Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1868

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Thirty-nine of sixty-seven candidates for Naval Cadetships were accepted following the qualifying examinations for the May 1868 intake term at H.M.S. Britannia.[1]

Their prior schooling is indicated where known.

  1. Collingwood Nicholson Fenwick
  2. Thomas Torrens Rowley Miller (Eastman's Academy)
  3. Alexander William Wentworth Forbes (Stubbington House School)
  4. Francis George Kirby (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  5. Charles Henry Coke (Eastman's Academy)
  6. Algernon Horatio Anson (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  7. George William Gubbins (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  8. Henry Savile (Mr. Vickery's School)
  9. Cornwallis Jasper Trower (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  10. Reginald Bridger
  11. Edward Poore Chapman (Eastman's Academy)
  12. Francis Alexander (Reverend W. Allen's School)
  13. John Casement
  14. George Francis Savage Knowling
  15. Augustus Lempriere Knapton Knapton
  16. The Hon. Patrick Maurice Hely-Hutchinson
  17. James Roger Joseph Simpson
  18. James Montgomery Caulfield (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  19. Henry Preedy (Stubbington House School)
  20. The Hon. Arthur Thomas Napier Baring (North Grove House School)
  21. Arthur Murray Farquhar
  22. Louis Frederick Cyril Jackson (Reverend W. Allen's School)
  23. Andrew Charles Williamson
  24. Sydney Barnes Tomson (Eastman's Academy)
  25. C. R. Roundell (Burney's Royal Naval Academy) (not found in TNA)
  26. Robert Frederick Banks
  27. Francis Roger Martin
  28. Frederick Samuel Inglefield (North Grove House School)
  29. Frederick Livington Campbell (Rev. T. Knight's School)
  30. Arthur Lingham
  31. Francis William Keary
  32. Charles Napier Rodick
  33. Edward Capel Hasler Helby
  34. Woodham Arthur Connop (Eastman's Academy)
  35. E. H. Goddal (Rev. T. Knight's School) (not found in TNA)
  36. Herbert George Paris (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  37. Keppel Wade (North Grove House School) (entered with the following September term)
  38. A. J. Ross (Eastman's Academy) (not found in TNA)
  39. J. W. Elliot (North Grove House School)

The following candidates passed as Navigating Cadets.

  1. Francis Sambell Wheeler (Stubbington House School)
  2. James Ellard (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  3. Edmund Henry Davenport
  4. John William Brettall O'Donnell Morris
  5. Arthur Otto Cotton (North Grove House School)

Footnotes

  1. "Royal Naval College." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 08, 1868; pg. 10; Issue 26093.

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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.