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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Lord Charles Thomas Montague Douglas Scott R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Fourth son of Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleugh (1806-1884) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 20 October 1839 | Born (Montagu House, Whitehall, London) | ||
| 23 February 1883 | Married Ada Mary, daughter of Charles Ryan, of Macedon, Victoria, Australia | ||
| May 1898 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 9 November 1902 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| 21 August 1911 | Died (Boughton House, Northamptonshire) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 18 October 1853 | Entered Navy | ||
| 19 May 1859 | Lieutenant | ||
| 12 September 1865 | Commander | ||
| 6 February 1872 | Captain | ||
| 3 April 1888 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 10 March 1894 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 30 June 1899 | Admiral | ||
| 20 October 1904 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 1 February 1860 | Lieutenant in Forte, commanded by Edward Winterton Turnour, flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry Keppel, Cape of Good Hope, and south-east coast of America | ||
| 27 June 1860 | 7 November 1863 | Lieutenant in Emerald, commanded by Arthur Cumming, Channel squadron | |
| November 1863 | 12 September 1865 | Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert | |
| 1868 | 5 December 1871 | Commander in Icarus (until paying off at Sheerness), China (and second in command of the naval brigade under Captain Algernon Heneage which was landed for the protection of British subjects at Yangchow) | |
| 9 June 1875 | 22 May 1877 | Captain in Narcissus (until paying off at Plymouth), 1875 Flying squadron, flagship of Sir George Granville Randolph, then Rowley Lambert | |
| 15 July 1879 | 31 August 1882 | Captain in Bacchante (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth), 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 (September 1879 - May 1880: to Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, Madeira, the Canaries, the West Indies and Bernuda; August 1880 - August 1882: to Ferrol, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, the River Plate, the Falkland Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Fiji, Japan, Shanghai, Cabton, the Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Cairo, Palestine, Athens, Crete, Corfu, Sicily and Gibraltar) | |
| 1885 | 1886 | Captain in Agincourt, Channel squadron | |
| January 1887 | Captain superintendent of Chatham dockyard | ||
| 1889 | Umpire on the naval manoeuvres | ||
| September 1889 | September 1892 | Commander-in-chief, Australia | |
| March 1900 | March 1903 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth | |
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