Admiral Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (23 February 1833 – 11 April 1922) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station

Cape of Good Hope Station

The Cape of Good Hope Station was one of the geographical divisions into which the British Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope....

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Naval career

Hunt-Grubbe joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1845. Promoted to Captain

Captain (naval)

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 in 1866, he was given command of HMS Tamar

HMS Tamar (1863)

HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship from 1897 to 1941, and gave her name to the HMS Tamar shore station in Hong Kong ....

 and the men of the naval brigade

Naval Brigade

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 at the Battle of Amoaful during the Anglo-Ashanti wars. He went on to command HMS Rupert

HMS Rupert (1872)

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, HMS Devastation

HMS Devastation (1871)

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 and then HMS Pembroke

HMS Pembroke (1812)

HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887....

 in which capacity he was in charge of the Medway Steam Reserve. Later he commanded HMS Sultan

HMS Sultan (1870)

HMS Sultan was a broadside ironclad of the Royal Navy of the Victorian era, who carried her main armament in a central box battery. She was named for Sultan Abdülâziz of the Ottoman Empire, who was visiting England when she was laid down. Abdülâziz cultivated, good relations with the Second French...

. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station

Cape of Good Hope Station

The Cape of Good Hope Station was one of the geographical divisions into which the British Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope....

 in 1885 and Superintendent of Devonport dockyard

HMNB Devonport

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 in 1888.

In retirement he became Deputy Chairman of the Committee established in 1898 to provide for the efficient organisation and management of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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