Claude Henry Mason Buckle R.N.
Claude Henry Mason Buckle R.N.
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Claude Henry Mason Buckle R.N. | Explanation |
Second son of Admiral Matthew Buckle (1770-1855) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
13 December 1803 | | Born (Blackheath, Kent) |
1847 | | Married Harriet Margaret, daughter of Thomas Deane Shute of Bramshaw, Hampshire |
5 July 1855 | | C.B. (Companion of the Garter) |
29 May 1875 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
10 March 1894 | | Died (London) |
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Date | Rank |
August 1817 | Entered Royal Naval College |
17 April 1827 | Lieutenant |
4 May 1836 | Commander |
6 November 1845 | Captain |
14 November 1863 | Rear-Admiral |
1 April 1870 | Retired Vice-Admiral |
22 January 1877 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
7 December 1841 | November 1845 | Commander in Growler, South America and west coast of Africa (in February 1845 participated in Commodore William Jones's destruction of several barracoons at Dombocorro and elsewhere) |
1 January 1849 | 1850 | Captain in Centaur, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa (until Buckle was invalided) |
11 December 1852 | | Captain in Valorous, Mediterrnaean, then (1854) the Baltic and (1855) the Black Sea during the Russian War |
12 December 1857 | 9 February 1863 | Superintendent of Royal William Victualling Yard, Deptford |
November 1867 | 1870 | Commander-in-chief, Queenstown (flag in Mersey) |