GB 0100 KCLCA Brent - BRENT, V Adm Harry Woodfall (1834-1911)

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GB 0100 KCLCA Brent 1854-1887 Collection (fonds) ½ box Brent , Harry Woodfall , 1834-1911 , Vice Admiral
Born in Middlesex, 1834; entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, 1848; commissioned as a midshipman, 1850, and served on HMS CALEDONIA, HMS CASTOR and HMS STYX; promoted Lieutenant, 1854, and served on HMS ALGIERS; commanded HMS DAISY (gunboat), 1856; served on HMS BELLEROPHON, [1867-1870]; requested to revise Royal Navy publications, 1874; promoted Captain, and commanded HMS UNDAUNTED, 1875; appointed to the Admiralty Torpedo Committee, 1875; Captain, HMS HIMALAYA, 1879; appointed Director of the Indian Marine, 1881-[1883]; Captain, HMS AMETHYST, 1883, HMS HERCULES, 1885, and HMS BLACK PRINCE, 1887; took part in the Spithead Review, 1887; retired as Captain, 1889; promoted Vice-Admiral, 1896; died 1911. Publications: The Law of Port Helm. An examination into its history and dangerous action; with suggestions for its abolition with Philip Howard Colomb (J D Potter, Harrison & Sons, London, 1866).

Donated by Miss R Brent c1919.

Records comprise a Watchbill for HMS ALGIERS, 1854, (entries by Brent); personal notebook from HMS BELLEROPHON kept by Brent, 1867-1870; Stationbill for HMS BELLEROPHON, 1868-1869; Captain's Night Order books for HMS AMETHYST, HERCULES and BLACK PRINCE, 1883-1887 (entries by Brent).

Chronologically as described above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
English.

Collection level description available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

Correspondence and papers, 1851-1887, held at the National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section (ref: BNT).

Sources: King's College London, Manuscripts and Private Papers, A Select Guide; British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; National Register of Archives; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Manuscripts Section. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. May 2000 Brent , Harry Woodfall , 1834-1911 , Vice Admiral Documents History HMS Algiers HMS Amethyst HMS Bellerphon HMS Black Prince HMS Hercules Information sources Literary forms and genres Literature Log books Naval history Nonfiction Personal narratives Prose

Donated by Miss R Brent c1919.

Records comprise a Watchbill for HMS ALGIERS, 1854, (entries by Brent); personal notebook from HMS BELLEROPHON kept by Brent, 1867-1870; Stationbill for HMS BELLEROPHON, 1868-1869; Captain's Night Order books for HMS AMETHYST, HERCULES and BLACK PRINCE, 1883-1887 (entries by Brent).

Chronologically as described above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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English.

Collection level description available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

Correspondence and papers, 1851-1887, held at the National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section (ref: BNT).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels