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Revision as of 13:51, 11 May 2014

Admiral Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, C.M.G., J.P., Royal Navy (9 July, 1866 – 13 August, 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Hornby was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant dated 9 July, 1886.[1]

Hornby was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1898.[2]

On 1 January, 1903 he was promoted to the rank of Captain.[3]

In October 1904, he assumed command of the destroyer Diana.[4]

He served as captain of Glory from March 1907 through September 1908.[5]

Appointed Captain of H.M.S. Vernon on 16 October, 1908, a post he would retain for three years. [6]

He was appointed command of the battlecruiser Inflexible on 8 May, 1912.[7]

He served as captain of Monarch from December 1912 through June 1913.[8]

Phipps Hornby was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 15 May, 1913, vice Brock.[9]

Great War

On 1 August, 1914, Hornby was appointed Rear-Admiral Commanding Cruiser Force E (the Eleventh Cruiser Squadron), with his flag in the Doris. On 5 September he transferred his flag to the battleship Glory as Rear-Admiral Commanding Cruiser Force H on the North America and West Indies Station. In February, 1915, he became Rear-Admiral Commanding on the North America and West Indies Station, and on 7 March became Second-in-Command on that station to Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey. He hauled down his flag on 21 June, and his last day on full pay was on the 27th.[10][11]

In September, 1917, he was appointed president of an Admiralty Committee to investigate a range of topics including the suitability of the existing system of torpedo personnel, though it had not issued its report as of late August, 1918.[12]

Hornby was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, vice Peirse, on 11 March, 1918.[13]

Post-War

Hornby was promoted to the rank of Admiral in the place of Sir Stanley Colville, placed on the Retired List, on 4 April, 1922.[14] Hornby was himself placed on the Retired List "at his own request" on 6 April.[15]

Footnotes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 25660. p. 6612. 31 December, 1886.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 26983. p. 3984. 1 July, 1898.
  3. The London Gazette: no. 27512. p. 3. 2 January, 1903.
  4. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  5. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  6. Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
  7. Roberts. Battlecruisers. p. 122.
  8. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  9. The London Gazette: no. 28719. p. 3514. 16 May, 1913.
  10. Hornby Service Record. p. 338.
  11. "Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist." The National Archives. ADM 6/461. p. 34.
  12. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. vi.
  13. The London Gazette: no. 30599. p. 3756. 26 March, 1918.
  14. The London Gazette: no. 32668. p. 2934. 11 April, 1922.
  15. The London Gazette: no. 32672. p. 3030. 14 April, 1922.

Bibliography

  • "Adml. Phipps Hornby" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 15 August, 1956. Issue 53610, col D, p. 10.

Papers

Service Records


Naval Appointments
Preceded by
New Command
Rear-Admiral Commanding,
Cruiser Force E

1914
Succeeded by
Henry L. Tottenham

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
David R. Beatty
Captain of H.M.S. Diana
Oct, 1904 – ?
Succeeded by
Heathcoat S. Grant
Preceded by
Ernest C. T. Troubridge
Captain of H.M.S. Glory
Mar, 1907 – ?
Succeeded by
William C. Pakenham
Preceded by
Richard F. Phillimore
Captain of H.M.S. Inflexible
8 May, 1912 – ?
Succeeded by
Arthur N. Loxley
Preceded by
Charles L. Napier
Captain of H.M.S. Monarch
Dec, 1912 – ?
Succeeded by
Edmund H. Smith

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