Prince Victor F F E G A C F Hohenlohe-Langenberg R.N.
Prince Victor F F E G A C F Hohenlohe-Langenberg R.N.
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Prince Victor F F E G A C F Hohenlohe-Langenberg R.N. | Explanation |
Third and youngest son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg; his mother (Princess Feodore, the only daughter of Emich Charles, reigning prince of Leiningen) was half-sister to Queen Victoria. He ran away from school in his native land and was sponsored to enter the Royal Navy by Victoria |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
11 December 1833 | | Born (as Victor Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustaf Adolf Constantin Friedrich, at Langenburg in Württemberg) |
26 January 1861 | | Married Laura Williamina, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour |
26 January 1861 | | Assumed the title of Count Gleichen (as German law did not allow a Prince's wife, not being of equal rank, to use her husband's title) |
1866 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
1887 | | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
31 December 1891 | | Died (St James's Palace, London) |
After he retired from the navy he became a sculptor, for which he had considerable talent. His most important work is a colossal statue of Alfred the Great, made for the main square of Wantage in Oxfordshire |
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Date | Rank |
1848 | Entered Navy |
18 December 1854 | Lieutenant |
10 August 1857 | Commander |
13 December 1859 | Captain |
9 April 1866 | Retired Captain |
30 December 1876 | Retired Rear-Admiral |
23 November 1881 | Retired Vice-Admiral |
24 May 1887 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
(1854) | | Mate in Cumberland, commanded by George Henry Seymour, flagship of Vice-Admiral George Francis Seymour, the Baltic during the Russian War |
25 April 1855 | | Lieutenant in St Jean d'Acre, Mediterranean |
1856 | | Governor and constable of Windsor Castle |
20 March 1856 | July 1856 | Lieutenant and commander in Traveller (until paying off at Sheerness) |
4 September 1856 | 14 April 1857 | Lieutenant in Raleigh, commanded by Henry Keppel, East Indies and China, (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) (until wrecked near Macaw when the ship struck an uncharted rock; all saved) |
26 June 1858 | | Commander in Scourge, Mediterranean |
29 January 1863 | 9 April 1866 | Captain in Racoon (from commissioning at Chatham), West Indies, then (April 1864) the Mediterranean, then (March 1866) Queenstown |