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| John Walter Tarleton R.N. | Explanation |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 24 May 1873 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
| 25 September 1880 | | Died |
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| Date | Rank |
| 22 September 1835 | Lieutenant |
| 9 November 1846 | Commander |
| 27 September 1852 | Captain |
| 8 April 1868 | Rear-Admiral |
| 25 August 1873 | Vice-Admiral |
| 15 June 1879 | Retired Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 28 December 1841 | | Commander (2ic) in Carysfort, commanded by George Paulet, South America |
| 23 July 1850 | 27 September 1852 | Commander (2ic) in Fox, commanded by George Robert Lambert, East Indies |
| 27 September 1852 | 22 May 1854 | Captain in Fox (until paying off at Portsmouth), flagship of Commodore George Robert Lambert, East Indies |
| 3 January 1855 | 12 June 1857 | Captain in Eurydice (until paying off at Chatham), North America and West Indies, then (May 1857) as Osborne, for saluting purposes during the visit of Grand Duke Constantine of Russia |
| 15 February 1858 | 19 November 1860 | Captain in Euryalus (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Portsmouth), Channel squadron, then Mediterranean (with Prince Alfred serving as Naval cadet from October 1858) , then (1860) Prince Alfred's visit to the Cape of Good Hope |
| 28 June 1871 | 29 December 1874 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (Junior Naval Lord, then Second Naval Lord, |