Frederick Richards

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick William Richards (painting by Arthur Stockdale Cope )

Sir Frederick William Richards , GCB , FRGS (born November 30, 1833 in Ballyhally, County Wexford , Ireland ; † September 28, 1912 in Horton Court, Chipping Sodbury , Gloucestershire , England ) was a British Naval Admiral in the Royal Navy , who served among other things Was first sea lord in 1893 and 1899 .

Life

Naval officer

From 1873 to 1877, Captain Richards was in command of the ironclad HMS Devastation

Frederick William Richards, son of Captain Edwin Richards was after visiting the Royal Naval School in 1848 as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and received on 31 October 1855 his promotion to Lieutenant Commander (Lieutenant) . He took from 1856 to 1860 at the Second Opium War in part, and was for various uses as a naval officer between October 1873 and May 1877 Captain (Captain) commander of the battleship HMS Devastation . He served from January to October 1878 as commanding captain of the Medway Steam reserve and was following as Commodore between October 1878 and January 1882 commander of the corvette HMS Boadicea .

As such was Richards 1882 Supreme Commander of the naval bases at the same time from March 1879 to April Cape of Good Hope and West Africa (Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station and West Africa Station) and was in this function at the Zulu War involved the took place from January 11 to September 1, 1879 and led to the annexation of the Kingdom of Zululand after the victory of the British . For his services there he was made Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1879 . For his services during the First Boer War , which took place in South Africa from December 16, 1880 to March 23, 1881 and led to the self-government of the Transvaal under formal British rule, he was defeated in 1881 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), whereupon he took the Name suffix "Sir" led.

Promotion to Fleet Admiral and First Sea Lord

Frederick Richards died at the mansion Horton Court in the county of Gloucestershire .

After his return Frederick Richards was on June 9, 1882. Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) promoted and moved to the Admiralty in which it between July 1882 and May 1885 as Fourth Sea Lord (Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies) for food, Resupply, transport and medical care was responsible. He then took over in May 1885 the post of supreme commander of the naval base east India (Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station ) and maintained this until February 1888. During this time he participated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War in part, of the 7 November 29th to November 29th 1885 and ended in a British victory, after which it came to the end of the Konbaung dynasty in Burma . On 25 October 1888 his promotion was made to Vice Admiral (Vice Admiral) , and he in November 1890 Vice Admiral Nowell Salmon as supreme commander of the naval base China (Commander-in-Chief, China Station ) replaced. He held this position until February 1892 and was then replaced by Vice Admiral Edmund Fremantle .

After his return he acted as the successor to Vice Admiral Henry Fairfax from May 1892 until his replacement by Vice Admiral Walter Kerr in November 1893 as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel and was as such responsible for the personnel issues of the Royal Navy. In this use, it was on February 20, 1895, Vice Admiral (Vice Admiral) transported. In this function took place on September 1, 1893, his promotion to Admiral (Admiral) . Recently joined Admiral Richards in November 1893, the successor to Admiral Anthony Hoskins as First Sea Lord (First Sea Lord) to. He held this post for almost six years until August 1899 and was then replaced again by Admiral Walter Kerr. In 1895 the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) was awarded. On 29 November 1899 his promotion was done for Commodore (Admiral of the Fleet) .

Frederick William Richards, who was also an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), was married to Lucy Brooke from 1866 until her death in 1880.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 21
  2. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 111
  3. ↑ ROYAL NAVY warships , p 121
  4. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 157
  5. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 11
  6. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 159
  7. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 151
  8. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 7
  9. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 5
predecessor Office successor
Anthony Hoskins First Sea Lord
1893–1899 		Walter Kerr
personal data
SURNAME Richards, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richards, Frederick William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Admiral and First Sea Lord
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballyhally, County Wexford , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1912
Place of death Horton Court, Chipping Sodbury , Gloucestershire , England