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| Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell R.N. | Explanation |
| Fourth son of Sir Lancelot Shadwell (1779-1850) |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 31 January 1814 | | Born |
| 5 December 1853 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath). |
| 6 June 1861 | | Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 24 May 1873 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). |
| 1 March 1886 | | Died. |
| According to the DNB "Despite his long, and in some instances brilliant, service, Shadwell had rather the temperament of a student than of a warrior He was deeply attached to the study of nautical astronomy, on different details of which he published a large number of pamphlets. For many years he was engaged on a work on the subject, which gradually assumed almost encyclopędic proportions without ever reaching his high ideal of completeness; and it was still unfinished at his death.". |
| Literature: (DNB). |
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| Date | Rank |
| 1827 | Entered Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. |
| 28 June 1838 | Lieutenant |
| 27 June 1846 | Commander |
| 25 February 1853 | Captain |
| 15 January 1869 | Rear-Admiral |
| 20 April 1875 | Vice-Admiral |
| 1879 | Retired Vice-Admiral |
| 2 August 1879 | Retired Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 28 June 1838 | | Lieutenant in Castor, commanded by Edward Collier, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) |
| 3 December 1841 | 4 July 1846 | Lieutenant in Fly, commanded by Francis Price Blackwood, East Indies (surveying Torres Straits and northern coast of Australia) |
| 2 February 1850 | | Commander in Sphinx , East Indies (and took part in Burma war of 1852) |
| 1 August 1856 | 2 January 1860 | Captain in Highflyer (from commissioning at Portsmouth), East Indies and China (present, during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War), at capture of Canton in December 1857, and attack on Peiho forts on 25 June 1859, when a wound rendered him permanently lame) |
| 18 February 1861 | August 1862 | Captain in Aboukir, Channel squadron, Mediterranean, and West Indies |
| 8 October 1862 | June 1864 | Captain in Hastings (from commissioning), flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones, Queenstown |
| 21 June 1864 | 1869 | Captain-Superintendent of Gosport victualling-yard and of Haslar Hospital. |
| 30 August 1871 | 31 August 1874 | Commander-in-chief, China (apparently still on the station in January 1875). |
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