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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Richard Vesey Hamilton R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Rev. John Vesey Hamilton, rector of Little Chart, Kent | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 28 May 1829 | Born | ||
| 18 December 1862 | Married Julia Frances Delm? (died 1897), daughter of Vice-Admiral James Arthur Murray | ||
| 29 May 1875 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) | ||
| (1880) | 1 August 1880 | Director of Naval Ordnance | |
| 21 June 1887 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 1895 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| 1896 | Wrote 'Naval Administration'. | ||
| 17 September 1912 | Died (Chalfont St Peter, Bucks) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 15 July 1843 | Entered Navy | ||
| 11 October 1851 | Lieutenant | ||
| 10 August 1857 | Commander | ||
| 27 January 1862 | Captain | ||
| 27 September 1877 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 17 February 1884 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 18 October 1887 | Admiral | ||
| 28 May 1894 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 1850 | 1851 | Mate in Assistance, commanded by Erasmus Ommanney, particular service, in Horatio Thomas Austen's squadron in search of Sir John Franklin | |
| 16 February 1852 | 1855 | Lieutenant in Resolute, commanded by Henry Kellett, particular service: searching, together with Assistance (Sir Edward Belcher), Pioneer (Sherard Osborn, tender to Assistance) and Intrepid (M'Clintock, tender to Resolute) and for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Dealy Island (on 16 September 1855 she was found by Capt. James Buddington of the American whaler George Henry in ice in the Davis Strait off Baffin Island, she was then refitted by the US Navy and on 12 December she returned to Portsmouth) | |
| 28 February 1856 | Lieutenant and commander in Haughty, China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 4 June 1858 | 1862 | Commander in Hydra, west coast of Africa, then West Indies | |
| 27 January 1862 | 23 August 1862 | Captain in Hydra (until paying off at Woolwich), North America and West Indies | |
| 16 July 1862 | 1864 | Captain in Vesuvius, West Indies | |
| 1865 | April 1868 | Captain in Sphinx, West Indies | |
| 12 April 1870 | 1873 | Captain in Achilles, coast guard service, Portland | |
| 1873 | 1875 | In command of the steam reserve at Devonport | |
| 15 March 1875 | 16 October 1877 | Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard | |
| 1880 | 1883 | In command on the coast of Ireland | |
| 1 September 1885 | 17 December 1887 | Commander-in-chief, China | |
| October 1888 | Member of committee to consider the lessons of the naval manoeuvres of that year, that led to the Naval Defence Act of 1889. | ||
| 28 December 1888 | 28 September 1891 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (Second then First Naval Lord) | |
| September 1891 | 28 May 1894 | President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich | |
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