Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N.
Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N.


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Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N.Explanation
Son of Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe (1796-1870), 1st Earl Howe
 
Date (from)(Date to)Personal
10 August 1850 Born
25 February 1892 Married Alice Annel, daughter of General Rt. Hon. Sir John Cowell
30 June 1905 K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath)
July 1909 G.C.V.O. (Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
1 March 1911 Died (Admiralty House, Portsmouth)
Obituary in the Times newspaper
 
DateRank
9 January 1864Naval cadet
29 September 1865Midshipman
30 March 1870Sub-Lieutenant
18 September 1872Lieutenant
31 August 1882Commander
6 January 1888Captain
23 July 1901Rear-Admiral
12 September 1905Vice-Admiral
2 January 1909Admiral
 
Date fromDate toService
9 January 186422 March 1865Naval cadet in Britannia, commanded by Captain Richard Ashmore Powell, cadet training ship, Portland
14 April 186528 September 1865Naval cadet in Caledonia, commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, Mediterranean (second in command)
29 September 186524 January 1867Midshipman in Caledonia, commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, Mediterranean (second in command)
25 January 186729 March 1870Midshipman in Galatea, commanded by Captain Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, undertaking an extensive world tour to South America, the Cape, Australia, China, India and Japan (interrupted on 12 March 1868, by a Fenian assassination attempt at Sydney, when the ship returned to England to allow him to recover)
30 March 18702 June 1871Sub-Lieutenant in Galatea, commanded by Captain Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, undertaking an extensive world tour to South America, the Cape, Australia, China, India and Japan (interrupted on 12 March 1868, by a Fenian assassination attempt at Sydney, when the ship returned to England to allow him to recover)
3 June 187119 September 1871Sub-Lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Captain Henry Boys, gunnery ship, Portsmouth
20 September 187130 June 1872Sub-Lieutenant in Bellerophon, commanded by Captain John Dobree McCrea, Channel squadron
1 July 187221 September 1872Sub-Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert, commanded by Captain Prince Ernest L.V.C.A.J.E Leiningen, Portsmouth
31 May 187330 September 1873Additional lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Captain Henry Boys, gunnery ship, Portsmouth, for a short torpedo course
27 November 18739 January 1875Lieutenant in Eclipse, commanded by Captain James Elphinstone Erskine, North America and West Indies
30 November 187417 March 1876Lieutenant in Bellerophon, commanded by Captain Richard Wells, flagship of Rear-Admiral George Greville Wellesley, North America and West Indies
18 March 18768 May 1878Lieutenant in Sultan, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean
9 May 187823 December 1878Lieutenant in Black Prince, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean
15 July 187931 August 1882Lieutenant in Bacchante, commanded by Captain Lord Charles Thomas Montague Douglas Scott, Detached squadron, and bearing the royal cadets, Albert Victor, duke of Clarence and Avondale, and his younger brother George (later King George V), who made their first cruise in her to the Mediterranean, West Indies, South America, Falklands, South Africa, Australia, Japan, China, Malaya, and home via the Mediterranean
9 January 188316 February 1883Commander (2ic) in Sultan, commanded by Captain Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Channel squadron
24 February 188512 July 1886Commander (2ic) in Raleigh, commanded by Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson, flagship of Rear-Admiral Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa
13 July 18868 March 1888Commander in Osborne, Portsmouth
24 April 18888 June 1891Captain in Boadicea, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edmund Robert Fremantle, East Indies (including serving as Chief of Staff for Freemantle's punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu in October 1890)
29 August 189120 September 1892Assistant Director of Naval Intellegence
21 September 18925 December 1895Captain in Cleopatra, North America and West Indies (being Commodore during the Newfoundland fishing season)
14 January 18965 November 1896Captain in RevengeExternal link, Particular Service Squadron, commissioned after publication of the telegramExternal link from Kaiser Wiehelm II to President Kruger on 3 January 1896
21 April 189719 February 1900Captain in Britannia, training ship for Naval cadets, Dartmouth
20 February 190027 October 1901Captain in OceanExternal link, China
5 June 19025 June 1803Second in command, Channel sqadron, flag in MagnificentExternal link
13 June 19032 August 1905Second in command, China station, flag in AlbionExternal link
5 December 1905February 1907Second in command, Channel Fleet, flag in CaesarExternal link
23 February 190719 November 1908Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, flag in ExmouthExternal link
20 November 190830 April 1910Commander-in-Chief, Mediteranean fleet, flag in ExmouthExternal link
1 May 19101 March 1911Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (until he died), flag in Victory


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