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| Count Gleichen (Prince Victor F F E G A C F Hohenlohe-Langenberg) R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Third and youngest son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg; his mother (Princess Feodore, the only daughter of Emich Charles, reigning prince of Leiningen) was half-sister to Queen Victoria. He ran away from school in his native land and was sponsored to enter the Royal Navy by Victoria | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 11 December 1833 | Born (as Victor Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustaf Adolf Constantin Friedrich, at Langenburg in Württemberg) | ||
| 26 January 1861 | Married Laura Williamina, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour | ||
| 26 January 1861 | Assumed the title of Count Gleichen (as German law did not allow a Prince's wife, not being of equal rank, to use her husband's title) | ||
| 1866 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 1887 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| 31 December 1891 | Died (St James's Palace, London) | ||
After he retired from the navy he became a sculptor, for which he had considerable talent. His most important work is a colossal statue of Alfred the Great , made for the main square of Wantage in Oxfordshire | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1848 | Entered Navy | ||
| 18 December 1854 | Lieutenant | ||
| 10 August 1857 | Commander | ||
| 13 December 1859 | Captain | ||
| 9 April 1866 | Retired Captain | ||
| 30 December 1876 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| 23 November 1881 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 24 May 1887 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| (1854) | Mate in Cumberland, commanded by George Henry Seymour, flagship of Vice-Admiral George Francis Seymour, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 25 April 1855 | Lieutenant in St Jean d'Acre, Mediterranean | ||
| 1856 | Governor and constable of Windsor Castle | ||
| 20 March 1856 | July 1856 | Lieutenant and commander in Traveller (until paying off at Sheerness) | |
| 4 September 1856 | 14 April 1857 | Lieutenant in Raleigh, commanded by Henry Keppel, East Indies and China, (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) (until wrecked near Macaw when the ship struck an uncharted rock; all saved) | |
| 26 June 1858 | Commander in Scourge, Mediterranean | ||
| 29 January 1863 | 9 April 1866 | Captain in Racoon (from commissioning at Chatham), West Indies, then (April 1864) the Mediterranean, then (March 1866) Queenstown | |
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