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| Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 6 August 1844 | Born | ||
| 24 May 1866 | Created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster in the peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| 23 January 1874 | Married the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1853-1920), daughter of Alexander II, tsar of Russia, at St Petersburg | ||
| 22 August 1893 | Accended to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, after the death of his uncle, Ernst II | ||
| 30 July 1900 | Died (Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, of throat cancer) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 24 February 1863 | Lieutenant | ||
| 23 February 1866 | Captain (from Lieutenant) | ||
| 28 December 1878 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 30 November 1882 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 18 October 1887 | Admiral | ||
| 3 June 1893 | Admiral of the Fleet | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 27 October 1858 | 9 November 1860 | Naval cadet/Midshipman in Euryalus, commanded by John Walter Tarleton, Mediterranean, then (1860) to Cape of Good Hope | |
| January 1861 | April 1862 | Midshipman in St George, commanded by Hon. Francis Egerton, North America and West Indies, then (May 1862) Channel squadron, then (November 1862) Mediterranean | |
| 12 June 1863 | 23 February 1866 | Lieutenant in Racoon, commanded by Count Gleichen, coast of Scotland, Norway and the Mediterranean | |
| 22 January 1867 | 2 June 1871 | Captain in Galatea (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off at Plymouth), undertaking an extensive world tour to South America, the Cape, Australia, China, India and Japan (interrupted on 12 March 1868, by a Fenian assassination attempt at Sydney, when the ship returned to England to allow him to recover) | |
| 25 February 1876 | 27 April 1878 | Captain in Sultan, Mediterranean | |
| 27 April 1878 | 23 December 1878 | Captain in Black Prince (until paying off at Portsmouth), Mediterranean | |
| November 1879 | 1882 | Commander of the Naval Reserve | |
| 3 December 1883 | December 1884 | Commander-in-chief, Channel squadron | |
| 5 February 1886 | 11 March 1889 | Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean | |
| 4 August 1890 | 2 June 1893 | Commander-in-chief, Devonport | |
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