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Born, 1841; educated at home and at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea; entered the Royal Navy, 1856; served eight years on the China station; served in the Mediterranean and then on the Australian station; took advantage of a period of leave to sail as second mate in the whaler ARCTIC to Davis Strait and Baffin's Bay in order to study ice conditions, 1873; commanded HMS ALERT in the Arctic expedition under George Strong Nares, 1875-1876; accompanied Sir Henry Gore-Booth on a cruise to Novaya Zemlya, 1879; surveyed ice conditions in Hudson Strait and Bay, 1886; served in the Pacific, 1879-1882; captain of HMS VERNON, the naval torpedo school at Portsmouth, 1883-1886; commodore of the training squadron, 891-1892; second in command of the Mediterranean squadron under Sir George Tryon, 1892; commander-in-chief at the Nore, 1901-1904; retired from the navy, 1906; died, 1918.
Publications: A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874).
A Polar Reconnaissance(1879)