Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage obituary

Royal Navy obituary in the Times newspaper

The following obituary for Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage appeared in the Times newspaper.

*Obituary in the Times* newspaper**
Date	Obituary
12 June 1915	We have to announce the death of Admiral Sir Algernon Heneage on Thursday night at 22, South Eaton-place. The funeral will take place on Monday, at 12.30, at Brompton Cemetery. Sir Algernon Charles Fiesché Heneage was born in 1834, the eldest son of Mr. C.F. Henenge, of Cadaby, Lincolnshire, by his marriage with the daughter of the third Lord Graves. He entered the Navy in 1846 and served in the operations in Burma, and subsequently in the Baltic and the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He was appointed second in command of the Channel Squadron in 1885, was Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station from 1887 to 1890, and Commander-in-Chief at the Nore from 1892 to 1894. He received the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society in 1861 for saving a boy from drowning in the River Gambia. Sir Algernon married in 1874 the daughter of Sir Edmund Antrobus, third baronet, and leaves one daughter.