Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of March, 1862

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Forty-seven of sixty-five candidates for Naval Cadetships were accepted following the qualifying examinations for the March, 1862 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia. It is assumed the list below is in order of merit, as was the custom in The Times when reporting such things.[1]

There was no indication in the article of their prior schooling.

  1. Walter Hailstone
  2. Ford Edward Willes Lambart
  3. Edward Goldney
  4. Adolphus Frederic St. Clair
  5. A. A. W. Gibbins (not found in TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
  6. William Nigel Madan
  7. Reginald Orme Brenton Carey Brenton
  8. Robert Dalrymple Barwick Bruce
  9. Pierre Gervais Evans
  10. J. W. F. Braham (Naval Cadet "J W F Braham" at TNA, not in Navy List of January 1869)
  11. Charles Edward Woulfe Haly Hutton
  12. Henry Barré Blacker Beresford
  13. C. E. Lister (not found in TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
  14. J. B. Pulford (not found in TNA or in Navy List of January 1869)
  15. Claude Henry Shute Buckle
  16. John Giles (b , Lt., retired as unfit 1 May 1882 insane, d 5 May 1889)
  17. Samuel Francis Dashwood
  18. Julian Alleyne Baker
  19. John Pakenham Pipon
  20. Francis Elam Haigh
  21. Francis Hutchinson
  22. Thomas Charles Heathcote
  23. John Phelips
  24. Henry Bingham Chesshyre Wynyard
  25. Richard Wentworth Fawkes
  26. Edward John Fellowes
  27. Alexander William Ogilvy
  28. James Lacon Hammet
  29. Horace Henry Barnard
  30. Charles James Barlow
  31. Charles William Dickinson
  32. Francis Samuel Knowles
  33. Archibald Kempt Harenc
  34. Frederick Streatfield Pelly
  35. Edward John Bawtree
  36. Edward Plantagenet Hume
  37. William S. Lovell (Naval Cadet "William S Lovell" at TNA, not in Navy Lists of January 1869 or April 1863)
  38. Alexander Milne Gardiner
  39. Richard Frazer Hoskyn
  40. Thomas L. Fletcher (Naval Cadet "Thomas L Fletcher" at TNA, not in Navy Lists of January 1869 or April 1863)
  41. C. P. M. Pitmore (not found in TNA or in Navy Lists of January 1869 or April 1863)
  42. Samuel B. Kemble ("J. B. Kemble in The Times, Midshipman "Samuel B Kemble" at TNA; not in Navy Lists of January 1869 or April 1863)
  43. Frederick Maitland
  44. John Deane Deane
  45. Clement Royds
  46. William Billing
  47. William A. Beckles (Midshipman "William A Beckles" at TNA; not in Navy Lists of January 1869 or April 1863)

Twenty-one of thirty-three candidates were accepted as Masters' Assistants, but I have not listed their names here.

Footnotes

  1. "Military And Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Mar 12, 1862; pg. 12; Issue 24191.

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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.