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| George Tryon R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Third son of Thomas Tryon (1803-1872) of Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 4 January 1832 | Born (Bulwick, Northamptonshire) | ||
| 5 April 1869 | Married Clementina Charlotte 1833-1922), daughter of Gilbert John Heathcote (1795-1867), first Lord Aveland | ||
| 21 June 1887 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| September 1887 | Unsuccessful Conservative candidate for the constituency of Spalding | ||
| 22 June 1893 | Died (while in command of the Mediterranean fleet in Victoria , when rammed by Camperdown off the coast of Syria) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1848 | Entered Navy | ||
| 21 October 1854 | Lieutenant | ||
| 25 October 1860 | Commander | ||
| 11 April 1866 | Captain | ||
| 1 April 1884 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 13 August 1889 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 17 March 1854 | 20 October 1854 | Mate in Vengeance, commanded by Captain Lord Edward Russell, Mediterranean | |
| 21 October 1854 | 23 April 1855 | Lieutenant in Britannia, commanded by Captain Thomas Wren Carter, Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War) | |
| 30 June 1855 | 24 August 1858 | Lieutenant in Royal Albert, commanded by Captain William Robert Mends, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edmund Lyons, Mediterranean (and in the Black Sea during the Russian War) | |
| 4 November 1858 | 27 October 1860 | Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert, commanded by Captain Joseph Denman, Portsmouth | |
| 20 June 1861 | 12 July 1861 | Additional commander in Fisgard, commanded by Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich, for service in Warrior | |
| 13 August 1861 | 10 August 1864 | Commander (2ic) in Warrior, commanded by Captain Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, Channel squadron | |
| 11 August 1864 | 24 April 1866 | Commander in Surprise (until paying off at Plymouth), Mediterranean | |
| 31 August 1867 | 30 August 1868 | Director of transports in Annesley Bay, Eritrea, during the Abyssinian expedition, carried on the books of Octavia , captain Colin Andrew Campbell flagship of Commodore Leopold George Heath | |
| 31 August 1868 | 5 November 1868 | Additional captain in Fisgard, commanded by Commodore William Edmonstone, Woolwich, for the aftermath of the Abyssinian expedition | |
| 25 April 1871 | 8 October 1873 | Private secretary to George Joachim Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty | |
| 3 December 1873 | 12 January 1874 | Additional Captain in Fisgard, commanded by Staff-Commander John Palmer, Greenwich, for service in Raleigh | |
| 13 January 1874 | 7 June 1877 | Captain in Raleigh (from commissioning at Chatham), 1875 Detached squadron, then in attendance on the Prince of Wales during his tour in India, then the Mediterranean | |
| 17 October 1878 | 28 January 1882 | Captain in Monarch (until paying off at Malta), Mediterranean, including Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby's squadron in the Sea of Marmora, and in 1880 1880 with Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour's international demonstration against the Turks in the Adriatic | |
| 13 June 1882 | 1 April 1884 | Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty | |
| 12 November 1884 | 1 February 1887 | Commander-in-chief, Australia, flag in Nelson | |
| June 1887 | Member of a committee for the revision of the signal-book and the manual of fleet evolutions | ||
| 17 April 1888 | 30 August 1891 | Admiral Commanding Reserves (and thus commander one of the opposing fleets in the summer manoeuvres), flag in Hercules then Northumberland | |
| 20 August 1891 | 22 June 1893 | Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean (until drowned when Victoria was rammed by Camperdown off the coast of Syria), flag in Victoria | |
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