Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1893

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Competitive examinations on 13-14 June produced the following list of successful candidates for cadetships, presented here in order of merit.[1]

The prior education (and marks obtained) noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 30 Jun 1894, p. 4.

  1. Leslie Drew Fisher
  2. Joseph Charles Walrond Henley
  3. George Lawrence Massey
  4. Cyril St. Clair Cameron
  5. Eric Walter Harbord, (Stubbington House School) 1613
  6. Ruric Henry Waring, (Stubbington House School) 1594
  7. Edward Astley Astley-Rushton
  8. Reginald Ernest Marcon "Marion" in the source
  9. Francis George Gillilan Chilton
  10. Charles Stuart Forbes, (Stubbington House School) 1506
  11. Charles Rodney Blane "Bland" in the source
  12. William Henry Philpot Bourne, (Stubbington House School) 1435
  13. Henry Coulson Bridges
  14. Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn
  15. Wion de Malpas Egerton
  16. Hugh Seymour
  17. Charles Ewer Cundall
  18. John Claud Cole-Hamilton
  19. Henry George Homer Adams, (Stubbington House School) 1385
  20. Alexander Robinson Palmer
  21. "Ward" (I have no good guess)
  22. Longuet Macdonald Darbyshire, (Stubbington House School) 1359
  23. Charles Wolfran Round-Turner
  24. Archibald Campbell Goolden
  25. Henry Percy Smyth-Osbourne
  26. George Johnstone
  27. John Leslie Whitehead Allison, (Stubbington House School) 1317
  28. Arthur Edwin Hale Ley, (Stubbington House School) 1306
  29. Stanley Tunstal Haverfield Wilton
  30. Godfrey Francis William Grayson, (Stubbington House School) 1296
  31. Robert Candlish Hocking
  32. Arthur Vivian Whitehead
  33. Arthur Milward Stancomb
  34. Edmund Laurence Braithwaite Lockyer
  35. George Percy Legard
  36. "Judd" (I have no good idea)
  37. Percival Scott Rickcord, (Stubbington House School)1250
  38. Henry Gerard Laurence Oliphant, (Stubbington House School) 1248
  39. Marcus Knox Johnson ("Johnston" in the source)
  40. Philip Henry White
  41. Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson
  42. Archibald Charles Cole
  43. Malcolm Henry Somerled Macdonald
  44. William Henry Strickland Ball, (Stubbington House School) 1218
  45. Charles Henry Davey ("Davy")
  46. Cospatrick Philip Brooke Dundas
  47. "C. Johnston" (I have no good guess)
  48. Thomas Bodley Scott
  49. Arthur Gardiner Muller
  50. Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar
  51. Geoffrey Mackworth ("Macworth")
  52. John Smythe Harris
  53. Arthur Leslie Gresson, (Stubbington House School) 1169
  54. John Arthur Fellows, (Stubbington House School) 1166
  55. Edward Raynon Jones, (Stubbington House School) 1164
  56. Francis Mary Hodgson, 1163
  57. William Cadman
  58. John Hugh Bainbridge

The Stubbington House advertisement also indicates that J M Willcocks was 64th place with 1128 marks and P H Gordon 66th place with 1126 marks.

The Service Records of the following men may indicate that they were also part of this term:

Footnotes

  1. "Naval Cadetships". Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, (Portsmouth, England) 8 July, 1893. p. 5.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
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Jan, 1866 | May, 1866 | Sep, 1866 | Jan, 1867 | May, 1867 | Sep, 1867 | Jan, 1868 | May, 1868 | Sep, 1868 | Jan, 1869 | May, 1869 | Sep, 1869
1870-1879
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Jan, 1875 | Jul, 1875 | Jan, 1876 | Jul, 1876 | Jan, 1877 | Jul, 1877 | Jan, 1878 | Jul, 1878 | Jan, 1879 | Jul, 1879
1880-1889
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Jan, 1886 | Jul, 1886 | Jan, 1887 | Jul, 1887 | Jan, 1888 | Jul, 1888 | Jan, 1889 | Mar, 1889 | Jul, 1889
1890-1899
Jan, 1890 | Jul, 1890 | Jan, 1891 | Jul, 1891 | Jan, 1892 | Jul, 1892 | Jan, 1893 | Jul, 1893
Jan, 1894 | Jul, 1894 | Jan, 1895 | Jul, 1895 | Jan, 1896 | Jul, 1896 | Jan, 1897 | May, 1897 | Sep, 1897
Jan, 1898 | May, 1898 | Sep, 1898 | Jan, 1899 | May, 1899 | Sep, 1899
1900-1906
Jan, 1900 | May, 1900 | Sep, 1900 | Jan, 1901 | May, 1901 | Sep, 1901 | Jan, 1902 | May, 1902 | Sep, 1902
Jan, 1903 | May, 1903 | Sep, 1903 | Jan, 1904 | May, 1904 | Sep, 1904 | Jan, 1905 | May, 1905 | Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1906
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.