John Edmund Commerell R.N.
John Edmund Commerell R.N.
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John Edmund Commerell R.N. | Explanation |
Second son of John Williams Commerell of Strood Park, Horsham |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
13 January 1829 | | Born (London) |
1853 | | Married Mathilda Maria, fourth daughter of Joseph Bushby of Halkin Street, London |
11 October 1855 | | In the Sea of Azov, Crimea, together with Quartermaster William Thomas Rickard and a seaman, he destroyed large quantities of forage on the shore of the Putrid Sea. For this he was subsequently awarded the Victoria Cross |
1866 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), civil branch |
1870 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath), military branch |
1874 | 1879 | Groom-in-waiting to Queen Victoria |
30 March 1874 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
25 November 1885 | 23 May 1888 | M.P. (Conservative) for Southampton |
21 June 1887 | | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
20 February 1901 | | Died (London) |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
19 February 1842 | Entered Navy |
13 December 1848 | Lieutenant |
29 September 1855 | Commander |
18 July 1859 | Captain |
12 November 1876 | Rear-Admiral |
19 January 1881 | Vice-Admiral |
12 April 1886 | Admiral |
14 February 1892 | Admiral of the Fleet |
13 February 1899 | Retired Admiral of the Fl |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
15 February 1854 | | Lieutenant in Vulture, commanded by Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse, the Baltic and then (1855) the Black Sea and Sea of Azov during the Russian War |
21 February 1855 | | Commander in Weser, in the Sea of Azov (where he won his Victoria Cross) |
27 February 1856 | | Commander in Snake, Mediterranean |
4 October 1858 | | Commander in Fury, China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
28 September 1859 | | Captain in Magicienne, East Indies and China |
8 July 1865 | 1 January 1866 | Captain in Scorpion, Portsmouth |
3 May 1866 | 18 May 1868 | Captain in Terrible, helping to lay the (third, and finally successful) Atlantic cable |
13 May 1869 | October 1870 | Captain in Monarch, Channel squadron |
16 February 1871 | 2 October 1873 | Commodore in Rattlesnake (until paying off at Plymouth), Commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa (until invalided by a wound received in the Second Anglo-Ashantee War) |
1872 | 1877 | Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria |
1875 | | Second in command, Mediterranean |
4 December 1879 | 12 May 1880 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (Junior Naval Lord) |
7 November 1882 | 25 August 1885 | Commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies (flag in Northampton) |
20 June 1888 | 22 June 1891 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth |