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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Henry Keppel R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Sixth surviving son of William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albermarle (1772-1849) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 14 June 1809 | Born | ||
| 4 February 1856 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) | ||
| 12 September 1857 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| September 1858 | May 1860 | Groom-in-waiting to Queen Victoria | |
| 30 October 1861 | Married Jane Elizabeth (died 21 April 1895), daughter of Martin J. West and sister of Sir Algernon West, Gladstone's private secretary | ||
| 20 May 1871 | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) | ||
| March 1878 | Principal naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria | ||
| 1899 | Wrote 'A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns', 3 volumes of memoirs | ||
| 17 January 1904 | Died (London) | ||
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' | |||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 7 February 1822 | Entered Navy | ||
| 28 January 1829 | Lieutenant | ||
| 30 January 1833 | Commander | ||
| 5 December 1837 | Captain | ||
| 22 August 1857 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 11 January 1864 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 3 July 1869 | Admiral | ||
| 5 August 1877 | Admiral of the Fleet | ||
| 14 June 1879 | Retired Admiral of the Fleet | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 19 February 1830 | 14 May 1831 | Lieutenant in Galatea, commanded by Captain Charles Napier, West Indies and Portugal | |
| 20 July 1831 | 19 June 1833 | Lieutenant in Magicienne, commanded by Captain James Hanway Plumridge, East Indies | |
| 16 May 1834 | 26 May 1838 | Commander in Childers, Mediterranean, then Cape of Good Hope | |
| 30 August 1841 | 12 February 1845 | Captain in Dido, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war and Sir James Brooke's campaign for the suppression of Borneo piracy) | |
| 1 November 1847 | 7 August 1851 | Captain in Maeander, East Indies (again cooperating with Brooke), then Australia and the Pacific | |
| 21 May 1853 | 9 July 1855 | Captain in St Jean d'Acre (from commissioning at Plymouth), Western squadron, then (May 1854) the Baltic and (1855) the Black Sea during the Russian War | |
| 10 July 1855 | 27 September 1855 | Captain in Rodney, Mediterranean, in command of the Naval Brigade ashore in the Crimea during the Russian War | |
| 28 September 1855 | 17 January 1856 | Captain in Leander, Mediterranean | |
| 18 January 1856 | 3 September 1856 | Captain in Colossus, in charge of a division of gunboats | |
| 4 September 1856 | 6 December 1857 | Commodore in Raleigh, flagship of Rear-Admiral William Willmott Henderson, en route to the East Indies and China (where appointed second in command) until wrecked near Macaw when the ship struck an uncharted rock; all saved | |
| May 1857 | 22 August 1858 | Hoisted his broad pennant in the chartered river steamer Hong Kong for operations in the Canton River | |
| 11 February 1860 | 6 August 1861 | Commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa (but rapidly transferred to the Brazilian command, and then recalled after an affair with the wife of the Cape governor, Sir George Grey on the voyage out; see Brian Warner, Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library, 33, 27-32, 1978), flag in Forte then (27 June 1861) Emerald | |
| 21 January 1867 | 24 February 1867 | Additional Captain in Cumberland, commanded by Captain Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, for service in Rodney | |
| 25 February 1867 | 24 July 1869 | Commander-in-Chief, China, flag in Rodney | |
| 25 July 1869 | 17 December 1869 | On passage in Ocean | |
| 1 November 1872 | 1 November 1875 | Commander-in-chief, Devonport, flag in Royal Adelaide | |
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