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J. K. Laughton
revised by Andrew Lambert
Coles, Cowper Phipps (1819–1870), naval officer and inventor of a gun turret, was born on 9 July 1819, the third son of the Revd John Coles (1787–1865) of Ditcham Park, Hampshire, rector of Silchester, and his first wife, Marianne Goodhead, née Rogers (...
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S. E. Fryer
revised by Ian St John
Grenfell, Hubert Henry (1845–1906), naval officer and expert on gunnery, born at Rugby, Warwickshire, on 12 June 1845, was the son of Algernon Grenfell, a clerk, and his wife, Maria Guerin Price.
Joining the navy as a cadet on 13 December 1859, at the age of fourteen, ...