BRENT, V Adm Harry Woodfall (1834-1911)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA Brent
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: BRENT, V Adm Harry Woodfall (1834-1911)
Date(s)	: 1854-1887
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: ½ box
Name of creator(s)	: Brent | Harry Woodfall | 1834-1911 | Vice Admiral

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in Middlesex, 1834; entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, 1848; commissioned as a midshipman, 1850, and served on HMS CALEDONIA, HMS CASTOR and HMS STYX; promoted Lieutenant, 1854, and served on HMS ALGIERS; commanded HMS DAISY (gunboat), 1856; served on HMS BELLEROPHON, [1867-1870]; requested to revise Royal Navy publications, 1874; promoted Captain, and commanded HMS UNDAUNTED, 1875; appointed to the Admiralty Torpedo Committee, 1875; Captain, HMS HIMALAYA, 1879; appointed Director of the Indian Marine, 1881-[1883]; Captain, HMS AMETHYST, 1883, HMS HERCULES, 1885, and HMS BLACK PRINCE, 1887; took part in the Spithead Review, 1887; retired as Captain, 1889; promoted Vice-Admiral, 1896; died 1911. Publications: The Law of Port Helm. An examination into its history and dangerous action; with suggestions for its abolition with Philip Howard Colomb (J D Potter, Harrison & Sons, London, 1866).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records comprise a Watchbill for HMS ALGIERS, 1854, (entries by Brent); personal notebook from HMS BELLEROPHON kept by Brent, 1867-1870; Stationbill for HMS BELLEROPHON, 1868-1869; Captain's Night Order books for HMS AMETHYST, HERCULES and BLACK PRINCE, 1883-1887 (entries by Brent).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

Chronologically as described above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Finding aids:

Collection level description available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Miss R Brent c1919.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Correspondence and papers, 1851-1887, held at the National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section (ref: BNT).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: King's College London, Manuscripts and Private Papers, A Select Guide; British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; National Register of Archives; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Manuscripts Section. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2000