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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Archibald Lucius Douglas R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 8 February 1842 | Born (Quebec, Canada) | ||
| 1871 | Married Constance Ellen, daughter of Rev. William Hanks. | ||
| 1893 | 1895 | Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria | |
| 1902 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 8 August 1905 | G.C.V.O. (Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order) | ||
| 1 January 1911 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| 12 March 1913 | Died (Newnham, Winchfield, Hampshire) | ||
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| Date | Rank | ||
| April 1856 | Entered Navy | ||
| 23 May 1862 | Lieutenant | ||
| 1 May 1872 | Commander | ||
| 20 April 1880 | Captain | ||
| 20 June 1895 | Rear Admiral | ||
| 24 May 1901 | Vice Admiral | ||
| 2 March 1905 | Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 19 October 1861 | 6 December 1862 | Lieutenant in Arrogant, commanded by William Edmonstone, West Coast of Africa1) | |
| 17 November 1863 | Lieutenant in Aurora, commanded by Francis Leopold McClintock, Channel squadron, and - September 1864 - to escort the Royal yacht Osborne, taking the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) to Copenhagen and the Baltic, then (January 1865) North America and West Indies. During the Fenian disturbances in Canada, when several vessels of the Royal Navy were employed on the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence river, in command of the gunboat Hercules | ||
| 30 December 1867 | Lieutenant in Excellent, Portsmouth2) | ||
| 1 May 1869 | Lieutenant in Cambridge, commanded by Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, Devonport | ||
| 1873 | 1875 | Director of the Imperial Japanese Naval College in Yedo (modern Tokyo), Jjapan | |
| 27 January 1876 | 1 March 1880 | Commander in Egeria, China | |
| 7 January 1884 | Captain in Serapis | ||
| 1889 | Member of the Ordinance Committee | ||
| 6 September 1890 | January 1892 | Captain in Edinburgh, Mediterranean3) | |
| 1 January 1892 | Captain in Cambridge, Devonport | ||
| 3 July 1894 | Captain in command of shore establishment HMS Excellent, Portsmouth, with flag in Rendel ('flat-iron') gunboat HMS Handy (purchased from Armstrong in 1894) | ||
| 1896 | Vice-President of the Ordinance Committee | ||
| 15 January 1898 | 5 June 1899 | Commander-in-Chief, East Indies station | |
| 19 August 1899 | June 1902 | Second Naval Lord of the Admiralty | |
| 10 June 1902 | 20 October 1904 | Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies | |
| 20 October 1904 | 8 February 1907 | Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth | |
| 1) | Initially Acting Lieutenant |
| 2) | Additional Lieutenant |
| 3) | Additional Captain |
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