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About Admiral Robert Coote CB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coote_(Royal_Navy_officer):
Admiral Robert Coote CB (1 June 1820 – 17 March 1898) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.
Educated at Eton College,[2] Coote joined the Royal Navy in 1833 and served on the coast of Syria in 1840. He was made Commander of the HMS Volcano in 1851 while serving in the West Africa Squadron. Promoted to Captain in 1854, he commanded HMS Victory from 1860, HMS Gibraltar from 1864 and HMS Arethusa from 1867. He became Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown in 1874 and Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1878. He retired in 1885.
Coote married Lucy Parry, daughter of the Arctic explorer Admiral Sir William Parry, in 1854. They had one son, Stanley Victor Coote, High Sheriff of Roscommon in 1900, and a daughter, Caroline Maud Coote, who married Major-General Cecil William Park. Coote died in March 1898, aged 77. His wife died in February 1906.
He is buried in Woking Cemetery. There is a memorial to him in St Catherine's Church in Tullamore in County Offaly.
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Admiral Robert Coote CB's Timeline
| 1820 |
June 1, 1820
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Geneva, Switzerland
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| 1862 |
May 30, 1862
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| 1864 |
February 22, 1864
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| 1898 |
March 17, 1898
Age 77
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Dulwich, Surrey, England (United Kingdom)
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