Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby
1825–95
Naval officer. Entered the navy in 1837; commodore on the west coast of Africa, 1865–7; naval lord to the Board of Admiralty, 1875–9; admiral, 1879; admiral of the fleet, 1888.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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