{{ToL|Naval Intelligence|Saturday, Jul 19, 1890; pg. 12; Issue 33068}} {{UK-Camperdown These problems behind him, Bridgeman was appointed a [[Naval Aide-de-Camp]] to the King, dated 24 May, 1901, vice [[Alfred Arthur Chase

...Station]], where again he served with Prince George, who was slightly his junior.<ref>Wester Wemyss. p. 32.</ref> ...e course of study for the rank of {{LieutRN}}, divided between the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]], and ''Excellent''. His spare time was spent at his m

...he senior naval officer on the [[Board of Admiralty]], and served as chief naval adviser to the [[First Lord of the Admiralty]], the politician responsible Under the terms of the [[Order in Council of 14 January, 1869]], the First Naval Lord was granted a salary of £1,000 a year, with allowances and a house, o

...minister responsible to Crown and Parliament for the administration of the Naval Service of the United Kingdom, encompassing the Royal Navy, the Royal Marin ...[[Order in Council of 10 August, 1904|10 August, 1904]], whereby the other Lords Commissioners were no longer labelled "Assistants" but still had their duti

The '''Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel''', until 1904 '''Second Naval Lord''', and between 1904 and 1917 '''Second Sea Lord''', was the member of ...the First Naval Lord, assisted by the Junior Naval Lord. The other Naval Lords were also given an increase in pay.<ref>Hamilton. pp. 189-190.</ref>

...nary matters ordinarily dealt with by the Second Sea Lord.<ref>Quoted in ''Naval Staff of the Admiralty''. p. 85.</ref></blockquote> ...k, and that an officer should be appointed as Second Sea Lord who would be junior to me. By this means the conduct of the war would, in the absence of the F

...''Junior Naval Lord''', was a member of the [[Board of Admiralty]] and the naval officer responsible for supply in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...ceeded it he, along with the First Naval Lord and [[Second Sea Lord|Second Naval Lord]], was "to be responsible to the First Lord of the Admiralty for the a

...e same year that Third Sea Lord was renamed '''Third Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Materiel'''. The Controllership was merged with Third Sea Lord in 1918, onc ...ller of the Navy'''.<ref>''The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service''. '''II'''. p. 9.</ref> In spite of the wording of the Order in Co

...a year on the cadet training ship {{UK-1Britannia}}, before serving as the junior member of a committee appointed to examine the capabilities of the Whitehea ...February, attached himself during the advance to the right half battery, Naval Brigade, in the place of Lieutenant [[Frank Massie Royds|Royds]], R.N., mor

...influence on Royal Navy war planning in the last years of peace as the Sea Lords. ...ointed to ''Duncan'', additional, for ''Trent'', for gunnery duties at the naval barracks. On 16 April, 1885, he was again appointed to the ''Ruby'', this

...next ten years he continued as private secretary to successive senior sea lords Sir Alexander Milne, Sir Hastings Yelverton, and Sir George Wellesley. In ...roughout the war. In 1882 the British navy bombarded Alexandria, landed a naval brigade, and manned steamboats on the Nile. The headquarters' administrati

...ton House]], near Fareham, Portsmouth. Beresford had been earmarked for a naval career on account of a "delicate constitution" and a need, "perhaps justifi ===Early Naval Career===

....</ref> He was appointed to {{UK-Nile}} in command on 30 June, 1891.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Time ...s the most entertaining&mdash;and threatening&mdash;signal made in British Naval History:

...See, for example:<br>Brown. ''The Grand Fleet''. p. 168.<br>Friedman. ''Naval Firepower''. pp. 99, 297-298.<br>Friedman. ''Fighting the Great War at Se ...nowiki>[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> will be asked to report on this letter in [the

...Force" by Sir [[Julian Stafford Corbett|Julian Corbett]], the author of ''Naval Operations'', the British Official History, but appears to have had no offi It was later asserted by more junior officers such as then Lieutenant, later Admiral, [[William George Tennant|W

Four Naval Lords at a salary of one thousand (1,000''l''.) a-year each, with allowances and ...'s Navy should be merged into that of the Third Lord, the office of Fourth Naval Lord being dispensed with.

:The First Naval Lord. :The Second Naval Lord.