Beaufort Testimonial

The Beaufort Testimonial commemorated the service of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B., who served as Hydrographer of the Navy from 1829 to 1855.

Founded in 1860, it was an annual award of "instruments or books of a professional character and of practical use to a Naval Officer" given to the Midshipman who scored highest in navigation and pilotage in examinations for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant.

Recipients

The awardees are denoted in Navy Lists by a * appearing after their name in the Navy List's seniority list. If they also received the Wharton Testimonial, the designation is **.

Year	Recipient	Notes
1860	Alfred T. Dale	Citation needed!
1861	John A. Fisher
1868	Edmund F. Jeffreys
1870	Alfred A. C. Parr
1871	Tynte F. Hammill
1872	Henry J. May
1875	Arthur M. Field
1880	Richard H. Peirse
1882	Bernard Currey
1885	Harry Jones
1887	Arthur C. Leveson
1888	Sydney R. Fremantle
1890	Horace L. A. Hood
1898	Barry E. Domvile
1900	Cecil V. Usborne
YEAR	Edward Leigh Stuart King	also Wharton
YEAR	Eustace Rotherham	also Wharton
YEAR	Rhoderick Robert McGrigor	also Wharton
YEAR	Thomas Kenneth Whitmore Atkinson	also Wharton
YEAR	John Peter Lorne Reid	also Wharton
YEAR	John Egerton Broome
YEAR	Robert Spencer Warne	also Whatrton
YEAR	William Anthony Cecil Binnie	also Wharton
YEAR	Earle Hathaway Thomas	also Wharton
YEAR	Christopher Michael Jacob	also Wharton
YEAR	Alyn Lee Taylor	also Wharton
YEAR	Herbert Geraint Trewby Padfield	also Wharton
YEAR	Albert Henry Ffitch Hunt	also Wharton
YEAR	Maurice James Ross	also Wharton
YEAR	Thomas Desmond Ross	also Wharton
YEAR	Eric Ford Schomberg Back	also Wharton
YEAR	George Wylie McKendrick	also Wharton
YEAR	John Alexander Harper	also Wharton
YEAR	Peter Kennedy Horsey	also Wharton
YEAR	Frank Douglas Holford	also Wharton
YEAR	Joseph Charles Walrond Henley
YEAR	Harold Ernest Browne
YEAR	Ralph George Dinwiddy
YEAR	Julian Francis Chichester Patterson