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.

Sir Robert More-Molyneux
Sir Robert More-Molyneux
Born7 August 1838
Died29 February 1904 (1904-03-01) (aged 65)
Cairo, Egypt
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1852–1903
RankAdmiral
Commands heldHMS St Vincent
HMS Ruby
HMS Invincible
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Battles/warsCrimean War
Russo-Turkish War
Anglo-Egyptian War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

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]

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.[2] After that he became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1900 before retiring in 1903.[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]

Family

In 1874, he married Annie Mary Carew, daughter of Captain Matthew Charles Forster, R.N. ; she died in 1898, leaving a daughter, Gwendolen.[5]

References
  1. Malden, Henry C. (1902). Muster Roll. Windlesham House, Brighton. A.D. 1837 to 1902 (2nd ed.). Brighton: H. & C. Treacher.
  2. Laughton, L. G. C.; Morriss, Roger. "Molyneux, Sir Robert Henry More-(1838–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35097. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. "Birthday Honours". The Times (36921). London. 10 November 1902. p. 10.
  4. "No. 27493". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 November 1902. pp. 7161–7163.
  5.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Laughton, Leonard George Carr (1912). "More-Molyneaux, Robert Henry". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Richard Tracey		 President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
1900–1903		 Succeeded by
Sir Robert Harris
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