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| Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Fourth son of Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott (1806-1884), 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 (1855-1943), daughter of Charles Ryan (1818-1898), of Macedon, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 21 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) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| 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 | |
| 12 May 1853 | 11 May 1855 | Naval cadet in St Jean d'Acre, commanded by Captain Henry Keppel, Western squadron, then (May 1854) the Baltic and (1855) the Black Sea during the Russian War | |
| 12 May 1855 | 17 October 1856 | Midshipman in St Jean d'Acre, commanded by Captain Henry Keppel then Captain George St Vincent King, Mediterranean (and, September 1856, conveying Earl Granville - the leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords, and head of the British delegation - to the coronation of Czar Alexander II at St Petersburg) | |
| 25 October 1856 | 15 July 1857 | Midshipman in Raleigh, commanded by Commodore Henry Keppel, en route to the East Indies and China until wrecked near Macaw when the ship struck an uncharted rock; all saved | |
| 16 July 1857 | 31 July 1858 | Midshipman in Pearl, commanded by Captain Edward Southwell Sotheby, Pacific, and Naval Brigade during the Indian Mutiny | |
| 11 August 1858 | 20 May 1859 | Midshipman in Orion, commanded by Captain Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt then Captain Wallace Houston, Channel squadron (until 1 November 1858 flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles HoweFremantle) | |
| 21 May 1859 | 27 July 1859 | Mate in Orion, commanded by Captain Wallace Houston, Mediterranean | |
| 28 July 1859 | 15 September 1859 | Mate in Excellent, commanded by Captain Richard Strode Hewlett, gunnery ship, Portsmouth | |
| 1 February 1860 | 26 June 1861 | 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 Captain Arthur Cumming, Channel squadron | |
| 30 November 1863 | 15 September 1865 | Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert, commanded by Captain Prince Ernest L.V.C.A.J.E Leiningen, Portsmouth | |
| 2 May 1868 | 7 November 1868 | Commander in Icarus, China | |
| 8 November 1868 | 13 February 1869 | Commander in Rinaldo, China (and second in command of the naval brigade under Captain Algernon Heneage which was landed for the protection of British subjects at Yangchow) | |
| 14 February 1869 | 5 December 1871 | Commander in Icarus (until paying off at Sheerness), China | |
| 13 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) | |
| 24 August 1885 | 30 November 1886 | Captain in Agincourt, Channel squadron | |
| 1 January 1887 | 7 April 1888 | Captain superintendent of Chatham dockyard | |
| 1889 | Umpire on the naval manoeuvres | ||
| 10 September 1889 | 13 January 1893 | Commander-in-chief, Australia, flag in Orlando | |
| 28 March 1900 | 28 March 1903 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth, flag in Vivid, then (16 July 1902) Temeraire | |
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