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Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Wilson]], appointed on 7 March, 1887, wrote on 13 March:
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:… I understand I am to be called Assistant Director of Torpedoes, Captain Fisher being called Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes, instead of only Director of Naval Ordnance.  I made a slight protest, but was told it was all settled and could not be altered.  It is rather as if they had offered me a situation as cook and then made me scullery-maid.  They are going to be very liberal in the matter of pay, however, as they propose to give me £950 a year, and I was rather glad to see that in explaining the matter to get the money out of the Treasury the Admiralty were obliged to say that, although I was called Assistant Director, I should have the greater part of the work of the Director …<ref>Quoted in Bradford.  ''The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson''.  p. 107.</ref>
 
 
 
==Assistant Directors of Torpedoes==
 
Dates of appointment given:
 
 
 
*Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Wilson]], 7 March, 1887 - 31 December, 1888.<ref>Wilson Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/14.  p. 211.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|Edmund F. Jeffreys]], 22 February, 1889.<ref name=Blond167>Blond.  ''Technology and Tradition''.  p. 167.</ref>
 
*Captain [[William Henry May|William H. May]], 1 June, 1893.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain the Honourable [[Maurice Archibald Bourke|Maurice A. Bourke]], 17 January, 1895.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Baldwin Wake Walker, Second Baronet|Sir Baldwin W. Walker]], 14 November, 1895.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Ernest Alfred Simons|Ernest A. Simons]], 10 May, 1898.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[George Le Clerc Egerton|George Le C. Egerton]], 4 August, 1898.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Alexander William Chisholm-Batten|Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten]], 3 August, 1899.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain George Le C. Egerton, 24 June, 1901.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Henry Bradwardine Jackson|Henry B. Jackson]], 10 February, 1902.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain the Honourable [[Alexander Edward Bethell|Alexander E. Bethell]], 6 April, 1903.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Bernard Currey]], 21 December, 1906.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Stuart Nicholson]], 21 December, 1908.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Edward Francis Benedict Charlton|Edward F. B. Charlton]], 11 February, 1911.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
*Captain [[Philip Wylie Dumas|Philip W. Dumas]], 15 August, 1914.<ref name=Blond167/>
 
 
 
==Footnotes==
 
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==Bibliography==
 
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*Blond, A. J. L. (1993).  ''Technology and Tradition: Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy 1895-1920''.  Unpublished PhD Thesis. Lancaster: University of Lancaster.
 
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