Walter Hunt-Grubbe Explained

Honorific Prefix:Admiral
Sir Walter Hunt-Grubbe
Birth Date:23 February 1833
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Rank:Admiral
Commands:HMS Tamar
HMS Rupert
HMS Devastation
HMS Pembroke
HMS Sultan
Cape of Good Hope Station
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Branch: Royal Navy
Battles:Anglo-Ashanti wars
Awards:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe (23 February 1833 – 11 April 1922) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.

Naval career

Hunt-Grubbe joined the Royal Navy in 1845.[1] Promoted to captain in 1866, he was given command of HMS Tamar and the men of the naval brigade at the Battle of Amoaful during the Anglo-Ashanti wars.[1] He went on to command HMS Rupert, HMS Devastation and then HMS Pembroke in which capacity he was in charge of the Medway Steam Reserve.[2] Later he commanded HMS Sultan.[1] He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in 1885[3] and Superintendent of Devonport dockyard in 1888.[1] He went on to be President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1894.[4]

In retirement he became deputy chairman of the committee established in 1898 to provide for the efficient organisation and management of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[5] He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours.

Family

In 1867 he married Mary Anne Codrington.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1125 Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe
  2. http://campus.medway.ac.uk/library/about/files/daybyday/march.pdf Medway
  3. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-586056&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5 Item reference ADM 50/344
  4. Web site: Royal Navy Senior Appointments . 7 October 2013 . 15 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf . dead .
  5. http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/samplechapter/2366/18-Merchant_Navy_Pt3-Ch18-pp-314cc000rdz.pdf Genesis of the first school for tropical diseases at the ADH p. 420