Robert More-Molyneux

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.After an education at Windlesham House School, More-Molyneux joined the Royal Navy in 1852 and served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.[1][2] 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.[2] He was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[3][4] and invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.[5] In 1874, he married Annie Mary Carew, daughter of Captain Matthew Charles Forster, R.N.
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