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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 FitzHerbert Ruxton R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Arthur Ruxton, of Ardee House, Co. Louth | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 1830 | Born | ||
| 1871 | Married Sylvia (b. 1838) , daughter of Henry Grinnell, of New York, a partner in Grinnell, Minturn & Co., owners of the Swallowtail shipping line, owner of 'Flying Cloud', in 1851 claimed to be the fastest clipper ship. He financed an expedition to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin, and the Grinnell peninsula on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, is named after him. | ||
| 24 April 1895 | Died (Cornwall Gardens, London) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 21 January 1843 | Entered Navy | ||
| 24 October 1851 | Lieutenant | ||
| 31 January 1861 | Commander | ||
| 16 December 1865 | Captain | ||
| 1 April 1870 | Retired Captain | ||
| 9 June 1882 | Retired Rear-Admiral | ||
| 25 October 1888 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 2 September 1893 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| (14 April 1854) | Lieutenant in Penelope, commanded by James Crawford Caffin, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 28 July 1857 | Lieutenant in Pylades, commanded by Michael De Courcy, East Indies and China | ||
| 20 March 1863 | 16 December 1865 | Commander in Pandora (from commissioning at Portsmouth), west coast of Africa | |
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