Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of July, 1890

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Examinations held in June 1890 produced the following successful candidates for naval cadetships for the July, 1890 term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

The prior education noted for some of the men is obtained from classified ads in various issues of the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, e.g. 26 Sep 1890, p. 4 and 18 Oct 1890, p. 4.

  1. Alfred Charles Dewar, 1719 marks
  2. Colin Duncan Lorne MacEwan, (Eastman's Academy) 1716 (b 15 Aug 1876, Mid, removed misconduct 15 Oct 1894)
  3. Ernest William Denison, 1692
  4. James Walter Sutherland Miller, (Eastman's Academy) 1601 (b 10 Jul 1876, Lt., retired unfit 16 Aug 1900)
  5. Walter Edward Henley, 1588 (b 3 Jan 1877, Mid, drowned in loss of H.M.S. Victoria, 22 June 1893)
  6. Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry, (Eastman's Academy) 1586
  7. Horace Walker Longden, (Eastman's Academy) 1563
  8. Kerrison Kiddle, (Eastman's Academy) 1519
  9. Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton, 1513
  10. William George Astell Ramsay-Fairfax, 1504 (b 29 Jul 1876, Cdr., resigned 12 Nov 1901, emergency, d 20 Nov 1946)
  11. A. N. Campbell, 1490
  12. Berwick Curtis, 1459
  13. Algernon Henry Chester Candy, 1454
  14. Denys Robert Cunynghame Dwyer, (Eastman's Academy) 1452 (b 13 Aug 1876, Mid, d 23 Nov 1892 scarlet fever at Portland)
  15. Thomas Erskine Wardle, 1431
  16. Henry Percy Douglas, 1419
  17. Horace Cyril Watson, 1390
  18. John Bryan Stevenson, 1363
  19. William Ernest Huntingford Lowther, 1353 (b 4 Dec 1876, Sub-Lt., d 23 Feb 1898 capsized boat off Norfolk)
  20. Francis Ryle Wood, 1,349
  21. Cyril Peel, (Eastman's Academy) 1346
  22. Ivor Francis Chichester, (Eastman's Academy) 1,326
  23. W. R. Alexander, 1,304
  24. G. L. Wilson, (Eastman's Academy) 1292 E
  25. Harold Freeth Grant, 1289 (b 16 Sep 1876, nav Lt., ret unfit 9 Jun 1905, d 14 Sep 1911 Switzerland)
  26. S. C. Pritchard, 1289
  27. A. J. Arendrup, 1285
  28. William Bruce, 1285 (b 12 Jull 1876,m acting Sub-Lt., resigned 26 Oct 1897)
  29. P. S. Thornton, 1266
  30. Frank Powell, 1265
  31. Hay Winthrop, 1258
  32. A. S. McIver, (Eastman's Academy) 1242
  33. Henry John Griffiths Lawrence, (Eastman's Academy) 1237 (b 27 Mar 1876, ret Lt. Cdr., ret o/r 24 Dec 1909, war service, d 17 Jun 1924)
  34. F. R. J. Knollys, 1232
  35. Samuel Collins, 1225
  36. Ernest Orford Ballantyne, 1222
  37. Edward Hugh Meredith Nicholson, (Eastman's Academy) 1218
  38. Maurice Philip Hopkinson, 1205 (b 17 Jul 1876, Lt., d 25 May 1909 at Suez)
  39. Walter Burdge Compton, 1199
  40. Argentine Hugh Alington, (Eastman's Academy) 1194 (seems to have joined in January, 1891 term)
  41. Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot, 1186
  42. Frederick Burnaby Noble, 1183
  43. James Cecil Skinner Hughes, 1176
  44. Reginald Verney Storr, 1165 (b 11 May 1876, Mid, withdrawn unfit Nov 1895)
  45. C. C. Maitland, 1157
  46. Percy Pitts, 1151
  47. Stephen Bowle Evans, 1146 (b 20 Jan 1876, nav Cdr., d 15 Oct 1918 flu Cape hospital)
  48. Philip Douglas Roberts West, 1137
  49. Charles Tiedemann Gervers, 1136
  50. Ernest Henry Rideout, 1132 (b 8 Feb 1876, Cdr., ret 8 Feb 1919, d 8 Jan 1923)
  51. George Douglas Dixie, 1127 (b 18 Jan 1876, Mid, withdrawn 20 Sep 1894)
  52. Colin Kenneth MacLean, 1127
  53. Harold Wilson Gambier, 1125 (b 4 May 1876, Mid, d 22 Jun 1893 in loss of Victoria)
  54. Herbert Maynard Denny, 1124
  55. Walter Lingen Allen, 1112
  56. Edward Chichester, 1102 (not found at TNA)
  57. Bernard St. George Collard, 1098

The Service Record of Duncan Hermann Carmichael indicate that they were in this term, but they are not recorded by the above source in having taken the entrance examination with their term-mates.

Additionally, Harold Ernest Sulivan obtained a Service Cadetship with 782 marks and Vernon Frederick Tuson obtained a Colonial Cadetship with 717 marks.

Footnotes

  1. "Cadetships In The Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jul 01, 1890; pg. 8; Issue 33052.

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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.