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| George Tryon R.N. | Explanation |
| Third son of Thomas Tryon (d. 1872) of Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 4 January 1832 | | Born |
| 5 April 1869 | | Married Clementina Charlotte, daughter of Gilbert John Heathcote, first Lord Aveland |
| 21 June 1887 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
| September 1887 | | Unsuccessful Conservative candidate for the constituency of Spalding |
| 22 June 1893 | | Died (while in command of the Mediterranean fleet in Victoria, when rammed by Camperdown offthe coast of Syria) |
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| Date | Rank |
| 1848 | Entered Navy |
| 21 October 1854 | Lieutenant |
| 25 October 1860 | Commander |
| 11 April 1866 | Captain |
| 1 April 1884 | Rear-Admiral |
| 13 August 1889 | Vice-Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 3 September 1855 | 20 August 1858 | Lieutenant in Royal Albert, commanded by William Robert Mends, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edmund Lyons, Mediterranean (and in the Black Sea during the Russian War) |
| November 1858 | | Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert, commanded by Joseph Denman, Portsmouth |
| 10 August 1861 | 10 August 1864 | Commander (2ic) in Warrior, commanded by Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, Channel squadron |
| August 1864 | 24 April 1866 | Commander in Surprise (until paying off at Plymouth), Mediterranean |
| August 1867 | | Director of transports in Annesley Bay, Eritrea, during the Abyssinian expedition |
| April 1871 | | Private secretary to George Joachim Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty |
| 13 January 1874 | | Captain in Raleigh (from commissioning at Chatham), 1875 Detached squadron, then in attendance on the Prince of Wales during his tour in India, then the Mediterranean |
| October 1878 | January 1882 | Captain in Monarch (until paying off at Malta), Mediterranean, including Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby's squadron in the Sea of Marmora, and in 1880 1880 with Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour's international demonstration against the Turks in the Adriatic |
| 13 June 1882 | 2 April 1884 | Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty |
| 12 November 1884 | 1 February 1887 | Commander-in-chief, Australia (flag in Nelson) |
| June 1887 | | Member of a committee for the revision of the signal-book and the manual of fleet evolutions |
| 1 April 1888 | 1891 | Superintendent of reserves (and thus commander one of the opposing fleets in the summer manoeuvres) |
| 20 August 1891 | 22 June 1893 | Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean (flag in Victoria) |
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