Admiral Charles Lodowick Darley Waddilove (13 May 1828 – 17 October 1896) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Born the son of Revd. William James Darley Waddilove, Charles Waddilove was appointed a Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1849. Promoted to captain

Captain (naval)

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 in 1862, he commanded HMS Adventure, HMS Pallas

HMS Pallas (1865)

HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished to use up the stocks of seasoned timber held in the Woolwich Dockyard...

, HMS Inconstant

HMS Inconstant (1868)

HMS Inconstant was an iron screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 12 November 1868 and became a training ship in 1906, renamed Impregnable II. She became the Navy's torpedo school ship in January 1922 and was renamed Defiance IV, and Defiance II in December 1930, before being finally...

 and then HMS Asia

HMS Asia (1824)

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino....

. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1887 and retired in 1893.

He lived at Beacon Grange in Hexham

Hexham

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