Walter James Hunt-Grubbe R.N.
Walter James Hunt-Grubbe R.N.

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Walter James Hunt-Grubbe R.N.Explanation
Son of Rev. James Andrew Hunt-Grubbe (1796-1882)
 
Date (from)(Date to)Personal
23 February 1833 Born (Chitterne, Wiltshire)
30 July 1867 Married Mary Anne (1839-1908), daughter of Wililam Codrington (1780-1842) of Wroughton, Wiltshire
1874 C.B. (Companion of the Bath)
2 August 1879 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria
14 August 1882 K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath)
3 June 1899 G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath)
11 April 1922 Died (Devizes, Wiltshire)
Obituary in the Times newspaper
 
DateRank
1845Entered Navy
23 September 1851Mate
23 May 1854Lieutenant
23 March 1861Commander
5 July 1866Captain
8 July 1884Rear-Admiral
2 August 1890Vice-Admiral
20 February 1895Admiral
23 March 1897Retired Admiral
 
Date fromDate toService
23 September 18519 April 1853Mate in Rifleman, commanded by Lieutenant and commander Richard Henry Dalton, south-east coast of America
21 May 185322 May 1854Mate in Excellent, commanded by Captain Henry Ducie Chads, gunnery ship, Portsmouth, and Superintendent of Royal Naval College
23 May 185428 May 1855Lieutenant in Scourge, commanded by Commodore John Adams, west coast of Africa
29 May 18559 August 1857Lieutenant and commander in Teazer, west coast of Africa
25 April 185911 June 1859Lieutenant in Cressy, commanded by Captain Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, Channel squadron
12 June 185922 August 1859Lieutenant in Dauntless, commanded by Captain William Edmonstone, Portsmouth
23 August 185911 June 1861Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by William Edmonstone, west coast of Africa (until promoted for his part in the storming of a stockade in front of Sabba, on the River Gambia)
6 April 186324 September 1866Commander in Jaseur (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness), west coast of Africa
25 September 186626 March 1867Additional Captain in Flora, commanded by Captain Joseph Grant Bickford then Captain Arthur Wilmshurst, guardship, Ascension
16 May 187221 May 1875Captain in Tamar (until paying off at Plymouth), troopship, and commanded the Naval Brigade at the Battle of Amoaful, during the 1874 Ashantee campaign
25 May 18762 June 1877Captain in Rupert, Mediterranean
3 June 187720 November 1878Captain in Devastation, Mediterranean
(21 November 1878)2 January 1882Captain in Pembroke, harbour service (in command of the Medway steam reserve)
20 April 188215 May 1884Captain in Sultan, Channel squadron, then (December 1882), Mediterranean (including Bombardment of Alexandria, where Hunt-Grubbe was in command of the ships which engaged the northern forts), then Channel squadron again
6 March 18853 June 1888Commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope, flag in Raleigh
1 August 18884 August 1891Captain in Indus, Superintendent of Devonport dockyard, Plymouth
1 October 189430 September 1897President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich

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