Years of service 1852-1903 Rank Admiral Service/branch Royal Navy | Awards Order of the Bath Name Robert More-Molyneux Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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Commands held HMS St Vincent
HMS Ruby
HMS Invincible
Royal Naval College, Greenwich Battles/wars Crimean War
Russo-Turkish War
Anglo-Egyptian War Died February 29, 1904, Cairo, Egypt Battles and wars Crimean War, Russo-Turkish War, Anglo-Egyptian War | ||
Admiral Sir Robert Henry More-Molyneux GCB (7 August 1838 – 29 February 1904) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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Naval career
More-Molyneux joined the Royal Navy in 1852 and served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He became Commanding Officer of the training ship HMS St Vincent in 1869, Commanding Officer of the corvette HMS Ruby in 1877 (in which he served during the Russo-Turkish War) and then Commanding Officer of the battleship HMS Invincible, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, in 1880.
After commanding the Invincible during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War, he went on to be commodore commanding the ships in the Red Sea in 1884, captain-superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard in 1886 and admiral-superintendent at Devonport in 1891. After that he became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1900 before retiring in 1903.
Family
In 1874, he married Annie Mary Carew, daughter of Captain Matthew Charles Forster, R.N. ; she died in 1898, leaving a daughter, Gwendolen.