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He was promoted to the rank of {{ViceRN}} on the Retired List on 1 January, 1901.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27262/pages/4 no. 27262.  p. 4.]  1 January, 1901.</ref>
 
He was promoted to the rank of {{ViceRN}} on the Retired List on 1 January, 1901.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27262/pages/4 no. 27262.  p. 4.]  1 January, 1901.</ref>
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He was advanced to the rank of {{AdmRN}} on the Retired List on 16 June, 1904.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27692/pages/4259 no. 27692.  p. 4259.]  5 July, 1904.</ref>
  
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 17:21, 31 January 2011

Admiral Francis Starkie Clayton, Royal Navy, Retired (19 July, 1838 – 21 October, 1913) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Clayton committed to his diary in July, 1887:

I am still uncertain about my movements as the Admiral has not yet got the requisite permission [by] telegram. Really, it is too bad that an Admiral can't move about his own station without permission from home—centralisation with a vengeance. It is a great pity, all owing to that tiresome telegraph—he may not go out of reach of the plague [sic] without leave.[1]

He was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on the Retired List on 1 January, 1901.[2]

He was advanced to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List on 16 June, 1904.[3]

Footnotes

  1. Quoted in The Naval Miscellany. VI. p. 360.
  2. London Gazette: no. 27262. p. 4. 1 January, 1901.
  3. London Gazette: no. 27692. p. 4259. 5 July, 1904.

Bibliography

  • "Admiral Clayton" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 23 October, 1913. Issue 40350, col D, pg. 11.

Service Records