Admiral
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Sir Augustus Phillimore (24 May 1822 – 25 November 1897) was a
Royal Navy officer who went on to be
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. He is credited with first proposing the creation of a modern naval dockyard in
Gibraltar
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Early life
Phillimore was born on 24 May 1822 at
Whitehall in Westminster, London the son of
Joseph Phillimore later a professor of civil law at Oxford and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at
Westminster before joining the Royal Navy College at Portsmouth.
Naval career
Phillimore joined the
Royal Navy in 1835.
[Wiliam Loney RN]
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and in the First Opium War
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. Promoted Commander
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in 1852, he was given command of HMS ''Medea'' in 1853[ and, promoted ]Captain
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in 1855, he commanded HMS ''Curacoa'' and then HMS ''Defence''.[
He was appointed Senior officer Jamaica Division in 1868 and in charge of Jamaica Dockyard. Then Senior officer at ]Gibraltar
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in 1869 when he would have stayed in The Mount (Gibraltar)
The Mount is the former official residence of the senior officer of the Royal Navy stationed in Gibraltar.
History
The Mount is said to have been built in 1797 but one of it first residents was Captain Harry Harmwood who was a Naval Commissione ...
. In 1871 he made the proposal that a new naval dockyard should be constructed in Gibraltar. Phillimore's scheme lied dormant in the Admiralty for 22 years before it was put to Parliament in 1895. The idea was to take five years and just under £1.5m pounds. In 1896 the scheme was further extended with the creation of new moles and three dry docks and a new budget of £4.5m pounds. The transformation was large and the government were still passing enabling legislation in 1905.[ Promoted Admiral in October 1884, he was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in December 1884.][ He retired in 1887.][
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Family
In 1864 he married Harriet Eleanor Fortescue;[ they had six sons (George Grenville Phillimore, Charles Augustus Phillimore, Captain Valentine Egerton Bagot Phillimore, Admiral Sir Richard Phillimore, and John Swinnerton Phillimore Reverend Edward Granville Phillimore) and one daughter Violet Elizabeth Phillimore.
He died at his home at Shedfield House near Botley, Hampshire on 25th November 1897.The following obituary for Augustus Phillimore appeared in the Times newspaper]
Retrieved 8/5/21.
See also
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References
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1822 births
1897 deaths
Royal Navy admirals
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
People from Westminster
People educated at Westminster School, London
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
People from Botley, Hampshire