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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| William Samuel Brown R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of General John Tatton Brown (1795-1880) | |||
Changed his surname to Greive after his father and his second wife, Jane Elliott Grieve, received royal assent to retain the surname Greive on their marriage in 1872 | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 2 January 1831 | Born (Woolwich, Kent) | ||
| 1869 | Married Flora (1828-1921), daughter of Daniel Robertson (1778-1849) and widow of John Oldenshaw Bathurst R.N. | ||
| 29 October 1891 | Died (Portsmouth, Hampshire) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 28 February 1854 | Lieutenant | ||
| 11 September 1860 | Commander | ||
| 11 April 1866 | Captain | ||
| 17 February 1882 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 14 July 1889 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 15 August 1889 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 21 February 1851 | 24 May 1851 | Mate in Asia, commanded by Captain Robert Fanshawe Stopford, Pacific | |
| 20 October 1851 | 8 December 1852 | Mate in Spiteful, commanded by Commander Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Malta | |
| 23 February 1853 | 28 May 1853 | Mate in Espiegle, commanded by Commander George Hancock, North America and West Indies | |
| 29 May 1853 | 7 April 1854 | Mate in Cumberland, commanded by Captain George Henry Seymour, North America and West Indies, then (1854) the Baltic during the Russian War | |
| 12 April 1854 | 2 April 1857 | Lieutenant in Penelope, commanded by Captain James Crawford Caffin in the Baltic during the Russian War, then by Captain William Saltonstall Wiseman, Cape of Good Hope | |
| 3 April 1857 | 2 August 1858 | Lieutenant in Castor, commanded by Captain Henry Lyster, Cape of Good Hope | |
| 27 October 1858 | 31 October 1859 | Lieutenant in Lyra, commanded by Commander Radulphus Bryce Oldfield, Cape of Good Hope | |
| 1 November 1859 | 5 September 1860 | Lieutenant in Boscawen, commanded by Captain Richard Ashmore Powell, Cape of Good Hope | |
| 31 October 1861 | 24 March 1865 | Commander (2ic) in Phaeton, commanded by Captain Edward Tatham, North America and West Indies | |
| 3 June 1871 | 13 July 1874 | Captain in Danae (until paying off at Portsmouth), North America and West Indies | |
| 1 May 1877 | 1 January 1878 | Captain in Valiant, Coast Guard, River Shannon | |
| 2 January 1878 | 5 May 1880 | Captain in Penelope, Coast Guard, Harwich, flagship of Agustus Phillimore, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves (and summer cruise 17 April -18 August 1878) | |
| 3 August 1880 | 29 March 1882 | Commodore in Urgent, Depôt ship, Jamaica | |
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