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| George Henry Richards R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| January 1820 | Born | ||
| 1871 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath, civil) | ||
| 1877 | Knighted | ||
| 29 May 1886 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 14 November 1896 | Died | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 3 November 1832 | Entered Navy | ||
| 12 July 1842 | Lieutenant | ||
| 18 November 1845 | Commander | ||
| 21 October 1854 | Captain | ||
| 21 June 1870 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 5 August 1877 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 12 July 1842 | 18 November 1845 | Lieutenant in Philomel, commanded by Bartholomew James Sulivan, South America, including Anglo-French action in Uruguay | |
| 18 October 1847 | Commander (2ic) in Acheron, commanded by John Lort Stokes, East Indies | ||
| 10 February 1852 | 25 August 1854 | Commander (2ic) in Assistance, commanded by Edward Belcher, particular service: searching, together with Pioneer (Sherard Osborn, tender to Assistance), Resolute (Henry Kellett) and Intrepid (M'Clintock, tender to Resolute) and for Sir John Franklins' ill-fated 1845 North-West Passage expedition, until abandoned at Bathurst Island | |
| (10 December 1856) | January 1861 | Captain in Plumper (from commissioning at Portsmouth), surveying on the Canadian Pacific coast (the Fraser River, Burrard Inlet, Victoria and Esquimalt), until relieved by Hecate | |
| 1857 | Second British Commissioner for the San Juan Islands Boundary Commission (islands in the northern reaches of Puget Sound in the northwesternmost corner of the state of Washington). | ||
| 1 September 1860 | 1863 | Captain in Hecate, surveying Vancover Island | |
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