Anthony Hoskins

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Admiral Anthony Hoskins in a cartoon in Vanity Fair magazine (April 28, 1883)

Sir Anthony Hoskins Hiley , GCB (* 1. September 1828 in North Perrott, Somerset , England ; † 21st June 1901 in Dorking , Surrey , England) was a British Admiral of the Royal Navy , among others from 1891 to 1893 First Sea Lord was .

Life

Naval officer

Sea captain Hoskins was in command of the ironclad HMS Sultan from 1873 to 1875 .

Anthony Wiley Hoskins came after the visit of the famous 1382 founded Winchester College in April 1842 midshipman in the Royal Navy and received on 26 March 1849 his promotion to Lieutenant Commander (Lieutenant) . In 1851 he took part in the Xhosa War, the Eighth Border War on the Eastern Cape , and during the Second Opium War, which lasted from 1856 to 1860, among other things, in the Battle of Canton (December 28 to 31, 1857). On February 26, 1858 he was promoted to frigate captain (commander) and then took over various ship commands such as the sloop HMS Hecate , the sloop HMS Plumper and the sloop HMS Zebra . On December 12, 1863 he was promoted to captain at sea (Captain) and was between August 1869 and November 1872 in command of the sloop HMS Eclipse .

Subsequently, Hoskins was commander of the ironclad HMS Sultan from July 1873 to April 1875 and then between April and September 1878 commander of the armored frigate HMS Hector . He then took over in September 1875 the post of supreme commander of the naval base Australia (Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station ) and had this for three years until September 1878 held. For his services there he was made Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1877 .

Promotion to Admiral and First Sea Lord

After his return, Anthony Hoskins was on June 15, 1879. Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) promoted and moved to the Admiralty , in which he, between May 1880 and July 1882 Junior Sea Lord so as Fourth Sea Lord and (Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies) was responsible for food, supplies, transport and medical care. He was then used during the Anglo-Egyptian War , which lasted from July to September 1882, to suppress the Urabi movement and then served as Admiral Commanding Reserves between November 1882 and September 1885 . November 1882 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), whereupon he led the name suffix "Sir".

On June 1, 1885, the transport of Hoskins done to Vice Admiral (Vice Admiral) and he broke in 1885 Vice Admiral in July Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester as Second Sea Lord (Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel) , and as such was for responsible for personnel matters in the Royal Navy. He remained in this office until December 1888 and was then replaced by Vice Admiral Richard Vesey Hamilton . On March 11, 1889, he replaced Vice Admiral Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh as Supreme Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet (Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet ) and had this post held until August 1891, then Vice-Admiral George Tyron became his successor.

After Hoskins on 20 June 1891 Admiral had been promoted, he took on 28 September 1891 by Admiral Richard Vesey Hamilton the post of First Sea Lord (First Sea Lord) to. He held this post for two years until November 1, 1893 and was then replaced by Admiral Frederick Richards . In 1893 the Order of the Bath (GCB) was also awarded the Grand Cross . He had been married to Dorothea Robinson since 1865, daughter of Sir George Stamp Robinson, 7th Baronet, of the Peterborough Cathedral canon .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ROYAL NAVY warships , p 115
  2. ↑ ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 19
  3. ↑ ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 10
  4. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 160
  5. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 11
  6. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 92
  7. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 7
  8. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 145
  9. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 5
predecessor Office successor
Richard Vesey Hamilton First Sea Lord
1891-1893 		Frederick Richards
personal data
SURNAME Hoskins, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoskins, Anthony Hiley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Admiral and First Sea Lord
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH North Perrott, Somerset , England
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1901
Place of death Dorking , Surrey , England