Admiral Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (19 March 1833 – 10 June 1915) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. Dubbed "Pompo," he was known for his immaculate dress and his white-glove inspections of the ships under his command.

Naval career

Heneage was appointed a Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1854 Promoted to Captain

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 in 1866, he took command of HMS Rodney

HMS Rodney (1833)

HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 June 1833 at Pembroke Dockyard.Rodney was the ship where William Hall , later to become the first Black man and one of the first Canadians to win the Victoria Cross, began his naval career in 1852.Rodney...

 in 1867 and then HMS Warrior

HMS Warrior (1860)

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 in 1881. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station

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 in 1887 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1892. He died in 1915 and is buried at Brompton Cemetery

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