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| Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Fourth son of Sir Lancelot Shadwell (1779-1850) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 31 January 1814 | Born | ||
| 5 December 1853 | C.B. (Companion of the Bath). | ||
| 6 June 1861 | Fellow of the Royal Society. | ||
| 24 May 1873 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). | ||
| 1 March 1886 | Died | ||
| According to the DNB 'Despite his long, and in some instances brilliant, service, Shadwell had rather the temperament of a student than of a warrior He was deeply attached to the study of nautical astronomy, on different details of which he published a large number of pamphlets. For many years he was engaged on a work on the subject, which gradually assumed almost encyclopaedic proportions without ever reaching his high ideal of completeness; and it was still unfinished at his death'. | |||
| Entry in O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' | |||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1827 | Entered Royal Naval College | ||
| 28 June 1838 | Lieutenant | ||
| 27 June 1846 | Commander | ||
| 25 February 1853 | Captain | ||
| 15 January 1869 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 20 April 1875 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 1 February 1879 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 2 August 1879 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 26 July 1838 | 31 July 1841 | Lieutenant in Castor, commanded by Edward Collier, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840) | |
| 15 November 1841 | 4 December 1841 | Lieutenant in Madagascar, commanded by Captain John Foote, senior officer, west coast of Africa | |
| 5 December 1841 | 4 July 1846 | Lieutenant in Fly, commanded by Francis Price Blackwood, East Indies (surveying Torres Straits and northern coast of Australia) | |
| 29 October 1849 | 1 February 1850 | Commander in Hecate, particular service | |
| 2 February 1850 | 6 February 1853 | Commander in Sphinx, East Indies (including 2nd Burma war) | |
| 7 February 1853 | 27 August 1853 | Additional captain (?) in Winchester, commanded by Captain John Coghlan Fitzgerald, East Indies and China station | |
| 1 August 1856 | 2 January 1860 | Captain in Highflyer (from commissioning at Portsmouth), East Indies and China (present, during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War), at capture of Canton in December 1857, and attack on Peiho forts on 25 June 1859, when a wound rendered him permanently lame) | |
| 24 February 1861 | 15 October 1862 | Captain in Aboukir, Channel squadron, then (November 1861) Mediterranean, then (February 1862) West Indies | |
| 16 October 1862 | 7 July 1864 | Captain in Hastings (from commissioning), flagship of Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones, Queenstown | |
| 8 July 1864 | 1 September 1869 | Captain-Superintendent of Gosport victualling-yard and of Haslar Hospital. | |
| 1 September 1871 | 5 May 1875 | Commander-in-chief, China, flag in Iron Duke | |
| 1 March 1878 | 28 February 1881 | President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich | |
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